Halide Camera App was the application I used the most with iPhone Xs during this last year before the arrival of the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Even with Lightroom I get excellent developments with excellent recovery of lights and color in general. Generally, I noticed more detail (by adjusting the Noise Reduction and Sharpening parameters) within Capture One. Consequently, in the case of Apple ProRaw files, we will almost always see an underexposed file that needs to be corrected in order to have a correct interpretation. The reason is obvious: the ProRaw file has a “preview” in the Apple Photo gallery that matches the one of the iPhone default shot.īut when we open this file in Lightroom CC or Capture One Pro, the programs recalculate a new preview that shows the pure captured data. I have personally tested the Apple ProRaw files with the two software I usually use: Lightroom CC and Capture One Pro.īoth software therefore open files regularly, even if in both cases, we find (as in the case of all raw files from smartphone) a file that looks very different from what we see as a “preview” on the screen when we look at it on our smartphone. What other software besides Apple Photo can I work with Apple ProRaw files? Being a universal Raw DNG format, all software that supports this format can open these Raw files. I point out in any case, that also the correction of the vignetting and the natural distortion of the lens (not the perspective distortion!) are already applied in the Apple ProRaw file. If you are a lover of detail at the expense of a greater noise in the file, in this case you will have to look at other solutions, such as Raw taken by Halide Camera App. If we think that posting on Instagram the picture get resized to 1350px on the long side, we understand how in most cases it is almost impossible to zoom in to notice the finest details on these social network’s posts. I think the choice was due about the usual destination of smartphone photographs: social networks. Let’s say that the path taken by Apple in this case was to privilege a clean file over a file with more details. On the one hand, therefore, it facilitates the subsequent work for a novice user, on the other hand, however, there is a lack of general sharpness when we zoom in on the photograph a lot: we will notice that all the details are “washed out”, which is typical files that have been “excessively” cleaned of digital noise. What we get is therefore an already clean file without any digital noise. The third photo was edited with Capture One Pro.Īt the moment the way chosen by Apple for the ProRaw is to process out the Noise Reduction directly in the calculation phase with computational photography. Then I worked directly in the iPhone Photo editor (which at the moment is one of the best solutions for editing Apple ProRaw photos for free) and you can see how much information I was able to recover in the shadows! (second photo) This information is present in the file and it’s there for you to be recovered! The result of the photo obtained is what you see below on the left. So I did an exposure for the lights (that’s what I recommend you do almost always with Apple ProRaw). In the background appears an iconic palace of the city: the bell tower of Arnolfo di Palazzo Vecchio. I wanted to do a test in a very difficult lighting situation: take a picture in an alley on a street in Florence where, due to its narrow shape, little light enters at the time I was take this picture. Now, thanks to Apple ProRaw, all this information is available to the user even in post production. So imagine that when you expose the photograph with your iPhone, the smartphone actually makes a lot of exposures which it then merges together. This is where the new computational photography algorithms such as Smart HDR come into play. We cannot therefore expect, in high contrast situations, to have the same “vision” as our eye (which in any case remains unique, photography is always a personal interpretation). In the current state of sensor technology there is a limit of recording information obtainable with a single click. One of the biggest “disappointments” on the part of my students in photography classes is noticing a big difference between what they see with their eyes, in a high contrast situation, and what the camera captures. The greater the dynamic range, the greater the chance to have both shadow detail and highlight detail in a shot. Dynamic range is the ability to record information from shadows to highlights.
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