Absolute war waged on the shadows but notice how too-aggressive default HDR takes the highlights of the neon sign down to zero impact as well - no highs, no lows. All modern smartphone cameras do this now, the Xanax of photography

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Georgy Romelashvili (@withgeorgy) on Threads

iPhone 16 Pro Max (2024) vs iPhone 3GS (2009) photography. What do you notice? Both unedited. I personally like the 37mm focal length of an old iPhone.

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@reckless1280 Threads stripped the HDR metadata and is displaying these in SDR, isn’t it? Would explain why the neon sign looks like that