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I just got my iPhone 13 Pro Max last night and all my outdoor photos are oversaturated, look fake, and I can't find a way to edit the HDR layers or even turn HDR off. The only solution is to turn down the saturation, but they still look fake, just less saturated.
Am I missing a setting?
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 15
Hi, this won’t help. I spent almost 2 hours trying to figure it out, switching between photographic styles and there’s no way to avoid the fake colors and lights.
Please apple!! We need to be able to turn off hdr!
As mentioned before I’ve tried Halide among several other camera apps, and they are all clunky and poorly integrated with the phone itself, (although some of them do take very good photos) ie can’t be opened quickly from lock screen etc.
But that is not the point. The point is you have not given one good reason for removing the ability to turn off HDR in the apple native camera for those who wish their photos to have realistic colour and unsharpened details, especially when a natural light mode is enabled for portrait mode that should therefore be possible for photos mode.
Because the photo processing mechanism is an integrated chain now and you can't just shut off a piece of the processing reasonably any longer.
You can get truly raw sensor data via third party apps, minimally processed (but still processed) data by shooting in ProRAW, or fully processed photos via Camera.
So why integrate a “natural light” option into ONLY the portrait mode and not the regular photo mode?
The natural light option for portraits is adequate for my purposes as far as the daylight colour rendition goes, although that opinion is starting from a newly low level of expectation, but it doesn’t, by definition, do depth of field for capturing scenery in the background, or restaurant group shots, for which I need the regular photo mode.
And proRAW is not an option on my 13 mini
So far I’ve tried ProCamera, Firstlight and Halide and the best solution seems to be to use the iPhone camera for portraits, in “natural light” mode, where a moving subject isn’t an issue (because it doesn’t allow Live Photo, so not impromptu grandkids or pets) and so far I find ProCamera the easiest to use for quick point-and-shoot that gives the best default images so far, and is easiest to quickly choose focal and exposure points.
I haven’t had an opportunity to test any of the third party apps for hiking scenery etc, but the iPhone photo mode camera is shockingly bad for that, so they would have to be pretty bad to be worse.
My photos of my ghostly-silver husband smiling against a gaudily flouro-painted stage backdrop, on our first walk after buying the new phone, is what prompted me to wonder what hidden setting I’d inadvertently pushed, and to find this discussion.
And it is not the only blog query I found by the way. Reddit is replete with complaints, and the discussion on some
professional blogs I’ve found bemoans the overprocessing and flattened images too.
But if apple allowed customised app launch from the Lock Screen then the main inconvenience for me would be the fact that I need to remember which app is better for what. But capturing a fleeting moment will now be either missed, or relegated to giving a poor colour rendition in the final image, so impromptu nature captures on bush walks or around the garden will be a lot harder.
And before you feel the need to tell me to lodge yet another feedback with Apple, I may just lodge another request to allow customised app launch from
lockscreen.
“Because the photo processing mechanism is an integrated chain now and you can't just shut off a piece of the processing reasonably any longer.”
Yes, that is the entire problem. But someone has made the decisions about what gets integrated and how, and what can be enabled and what can’t and that is precisely what this thread is critiquing.
Lovecross wrote:
Wow! These comments… Really glad I skipped the 13.
You'll also need to skip any premium smart phone from any manufacturer going forward - Apple, Google, Samsung, Sony as well as many others.
Anyone can shoot and process using ProRAW.
Take Apple ProRAW photos with your iPhone camera - Apple Support
gigabit77 wrote:
As far I understand, there are no differences between the 13 and 13 pro that would have any effect on this.
The 13 Pro supports shooting in ProRAW.
About Apple ProRAW - Apple Support
In most cases the physical cameras are performing well.
If you are concerned, take your phone in to be examined:
Unfortunately, the iPhone 13 has no way to turn this off.
For other iPhone models - Adjust HDR camera settings on iPhone - Apple Support
The iPhone 12 has customizable HDR settings, which you can read about here - Adjust HDR camera settings on iPhone - Apple Support
Every iPhone from the 7 to the 12 models can have HDR disabled.
I'm afraid I don't know. If you'd like to, you can submit feedback, though - Product Feedback - Apple
And again- your only option is to send feedback - Feedback - iPhone - Apple
No, they're not, they are actually quite wonderful.
Look at the calendar taken with 1x standard len...i zoom in to take a look at the numeric...horrible.
iPhone 13 ProMax HDR photos oversaturated (i.e look fake)
