Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Testing iPhone 4 iOS 4.1 HDR Photo

After installing the new iOS 4.1 I was excited to try out the HDR photo mode. I had mixed results, but in some situations it really works well. It's useful for when you have a lot of bright and dark areas in the same scene, like direct sunlight, and shadows.

It does appear to fire off 3 quick shots, as if there is movement it will create a ghosting effect. As you can see in this picture the cars look funny in the HDR shot, but are fine in the regular shot. When using HDR mode it will take a normal pic, and also create the HDR image.

Here is the normal shot. As you can see the road is over exposed, and there are a lot of dark areas.


Here is the HDR version.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Looking rather good, for a phone. I lol'd at the semi-transparent car behind that tree though; it makes the multiple exposures pretty obvious. :p