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Post-shooting, you can edit with adjustment tools, filters, and frames in the Lightbox. Oilist is a generational art app. You feed it something from Photos, choose a style, and it gets to work, continually repainting your image. Whether you interact or just sit back and watch, Oilist is mesmerizing — kind of like a painterly lava lamp, only what you see is based on one of your own cherished photographs.
Snapseed is a free photo editor with a feature set that rivals the very best premium apps. The range of options is dazzling, and the interface is smartly conceived. You can crop, make adjustments, and edit curves, all with a few swipes and taps.
Even better, edits are non-destructive, and can be removed or changed at any point by accessing them in the edits stack. As a final sign off, the app enables you to save any combination of adjustments as a custom preset, which you can then apply to any image in the future with a single tap.
Superb stuff. Obscura 2 is the best manual camera app for iPhone. Echoing manual cameras of old, everything is based around a contextual wheel that sits above the shutter. Initially, you use it to select a tool.
When setting focus or exposure, the wheel enables you to make fine adjustments with your thumb. You get a real feel of precision control, with optional haptic feedback confirming your choices. Filmborn is an app for camera obsessives — for those who revel in the joys of film, but come away unimpressed with apps that present an over-saturated, overblown take on old-school photography.
The interface is icon-heavy, but gives you fast access to tools that will improve your photography. The app also includes basic editing functionality, although a key tool — curves — frustratingly sits behind IAP. Retrospecs is a camera app that wants you to see the world as if it was being rendered by ancient computing and gaming hardware. Load a photo — or take one using the app — and you can select from a wide range of systems, such as the Game Boy, Commodore 64, and original Mac.
You can adjust dither, image corruption, and virtual CRT distortion. You get animation effects and video support. And should you get fed up with the included emulated systems, you can even make your own.
So whether you believe all your photos should look like an eight-bit video game or want to add a crazy glitch sequence to your next YouTube video, Retrospecs fits the bill perfectly. The Camera app on iPhone 11 Pro shows you through the translucent UI what you could capture with the ultra wide lens. First, there's no optical image stabilization OIS on the ultra wide camera, which means shots tend to be softer when you zoom in to examine the details.
If you're only planning to share iPhone 11 Pro photos to Instagram or Twitter, sharpness isn't as high of a priority. But if want to get the best iPhone 11 Pro photos, you'll going to have to work a little harder: definitely lock in your focus instead of relying on autofocus for sharper shots. Not all ultra wide smartphone cameras are equal, though. As I've said many times before, a camera's ability to capture a photo is only one part of the equation.
To get a great photo, you also need top-notch image processing, which matters just as much if not more. Take a look at the ultra wide shots below. The Galaxy Note 10 has the sharpest photo, but the color temperature is bluer than the scene really looked, and the fake candle lights in the chandelier are blown out. The photo taken with Huawei's P30 Pro has a red cast and the candles are even more overexposed. The OnePlus 7 Pro shot is the darkest, but it did a better job preserving the candles than the P30 Pro.
Meanwhile, the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro captured the most true-to-life image with accurate colors, exposed the candles the best, and maintained sharpness across the image. They didn't produce the crispest photos, but overall , the consistency of the image quality wins in my opinion.
Different smartphones also have different lenses. Samsung's phones are the most similar in terms of lens focal length, but phones like the P30 Pro and OnePlus 7 Pro have arguably superior telephoto lenses. Once again, you can see how the color science varies between phone cameras and their three lenses. The iPhone 11 Pros always produce the most realistic colors. Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 tends to dial up the brightness and saturation for more vivid pics.
Shots from Huawei's P30 Pro are just too red. And the OnePlus 7 camera, while markedly better than previous OnePlus phones, still lacks the wider dynamic range from the other phone cameras. Night mode is an equally major upgrade for the iPhone 11 Pro cameras. Google was the first to blow minds with Night Sight on the Pixel 3 , using "computational photography" to composite multiple photos into a brightly-exposed image.
