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Photos on my wife's camera look slightly deformed. The people don't look like themselves, their faces are just slightly off. I'm blaming the AI inside of the ph

Photos on my wife's camera look slightly deformed. The people don't look like themselves, their faces are just slightly off. I'm blaming the AI inside of the photos app on iPhone, but I'm not sure. People's face look perfect on my mediocre Android though. I'm never going to buy or use an iPhone. Even the questionable advantage which was supposed to be the iPhone's camera is fake.

gazchop 2y ago
This is probably a combination of the lens corrections, the pretty awful auto white balance (warmth), the terrible oversharpening and also a bit of True Tone. Portrait mode also wrecks a lot of photos due to the crappy emulation of DOF. Output is clever but shit. Due to the general flatness of the lens there is a lot of distortion around the edges which is digitally removed after the photo is taken. This isn't 100% perfect and causes some rather uncanny looks in some of the photos. You can use this for artistic effect but it looks crap mostly. Generally if you're using a proper camera there's a big chunk of glass in front of it so the main part of a portrait is well outside the distorted edges of the frame so it's not noticeable. Even new cameras use minimal lens corrections in body as well to eliminate this. As for the white balance, Apple never seem to get this right. The colours are always slightly too orange / warm and vivid and never quite match reality in experience. You can crank the warmth down a bit after in photos.app to kill some of it. Oversharpening - everything is too sharp. This makes the image pop out but nothing more. It's a terrible curse on smartphones. Not much you can do about it. Even shooting ProRAW on mine is oversharpened. If you turn the True Tone feature off in Display/Settings it looks a bit better as well. That seems to completely mung viewing any photos later, giving them sometimes an over-blue tone. Urgh all this is why I bought a mirrorless. Smartphones are really not very good. Even good ones (mine is a 15 Pro). Mine gets mostly used to take photos of an AirBnB when I leave it now or where the car got parked.
- amluto 2y ago
  My bonus pet peeve about portrait mode is that the internet is full of portrait mode photos, which means AI gets trained on portrait mode photos, which means AI generates pictures that look like portrait mode. Garbage in, garbage out.

gazchop 2y ago

This is probably a combination of the lens corrections, the pretty awful auto white balance (warmth), the terrible oversharpening and also a bit of True Tone. Portrait mode also wrecks a lot of photos due to the crappy emulation of DOF. Output is clever but shit. Due to the general flatness of the lens there is a lot of distortion around the edges which is digitally removed after the photo is taken. This isn't 100% perfect and causes some rather uncanny looks in some of the photos. You can use this for artistic effect but it looks crap mostly. Generally if you're using a proper camera there's a big chunk of glass in front of it so the main part of a portrait is well outside the distorted edges of the frame so it's not noticeable. Even new cameras use minimal lens corrections in body as well to eliminate this. As for the white balance, Apple never seem to get this right. The colours are always slightly too orange / warm and vivid and never quite match reality in experience. You can crank the warmth down a bit after in photos.app to kill some of it. Oversharpening - everything is too sharp. This makes the image pop out but nothing more. It's a terrible curse on smartphones. Not much you can do about it. Even shooting ProRAW on mine is oversharpened. If you turn the True Tone feature off in Display/Settings it looks a bit better as well. That seems to completely mung viewing any photos later, giving them sometimes an over-blue tone. Urgh all this is why I bought a mirrorless. Smartphones are really not very good. Even good ones (mine is a 15 Pro). Mine gets mostly used to take photos of an AirBnB when I leave it now or where the car got parked.

amluto 2y ago
My bonus pet peeve about portrait mode is that the internet is full of portrait mode photos, which means AI gets trained on portrait mode photos, which means AI generates pictures that look like portrait mode. Garbage in, garbage out.