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 completed a LOT during the last three-and-a-half years. An in depth buddy 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 likely 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 completely huge angle pictures. Of outdated buildings in Rajasthan, to rose bushes in Mukteshwar, to mountains and sunsets in Ranikhet.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 might take to eliminate the colour fringing however no luck to date. I’ve tried the same old, “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 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 digicam. All pictures shot by Akanksha.
For a few of the pictures from my photograph 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 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 purpose 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 cheerful camper.
Now to the part that reveals you a few of my pictures shot on the Google Pixel 6 Professional. A lot 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 screen above in all the photographs, that {photograph} is of Nachna Haveli in Jaisalmer. An analogous picture can also be included beneath.
I’ve additionally included some macro pictures – the macro lens is usually a bit flimsy to deal with as a result of now you’ve three cameras that you could possibly experiment with, however it’s nonetheless value it. I’ve written concerning 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 may think about how a lot I, typically, love the digicam on Google smartphones. I do know there was this entire factor with, “Ought to I get the October 2021 launched Pixel 6 Professional in Could 2022 or ought to I simply watch for October 2022 and die of cupboard space frustration on my Pixel 3 XL?” Who am I kidding – it was a no brainer. I knew buddy was coming from Canada. I knew I used to be DYING to get a brand new cellphone. I knew I wanted to make photograph footage after the final malaise that has set in through the pandemic.
And identical to that, I traveled from Jaisalmer, to Bikaner, to Ranikhet, to Mukteshwar and ended up making some magnificent recollections and pictures. I’m lastly including Ranikhet Sundown pictures to my Version of Prints as properly in my store.
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