{"id":2833,"date":"2013-09-22T15:56:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T01:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2013-09-22T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T02:00:46","slug":"ios-7-camera-hdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/22\/ios-7-camera-hdr\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 7 camera HDR (High Dynamic Range) feature more subtle than I remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_hdr_20130922.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_hdr_20130922.png\" alt=\"ios7_hdr_20130922\" width=\"520\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_hdr_20130922.png 520w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_hdr_20130922-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple added the HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo feature way back in iOS 4.1 (Fall 2010). After playing with this photo option for a couple of weeks, I stopped using it. With the release of iOS 7 last week, I decided to take another look at HDR on my iPhone 5. However, my first test pair of photos (iOS provides the option to save a normal photo along with the HDR photo) barely seemed to be different from one another (normal vs. HDR) &#8211; [see below for the first photo pair].<\/p>\n<p>I ended up creating a test scene that would be sure to look different when comparing a normal photo to the HDR one. The photo above is that test scene. The photo on the right is the HDR version. This time I could see the difference.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_hdr_20130920.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_hdr_20130920.png\" alt=\"ios7_hdr_20130920\" width=\"520\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_hdr_20130920.png 520w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_hdr_20130920-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My recollection is that the HDR photos produced in the iOS 4.1 version of the photo option produced more dramatic (though not necessarily better) HDR photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple added the HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo feature way back in iOS 4.1 (Fall 2010). After playing with this photo option for a couple of weeks, I stopped using it. With the release of iOS 7 last week, I decided to take another look at HDR on my iPhone 5. However, my first test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-iphone-apple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-JH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}