After three-and-a-half years, I needed to get myself a brand new smartphone. And never due to anything besides the digital camera on the cellphone. I used to be going to be graduating from the Pixel 3 XL, which had executed 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 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 assumed 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 feel I’m obsessive about the huge angle digital camera on this cellphone – most of my gallery in Google Photographs, a minimum of for the primary few weeks, was solely 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 Of outdated buildings in Rajasthan, to rose bushes in Mukteshwar, to mountains and sunsets in Ranikhet.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 with regards to having timber in shadow in opposition to the intense sky, is horrendously annoying. I’m nonetheless engaged on what tweaks in Lightroom it could take to do away with the colour fringing however no luck up to now. I’ve tried the same old, “Take away Chromatic Aberration” however to no avail. The choice that has helped a bit is the “Shade Noise Discount”, which takes away a lot 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 out there for this shoot, so we needed to make-do with the opposite digital camera. All pictures shot by Akanksha.
For a number of the pictures from my picture gallery, which were shot on the Pixel 6 Professional, please scroll in direction of the top of this weblog submit.
I’ve by no means been a fan of the pressured zoom lenses – the main points are shit, generally. I’m not going to be evaluating tech specs and such – that’s by no means my aim with evaluating a digital camera – 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 number of huge angle images, portraits, and many others. These are all edited in Lightroom for Cellular. The {photograph} of the yellow sandstone structure that you just see on the cellphone display above in all the photographs, that {photograph} is of Nachna Haveli in Jaisalmer. The same picture can also be included beneath.
I’ve additionally included some macro pictures – the macro lens generally is a bit flimsy to deal with as a result of now you will have three cameras that you can experiment with, however it’s nonetheless price it. I’ve written concerning the macro lens that I’ve used for the images, beforehand.
It has been a very long time since I felt like taking part in costume up for a branded machine 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 digital camera on Google smartphones. I do know there was this complete factor with, “Ought to I get the October 2021 launched Pixel 6 Professional in Might 2022 or ought to I simply anticipate 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 recollections and images. I’m lastly including Ranikhet Sundown pictures to my Version of Prints as nicely in my store.
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