Share the pictures taken with Pixel 3a and 3a XL

pasha_d

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Let me clarify a couple of things. I've had a few PM's about it. The pics of the couple, those have not been edited to the extent of changing the color, contrast, highlights, etc. So nothing major. What has likely been done is a bit of vignette, brightness, cropping, alignment, (and possibly* some object removal). The shots were taken at or near a low-mid traffic airport. Some of the best angles required hangars and inanimate objects to appear in the shot. While most could be cropped down, a few needed touched up using an app that I freaking love for object removal: Handy App. For those who have NOT used it... Let me just say, it's by far the best object remover on the market. It uses AI to determine what should replace the object you removed. You don't have to clone the surrounding area to make it look right. It literally does everything for you. I will be uploading a shot of a cow pasture, and a removed calf as an example. The time it took me to take the picture, and remove the object was less than 30 seconds.

Also, the astrophotography pics... I use the GCam PX 4.3 Mod along with a magisk module for longer exposure and custom noise model. I get that theres wayyy better shots on here than mine, and I'm super jealous of them! but I'm about 20-30 miles in 4 different directions away from large towns, and metro areas. The light pollution is insane. so, if you suffer from a similar situation, I'd highly recommend the gcam PX to help overcome much of it. It allows up to 6-8 minute exposures, and the custom magisk noise model will help cleanup the light issues.

I was actually able to capture the Messier Supernova (nebula) with one of my shots. After saturating it to the max, and adjusting highlights, along with a custom lib patcher to help darken the sky and increase sharpness.. it appeared as a pink nebula. Was one of the best moments in my entire life. (doesn't take much to excite me huh? Lol. It dates back to looking at the stars with my dad as a kid... I miss that dude.)
Finally downloaded GCam PX 4.3 Mod along with a magisk module for longer exposure thanks to this forum. I wish I had them when captured the Milky way with my Pixel 3a, but hey even here close to the city you can benefit from using them.
 

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Tomar777

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Nice to see you around mate also nice to still see u in the 3a forum.
Hi Carlos nice to see you too.
Well, nothing interesting in development (im done with rooting and custom roms, happy as it is), phone has no problems, so no reason to bother the forum...
The only interesting thing is Google camera PX mod by Cstark for extended astro photography, you should check it out.
Nice astro photo by the way!

I still do alot of photos check my Flickr collection
 

carlosthwaites

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Hi Carlos nice to see you too.
Well, nothing interesting in development (im done with rooting and custom roms, happy as it is), phone has no problems, so no reason to bother the forum...
The only interesting thing is Google camera PX mod by Cstark for extended astro photography, you should check it out.
Nice astro photo by the way!

I still do alot of photos check my Flickr collection
I agree there's nothing u can do to want more out of these pixels really lol. Yes I came across the camera px app a few days ago from someone in Reddit but I'm still yet to test because the clouds won't give me a break. I will take a look at these shots of yours now mate I enjoyed coming here to see your photos.
 

carlosthwaites

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Hi Carlos nice to see you too.
Well, nothing interesting in development (im done with rooting and custom roms, happy as it is), phone has no problems, so no reason to bother the forum...
The only interesting thing is Google camera PX mod by Cstark for extended astro photography, you should check it out.
Nice astro photo by the way!

I still do alot of photos check my Flickr collection
Also have u updated to Google camera 8.1 yet? If so do u see a difference in image quality day & low light?
 

Tomar777

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Also have u updated to Google camera 8.1 yet? If so do u see a difference in image quality day & low light?
yrs but i cant tell... night images are super. on day time i have "some" trouble with HDR on seawater on sunny days lately, but the rest is ok.. i dont think anything will change for the 3a on next versions
 

carlosthwaites

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yrs but i cant tell... night images are super. on day time i have "some" trouble with HDR on seawater on sunny days lately, but the rest is ok.. i dont think anything will change for the 3a on next versions
I haven't really tried night shots other than pointing the phone up and getting astro to auto enable I just feel like something is different but I can't grip what it is. I have noticed the file size of the images are slightly smaller though from the 7.* Versions and that's with non of the storage settings enabled. I did take this with the camera px though last night, not as dark as I'd like but give me a 3:15s shot.