After three-and-a-half years, I needed to get myself a brand new smartphone. And never due to anything besides the digicam on the telephone. I used to be going to be graduating from the Pixel 3 XL, which had accomplished a LOT during the last three-and-a-half years. A detailed pal occurred to be touring in from Canada and I ended up asking her to get me two Google Pixel 6 Professional gadgets. 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 Cellular 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 feel I’m obsessive about the large angle digicam on this telephone – most of my gallery in Google Photographs, a minimum of for the primary few weeks, was totally 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 Of outdated buildings in Rajasthan, to rose bushes in Mukteshwar, to mountains and sunsets in Ranikhet.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 terms of having bushes in shadow in opposition to the intense sky, is horrendously annoying. I’m nonetheless engaged on what tweaks in Lightroom it might take to do away with the colour fringing however no luck thus far. I’ve tried the standard, “Take away Chromatic Aberration” however to no avail. The choice that has helped a bit is the “Shade Noise Discount”, which takes away many of the shade fringing however not all. I’ve additionally tried making the purples extra blue – as a result of essentially the most seen shade 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 obtainable for this shoot, so we needed to make-do with the opposite digicam. All images shot by Akanksha.
For a number of the images from my photograph gallery, which were shot on the Pixel 6 Professional, please scroll in the direction of the top of this weblog put up.
I’ve by no means been a fan of the compelled zoom lenses – the small print are shit, usually. I’m not going to be evaluating tech specs and such – that’s by no means my aim with evaluating a digicam – 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 exhibits you a few of my images shot on the Google Pixel 6 Professional. A number of large angle photographs, portraits, and many others. These are all edited in Lightroom for Cellular. The {photograph} of the yellow sandstone structure that you simply see on the telephone display screen above in all the pictures, that {photograph} is of Nachna Haveli in Jaisalmer. An analogous picture can be included under.
I’ve additionally included some macro images – the macro lens is usually a bit flimsy to deal with as a result of now you’ve got three cameras that you may 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 system when it’s not even one thing I’m engaged on for the model. So you possibly can think about how a lot I, usually, love the digicam on Google smartphones. I do know there was this complete factor with, “Ought to I get the October 2021 launched Pixel 6 Professional in Could 2022 or ought to I simply look ahead to October 2022 and die of cupboard space frustration on my Pixel 3 XL?” Who am I kidding – it was a no brainer. I knew pal was coming from Canada. I knew I used to be DYING to get a brand new telephone. I knew I wanted to make photograph footage after the overall malaise that has set in throughout the pandemic.
And similar to that, I traveled from Jaisalmer, to Bikaner, to Ranikhet, to Mukteshwar and ended up making some magnificent reminiscences and images. I’m lastly including Ranikhet Sundown images to my Version of Prints as nicely in my store.
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