Anyone else finding this? Pictures taken with my iPhone 13 Pro often render my pale Northern European skin as far too red or orange. Looks like a very cheap spray tan ? I never had this issue with my iPhone X, colours were far more natural. I’ve raised this with Apple, hopefully they are still tweaking the camera algorithms rather than just moving on to iPhone 14…
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iPhone 13 Pro iPhone 13 Pro camera skin tones often TERRIBLE
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I phone 13 has something new called 'photographic style' which sets a background tone to all your shots.
It might have asked you which one you wanted to use when you first used the camera but you can change them in the Camera sections of settings and I think there are sliders to tweak the style too but I don't have it with me at the moment.
On the basic 'standard' style it does look too ruddy to me so I wonder if that's what you are seeing?
It might have asked you which one you wanted to use when you first used the camera but you can change them in the Camera sections of settings and I think there are sliders to tweak the style too but I don't have it with me at the moment.
On the basic 'standard' style it does look too ruddy to me so I wonder if that's what you are seeing?
You might not like the colors but Apple engineers think it looks great!
Yes, me too. I feel deceived by Apple. It seems that they tested the camera on asian or black/brown skintones only and used that photos in the advertising (have a look and see).
But if I could take great photos with my previous iPhone and now with a newer one that promised even better photos but is more or less unusable something has gone wrong.
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Not really. Big cameras are good for retaining details. I still use them for that alone. BUT camera phones should be excellent at producing basic but accurate picture, which iphones are not doing. I simply think that covid situation resulted in software that was just not tested enough, my pale face also comes red/orange wayyy too often. Generally i feel like 13 pro has problems with white balance and extreme overprocessing. And yeah i tried "photographic styles" and they make it even worse.
It happens to me ALL the time, especially with bright light environments.
I have an easy solution and made a video about it. It will require a simple profile in Lightroon app and can be used for all pictures.
I am brown skinned but the 13 pro max camera makes me look darker. Ugh it’s frustrating! I’ve tried even thing in the settings and there’s no solution
Skin tones on iPhones I think are generally good. Pixel is by far the best. Others I think really struggle
I've taken hundreds of photos of fair-skinned people with my 13 Pro Max in various environments and none of those photos exhibit orangish/reddish skin tone - maybe people who are having this issue have defective 13 Pros or maybe it's a difference between the 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max?
Does this happen with 3rd party apps? (If not, could create a shortcut to effectively change the default camera?)
I don't know why Apple can't make their iPhone cameras as good as those on Sony Xperia phones. To me that's the best smartphone camera out there. Natural and none of that garish over-sharpening that plagues 99% of smartphones these days.
I now realise that Deep fusion is the main factor causing the distortion of photos. Such a bad move from Apple to first make such a bad function and then to also making it impossible to turn off. I would like the former so good camera app with the what you see is what you get back (isn’t that the way a really good camera should behave?). But instead it now makes some calculations afterwards that makes the photos useless. I wonder Apple, did you ask users if they wanted a function to make peoples pictures changed to the way you think they should look or what they see in the camera when taking them?
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Deep Fusion = The photo lottery function which you never win but are forced to take part of.