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Night Sight shots are often unreal: scenes that are completely dark to the naked eye are brought to life and made visible. The iPhone 11 Pros catch up to Night Sight with their own night mode. The feature automatically kicks in when the wide or telephoto camera detects there isn't enough light in a scene. A night mode icon with a recommended exposure time usually between seconds appears next to the flash icon and when you tap the shutter button, an exposure meter counts down to indicate how long you should hold still.
The meter is also used to manually turn night mode off or switch to the maximum recommended exposures.
Pop the iPhone 11 Pro on a tripod and it'll automatically shoot at the highest exposure time I got a second exposure for one photo. In the below shot of a building in Chinatown, you can see how the iPhone 11 Pro's camera without night mode and with night mode compare. Sure, Google did night mode first, but the feature is more intuitive on the iPhone 11 Pro.
On a Pixel, a spinning exposure ring blocks the entire viewfinder while you're holding still, but on the iPhone 11 Pro, you can see in real time an exposure getting brighter as the timer counts down. And the iPhone 11 Pro's night mode also produces better photos in my opinion — sharper details from corner to corner, and better tones and contrast to preserve a scene's mood.
Whereas night mode on other phones brighten a scene to the point it looks artificial or flat, the iPhone 11 Pro's night mode more delicately balances the light and dark areas in both the foreground and background. Have a look at the Vespa comparisons below, with and without night mode, for several phones. The quality of the night mode on the iPhone 11 Pro is richer. After all, even with night mode, you still want a photo to look like it's nighttime.
Night mode works a little differently with people. When taking photos of people with night mode, the Neural Engine applies all kinds of machine learning algorithms so that the face is more finely exposed along with the background. Skin and hair should have more specular highlights, faces should appear a little sharpened. Relying on autofocus alone, I can't say the iPhone 11 Pro's night mode blows rival Android night modes away. Huawei's P30 Pro took the sharpest photo, but it lacks contrast.
The Galaxy Note 10 pic is too soft. The OnePlus 7 Pro does a decent job, but the white balance skews yellow. The iPhone 11 Pro preserved the background the best see the emergency truck on the right with greater detail, but my jacket details were lost and my face could've used a little more illumination. As with shooting with the ultra wide, you'll get sharper night mode photos if you manually lock the focus; autofocus is more reliable than on Android phones some phones failed to autofocus at all , but it can be finicky.
And again, just so you can see the previous generation, here's the iPhone XS and iPhone XR, neither with any night mode. Just a regular camera. Portrait mode is improved as well.
On the iPhone X and XS, portrait mode only worked with the 2x telephoto camera, and on the XR, Apple used machine learning to blur out the background. But on the iPhone 11 Pro, the wide and 2x telephoto can both be used for portrait mode, giving you the best of both portrait modes from the iPhone XS and XR. However, the background blur, aka bokeh, won't be as creamy as portrait shots taken with the 2x telephoto camera.
As you can see, each camera yields different portrait looks, mimicking a 35mm focal length wide camera and 52mm focal length 2x telephoto. The Galaxy Note 10 can also take portrait photos called "live focus" with both the main and telephoto cameras, but the images don't look anywhere near as vibrant.
The white balance is bluer, creating a colder mood, and the image processing airbrushes away too much of the details. Below are how other phones do portrait photography. Many people like the Pixel 3's AI-generated background blur. I think the image looks too flat and a fake, like a cheap gaussian blur applied in Photoshop. A little bit of editing could spruce up any of these portrait photos, but straight out of the camera? No surprise here: the iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max take solid selfies. The camera app also has a neat trick: hold it vertically and it'll crop in for a 7-megapixel selfie for single selfies, duh and hold it horizontally and the viewfinder will expand to the wider field of view with megapixel resolution for group selfies.
Of course, you can manually choose to get the wider or zoomed-in shot, but it's kind of nice the field of view adapts depending on the orientation you're holding the iPhone 11 Pro. Samsung's Galaxy S10 and Note 10, which also crop in and out, have no such orientation intelligence. Of all the phones, the Pixel 3 and 3 XL are the only ones with two front-facing cameras wide and ultra wide , each with 8 megapixels.