iPhone 7 Night Photos WAY too bright

[vd8601]

Did anyone experience this ?

I was out in the dark or almost dark and took some photos.
The photos are WAY too bright. Much brighter than the actual setting was.
The photos still looked good tho, but just not realistic.
Anyone else notice that?
Could be patched easily i guess.

 

[UKFan643]

Did anyone experience this ?

I was out in the dark or almost dark and took some photos.
The photos are WAY too bright. Much brighter than the actual setting was.
The photos still looked good tho, but just not realistic.
Anyone else notice that?
Could be patched easily i guess.

That's how it's supposed to be. You can always change the settings before taking the picture, but the whole point of low light improvements is to make the photos more visible in low light settings. And yes, that means they will often look brighter in the photo than they do in real life.

 

[vd8601]

Okay but I always thought its about taking realistic photos.
The night photos of the iPhone 7 are NOT realistic. They are way too bright. Like you take a correct photo and then put +1 or +2 exposure. Thats how it looks.
The daylight photos are perfect.

 

[zeemeerman2]

Okay but I always thought its about taking realistic photos.
The night photos of the iPhone 7 are NOT realistic. They are way too bright. Like you take a correct photo and then put +1 or +2 exposure. Thats how it looks.
The daylight photos are perfect.

That's good, isn't it?

That means with a 3rd party app, you are capable to reduce the exposure and increase something else (ISO, shutter speed) at the same quality, rather than sacrificing quality to do so.

 

[bbates123]

The whole iPhone 7 camera situation is a huge disappointment, especially low light photos. That was supposed to be the big selling point.

 

[maclook]

Any pictures to reference what you're talking about?

 

[zorinlynx]

Tap on where you want to focus, then drag your finger up and down to adjust the exposure to how you want it.

It's difficult to get a "correct" automatic exposure with nighttime photography because the brightness of the scene is hard to evaluate. You have point light sources, large areas of darkness, etc... Just choose the exposure you want yourself.

I'm actually of the opinion that the 6/6s couldn't really crank up the exposure far enough for night shots, which tended to be too dark. Now you have more flexibility on night shots since the camera supports higher ISO.

 

[Olivia23]

My 6+ does that so it's not just the 7.

 

[HEK]

Scratches head...........this is joke right.......now low light pictures are too bright? I can't even come up with a snarky comment.......shakes head and goes on to next thread.

 

[Gmcube]

That's good, isn't it?

That means with a 3rd party app, you are capable to reduce the exposure and increase something else (ISO, shutter speed) at the same quality, rather than sacrificing quality to do so.

No, if "normal" is a proper exposure then you wouldn't want those extra stops of light and can potentially loose detail in the highlights.

I don't think this was addressed, is this with or without flash? Or both? If its with flash, well that can be tricky with any camera. One thing you might need to do is take a few steps back. The camera might be seeing the background which with flash is going to look darker than the foreground and trying to expose for that instead, causing the foreground to look too bright.

 

[veedubshafer]

It's a cell phone camera! I don't care how much they hype it up you should never get too excited over a cell phone camera! Just be glad it's as good as it is.