Took this Saturday night in old town Warrenton Va. Just held the handset against the light pole, used the low light setting and thats it. Seems to take nice photos, zero shutter lag which I really appreciate more than anything else.
Interesting. The 'low light' option seems to work well. I had tried using the HDR setting for night shots, and they weren't that great. will give this low light mode a try soon.
Images are looking quite impressive, especially the low-light stuff. It cannot be overstated how poorly most cell phone cameras handle indoor low-light situations.
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All of mine seem to end up out of focus;
Or have a reflection;
Does the card have anything to do with it? I am using an old class 2 card.
You have 3 issues here that I can see, one is the shutter speed is slow because of the indoor lighting, and you are getting camera motion blur. You can tell this because nothing is really sharp in whole frame. Second, the baby is moving, which causes subject motion blur. Though the hands are obvious, a slight movement of the head will cause the face to blur out slightly. I am not 100% sure the face blurred like that, but it would make sense as the baby does look to be moving around quite a bit. Both of these are fixed with a faster shutter speed, which you can achieve with more lighting or a higher ISO setting. In a pinch you can also deliberately underexpose and raise the exposure back up in post-processing.
Last but perhaps most important, I believe the camera missed the focus in this shot. Babies' smooth faces and round heads are notoriously problematic for contrast-detecting camera focusing. These cameras are looking for areas of contrast with sharp lines, that's how they figure out the focus. So naturally it is more likely to pick up on your very contrasty chair and the strong lines and contrast of the wall behind. The focus appears to have locked on the wall.
If you pick a focus point on the baby's face, you are almost assuredly going to get a misfocus. What you want to do is look for something else with stronger contrast on the same focal plane as the rounded face, in this image I would say to look at the baby's shirt sleeve or the collar area. Select focus there and you should get the face areas in focus also.
Dang.. everyone is so good at taking pictures. I know the quailty of camera is so nice, but my pictures are not good enough to share! great to see other people's picture.
Dang.. everyone is so good at taking pictures. I know the quailty of camera is so nice, but my pictures are not good enough to share! great to see other people's picture.
Any pictures you take (as long as they're not inappropriate ) are definitely good enough to post here!
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Interesting. The 'low light' option seems to work well. I had tried using the HDR setting for night shots, and they weren't that great. will give this low light mode a try soon.
Since I haven't taken many dynamic shots (low light, action, etc...) I decided to try the low light feature. My OG Evo actually took fairly good night shots similar to the one I posted here but it tended to not over expose artificial lighting as much. I haven't had much success with the HDR feature yet because there's movement in the shots i've been taking. It does make for interesting photos though.
I'll try some other really 'low' light scenes and see how they work.
The phone being on the big and thin side, I was really nervous about dropping it into the drink. I'm hoping a TPU case will help as it did the EvOG.
The f2 aperture does make a difference, I've taken many shots like this with my EvOG and the background doesn't blur this much. It's not a huge amount but it does help.
Went to Cars land in DCA after work on a whim after work to catch up to the gf and her friends. I took a ton of pics because I didnt have my DSLR. I have to say I was surprised how well it did with neons.
Reviewing the pictures on my pc I can see the images start to get quite noisy at night, but they are some of the best I've seen taken on a cell phone.
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Wow, didn't know such a park existed. Looks so "real"! Will definitely be visiting when my son is a bit older.
Carsland just opened up at Disney California Adventure this past week. Only reason I heard about it was because of watching the news in the morning for weather. Definitely looked cool, although I've never watched the movie(s).
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Here are a few night shots while working overnight making my deliveries.
First one is a foggy night just outside Indiana Pa. Low light setting, no flash. The flash just reflected back off the fog.
Others are at a different stop and night. From the lit side of the truck and the dark side of the truck. with flash. The shot of the door came out good maybe 8 feet away with flash. They may be a bit grainy, but it'll work for me being on the road if something were to happen at nighttime. Now I can get some good shots of them big skids falling over on me. LOL
Paul
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In panarama mode, I wish that level line would stay there for all the shots.
In video mode, be able to disable the autofocus. Tried to get a video driving down Carson St one night in the truck, kept auto focusing on me. But still came out decent.
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since I am lucky enough to have Atlantic City right in my backyard u attended the mettalica Orion music and more fest today. One of my favorite bands is avenged sevenfold so I took plenty of pics and videos and guys... I am WAY impressed I mean look at these shots! The last one is of mettalica leaving te stage. I had a blast and I even lost my beloved LTEvo for about 10 seconds in a mosh pit.. the otterbox defender/solid build quality saved it from a couple stomps.. I just love this phone more and more each day.. hours of pics vids and Facebook updates in a crowded area and I still have battery power to go through the pics and upload them here. awesome!
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