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Scott Manley did a quite good video about "How The Red Skies From Fires Are Related To Blue Sunsets on Mars" in which he has this exact issue with his phone making the sky white instead of red- which he also discusses. If you aren't familiar with his channel, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOIBQIpdv10
in LA, we had a bit of a clearing yesterday, but the bobcat fires (and others) have turned us hazy and slightly orange again. i can feel it in my airways. it's more worrisome than the corona everyone else seems to be fretting about, because it certainly will cause unseen damage to everyone's lungs in varying amounts. hundreds of thousands die every year from air pollution.
[0] delillo, white noise
I had to really boost the ISO, the camera thought it was so dark outside. In fact the light sensors for the man automatic light controls around our property, including some street lights, were still detecting that it was evening.
Scott Manley did a quite good video about "How The Red Skies From Fires Are Related To Blue Sunsets on Mars" in which he has this exact issue with his phone making the sky white instead of red- which he also discusses. If you aren't familiar with his channel, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOIBQIpdv10
Is this different than when you have to adjust your camera a few steps so that snow is not rendered completely (blown out) white?
It has the exposure right, it's just trying to compensate for what it thinks is "bad lighting."
Scott Manley did a quite good video about "How The Red Skies From Fires Are Related To Blue Sunsets on Mars" in which he has this exact issue with his phone making the sky white instead of red- which he also discusses. If you aren't familiar with his channel, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOIBQIpdv10
Is this different than when you have to adjust your camera a few steps so that snow is not rendered completely (blown out) white?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I draw the line at object recognition. If the processing involves semantic meaning (e.g. this is sky, this is a face) instead of geometric meaning (e.g. this is an edge, this is a Bayer filter artifact) then it's lying. It doesn't matter if the object recognition is done by AI (e.g. faking depth of field by blurring background) or by humans applying selective processing (e.g. painting out red-eye effect, or using a g…
I don't really agree with this. I'm not sure what my definition of lying is but of course it entirely depends on the purpose of the photo. A photojournalist cropping out an important piece of context is definitely lying. Me cropping out another tourist of a photo I took of a friend is not lying. If I'm editing photos and someone has a temporary blemish or a pimple, I'm more than likely to edit it out. We don't rememb…
How Un-Cromwellian!
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/warts-and-all.html
> This phrase 'warts and all' is said to derive from Oliver Cromwell's instructions to the painter Sir Peter Lely, when commissioning a painting.
> At the time of the alleged instruction, Cromwell was Lord Protector of England. Lely had been portrait artist to Charles I and, following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, he was appointed as Charles II's Principal Painter in Ordinary.
> Lely's painting style was, as was usual at the time, intended to flatter the sitter. Royalty in particular expected portraits to show them in the best possible light, if not to be outright fanciful. Lely's painting of Charles II shows what was expected of a painting of a head of state in the 17th century. It emphasizes the shapely royal calves - a prized fashion feature at that time.
> Cromwell did have a preference for being portrayed as a gentleman of military bearing, but was well-known as being opposed to all forms of personal vanity. This 'puritan Roundhead' versus 'dashing Cavalier' shorthand is often used to denote the differences in style of the two opposing camps in the English Commonwealth and subsequent Restoration. It is entirely plausible that he would have issued a 'warts and all' instruction when being painted and it is unlikely that Lely would have modified his style and produced the 'warts and all' portrait of Cromwell unless someone told him to.
Of course, the source of the phrase is, itself, unsourced, and Cromwell likely never said it.
it's understandable given our relative disempowerment on the matter, but it feels a little bread-and-circusy to focus on picture-taking rather than a real-life approximation of an airborne toxic event[0]. in LA, we had a bit of a clearing yesterday, but the bobcat fires (and others) have turned us hazy and slightly orange again. i can feel it in my airways. it's more worrisome than the corona everyone else seems to b…
Scott Manley did a quite good video about "How The Red Skies From Fires Are Related To Blue Sunsets on Mars" in which he has this exact issue with his phone making the sky white instead of red- which he also discusses. If you aren't familiar with his channel, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOIBQIpdv10
Is this different than when you have to adjust your camera a few steps so that snow is not rendered completely (blown out) white?
Are there no apps for iPhone with the ability to manually adjust white balance?
This article is awful. It's about smartphone cameras not being able to capture, but the three photos included are all ones that at least somewhat worked. Seems like it would be better to include one that failed?
As someone with a professional photography background, this article was actually super upsetting. The author is like "look, this gas station one is the only one that worked".. well yeah, the camera's white balance algorithm saw that the scene was about 80% daylight, so it set the white point at around 3500k, the rest of the scene is recorded accurately as a result. The thesis of the article "I don't understand white…