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As a follow-up to my post last week about the quality and versatility of the camera system in my new iPhone 14 Pro Max, I have two additional images I wanted to show for specific reasons.
First, the image at the top of the post is an edited version of the image directly below. Notice how well the the image held up under extreme cropping/straightening. In this case, the wall was very high and I had virtually no room to move farther back. I almost didn't make this image as I thought the amount of straightening and cropping that would be needed would reduce the quality making it relatively useless. I was wrong. Kudos to the iPhone camera.
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The second image, below is a JPEG. I made this using the portrait mode with the idea that the portrait mode would artificially reduce the depth of field allowing me to highlight the pumpkin in the foreground. The portrait mode, evidently, works for more than people.
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As far as the JPEG file is concerned, it is not nearly as high quality as the RAW files. Right out of the phone it was over sharpened, crunchy, too contrasty and oversaturated. I scaled back on all of those settings.
My plan going forward is to either use the iPhone camera set to RAW or the camera in the Lightoom Mobile app also set to RAW. If I use the iPhone camera I will do as I did with these and the last photos I posted. I open the Lightroom Mobile app and import them into LR Mobile from the Camera Roll. From there they automactically go to the cloud and are synced with my Lightroom Classic program on my laptop. No gyrations needed to move photos from one device to another. When I then open LR Classic, I just keyword the synced photos and move them to their proper folder.
So far, I'm intrigued by this iPhone camera system. I'll continue to work with it to see how much I can get out of it. For example, I would like to try the virtual long exposure feature to record moving water as blurry. I will try that next week.
Thanks for looking. Enjoy!
Dennis A. Mook
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Interesting work. I have the 14 Pro and it serves me for most of my photography now. You might try turning on Live Photos when you shoot the running water to try some comparisons to long exposure. Derrick Story had a tip about this on his website thedigitalstory.com
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment and tip. I was recently made aware of using ‘live photos’ and then convert to ‘long exposure.’ I think I saw Scott Kelby mention it. I haven’t had the opportunity to try it, but I will soon. Again, thank you.
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