After three-and-a-half years, I needed to get myself a brand new smartphone. And never due to anything besides the digicam on the cellphone. I used to be going to be graduating from the Pixel 3 XL, which had performed a LOT over the past three-and-a-half years. An in depth pal occurred to be touring in from Canada and I ended up asking her to get me two Google Pixel 6 Professional gadgets. 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 had 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 truly ended up getting extra leeway to play with the sky. And the “Choose Sky” masks in Lightroom Cellular is AMAZING. So, higher to have one thing to tone down, than so as to add pointless saturation to the blues.
And the huge angle lens. I believe I’m obsessive about the huge angle digicam on this cellphone – most of my gallery in Google Images, at the very least for the primary few weeks, was solely huge angle images. Of previous buildings in Rajasthan, to rose bushes in Mukteshwar, to mountains and sunsets in Ranikhet.
The colour fringing in landscapes, particularly relating to having timber in shadow in opposition to the brilliant sky, is horrendously annoying. I’m nonetheless engaged on what tweaks in Lightroom it will take to eliminate the colour fringing however no luck thus far. I’ve tried the standard, “Take away Chromatic Aberration” however to no avail. The choice that has helped a bit is the “Coloration Noise Discount”, which takes away many of the coloration fringing however not all. I’ve additionally tried making the purples extra blue – as a result of essentially the most seen coloration fringing, tree in sky, tends to be purple. That helps a bit extra.
All the images 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 obtainable for this shoot, so we needed to make-do with the opposite digicam. All images shot by Akanksha.
For a few of the images from my picture gallery, which were shot on the Pixel 6 Professional, please scroll in the direction of the top of this weblog publish.
I’ve by no means been a fan of the pressured 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 objective with evaluating a digicam – 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 exhibits you a few of my images shot on the Google Pixel 6 Professional. A number of huge angle photographs, portraits, and so forth. These are all edited in Lightroom for Cellular. The {photograph} of the yellow sandstone structure that you simply see on the cellphone display above in all the photographs, that {photograph} is of Nachna Haveli in Jaisalmer. The same picture can be included under.
I’ve additionally included some macro images – the macro lens is usually a bit flimsy to deal with as a result of now you may have three cameras that you could possibly experiment with, but it surely’s nonetheless price it. I’ve written in regards to the macro lens that I’ve used for the images, beforehand.
It has been a very long time since I felt like enjoying gown up for a branded system when it’s not even one thing I’m engaged on for the model. So you possibly can think about how a lot I, typically, love the digicam on Google smartphones. I do know there was this complete factor with, “Ought to I get the October 2021 launched Pixel 6 Professional in Could 2022 or ought to I simply look forward to October 2022 and die of space for storing 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 picture footage after the final malaise that has set in through 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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