1 year, 8 months ago
How do the new iOS 4.1 HDR photos on iPhone stack up against others?
I've been using Photoshop CS2 software to create some HDR photographs. With Steve Job's announcement today about the new ability for iPhones to take HDR photos, I wonder how they stack up. Has anyone seen any of these pictures yet? What's the quality like? Is it worth getting?
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I found a very good review about Apple's iOS 4.1 and its performance in producing HDR photos. They took some photos using the iOS 4.1 Gold Mast and these are what they found out.
The key idea behind HDR photos is to make the image look more similar to what our eyes see in regular photos and in many cased this usually leads to bright and vibrant photos. But in the iPhone 4 and iOS 4.1's HDR this did not seem this way.
iOS 4.1 favors highlights and makse some of the HDR photos seem wash out next to their non-HDR counterparts. The colors look more natural too. However, the HDRR feature seem to struggle in case the environment that is deem or low lighting. The rubber duckies on the image below that you can see confused the HDR feature and resulted in a funky and messed up image despite the iPhone being held perfectly still while taking the photo.
That is just a little quirk though. But generally the HDR feature will give a far more natural looking photos but since this is not always easy to predict it would be best to toggle the photo settings and save both HDR version of a photo and the normally exposed version of it.
The key idea behind HDR photos is to make the image look more similar to what our eyes see in regular photos and in many cased this usually leads to bright and vibrant photos. But in the iPhone 4 and iOS 4.1's HDR this did not seem this way.
iOS 4.1 favors highlights and makse some of the HDR photos seem wash out next to their non-HDR counterparts. The colors look more natural too. However, the HDRR feature seem to struggle in case the environment that is deem or low lighting. The rubber duckies on the image below that you can see confused the HDR feature and resulted in a funky and messed up image despite the iPhone being held perfectly still while taking the photo.
That is just a little quirk though. But generally the HDR feature will give a far more natural looking photos but since this is not always easy to predict it would be best to toggle the photo settings and save both HDR version of a photo and the normally exposed version of it.
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