Pictures Taken With M8

chobits

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Haha, just found some photos that my daughter took while sitting in the back child seat the other day. She did quite well for a 4 year old with the car going 60km/h







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and she has a nice composition for 4yrs old
i can see that your daughter has talent
imagine if you have a photo studio for baby photos taken by your perhaps 6yrs old (later on) :good:
 
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I'm more of a macro guy. Everything is manual.
 

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and she has a nice composition for 4yrs old
i can see that your daughter has talent
imagine if you have a photo studio for baby photos taken by your perhaps 6yrs old (later on) :good:
Cheers. She's taken to using and loving photos on both my wife's and my phone. It seems she is forever grabbing either of our phones and taking photos then showing us the pics. She's progressed from usually having a finger covering the lens to blurry/shaky photos and finally having photos that have the right kind of composition.

Pretty bloody good for someone who I've assumed progressed to this "by feel" as neither of us have given her direct instructions on what to do besides that photos were blacked out due to fingers were blocking the lens. Funnily enough it makes us even more proud parents seeing her quick progression. Next step is getting a guitar, her request of today.

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Tried your HDR trick (lock on brightest area) yesterday at 7pm when the sun was going down but even locking the focus on the sun the photo is too bright and half the sky is ''burned''

You frame for exposure and touch for focus. They are decoupled in HDR. It is best to move the camera to frame a bright area and it will adjust exposure and then you press and hold a point where you want to focus while still being in the frame (probably moved to an edge because you moved camera to frame for exposure)

For example, if an object is desired to be focus, but background to bright, I would move camera toward bright background but keep the object within frame to lock focus on.

Only weird thing is that HDR often throws off my white balance. @hamdir how did you get the white balance, for me I usually get slightly warmer from trying to compensate for blue sky automatically.
 
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Figured I'd show off the awesome low light capabilities :)

The first picture is a still of a video recording I did with the M8. Sadly, video recording doesn't seem to benefit from the ultrapixel cam in low light conditions.
The second picture is shot in normal mode with no flash. I think it's pretty amazing just how well the camera performs in such low light.
 

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You frame for exposure and touch for focus. They are decoupled in HDR. It is best to move the camera to frame a bright area and it will adjust exposure and then you press and hold a point where you want to focus while still being in the frame (probably moved to an edge because you moved camera to frame for exposure)

For example, if an object is desired to be focus, but background to bright, I would move camera toward bright background but keep the object within frame to lock focus on.

Only weird thing is that HDR often throws off my white balance. @hamdir how did you get the white balance, for me I usually get slightly warmer from trying to compensate for blue sky automatically.
sadly yesterday was the first time HDR completely failed me, as i couldnt find a brighter point to lock into, but now thanks to your explanation i think i finally get how it works

so you need to fill the entire view finder with bright and then lock it to your target?

as for white balance, i fixed it with levels in the gallery, the HDR photos are coming almost too perfect, i mean there is almost no shade at all, so usually i take it to the gallery or photoshop and moved back the mid levels to slight darkness this is how it ends up looking like a normal photo again

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Good lightening, just click away on auto.
exactly: just rely on auto focus and you will be impressed, HTC added a very good exposure balance algorithm for daylight, but if you go manual focus naturally it stops working