Playing With The Pixel 5 Camera Software, How Many Photos Are Actually Real?

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I have been taking photos of the sunrise about every day since I got my camera. Most days are Ok, but nothing great, still fun to go out and snap a few.

Today I decided to hit the edit button after seeing the especially dull photo from today. There was not much color it was a full grey sky.

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Dull, Not Much Post Worthy

I was not going to keep it, but let's play with some filters and see what can be done just on the phone for edits.

Airy

Not great, but still better
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Ember

This is what you hope to see everyday.... and reminds me a lot of what I see when other post. Makes me wonder how many filters are used.
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Radiant

Another great one IMO. I think this really pops. Looks way better here than it did in person
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Vivid

Not as good as some of the others, but still pretty nice compared to the grey I saw.
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Afterglow

Purple haze - I might be worried if I saw this sky...

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Thoughts

I like the edits - most of them make the picture look way better. I am impressed with the options that the phone has built in, and its ability to turn so so shots into something I might want to print off or at least send to family. Looks like those vacation photos are getting an edit before I send them, but I am still looking for the feature that removes 10lbs or makes me look like Thor.....

But I am wonder how many photos I see posted are real raw photos and how many are edited. Granted there are a ton of real opportunities out there to capture amazing colors, but some of these photos appear to be too good to be true. I wonder if I am chasing something that doesn't exist.

Either way - I will take more and possibly edit. But I will always tag it with the filter I use. Not that anyone really cares about my neighbors roof - but hey, its what I see every day.

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Every picture I take gets loaded into Adobe Lightroom from my Nikon D3300 and most of them get some amount of post processing before I post. Usually nothing heavy just some light tweaks. I am not a professional photographer and probably never will be. Lightroom allows me to express more of my creative side. I guess I figure it is my picture I can apply artistic license to it if I want as long as I specify they have been post processed. :)


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Exactly, I was never trying to say edited photos had less artistic value, or were any less impressive. More that I was trying to set me expectations when I keep seeing photos that looks so impressive and wish I saw colors like that, that they might not have been quite that good in person either.

I suck at taking photos, when I was a t the grand canyon, everything came out flat, with no feeling of the depth and magnitude you got from being there.

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Yeah, Lightroom has helped me a lot. I have been able to save a lot of pictures that would have been lost due to my poor skills using my camera. I am getting better but starting out was kind of brutal. :)

Good point about ediing your Grand Canyon shots. Lightroom helped with some old pics I took with a point and shoot digital. I recently took a couple shots from 2009 and was able to make a panorama out of them and remove some haze. It was pretty incredible for old shots on a cheap camera. :)

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