You do not need a DSLR to take nice looking photos, your phone will suffice
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Re: You do not need a DSLR to take nice looking photos, your phone will suffice
#2>Also, HDR is so 2007, natural photos are where its at.
The whole point of HDR is to create a natural image with natural colors.
Re: You do not need a DSLR to take nice looking photos, your phone will suffice
#3I would say that a DSLR is useful for taking nice-looking photos in more challenging situations than a phone can (places with poor lighting, fast movement, or where depth-of-field or magnification are important). It's depressing that a lot of amateurs use a $700 DSLR on AUTO to take pictures of their lunch though.
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#4>Also, HDR is so 2007, natural photos are where its at. The whole point of HDR is to create a natural image with natural colors.
It's too bad that many neophytes of photography tend to use the HDR term for oversaturated and exaggerated pictures that were probably not taken with multiple exposures to begin with.
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#5Bullshit. My iPhone 4S is unusable in anything less than cloudy daylight.
Re: You do not need a DSLR to take nice looking photos, your phone will suffice
#6I don't agree with this. While you might not need a DSLR, you can easily do better than the camera in your phone.
I recently completed a family trip and left my Canon 5D mark III at home. Instead I took the pocketable Sony RX100. It created some beautiful images and didn't get in the way on the family trip. It also did worlds better than the camera built in to my or my wife's phone.
Here is an image direct from the camera: http://bedafamily.smugmug.com/Other/public/i-SmCN6Hf/0/X3/DS...
Re: You do not need a DSLR to take nice looking photos, your phone will suffice
#7The Golden Gate Bridge shot is not level, a common problem when shooting off an LCD at arms length. And to me it ruins it.
A wonder that it wasn't corrected in-phone, simple post-processing is one of the great features of phone-based photography.
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#8>Also, HDR is so 2007, natural photos are where its at. The whole point of HDR is to create a natural image with natural colors.
It's too bad that many neophytes of photography tend to use the HDR term for oversaturated and exaggerated pictures that were probably not taken with multiple exposures to begin with.
HDR is, in effect, like Auto-Tune. Used as it was intended, it can improve your results, but with the correction turned up beyond a natural degree, can give a highly artificial effect of its own (which has been overused).
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#9> The number of amateurs walking around with a DSLR shooting in auto, is staggering. Why burden yourself with such a bulky device, not to mention the cost of it
Fashion.
DSLR's can be constituted as part of the hipster/nerd/geek/preppy fashion trend of today. So a lot of people striving for this look will plump the money and put up with the inconvenience to make their look complete.
Re: You do not need a DSLR to take nice looking photos, your phone will suffice
#10For most photos taken by most people, a cellphone camera is fine - mostly because, as noted, it's the camera you have when you need one.
The pictures shown are indeed a testament to how good such cameras are. Such cameras are not, however, (relatively) large frame high color depth imagers with quality lenses - and it shows to those who know what they're looking at.
Yes you can get nice looking photos with a cheap camera. Framing & leveling the subject is a great place to start.