I finally managed to spend some time with the DNG files from my LG G4. In other threads and forums I've read that you can't push shadows from the G4's RAW up quite much. Well, being an experienced professional I managed to do it and decided to write this thread. I hope you find it useful.
Below are screenshots of Adobe Camera RAW's window, so you can see the settings for the photo I used. It was really dark when I took this photo and I already knew I will have very dark shadows. I didn't wanted to go beyond ISO 100 and couldn't make it with slower then half a second shutter speed. In the screenshots you can see what it looked like before editing. The settings apply to Lightroom too.
What you would normally do to the shadows in your photos is to push up the "Shadows" setting. In the case of G4 this proves to be not enough. You have to push the "Blacks" setting too. This will light up the shadows enough. I added some push up in the "Curves" too, as I needed more detail in the midtones too. All this brings us to two new problems - noise and purple/magenta tinting. To fix the tinting is easy - go to HSL tab and lower the saturation of Purple and Magenta. Noise, on the other hand, can be tricky. You can see my settings below. You will need all the color NR you can get and the leftover chroma noise will be cleared with combination of "Luminance" and "Luminance detail" - first one will soften the chroma, the second will refine the artifacts of the chroma. Some sharpening will compensate the softening from the chroma reduction.
The 100% crop screenshots are from the upper left corner and will give you a better idea of what is happening. One is before editing, the other is after. I hope all of this is useful to you, my friends!
P.S.: Link to download the DNG file in the example -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9AzM3KL7-I7YnJUTnhvUERQM28/view?usp=sharing
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I'm colourblind and I have a bit of a problem working out good settings for the camera.
My main problem is that if I take a picture of something light, one of my pets for example (mainly white in colour) it shows the pet as glowing bright white against the normal coloured background - making the detail impossible to make out on the animal.
I've had a go at fiddling with the brightness and contrast but I can't really tell what effect each of them has so I have made no progress.
What settings do you all use on the camera? Is there a setup which should overcome my problem with things being overwhelmingly white?
I think the camera is just plain awful and I avoid using it as much as possible
Got Vignette app last night, and I am not sure I am using it correctly. At main screen I can see auto focus borders, but they are too wide, so pictures look like they have fixed focus.
My question is: is it possible to reduce those auto focus borders somehow, to get focused item, and blurry edges for the things that are not in focus?
hibiskus said:
Got Vignette app last night, and I am not sure I am using it correctly. At main screen I can see auto focus borders, but they are too wide, so pictures look like they have fixed focus.
My question is: is it possible to reduce those auto focus borders somehow, to get focused item, and blurry edges for the things that are not in focus?
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I've Got the Vignette app and there are many options to be tried out.
The focus is very sensetive and i need to take more shots in bright light but so far the best results have been taking the picture via the on screen button and i know this is basic but give the lens a wipe as well.
I have a feeling there is a gerneral bluring with this app regardless to simulate particular film stocks.
To avoid this you can use the normal camera software and import those photos or any photo from your camera roll and apply the style you want then save over the file or save a copy.
I hope this helps.
hibiskus said:
Got Vignette app last night, and I am not sure I am using it correctly. At main screen I can see auto focus borders, but they are too wide, so pictures look like they have fixed focus.
My question is: is it possible to reduce those auto focus borders somehow, to get focused item, and blurry edges for the things that are not in focus?
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You mean something like a macro mode?
You could try taking a picture with the 'Vignette' effect added onto it (The name of the effect itself is Vignette)
thanks for quick responses guyz, well I am not sure if it does focus actually. I mean physically lens tries to focus, but I dont think it actually focuses anything, so I thought maybe it is possible to reduce those focus borders to get focused item on image.
pngface, yes something like macro, but not that close
Anyway since vignette is saving images withough jpg compression, daylight images will have even better quality than now(and now they are very good)
Hey guys. My first hours with the SGS2, and there's something annoying me that I couldn't find anywhere.
I'm getting screen brightness variation depending on the image. On darker images the brightness is higher than on brighter images.
I'm pretty sure this is not auto-brightness. I've tested with manual brightness and the effect is there too. It's almost like if there's not enough power for the screen, and when you have more bright pixels, the screen dims.
Has anyone experienced this?
This is specially annoying when scrolling different content, or even when you are on a predominantly white screen and the swype keyboard shows up, making the white area much brighter.
I'm currently on "Normal" on that stupid screen setting (I have image post-processing). Tried movie too, but still shows this behaviour.
Here are two photos using a Nikon D40 in Manual mode. Exposure has not been changed between both photos. I've put them side-by-side for comparision. Brightness was manually set on the SGS2.
Is there a solution to this? Hopefully it's not a hardware problem .
Hmm, can't post image links... Can someone please post them?
http ://imageshack. us/photo/my-images/163/sidebyside.jpg
http ://imageshack. us/photo/my-images/8/dsc9013.jpg
http ://imageshack. us/photo/my-images/221/dsc9016.jpg
EDIT: FOUND THE ANSWER MYSELF
There's a configuration for Energy Automatic Adjustment (don't know if this is the right text as my phone is in Portuguese). Disable that damn thing .
Just updated to 2.1.0.11, camera greatly improved.
**In previous rom camera used to take photo in high ISO, about 1000. So, there was so much grain. But new rom uses at best 450 ISO. Therefore image quality greatly improved.(sample images are not of same lighting condition, but you can easily differentiate the noise)
**Viewfinder is clearer.
**Focusing is little bit leggy, specially in low light.
**Flash quality improved. But you have to keep the subject nearer, because camera no more raise ISO above 450,so light sensitivity is less.
**Light Balance is now perfect, no more yellowish photo.
**A new smart mode added. Activate that mode, press shutter, wait a few seconds then three option will come- best photo, action shot, motion focus.
**There is a bad news for advanced users who like to play with camera settings- 3rd party camera app doesn't work anymore, they cant change iso, white balance, etc anything.
So... When I took pictures in the dark with the superior auto mode, the faces on the photos were yellow and the photos came out very dark, was really disappointed there. I tried the manual mode- there I could control the brightness so when the brightness is a little bit up (+1) the photos were much better. Also you can control the focus mode which improves the photos a little bit more (I like the multi autofocus). I played with the camera more and tried to change the color and brightness in the superior auto mode and the photos in my eyes came out perfect!!! I really liked the results.
Just click on the image, try this and tell me what you think:
Nice settings
tainka said:
So... When I took pictures in the dark with the superior auto mode, the faces on the photos were yellow and the photos came out very dark, was really disappointed there. I tried the manual mode- there I could control the brightness so when the brightness is a little bit up (+1) the photos were much better. Also you can control the focus mode which improves the photos a little bit more (I like the multi autofocus). I played with the camera more and tried to change the color and brightness in the superior auto mode and the photos in my eyes came out perfect!!! I really liked the results.
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Same settings as me,
In manual mode also you can change the expoaure to +0.3 or 0.6 to decrese faces noise
karrouma said:
Same settings as me,
In manual mode also you can change the expoaure to +0.3 or 0.6 to decrese faces noise
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Good to know! Thanks!
Thanks!
I would also like to add that adjusting the lighting setting in manual mode with the exposure setting will give you far better pictures than in Superior Auto in low light condition.
that works for me ,thx
where do you find the exposure setting?
Is there panorama mode for camera?
hi guys, can you post some sample with and without these settings? actually i haven't phone...