What's going on in this photo?
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What's going on in this photo?
This is a not too great Android cell phone photo taken with the default photo app. Can anyone explain to me why the foreground is sharp, and the background is sharp, but the mid ground is blurry?
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I agree, not the way to bet. More of a throw-it-out-there-to-prompt-discussion idea.dbur wrote:HDR is set to on, but it seems it would be a foul for HDR to be messing with the focus even it is taking multiple exposures.
What about Macro_Cosmos' question about portrait mode, or I suppose more generally any options for image filtering?
By the way, is your camera set to record raw or just JPEG? If you have raw, does it show the same pattern?
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I supposedly can do raw with the Lightroom mobile app. When I tried to use it it wanted me to log in to adobe first but there was no service where I was at. So I did not get a raw image, but I tried.
Photo was taken in landscape mode so I don't know what effect portrait mode could have, or are you thinking some AI find the face kind of Portrait mode? I don't think I have that.
Photo was taken in landscape mode so I don't know what effect portrait mode could have, or are you thinking some AI find the face kind of Portrait mode? I don't think I have that.
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Aha! That sounds like a promising option. Could it have been selected for the photo that we're discussing?dbur wrote:Ha, I just saw a setting that says 'All in focus' -takes two shots to create 1 in-focus photo. Better remember about that one.
I'm getting the feeling that the words "default Android app" really mean "whatever came on the phone". On my own HTC 10, the camera app seems to be named "Camera", and it's listed as version 8.60.1010636 .I don't see any option to shoot pro and raw in the default Android app, though I do get a raw option with Lightroom.
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