Cute shots, but take a look at the door on the first shot. That's exactly what I'm talking about with Apple's over-aggressive noise reduction. It looks terrible and distracting. And that's not even a really low light shot. Or look closely at the carpet on the porcupine shot above. It looks like someone did Paint-By-Numbers on it. iPhone cameras did not used to exhibit this effect and I'm very sad they do now.
Oh my god, I thought I was the only one seeing this, especially after seeing the pictures taken during that professional photographers trip to Iceland.
I noticed this "watercolor" NR effect over the weekend when I was taking some pics of my daughter at a birthday part. It was a indoor pool party and at first I thought there was moisture on the lens causing this affect. Then I started wondering if it always like this on the the previous iPhones like my iP5 but because the resolution is higher on the iP6+, I just never noticed it until now.
I hate it as well, I would rather have the picture be more grainy when zooming in on a taken picture than have this watercolor type affect going on where my daughters face looks like she has been stuck into a painting.
I am hoping that with enough people complaining about it Apple will release a software update later on in one of the future iOS8 releases to either let the user turn it on/off or return it to the way it was before iOS8.