Sebastiaan de With, the designer behind the iPhone photography app Halide, recently published a short piece titled The Power of Shooting RAW on iPhone. And while some of the discussion is a bit basic for most of our readers-it`s a safe bet most of the people reading this know what a Raw file is and the advantages it offers-his before-and-after photos demonstrating the power of Raw files, even smartphone Raw files, are worth sharing.
We spoke with de With, who was kind enough to let us share his before-and-after shots in the gallery below.
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Of course, you can (mostly) ignore any brand-specific talk-any smartphone that can shoot Raw will produce the additional latitude required to recover highlights and shadows, change the white balance after the fact, avoid heavy-handed built-in noise reduction, and lots more.
One important tidbit he does point out about shooting Raw on an iPhone, though, is about Raw support. The built-in iOS Photos app will display your Raw photos, but it`ll display them as a low res JPEG preview without any sort of warning attached. Once you`ve got your Raw file captured (using Halide, Lightroom Mobile, or any other photo app that supports Raw capture) don`t go viewing it in iOS Photos. Load it in Darkroom, Snapseed, VSCO, or Lightroom Mobile, or you`ll see a low-res, blurry mess.
Check out the before and after shots in the gallery above, and then head over to de With`s full Power of Shooting RAW on iPhone post to read more about the advantages, disadvantages, and `did you know?` tidbits about shooting Raw on an iPhone.
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