Mastodawn

Have been tinkering with #saulala on my laptop since @petrikas made it available as a web app. But today was the first time I tried running it on my iPhone. Amazing! Finally a way to get some decently formed images directly on the phone without Apple's rubbish "make everything a midtone" insanity. If you haven't tried https://app.saulala.com yet, you should. Apple vs Saulala:

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Claus Mar 1

@quister @petrikas Not sure if I love the completely blown out clouds, but the green and water feels a lot more pleasing and warm. Would love to see a comparison using Apple Photos' editing tools though. Just a standard output vs a fine-tuned raw file isn't really fair.

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Petrikas Mar 1

@claus @quister The "blown out clouds" is what gives the picture depth. The trees next to the waterfall are clearly a "shadow" area, which would be ridiculous if it would the same energy levels as the sky and the clouds. (And it is ridiculous in the first picture).

You're immediately discarding authorship. If the author's intent was to bring all focus to the waterfall, without losing depth, it only makes sense that "the sky" gets attenuated. It is of non-importance.

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Petrikas

@claus @quister there's also "information" outside of the "Field of View" of the camera; the author chose not to include it either.