After three-and-a-half years, I needed to get myself a brand new smartphone. And never due to anything besides the digital camera on the cellphone. I used to be going to be graduating from the Pixel 3 XL, which had finished a LOT during the last three-and-a-half years. A detailed pal occurred to be touring in from Canada and I ended up asking her to get me two Google Pixel 6 Professional units. One for myself – clearly – and one for my Dad, who’s the OG photographer of the fam.
The colour blew me away proper off the bat. I believed the blues have been a bit too blue? However since I depend on Adobe Lightroom for my edits and I anyway are inclined to make the blue a bit extra cyan and up the lightness, I really ended up getting extra leeway to play with the sky. And the “Choose Sky” masks in Lightroom Cell is AMAZING. So, higher to have one thing to tone down, than so as to add pointless saturation to the blues.
And the vast angle lens. I feel I’m obsessive about the vast angle digital camera on this cellphone – most of my gallery in Google Images, not less than for the primary few weeks, was fully vast angle images. Of previous buildings in Rajasthan, to rose bushes in Mukteshwar, to mountains and sunsets in Ranikhet.
The colour fringing in landscapes, particularly in terms of having timber in shadow towards the brilliant sky, is horrendously annoying. I’m nonetheless engaged on what tweaks in Lightroom it might take to do away with the colour fringing however no luck thus far. I’ve tried the same old, “Take away Chromatic Aberration” however to no avail. The choice that has helped a bit is the “Shade Noise Discount”, which takes away many of the shade fringing however not all. I’ve additionally tried making the purples extra blue – as a result of essentially the most seen shade fringing, tree in sky, tends to be purple. That helps a bit extra.
All the pictures of me within the olive inexperienced jacket have NOT been shot on the Pixel 6 Professional. These have been shot on a DSLR. Dad’s Pixel was not accessible for this shoot, so we needed to make-do with the opposite digital camera. All images shot by Akanksha.
For a number of the images from my photograph gallery, which have been shot on the Pixel 6 Professional, please scroll in direction of the tip of this weblog publish.
I’ve by no means been a fan of the compelled zoom lenses – the small print are shit, generally. I’m not going to be evaluating tech specs and such – that’s by no means my aim with evaluating a digital camera – if I like what I see and if I’m able to see potential in a scene and I’m able to seize it after which edit it to the shape that I had envisioned, then I’m a contented camper.
Now to the part that reveals you a few of my images shot on the Google Pixel 6 Professional. A number of vast angle pictures, portraits, and many others. These are all edited in Lightroom for Cell. The {photograph} of the yellow sandstone structure that you simply see on the cellphone display screen above in all the photographs, that {photograph} is of Nachna Haveli in Jaisalmer. An identical picture can also be included under.
I’ve additionally included some macro images – the macro lens generally is a bit flimsy to deal with as a result of now you’ve three cameras that you can experiment with, but it surely’s nonetheless price it. I’ve written in regards to the macro lens that I’ve used for the pictures, beforehand.
It has been a very long time since I felt like taking part in gown up for a branded machine when it’s not even one thing I’m engaged on for the model. So you possibly can think about how a lot I, usually, love the digital camera on Google smartphones. I do know there was this entire factor with, “Ought to I get the October 2021 launched Pixel 6 Professional in Might 2022 or ought to I simply look ahead to October 2022 and die of cupboard space frustration on my Pixel 3 XL?” Who am I kidding – it was a no brainer. I knew pal was coming from Canada. I knew I used to be DYING to get a brand new cellphone. I knew I wanted to make photograph photos after the overall malaise that has set in in the course of the pandemic.
And similar to that, I traveled from Jaisalmer, to Bikaner, to Ranikhet, to Mukteshwar and ended up making some magnificent reminiscences and images. I’m lastly including Ranikhet Sundown images to my Version of Prints as effectively in my store.
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