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iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

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Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

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I hate how much phones lately alters the images. Of course it most of the time makes the images look better, and cameras are a big selling point on a phone.

But I don't like how my photos of people suddenly have a filter applied to the faces, how a picture of leaves during fall have vibrance exaggerated, how the sky looks clearer than it really did.

Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

#15

I hate how much phones lately alters the images. Of course it most of the time makes the images look better, and cameras are a big selling point on a phone. But I don't like how my photos of people suddenly have a filter applied to the faces, how a picture of leaves during fall have vibrance exaggerated, how the sky looks clearer than it really did.

Big tech has this uni-modal aporoach to users: they find what maximizes a metric, and works for 75% of the users, but roll it out to 100%. Dealing with the remaining 25% would have low ROI.

Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

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post #6

I’ve noticed some sort of image post-processing on the newer iPhones that removes noise and graininess, and instead adds this fake smoothness to all pictures. Haven’t found a way to disable it, save for shooting in RAW, which is impractical due to file size. Really disappointed that this seems to be a forced setting.

I have a cheaper phone that has this, makes your face look weird, it's too smooth

LG Stylo 6 has "AI cam"

Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

#17

I hate how much phones lately alters the images. Of course it most of the time makes the images look better, and cameras are a big selling point on a phone. But I don't like how my photos of people suddenly have a filter applied to the faces, how a picture of leaves during fall have vibrance exaggerated, how the sky looks clearer than it really did.

Yeah I find that the front facing camera on the iPhone is notoriously bad. The pictures it takes don’t look like me because it alters the skin tone and does aggressive smoothing. I hate it.

Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

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Well it’s in telephoto and 1/121 exposure so the photographer was probably wobbling around like mad when it was taken and the overlay and computational image stuff got confused.

I’m fine with this. I use a mini tripod with my 13 pro on telephoto. Back in the old days this would just look like ass instead.

Re: iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo

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post #9

"Cameras" making changes to the image like this make the discussion about the image processing pipeline during the Rittenhouse trial seem a little less bizarre.

No, not really

Yes, yes really. When real resolution is being substituted with the best guess of a completely closed source image processor, the court should be made aware of it.
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