Had tea at my usual place today. Decided to walk to the research station just below. An ex- researcher at that research station told me some months ago that he had an open policy and visitors are welcome. So I popped in for a walk.
Spotted a white fur ball trying to "do a leopard crawl pass me in the trench"... See if you can spot it too.
Took the opportunity to play with RedMi HDR feature AFTER the most recent update a few days ago. Seems that for HDR to work well, must get the exposure at the middle range first.
For any given picture (for RedMi users)(other cphone users may need to choose spot metering or similar) -
Touch the screen for the camera to focus on that point. the exposure will be automatically set for that point as well.
IF the picture is too BRIGHT, touch another point, at the Same Distance from your camera to the subject BUT at a BRIGHTER part of the picture. This will make the camera Reduce the exposure but keep your focus accurate.
IF the picture is too DARK, touch another point, at the same distance from your camera to the subject BUT at a DARKER part of the picture. This will make the camera Increase the exposure but keep your focus accurate.
You will want the middle value most of the time. Not too bright and Not too dark.
Take a shot and check. Should be fine most of the time.
HDR is useful for plants too IF there is no wind moving the leafs. Other subjects should be ok as well. BUT there are many occusions where HDR is worse than a normal shot.
This is just a normal phone and the abilities of its camera, including HDR, is limited but good enough most of the time. I find that it will be better if XiaoMi can get the phone to take a few shots in succession BEFORE post processing for HDR. The take 1 shot, analyse then take another shot is too slow for non tripod mounted shots. Easier to deal with consistent behavior like take 2 addition shots, over exposed and under exposed, then do the post processing. Whichever needs to be discarded will be decided by the algorithm after all 3 shots are taken. This will reduce the camera movement problem. Or allow users to chose to expose for "details in shadows" (shoot another one brighter) or "details in brightness" (shoot another one darker).
Due to the limitation of Weebly, I am unable to share full resolution pictures. There are some shots of insects which are camouflaged at that smaller size. I am lazy to crop for you to see so just enjoy the leafs... :-p
Spotted a white fur ball trying to "do a leopard crawl pass me in the trench"... See if you can spot it too.
Took the opportunity to play with RedMi HDR feature AFTER the most recent update a few days ago. Seems that for HDR to work well, must get the exposure at the middle range first.
For any given picture (for RedMi users)(other cphone users may need to choose spot metering or similar) -
Touch the screen for the camera to focus on that point. the exposure will be automatically set for that point as well.
IF the picture is too BRIGHT, touch another point, at the Same Distance from your camera to the subject BUT at a BRIGHTER part of the picture. This will make the camera Reduce the exposure but keep your focus accurate.
IF the picture is too DARK, touch another point, at the same distance from your camera to the subject BUT at a DARKER part of the picture. This will make the camera Increase the exposure but keep your focus accurate.
You will want the middle value most of the time. Not too bright and Not too dark.
Take a shot and check. Should be fine most of the time.
HDR is useful for plants too IF there is no wind moving the leafs. Other subjects should be ok as well. BUT there are many occusions where HDR is worse than a normal shot.
This is just a normal phone and the abilities of its camera, including HDR, is limited but good enough most of the time. I find that it will be better if XiaoMi can get the phone to take a few shots in succession BEFORE post processing for HDR. The take 1 shot, analyse then take another shot is too slow for non tripod mounted shots. Easier to deal with consistent behavior like take 2 addition shots, over exposed and under exposed, then do the post processing. Whichever needs to be discarded will be decided by the algorithm after all 3 shots are taken. This will reduce the camera movement problem. Or allow users to chose to expose for "details in shadows" (shoot another one brighter) or "details in brightness" (shoot another one darker).
Due to the limitation of Weebly, I am unable to share full resolution pictures. There are some shots of insects which are camouflaged at that smaller size. I am lazy to crop for you to see so just enjoy the leafs... :-p