I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do, and I am glad about software that lets me control it and opt in and out, and I dictated this rant on insta so I am resharing the images here and will attempt to turn this into a useful text post on my blog in future, when my hand is working better 🤘👍
Here's the website for the app I'm getting so much good use out of: https://opencamera.org.uk/
And here's a big dump of photos from it!
and here's an example of exactly how much this means to me -- I've been really feeling like I'm terrible at photographing my own work, especially watercolour, and i can't seem to really capture what makes a painting special in person.
here's some examples of my attempts to photograph this sketchbook painting using the native camera app on my phone:
it's grainy, blotchy, the colours feel off, the contrast is too much... it really doesn't capture what's on paper in front of me!
so then i try with the processing turned off in Open Camera:
it's fucking night and day!
A clearer comparison for you:
jesus fucking christ what a game changer!
