So you can easily jump into settings and push the ISO from 100 to 1600 to get some low light images. While also slowing down the shutter, while manually focusing.
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Why edit photos?
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I’ve been building an underwater body (not an enclosure) for my Leica for the last 3 years. If I could add up all the thousands I’ve got into this project, I wouldn’t.
Of course one can still edit images shot with an iPhone, too -- beyond whatever the editing offered by Apple includes. This evening, I happened to glance out the window and noticed how the lights were coming on around the neighborhood and yet there was still twilight as well. Just for the heck of it I grabbed the iPhone, stepped out on my deck and fired off a couple of images. Of course Apple processes the heck out of these things, especially trying to make a subject light when the reality is somewhere in between approaching darkness, remaining medium-light and artifically-implemented light. I came back in the house and air-dropped one of the images from the iPhone to the computer, and then sat down with first DXO PhotoLab 5 and then later Luminar AI to do a bit of editing which more accurately reflected what I had actually been seeing at the time I made those exposures with my iPhone. This was just one of those times when I just spontaneously decided to step out there and shoot with what I had readily available, rather than getting out the "serious" camera, an appropriate lens and the tripod......
DXO PhotoLab 5 did most of the heavy lifting with this, getting the scene to the level of light where it actually was when I was out there shooting it, some thoughtful adjustment of the balance of shadows and light, and it helped me straighten the horizon a bit and tinker with contrast as well. Since I was working with a .jpeg I didn't have quite the latitude I would have had this image been shot in RAW. Then I moved on to Luminar AI, which I actually use primarily for its "erase" tool, which I prefer to the one offered in DXO PhotoLab 5. A couple of potentially distracting floating things zapped out from the messy water and we were done.
I spent the time editing this particular photo just because I could and with no expectations of magically turning it into a stellar image to be displayed on gallery walls or appearing in an issue of National Geographic. By editing a scene shot with my iPhone 12 Pro that I stepped out on my deck and took just on a casual whim, I was able to look at the image and see that while I knew what I'd seen at the time I was taking the photo Apple's extensive processing of the image was showing something different, especially in terms of lighting, so I took matters into my own hands and regained control of the image that I knew I'd actually shot in the first place.
That's why those of us who are serious about photography edit images.....
DXO PhotoLab 5 did most of the heavy lifting with this, getting the scene to the level of light where it actually was when I was out there shooting it, some thoughtful adjustment of the balance of shadows and light, and it helped me straighten the horizon a bit and tinker with contrast as well. Since I was working with a .jpeg I didn't have quite the latitude I would have had this image been shot in RAW. Then I moved on to Luminar AI, which I actually use primarily for its "erase" tool, which I prefer to the one offered in DXO PhotoLab 5. A couple of potentially distracting floating things zapped out from the messy water and we were done.
I spent the time editing this particular photo just because I could and with no expectations of magically turning it into a stellar image to be displayed on gallery walls or appearing in an issue of National Geographic. By editing a scene shot with my iPhone 12 Pro that I stepped out on my deck and took just on a casual whim, I was able to look at the image and see that while I knew what I'd seen at the time I was taking the photo Apple's extensive processing of the image was showing something different, especially in terms of lighting, so I took matters into my own hands and regained control of the image that I knew I'd actually shot in the first place.
That's why those of us who are serious about photography edit images.....
Yeah, when we happen to shoot something with our iPhone.....which is what I discussed in my post.
Why not? Where is the rule that says you can’t?