r/mobilephotography

Sibuyan Sea, Philippines

Taken at 6:25 am

Thanks to this community for helping me regain the excitement to share here again

After my last post, I got a lot of advice and support, so I’m reposting this lunar capture and will keep sharing more

Sunset over the plains behind Ponta Malongane in Southern Mozambique. Taken using Project Indigo Camera App on an iPhone15Pro, lightly edited in Lightroom Mobile

I have a pixel 9 pro but this might also apply to other phones, that's why I'm posting here.

I bought my Pixel 9 Pro last year and the camera blew me away. Fast forward a year and I kept noticing something was off, not in a "I got used to it" way, but genuinely, objectively worse (HDR was more aggressive and invasive, contrast was flatter, and I was constantly having to manually correct exposure where before the phone just handled it)

I started googling and at first I thought I was just being paranoid, but there were enough people saying the same thing that I kept digging. That's when I learned that since GCam is entirely software-driven, every update quietly changes how your photos are processed.. and apparently Google has been pushing harder and harder toward this flat, lift-everything look for a while now. The rabbit hole ended with people recommending modded older versions of GCam as the fix.

Turns out they were right. I ended up using AGC by BigKaka, get it online, load a suggested nrG config (so hard to find for Pixel 9 Pro by the way, I found it on the telegram group) . Runs alongside my stock app, no uninstalling anything.

Attaching a comparison I shot tonight from my balcony, same scene, two seconds apart. The difference kind of speaks for itself. First one is taken with the current stock Google camera app (all updates), the second with the modded GCam. Neither of them are edited.

Started to like taking pictures. Now I'm practicing composition and framing. Not really familiar with any theories, this just felt like a decent pic.

This is my original photo [OC]. I captured these dandelion seeds in gentle light – for me, they symbolize making a wish and letting it go.

Hello, I’ve just started recently to get into photography and was just wondering what’s the go-too settings people use for an iPhone specifically iPhone 14, also here’s a photo I took a few days ago.

Image from a recent trip

a picture from galaxy fold