Just another thread with an unscientific showcase followed by ego fueled technical mumbo jumbo. Enjoy, lol.
What's scientific about appreciating a photo?
As for the rest, you make absolutely no sense and that's certainly lollable...
Just another thread with an unscientific showcase followed by ego fueled technical mumbo jumbo. Enjoy, lol.
So, changing the exposure in post is sloppy but changing the colors isn't?
For me, like other alterations with originals, what are the rules, where do you stop and who is watching what is being done?
This, for me is THE problem.
It's either a photo direct from a device, and it could be ANY device, not just an Apple product, and that photo is the genuine article.
Once you give it to someone, esp. a professional, and they start to tweak it, well, as they can in effect change every single pixel in the entire image, if they wanted where exactly are you going to draw the line, say stop, set when they must stop adjusting or changing it.
I would rather have and see the real image that's left alone.
Can it be made a bit better with some professional adjustment, yes of course it can, just like a 400lb women could be made into miss surfing beauty 2015 with photoshop.
And this is to any maker of any brand of any device.
Let's compare real unaltered images please.
I'm sure there is no real need to edit them.
Before I had a smartphone, the common refrain I would hear was that people with smartphones stop using their point and shoot cameras because smartphone cameras are that great. Last summer I got an iPhone 5s (my first smartphone). I've used it a lot as a camera, but I haven't been that impressed with the picture quality. The phone I had previous to that was an LG Dare (not smartphone) from 2008 or so and the picture quality didn't seem remarkably different. The iPhone pictures are wavy, and they're almost never in sharp focus due to the lack of image stabilization.
I was committed to keep using it and hoping I would get better at taking good pictures with it. But then I went back to my Canon S110 (a point and shoot) and the difference is night and day. There's no struggling to focus. No difficulty with macro shots.
I'm not quite sure how they got these photos with an iPhone, but my guess is that it was very, very carefully.
Also my only other experience with a smartphone camera was my dad's Nexus 5. I actually thought that took better pictures than the iPhone 5s. It focused much better.
What's scientific about appreciating a photo?
As for the rest, you make absolutely no sense and that's certainly lollable...
There are some beautiful shots in there. Your turn, photocopier -- er, samsung.
Fancy the iPhone Pro and iPhone Air distinction?
Pro: Better battery life, better performance. Slightly thicker.
Air: Slim, lighter.
So, this is some sort of mass iPhone 6 photo spree..... We know how good the photos are, why do we need this ? I guess if this are showcased on Apple's own site, then it kind of "proves" something else too.
i'm calling BS. they must be using some prototype iPhone 6 camera. I'm not professional photographer but I've owned a DSLR for years and know how to use it. I really liked my iP5 camera but the iP6 has been a disappointment with the quality of photos. see this thread.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1790221/
They've obviously done this to promote the iPhone against all the new phones announced today and this week. Clever Apple marketing. Now all they need to do is put OIS into the iPhone 6S this year... I wouldn't buy one without it.
To be fair, I can post process any photo to look amazing. I want to see what these look like "out of the box".
It's good to see how far smartphone cameras have come. The best camera is the one that you have with you.
For me, like other alterations with originals, what are the rules, where do you stop and who is watching what is being done?
This, for me is THE problem.
It's either a photo direct from a device, and it could be ANY device, not just an Apple product, and that photo is the genuine article.
Once you give it to someone, esp. a professional, and they start to tweak it, well, as they can in effect change every single pixel in the entire image, if they wanted where exactly are you going to draw the line, say stop, set when they must stop adjusting or changing it.
I would rather have and see the real image that's left alone.
Can it be made a bit better with some professional adjustment, yes of course it can, just like a 400lb women could be made into miss surfing beauty 2015 with photoshop.
And this is to any maker of any brand of any device.
Let's compare real unaltered images please.
I'm sure there is no real need to edit them.
I really don't understand this mentality. It's not a double blind science experiment. You don't need to set a bunch of rules. These are just great pictures, and like it or not they were taken using an iPhone.
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Or, the best camera at the exact moment you need to take a photo is the one that you have with you
Anyway, regardless of the camera, the photos on the gallery showed superb composition and timing by the "photographers" ... post-process just made it better.
The camera in the iPhone 6 is really great, I'm not denying that. I've achieved some really nice shots on it. My frustration with shooting with my iPhone 6 Plus is that I can't shoot RAW. You end up with somewhat compressed, lossy JPEGs which don't edit well. So you're very restricted with what you can do afterwards. I'm used to shooting RAW with my camera and then having the freedom to make it into exactly what I want in Lightroom. You just can't do that with iPhone shots, you get the photo you take and that's pretty much it. Well, you can apply a bunch of filters with apps like VSCO, but ultimately you still end up with compressed, lossy JPEGs with which you can't do much.
If Apple brings out a phone that shoots RAW, THEN I'll be impressed!
They look great, but seriously, vs a 20+ MP camera? Side by side there would be no comparison.