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iOS 4.1 HDR Photo overview and comparison photos.

AZREOSpecialist said:
There should have been a lot of other priorities ahead of HDR.
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Fact: HDR is a bit of a craze, notwithstanding the fact that most people don't understand it. (I myself just learned from you that film has a wider range than a digital sensor. Thanks.) Angst among photography experts and aficionados regarding the potential misuse of this feature isn't going to be on Apple's radar. They take stuff they think is cool and make it available to the masses.
 
spblat said:
Excellent example. And that's a nifty ipod dock/card reader combo you got there. Do you like it? What is it?
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I LOVE this dock! Griffin makes it. Here it is on newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839999005&cm_re=griffin_iPhone_dock-_-39-999-005-_-Product

I think I only paid $40 for mine though. You may be able to find it cheaper elsewhere. I've had it for about a year or a little longer. I'm not sure if the newest ones have the iPhone 4 dock in there or not but the docks for every previous nano/iPhone/iPod are included in the package.

Oh, and a bunch of people at work saw it on my desk and bought one too and they all love theirs lol.
 
Ok, here's an example I just did after updating to 4.1

Let me first say, that I'm a photographer, and I'm not at all interested in the HDR part of digital photography, I find it to be cheesy and kitchy.. but being that this isn't a "true" HDR, apple seems to have added it as a way to simply produce better photos for people who don't otherwise know how to focus/expose a photo.

The HDR image in this case, is more accurate to true color and much more accurate to what my eye is actually seeing. If this works half as good in daylight as it does under the CFL lamps at my desk, it'll be a fun and helpful tool for quick iphone snapshots. Just another reason the iphone is replacing point and shoot camera's everywhere.


Original
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HDR
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As you can see, in the original image, the peice of art behind the van is all blown out. The colors are also a bit oversaturated and fake looking. I intentionally placed the van in the "shadowed" area out of the reach of the light, to create a high contrast difference and see how it reacted. In the "HDR" version of the image, the iphone has done a pretty good job of balancing out the levels and showing more true color.

I'm fairly impressed.
 
Amino Man said:
You're not very good at HDR.

You're supposed to use HDR in areas where there's high contrast. Pointing at fruit indoors or pointing it at the ground isn't going to do anything. If the photo is already properly exposed, HDR looks like crap.

Take a photo of some landscapes where the sky is bright and the ground is dark. It will even out both the sky and ground to make a more balanced exposure.

Using all 3 exposures, the iPhone combines them so the black areas become lighter and the washed out areas become darker, thus giving you the maximum detail in your photos.

Go out and learn how to use HDR, then do another demo. Please.
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This over 10000000 times this!

I was afraid of people tossing up HDR all over the place without knowing what it is or does. Please educate yourselves before start blabbing about HDR.
 
bindle said:
HDR will be the autotune of photography
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Unfortunately it will be. Some will use it as a form of art, fewer will use it to actually help with difficult scenes. It's sad but true because autotune sells and so will HDR.

jav6454 said:
This over 10000000 times this!

I was afraid of people tossing up HDR all over the place without knowing what it is or does. Please educate yourselves before start blabbing about HDR.
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That's a bit harsh. Put a toy in the hands of cell phone users all over and expect crap. It's a damn cell phone app. If people want to post crappy cell phone HDR pics then who cares.
 
jessica. said:
That's a bit harsh. Put a toy in the hands of cell phone users all over and expect crap. It's a damn cell phone app. If people want to post crappy cell phone HDR pics then who cares.
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It may be harsh, but seriously. Are you going to take it when loads of people come up to you and say "Does your phone do HDR?" or the classic "Oh look HDR pictures nice, and yours?" and even so more the other "my pictures are sooooo good looking because of the HDR" and to add the final cherry to this, people gloating all over the place trying to boast e-peen or whatever the gloat on.
 
