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An iPhone Sunset
29 November 2023
When we spy a sunset out the window that sets off our photography alarm, we dash down to the bunker to grab a Nikon or Olympus camera, which have long zooms, and rush back up to line up the shot.
Golden Rays. iPhone 15 Pro Max 5x lens at 15.7mm, f2.8, 1/767 second and iSO 50. Processed in Camera Raw.
Last night was different. We just reached for the iPhone 15 Pro Max, selected the 5x telephoto and lined up a few shots. At 5x, the crop is about what we get at 200mm on the 18-200mm Nikkor.
One thing was the same, though.
We never capture a straight horizon. There's always a slight tilt to the camera.
But that, and other shortcomings, are easily fixed in Camera Raw. We let Auto massage these pixels before we overruled those edits, which were generally in the right direction.
Marvelous as computational photography might be, there is nothing like editing an iPhone image in Camera Raw. It always improves.
That hasn't changed.