polymnia

iqatedo said:

polymnia said:

lkrupp said:

It's articles like this one that make me scratch my head. We are constantly being told by the usual suspects here that the iPhone camera is substandard, years behind, not enough pixels. Sites like c|net declare pictures taken with a Samsung phone are better than iPhone pictures. Then an article like this one comes along and PROFESSIONAL photographers choose the iPhone for their work. Of course the rebuttals claim Apple is paying professional photographers big money to use the iPhone and that the iPhone takes shitty pictures.  Is Apple paying everybody off? Are we living in an Apple controlled Matrix?

Or are the usual suspects here just idiots spewing diarrhea from their pie holes?

I'm not a professional photographer. But I'm certainly an enthusiast. And I have been paid for editorial photography in a prior freelance period of my life. I edit photography which accounts for over 50% of my freelance graphic design business. I contribute to stock agencies. 

I have sold sold a couple images shot on iPhone through stock agencies.

in fact, many stock agencies have iOS apps with image uploaders built in. They are actively encouraging iPhone photographers to submit. 

Especialy now that iOS can capture RAW files, there is no reason certain types of photography cannot be competently shot with iPhone. 

I love shooting RAW with the iPhone and processing the image with my professional imaging software. The results can be amazing. 

I'd forgotten about the RAW capture capability but also, I don't have professional software now. Would it be worth trying and using Pixelmator? (I have previously done a fair amount of image processing.) I recently set video capture to 4k and am blown away by the results.

I'm not sure if Pixelmator can process RAW. but if it does, absolutely! Give it a try. Lightroom Mobile is my weapon of choice, but I have read there are several other RAW processors. 

Just be sure you are actually processing the RAW data, not just opening & editing the attached JPEG preview. That is a common mistake that is frustrating and makes many people think RAW processing is bullshit.  

Soli said:

lkrupp said:

It's articles like this one that make me scratch my head. We are constantly being told by the usual suspects here that the iPhone camera is substandard, years behind, not enough pixels. Sites like c|net declare pictures taken with a Samsung phone are better than iPhone pictures. Then an article like this one comes along and PROFESSIONAL photographers choose the iPhone for their work. Of course the rebuttals claim Apple is paying professional photographers big money to use the iPhone and that the iPhone takes shitty pictures.  Is Apple paying everybody off? Are we living in an Apple controlled Matrix?

Or are the usual suspects here just idiots spewing diarrhea from their pie holes?

And in some isolated, technical aspect that may very well be true-ish, but the iPhone also has the most HW adapters to enhance picture quality, but even if you don't use that they still have the best SW editing apps, but you could always offload to another system and device after the photo was taken, and even that is inconsequential when it comes to being a good photographer.

+1 on great HW & SW being available to the iPhone photographer. 

I just picked up the Manfrotto pixi & phone clip system which is a super solid tripod with ball-head and standard 1/4" screw. While not iPhone-specific, it is featured in Apple stores where I first played around with them. The pixi is strong enough to hold a full DSLR with a modest lens. Easy to tote with me while I bike around town. The tripod you have with you is the best tripod, as the old saying goes. 

And, of course, Lightroom Mobile for iOS is incredibl. you can shoot & process DNG format RAW files within the app. You can also process native RAW formats from DSLRs or mirrorless cameras.

we are close to being able to do the basic capture (or import and edit DSLR captures) and initial processing on mobile devices right now. 

I hope that Apple ADDS TO, rather that REPLACES the current design. Why not have a round, square, rectangular and other shapes?

Many fashionable watches come in different shapes. 

It won't happen all at once. Maybe we get an additional design every couple years. 

I think it was smart to begin with a square design. 

It would be smart to build a collection of interesting shapes & sizes. And then support and extend those designs for a long time. 

One thing that I miss more as the mobile LR app gets better is the lack of Virtual Copies. 

Often i want to try an alternate treatment of a photo without losing my existing edits. LR desktop has always had the capability to make a Virtual Copy so I can try different treatments on the same RAW image.

took a look, and this is still missing from Mobile LR

Soli said:

So Apple is licensing Apple Music to other vendors?

It's been integrated into Sonos for quite some time.