I don't get why all the "Photo Experts" are getting bent about this. Not everyone knows about this stuff.
 
jav6454 said:
It may be harsh, but seriously. Are you going to take it when loads of people come up to you and say "Does your phone do HDR?" or the classic "Oh look HDR pictures nice, and yours?" and even so more the other "my pictures are sooooo good looking because of the HDR" and to add the final cherry to this, people gloating all over the place trying to boast e-peen or whatever the gloat on.
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jessica. said:
Unfortunately it will be. Some will use it as a form of art, fewer will use it to actually help with difficult scenes. It's sad but true because autotune sells and so will HDR.
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While I agree with you and the person who said HDR will be the autotune of photography, I think the perfect platform for the gimmicky HDR, would be the gimmicky "cell phone photographer" world.

I can't tell you how much I use my iphone for quick pics here and there, its quite helpful and this HDR thing will make it even more useful, but it will never come close to replacing my DSLR, Lightroom and photoshop.. and you will never see me blending exposures from my DSLR..
 
Wow!

HDR is how the eye sees things. Deal with it. The bigger problem in photography these days is all the schmucks who ran out and bought a digital camera or use their iPhone and think they're Ansel Adams now. Come talk to me when you've spent hours and hours in a dark room dodging and burning exposures to get the exact tonality you're looking for.
Most people don't even understand the principals of photography and how to capture a good image. HDR is a moot point in the end. Knowledge separates the wheat from the chaff.
 
jav6454 said:
It may be harsh, but seriously. Are you going to take it when loads of people come up to you and say "Does your phone do HDR?" or the classic "Oh look HDR pictures nice, and yours?" and even so more the other "my pictures are sooooo good looking because of the HDR" and to add the final cherry to this, people gloating all over the place trying to boast e-peen or whatever the gloat on.
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Very true and no, I don't think I'd be amused or saddened if my phone did or did not do HDR. Frankly I don't quite see why people suddenly felt the need to have this as a feature but then again I'm dropping the iPhone for something else so I may be making excuses for my phone being inferior because it doesn't do HDR. As a photographer myself, loosely stated, HDR is (as someone said) the autotune of photography.
 
marksman said:
It is funny how many wanna-be photo expects (qualifications they paid too much for a DSLR camera!), kept saying it was not taking three pictures.

Even despite the fact when describing how it worked on the iPhone that is EXACTLY what Jobs said it did, take three pictures.

Well at least we know for sure who is NOT a photography expert here as they have exposed (haha get it) themselves.
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There seems to be too many of these "experts" around here in Macrumors.
 
Apple's HDR is useless.

Here is a standard shot:
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Here is Apple's HDR shot:
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Here is Pro HDR's HDR shot:
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Here's the original iphone shot of the above one for comparison:
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the Pro HDR is what it is supposed to look like. You get both the foreground and background lighting without over/under exposing the other. And yes I know the Pro HDR one is a different photo but it keeps crashing on me right now for some reason so I'm using a two day old pic to show the difference.
 
It's amazing how some of you people will find a way to crap on anything. The iPhone implementation of HDR is a great feature and works very well to improve the quality of your average snapshots.
 
ender21 said:
When the programming for it probably amounted to a next-to-nothing cost, and likely took very little time, I'm fine with this slipping in.
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I would't say it was "next-to-nothing" and it probably did take a fair amount of time compared to many features in iOS. Most likely this was a pet project of one of the developers who showed it to his boss in a near final state. At that point there was little reason not to include it.
 
tim916 said:
It's amazing how some of you people will find a way to crap on anything. The iPhone implementation of HDR is a great feature and works very well to improve the quality of your average snapshots.
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sure it may improve the regular picture, but it's not HDR which is what they advertise it as

i dont mind b/c the Pro HDR app works fine and i dont mind using it (i actually prefer tapping on a light area then a dark area for separate pics)

i was just showing people what HDR is supposed to look like and not have 1,000 posts about how HDR isnt noticeably different
 
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