1/25/2024 0 Comments Iphone screen curtain![]() ![]() It is HDR mode that enables this to "just work" and not result in photos that look like they were made with a potato. The vast, vast majority of mobile phone users tap the shutter button, and will never adjust the colours, contrast, or any other image setting. It's the path of low resistance to a good quality outcome, which makes it very attractive as a consumer image capture/display technology, especially mobile phones. This is why HDR photography is actually the vast majority of photography now, easily outnumbering professional photographers (and videographers). They're not using AI magic to colour grade them like a Lightroom professional, they're instead leaning on the HDR mode to simply show the photos accurately, without the need to aggressively tone map them. This is why Apple iPhone photos just look better (on other iDevices!). Those photos instantly looked not just better, but more correct, as if I had spent an hour adjusting them in Lightroom! I went back to look at some Nikon RAW photos from as far back as 2013 and turned HDR mode on. HDR is essentially more faithfully representing the light as it is in reality, whereas SDR is a combination of aggressive tone mappings to make it "fit" into a tiny gamut. Something I noticed with the new HDR support in Adobe Lightroom is that proper HDR "simply works" by default, whereas it is actually SDR that takes a lot of manual "color grading" and general fiddling about with sliders to not look terrible. However, it's not a gimmick as used by hundreds of millions of people. It's a gimmick because invariably it becomes over-used in some streaming TV shows as a "special effect", which breaks the immersion. They’re not even permitted to text each other properly! ![]() ![]() They live on opposite sides of a new iron curtain. Why do you imagine it’ll ever be possible for Google user to send a full fidelity photo to an Apple user? Google owns that hardware (Pixel), OS (Android), browser (Chrome), protocol (HTTP3, Brotli), codec (VP9, WEBM), and television itself (YouTube). We don’t have any new widely adopted open standards any more in today’s FAANG era of mutually antagonistic fiefdoms.Īt best one of them muscles out the competing formats and that becomes a defacto standard.įor everything else we’re stuck with pre-FAANG standards established at a time when companies were smaller, didn’t “own” the whole stack top to bottom, and were forced to cooperate. I can use some other Adobe or Google formats to send pictures to my friends with Android (=Google) phones. I can use an Apple format to send HDR images to my friends and relatives with Apple devices. I can’t use this technique to publish my photos to them. Doesn’t work on iPhones - the most common high quality HDR display people I know are likely to use. ![]()
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