iPhone 11 iPhone 11 pictures- poor color saturation?

[jm31828]

I was out hiking in the forest yesterday with my dad- me with my iPhone 11 and he with his note 10. We took many pictures of the same things, and I was surprised to see that his had much better color saturation, and the hdr seemed a bit better in bringing out the patches of blue sky and other colors in the sky instead of the gray shade the whole sky was up there above the trees in my shots.

When I edit my photos in the native app and crank up saturation a bit, they start to look a bit more similar- but still seemingly not quite as good as his.

Anyone else notice this? If the iPhone has the best smartphone camera on the market, why are forest scenes all gray looking devoid of much color while the note 10 had such rich color in the same environment?

 

[StumpyBloke]

Without any pictures to help us, it’s all subjective. The iPhones are known to give more natural pictures, the Samsung more vivid. Pick your poison. But again, you’ve given us nothing to go on.

 

[jm31828]

Apologies, an example picture attached.

 

[now i see it]

More accurate color doesn't always look as interesting as more vibrant color. It's well known the Samsung cameras take pictures with more saturated colors. Some people like that look, others don't

 

[jm31828]

More accurate color doesn't always look as interesting as more vibrant color. It's well known the Samsung cameras take pictures with more saturated colors. Some people like that look, others don't

Not sure if I’d call that accurate color representation- to the naked eye the green was much more vibrant there than what came across on the phone.

 

[StumpyBloke]

Apologies, an example picture attached. View attachment 879078

Thanks. Without seeing the real thing it’s all very subjective of course. However I think that photograph looks very well-balanced colour wise. It might be useful if you could also post the Samsung one?

 

[Nordichund]

Looking at the many comparisons online I much prefer the iPhone 11 and Pro's pictures. I am just happy that through the Lightroom app I can shoot in RAW, so I am used to adding more colour ect.. If I were going to post online or print a picture I would never just use the image without any post production.

 

[fred98tj]

Looking at the many comparisons online I much prefer the iPhone 11 and Pro's pictures. I am just happy that through the Lightroom app I can shoot in RAW, so I am used to adding more colour ect.. If I were going to post online or print a picture I would never just use the image without any post production.

You don’t have to just use LR to shoot in raw, many of the 3rd party apps support raw also.

 

[now i see it]

Also there's no way an OLED or LCD screen can display the wide color gamut of real life, nor the contrast ratio of highlights to shadows

 

[jm31828]

Also there's no way an OLED or LCD screen can display the wide color gamut of real life, nor the contrast ratio of highlights to shadows

True, but this picture is so dull and muted compared to how it looked in real life, on my dad’s Note 10, and on my dslr. It’s just interesting that with all the computational stuff that happens when taking these pictures, you can still get shots that are so dull looking.

 

[pika2000]

When I edit my photos in the native app and crank up saturation a bit, they start to look a bit more similar- but still seemingly not quite as good as his.

This is why I prefer iPhone photos.
iPhone photos tend to give more natural colors (although some people already thinks the newer iPhones over saturate), so that when I think I want more saturation, I can edit it myself. It gives me a better canvas instead of over saturating all photos right off the bat like Samsung, even when I don’t want to.

DSLR RAW files are also fairly flat without post processing. That’s the whole point, to give a flat canvas so the user have more room to edit things when needed.

 

[Nordichund]

You don’t have to just use LR to shoot in raw, many of the 3rd party apps support raw also.

I also use the Moment app as well. What is convenient about subscribing to LR is that I can easily transfer my shots from the phone to my laptop through the adobe cloud and edit them there, where I have even more control.

 

[chrono1081]

iPhones take more natural pictures where as Samsung does a lot of post processing. If you prefer more saturation you’ll have to edit on the phone or batch edit on a computer.

Me personally I prefer natural and then editing to get what I want.

 

[fred98tj]

I also use the Moment app as well. What is convenient about subscribing to LR is that I can easily transfer my shots from the phone to my laptop through the adobe cloud and edit them there, where I have even more control.

Yes, I understand that. It’s insane to try and edit photos on a phone anyway unless they are only to be viewed on phones. Screens are much too small to do any “real” editing work.
I haven’t used LR in years (use other apps) nor have I used my phone to take anything other than what intern”digi-snaps” in years.