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10 iPhone Camera Apps That Put the Photographer Back in Control
10 Photography Apps That Refuse to Take the Photograph for You10 Photography Apps That Refuse to Take the Photograph for You No Magic Buttons. No Automatic Perfection. These Apps Put Creative Decisions Back Where They Belong — With the Photographer There is something slightly peculiar about contemporary smartphone photography. We have never carried cameras this capable before, yet we have also never carried cameras quite so determined to decide what a photograph should look like on our behalf. Press the shutter on a modern smartphone and the resulting image may already have been assembled from multiple exposures, sharpened, denoised, tone-mapped, locally adjusted and interpreted before we have even had the…
Halide Mark III and Why Photographers Still Need to Make Decisions
I’ve been writing about mobile photography for almost two decades, and if I’m honest, I thought I’d seen most of it by now. Every year brings another camera app promising to turn the iPhone into something it isn’t. There are always more controls, more presets, more editing tools, and increasingly, more artificial intelligence. And Halide Mark III made me pause for a different reason. It wasn’t the new editing tools or the collection of Looks that caught my attention. It wasn’t even the promise of producing better photographs. What stayed with me after reading about the update was the sense that Lux is trying to have a conversation about photography…
