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remember a few months back when the sky turned red over manhattan? at the time, a lot of people discovered their phones couldn't take a picture of it. their phones recognised the sky but didn't believe it was actually that colour, and “corrected” it…
well, i just had the same experience. the sky outside right now is a brilliant deep blue colour, and the shape of the clouds is like the wings of an angel. i wanted to take a picture of it, but when i held up my iPhone, i watched as the preview turned from blue to grey…
a camera that can't believe its eyes
a painter regularly witnesses fantastical scenes and renders them vividly, but nobody believes that they existed outside their mind. they try to become a photographer, but the camera, too, will not listen. and so they free themselves of the need to convince people
@hikari Can your iPhone shoot in raw? I think that might let you manually override its opinion on what the colours “should” be after the face