Food Photography on iPhone X
The article has a lot of photos! (more precisely pictures)
It all started when I was a schoolboy. Grandma gave me a Zenith ET. The claps of the mirror, the buzzing platoon, the light meter and the color slides on the German film.
Then there were: Polaroid, a soap dish with a film and a fixed focal, cardboard disposable camera bought on the way at Disneyland, another soap dish where the film was rewound by motor, an Olympus digital soap dish with an optical zoom, a Panasonic Lumix digital soap dish, Nikon D50, Canon 7D, photo exhibitions, selling photos, disregard for everything where there is no mirror and interchangeable lens, a large bag with lenses, filters, a tripod and a beautiful belt around the neck. In general, I took photographs, inserted them into a real frame and hung them on real walls.
The discussions of Mirror VS Soap Dish on the forums ended with the words “you can't fool physics, you want to get a small depth of field and a silent photo in poor light — you need a large matrix.” It sounded like a sentence. At least then.
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Then something definitely went wrong, or vice versa. In general, at some point I guessed that the camera was not at all important (especially if it was so big and heavy, and the phone was so small and light) and did something that I couldn’t have thought of just a few years ago. - He took and sold his charms, with all his lovely lenses, bags, CF memory cards and a beautiful strap to some journalist who shoots a documentary video about how African tribes live. Canon 7D at that time was a good option for home FullHD video
First of all, such a great introduction was simply necessary, just to share this exciting story with everyone who could read it and it would be easier for me (until I felt relieved — I wanted to sleep, on the contrary), and secondly, the reader had the impression that This text was written not by anyone, but by a real pro-photographer who really sold his photos, hung them at exhibitions and never confused in which direction to turn Nikkor lenses, and in which Canon (in general, he confused, but this is a secret) and the third is the entry The vision gradually brought us to the iPhone - I sold the camera about six months after I bought the iPhone 5s.
Let me skip the description of those few happy years (and I see how many of you breathed joyfully) that were before the courier's call with the package. You would never guess what he brought. Well? Do you know Fine! Almost guessed. Right. He brought the iPhone X. But not mine, but his wife. I was waiting for my own for another week or so. Well, that's it. Now you can just start.
Landscape and city
Geometric distortion is almost negligible. Good dynamic range + HDR. The details are there. Shadows, any are. Everything is very simple, but the sky can sometimes be “lost” and it will remain only a white spot both in the photo and in the memory.
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Shooting against the sun
It's a bit more complicated and worse. HDR still saves, but the lens almost always gives green "bunnies". Sometimes they spoil the picture, sometimes not. You can live as a whole.
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Panoramas
Sews well, but the seams, after all, are sometimes visible - especially if it is water and there are waves. It is better to shoot so that moving objects do not fall into the frame. Often, you can get an overexposure of the sky and an under-light of no sky - as on a pair of these photos (in fact, this is a marriage). Since the iPhone allows you to make panoramas from left to right (bottom to top), and vice versa, you can choose the brightest area (for example, part of the sky near the sun) in advance and make a panorama starting from it.
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Shooting in low light conditions
There is bad and the lighting and the photos themselves. In fact, these are no photos, but simply test shots, which are needed only to show that for a sensor of this size, the quality of the pictures is very (very) high.
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Evening and night shooting (together because in English night it is both evening and night)
Of all my phones - the first iPhone X, the night photos of which I do not want to immediately send to the basket. Shumodav and the stabilizer are doing their job, and I have my own - photograph at night on the phone. Here it is important to remember that on the "body" of the lens at night it is better not to take it off - it is darker. Accordingly, the portrait mode is better not to use.
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The sky and, if lucky, the clouds
You can get the light of the sky, and you can lose the shadow or all together. Depends on lighting and luck.
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Zoom
"Tele" lens sometimes helps to get what you can not get your feet or no time / desire. Interestingly, it gives a completely different picture, not only in light and focal length, but also in contrast.
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Portrait mode (no portraits)
Fasten - there are very few food left to take pictures. Now - portrait mode. On the one hand, it really makes a depth map and allows, in general, to reliably simulate a small depth of field. On the other hand, it is capricious - the object should not be too far away or too close. The picture comes from the “body” of the camera, and therefore less light strikes the sensor - i.e. in low light conditions, it is better not to abuse them. The algorithm that cuts an object along the contour is sometimes wrong, which gives a marriage - especially often on transparent materials (pay attention to glass goblets) and complex objects (slingshot). But then you can adjust the degree and texture of background blur and even change the focus.
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Food (food)
Why food? Well, firstly, it is fashionable and youth. Secondly, the easiest way to photograph food is that she calmly waits for the right moment, does not go anywhere, and she does not need to do makeup and hair. Thirdly, vegetables are an excellent object for a portrait photography test - objects of different texture, color, at different distances from the camera, plus glass goblets that help the algorithm to err. And the most important thing is that food is never against being photographed and she does not need to ask permission to publish. In fact, these are again not photos, but just pictures for testing portrait mode.
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All bon appetit and good real (but who can distinguish the real from the not real?) Photos.
PS For photo editing, I used the standard Photos application on macOS.
PPS Made a preview for all photos.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/374217/
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