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Seems to me that experienced photographers don't have too much trouble adjusting exposure. But WTF do I know>

RMD

I saw the back of my head when this commercial came on.

I'm the unofficial beach photographer where I live. When I'm walking my dog and I see a couple or a family trying to get a picture of themselves at the beach I always offer to take a few for them. Spoiler alert, a lot of "people of color" vacation to Puerto Rico and they can be range from darker than midnight during the new moon or my tan is darker than they are.


I don't care how good a phone is, if the natural lightning isn't there the photo quality is going to suffer. How convenient for the "before" pictures to have been taken in a dimly lit room, at night or with their back to the lighting source yet the magical Pixel phone takes these amazing shots when clearly the subjects are in well lit environments.


This is nothing more than pandering and if you don't buy one, you ain't black or hate blacks.


P.S. If they really wanted to sell the commercial, they should have used a black lab at the end. My uncle has one and taking pictures of her is like taking pictures of a black hole that absorbs all fine details. I get a dog silhouette with two eyes every time she gets her picture taken.

I made fun of that one too.
This was the race bowl. It's the in thing now apparently.

I don't think anybody is saying the phone manufacturers are racist. It's a simple fact that high contrast subjects are harder to capture. When there is a bright background, a dark subject is often hard to capture properly. I photographed Cadets at the Air Force Academy for a year, and I routinely needed a to use a flash on a bright, sunny day outside in order to see their faces (they were wearing ball caps, and their faces were cast in shadow).

It's simple photography basics. Nothing racial (the way I see it, at least). It's good marketing to see any problem and address it. . .

Stupid commercial, same thing happens with my all black cat, as far as I know there are no racial implications regarding my kitty.

The 'before and after' pics were bogus too. The ones where you couldn't see the person were both dark skinned individuals and horrible lighting. The ones where they were more clear had great lighting and lighter skinned people.

If you want to showcase your phone, do two side by sides with same actor and same lighting. What's the point to showing an apples to oranges comparison?

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:
I photographed Cadets at the Air Force Academy for a year, and I routinely needed a to use a flash on a bright, sunny day outside in order to see their faces (they were wearing ball caps, and their faces were cast in shadow).

This ^^^^^

It's called "fill flash." (As I'm sure you know.) I use it often, with all my cameras. Sometimes it works well, sometimes it over-exposes the subject. Sometimes I have control over that (e.g.: With my SLR), other times I'm faced with the choice of under- or over-exposed.

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:
It's simple photography basics. Nothing racial (the way I see it, at least). It's good marketing to see any problem and address it. . .

This ^^^^^, too.

Some of y'all need to loosen that tinfoil just a mite

Just another reason to not ever support google/alphabet…

How many millions of damn racist white man cameras were sold by Google before they came out with the pixel six?

Honest question because I’m not a photographer and don’t have any interest in becoming one. So what is the tech behind this “advancement”. Does it simply turn on the flash in more cases? It is simple reprogramming of some camera setting? I ask because I’m doubtful the Pixel 6 or whatever actually made any real improvement to cameras. It could be my tinfoil hat is too tight though. Lol

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
Honest question because I’m not a photographer and don’t have any interest in becoming one. So what is the tech behind this “advancement”. Does it simply turn on the flash in more cases? It is simple reprogramming of some camera setting? I ask because I’m doubtful the Pixel 6 or whatever actually made any real improvement to cameras. It could be my tinfoil hat is too tight though. Lol

Most likely a combination of both. And my tinfoil hat isn't tight. It should be after watching the commercials. One might think that a great reversal in population numbers had happened.

RMD