After three-and-a-half years, I needed to get myself a brand new smartphone. And never due to the rest besides the digital camera on the cellphone. I used to be going to be graduating from the Pixel 3 XL, which had achieved a LOT during the last three-and-a-half years. A detailed good friend 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 believed the blues have been a bit too blue? However since I depend on Adobe Lightroom for my edits and I anyway are likely to make the blue a bit extra cyan and up the lightness, I really ended up getting extra leeway to play with the sky. And the “Choose Sky” masks in Lightroom Cell is AMAZING. So, higher to have one thing to tone down, than so as to add pointless saturation to the blues.
And the large angle lens. I believe I’m obsessive about the large angle digital camera on this cellphone – most of my gallery in Google Photographs, at the least for the primary few weeks, was solely large angle images. Of outdated buildings in Rajasthan, to rose bushes in Mukteshwar, to mountains and sunsets in Ranikhet.
The colour fringing in landscapes, particularly in relation to having bushes in shadow towards 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 “Coloration Noise Discount”, which takes away a lot of the colour fringing however not all. I’ve additionally tried making the purples extra blue – as a result of essentially the most seen colour 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 accessible for this shoot, so we needed to make-do with the opposite digital camera. All images shot by Akanksha.
For a number of the images from my picture gallery, which were shot on the Pixel 6 Professional, please scroll in direction of the top of this weblog publish.
I’ve by no means been a fan of the compelled zoom lenses – the small print are shit, on the whole. 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 contented camper.
Now to the part that reveals you a few of my images shot on the Google Pixel 6 Professional. Plenty of large angle photographs, portraits, and so forth. These are all edited in Lightroom for Cell. The {photograph} of the yellow sandstone structure that you just see on the cellphone display screen above in all the photographs, that {photograph} is of Nachna Haveli in Jaisalmer. An analogous picture can be included beneath.
I’ve additionally included some macro images – the macro lens is usually a bit flimsy to deal with as a result of now you may have three cameras that you can experiment with, however it’s nonetheless value it. I’ve written in regards to the macro lens that I’ve used for the images, beforehand.
It has been a very long time since I felt like enjoying gown up for a branded machine when it’s not even one thing I’m engaged on for the model. So you’ll be able to think about how a lot I, typically, love the digital camera on Google smartphones. I do know there was this entire factor with, “Ought to I get the October 2021 launched Pixel 6 Professional in Might 2022 or ought to I simply watch for October 2022 and die of cupboard space frustration on my Pixel 3 XL?” Who am I kidding – it was a no brainer. I knew good friend was coming from Canada. I knew I used to be DYING to get a brand new cellphone. I knew I wanted to make picture photos after the overall malaise that has set in through the pandemic.
And identical to that, I traveled from Jaisalmer, to Bikaner, to Ranikhet, to Mukteshwar and ended up making some magnificent recollections and pictures. I’m lastly including Ranikhet Sundown images to my Version of Prints as nicely in my store.
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