{"id":30142,"date":"2020-09-14T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30142"},"modified":"2020-09-14T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:18:16","slug":"auto-white-balance-vs-fiery-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/14\/auto-white-balance-vs-fiery-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto White Balance vs. Fiery Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ian Bogost<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Certain photographs and videos of the surreal, orange sky seemed\nto wash it out, as if to erase the danger. “I didn’t filter\nthese,” tweeted<\/a> the journalist Sarah Frier, posting photos she\ntook of San Francisco’s haunting morning sky. “In fact the iPhone\ncolor corrected the sky to make it look less scary. Imagine more\norange.” The photos looked vaguely marigold in hue, but not too\ndifferent from a misty sunrise in a city prone to fog. In some\ncases, the scene seemed to revert to a neutral gray, as if the\nsmartphones that captured the pictures were engaged in a\nconspiracy to silence this latest cataclysm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

This is not a bug, but a side effect of the built-in Camera app on iOS (and likewise on most Android phones) being decidedly consumer-focused. Setting a manual white balance point is a feature in any “pro” camera app worth its salt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ian Bogost: Certain photographs and videos of the surreal, orange sky seemed to wash it out, as if to erase the danger. “I didn’t filter these,” tweeted the journalist Sarah Frier, posting photos she took of San Francisco’s haunting morning sky. “In fact the iPhone color corrected the sky to make it look less scary. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-14T20:18:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"1bc81f60-ee22-4cd3-9461-a05a5bb1675f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-14T20:18:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AG8gfYO4iTNOUYaBaW7FnXw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152,566,31,1667,153],"class_list":["post-30142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-camera","tag-color","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-photography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30143,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30142\/revisions\/30143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}