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There is a science of color reproduction. It is quite tough because they way we perceive colors is amazingly complicated. But it is quite possible to make an ef
by phicoh 6y ago
There is a science of color reproduction. It is quite tough because they way we perceive colors is amazingly complicated. But it is quite possible to make an effort.
Of course, most photography is not about color reproduction but about telling a story.
And automatic cameras (like the way phones are mostly used) take a way a lot of control when it comes to deciding how color look in the photo. On most phones you can frame the image, zoom a bit, and decide when to take the image. Other controls like aperture, shutter speed and color balance are automatic.
- SECProto 6y agoOne note on the phones thing: some camera apps (on Android, dunno about iOS) provide additional settings. For example, the Samsung stock camera has a "pro" mode, which lets you adjust the white balance, exposure, metering, and "ISO". Third party apps will provide histograms, long exposure, time stamps, etc. It's all similar to how many people used disposable film cameras (no options except aim and push the capture button) or cheap reusable cams (zoom, maybe exposure, etc) but film cameras that let you adjust everything existed at the same time
- photojosh 6y agoThere certainly are iOS apps that allow full manual control and raw capture. I'm a happy user of Halide when I need the extra control. [0] What I haven't seen yet in this conversation is that back in the film days you changed your white balance setting by changing... your film. [0] https://halide.cam https://halide.cam