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We're having our first apocalypse of the year in our neighborhood. It's 9am and dark. The plumber scheduled for an hour from now called to ask if it's safe here (yes).

As I was typing photo description it occurred to me that the way the phone normalized the image -- I'm telling ya it's fkn dark as shit here, with occasional ash dropping -- the phone has made it look like a cloudy day. It's like corporate "two sides" politics. Camera: I know what sky looks like, I'll adjust photo for that.

View from patio roof, apartment building next door, trees on the left, and a road lined with cars. Above, a very dark smokey sky, but made lighter and far less foreboding by a smartphone camera that wishes to normalize the image. It is currently darker than before dawn.
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Jef Poskanzer
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When the SF area had a day without sunshine a couple years ago, a lot of folks ran into the same too-smart camera issue. One easy trick is to include something bright in the frame to make the camera fixate on that.
drivers pretending to ignore the apocalyptic sky that they are helping create - photo taken at noon
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tom jennings
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@jef that's a good idea!

I wish there was some way to turn off some of the modes. Maybe I'll look for camera apps

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@tom jennings Auto exposure will always try to make the bulk of the image medium brightness. This is usually what you want, which is why cameras do it. If you do not want this, dial in some exposure compensation. Dunno about android but in iOS you do it by swiping up or down after doing long press for focus and exposure lock.
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tom jennings
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@goatsarah

Thanks for the suggestion! I will look at the thing tonight, I've never explored camera settings.

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