iPhone 14 Pro Max Portrait Mode for General Photography?

[LouisOscar17]

Hi folks,


Technology isn’t my strong point, so please be kind!

I’ve recently upgraded from the iPhone 7 to the iPhone 14 ProMax. My grandson has enabled proRAW but any photographs I take seem to look flat, bland, and blurry compared to photos taken with Portrait mode. Obviously, the disadvantage being that Portrait mode uses the 12 pixel compared to the proRAW using the 48 pixel.

We were out for a walk with the dogs today and shooting in proRAW resulted in the dogs moving tails being blurry, where as Portrait mode captures them running etc with no blur but obviously as a lower pixel quality

Does anybody else use Portrait mode for landscape scenes and general photography, or is the proRAW the better option?

 

[LouisOscar17]

ProRAW adove


Portrait below

 

[LouisOscar17]

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[Deifie]

You should only enable proRAW if you want to use the more data that is captured.
For point and shoot proRAW is the wrong choice, it is designed to give you to most headroom for editing.

 

[pw5a29]

You should only enable proRAW if you want to use the more data that is captured.
For point and shoot proRAW is the wrong choice, it is designed to give you to most headroom for editing.

Yep correct,

Given your case, I think you are very unlikely to do post-editing, but just use the photo from stock.

Would suggest to take a regular photo without proraw.

Using portrait for these scenarios are not applicable as well as you don't have a subject (person etc)

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

People tend to misinterpret ProRAW. This mode is not intended to be used for every picture taken. In addition to consuming 4 to 7 times more storage space for each photo taken, it takes a longer time, after the click, to process and store the photo, also consuming more battery. Only use ProRAW Mode when taking a photo that you want to edit, apply color grading or even crop it, and generally landscapes or something along those lines. In cases for everyday photos, disable ProRAW Mode. In Portrait Mode it is brighter due to the filters applied to the photos, but it is not as defined as a photograph taken through the original Photo Mode. In case you want more clarity, try the "Photographic Styles" or increase the exposure before taking the pictures.

 

[antiprotest]

My advice is to turn off ProRAW -- it is for people who know exactly what they are doing.

For the above photos, it would have been better to use standard 12MP. For color photos, also try the photographic styles. The above would have looked good with the Vibrant style, for my taste at least.