SomeGadgetGuy on Nostr: That's a nice shot. I'm not sure what phone you used, but this is one of the ...
That's a nice shot.
I'm not sure what phone you used, but this is one of the advantages of newer phones with larger telephoto sensors. We get better output at the native and cropped zoom roughly out to that 10X equivalent.
The thing about phone HDR, it's going to try to lift shadow detail, like in the tree line near the building. I always find it useful to knock the shot down a half stop. For an image like this, it's ok if those trees are more silhouette, the water a little darker, as you'd get slightly richer colors out of the sky.
If there's any kind of long exposure night mode or "high res" mode, it's always worth giving those options a shot too. They're trickier to use at dusk, but a "hi-res" shot can sometimes be cropped into more than taking a 10X zoom shot from the auto mode. Again, that just depends on the phone and the sensor in your phone.
Lastly, given the pixelation of the water, I'd probably line up the horizon on the bottom third of the frame, instead of the middle.
I'm not sure what phone you used, but this is one of the advantages of newer phones with larger telephoto sensors. We get better output at the native and cropped zoom roughly out to that 10X equivalent.
The thing about phone HDR, it's going to try to lift shadow detail, like in the tree line near the building. I always find it useful to knock the shot down a half stop. For an image like this, it's ok if those trees are more silhouette, the water a little darker, as you'd get slightly richer colors out of the sky.
If there's any kind of long exposure night mode or "high res" mode, it's always worth giving those options a shot too. They're trickier to use at dusk, but a "hi-res" shot can sometimes be cropped into more than taking a 10X zoom shot from the auto mode. Again, that just depends on the phone and the sensor in your phone.
Lastly, given the pixelation of the water, I'd probably line up the horizon on the bottom third of the frame, instead of the middle.