Trying to capture moving subjects was difficult, too, and even well -
lit indoor shots came out murky.
The Tab S2 fared better with a low -
light indoor shot of a wall of album covers; there was minimal noise despite the difficult conditions, with only a slight yellow tint to the lighting behind the posters.
Not exact matches
Both
shots look pretty comparable at first, but a closer look at the details outside the window show the Pixel handles this
indoor / outdoor
lighting situation better.
We have an almost non-existent amount of natural
light in our condo (especially when it's not summer), so taking snaps outdoors is usually the best approach (though we are planning on buying more studio equipment in the near - ish future so that
indoor shoots will become a lot easier and more professional looking).
If you are
shooting indoors, make sure the place has good
lighting, or investing in a good camera is key.
Thankfully, I had taken
shots of some flat lays last week when I was experimenting with my
indoor lighting kit I received for Christmas.
This had been the first apartment we had with good enough
lighting for
indoor shoots.
The day I took these, it was cloudy outside, and I'm not great at getting a good holo
shot indoors except for under certain
lights, and well, this is what happened.
My house is surrounded by huge trees and I just don't receive enough natural
light inside to even attempt
indoor shots there.
I've just started experimenting with
indoor shots... I even bought some
lights.
And I apologize for these pictures being a little fuzzy — it was incredibly cloudy outside, so we had to
shoot indoors... thus the mediocre
lighting.
Loving your
indoor shots... everything about it great... the set up, the
lighting... perfect.
Still in no mood to
shoot in the winter weather, we've been visiting
indoor locations that have plenty of natural
lighting.
The
indoors shots fare even worse, looking like they were
shot in caves with a lack of adequate
lighting.
Cinematography from Sean McElwee seems sloppily
lit — some
indoors shots are especially second - rate — giving the film a kind of home video look at times.
Thanks to the LED flash,
indoor shots were well exposed even in low -
light conditions.
Indoor footage we
shot of children looked well
lit on the iPad 2's screen but grainy when we output the video to a TV using the Digital AV Adapter ($ 29).
Some dusk
shots looked blurry and lacked detail, and
indoor photos in medium
light were pixelated and had a yellowish cast.
In good conditions you get reasonable
shots, but low -
light performance isn't great, with
indoor shots being marred with noise.
A purple orchid,
shot indoors in natural
light, appeared deep purple and veiny, just as it was in real life.
Indoor shooting can work sometimes, but it's much harder to get the right angle of the
lighting so that it doesn't cast a glare or change the color of your artwork.
If you have a professional
lighting setup, then
indoor shooting can work great for you, but I prefer
shooting outside in natural
lighting.
As with most smartphone cameras, the best results comes from well -
lit environments however,
indoor and low -
light shots from the Mate S are actually quite good.
Indoor photographs are iffier, and low -
light shots are just grainy and terrible.
We tried it out in a variety of different
lighting conditions,
indoor and out, and can confidently say it takes great
shots.
Indoor shots only came out well in really good
light; otherwise they lacked crispness and focus.
Dynamic range is very limited when
shooting in tricky high - contrast
lighting outdoors, but also in
indoor conditions, where highlights in the brighter areas are often overexposed and lacking in detail.
Indoor shots have more noise and since the shutter isn't very fast the pictures aren't very crisp, especially the low -
light ones.
It's best in bright
light when
shooting static subjects, and remains just about acceptable in some
indoor conditions, although some motion blur starts to creep in.
The Max was able to snap serviceable
indoor shots in dim
light that were mostly just fuzzy black rectangles when taken with the Samsung Galaxy S4's camera.
As the Galaxy S6 Edge +, Generally colors are pleasant in all
lighting conditions too, although better, as you'd expect, in good daylight with some color shading visible when
shooting indoors under a tungsten
light source.
There's no significance here other than pretty branding — though around the camera lens is a dual - LED circular flash which mimics that of a professional photographer's to provide even distribution of
light for
indoor and night
shots.
If the
lighting conditions aren't perfect, the Redmi Pro has a tendency to somewhat undersaturate colors so that they don't pop as much as the «real life» scene, and this is particularly noticeable with
indoor shots.
Using the 2x optical zoom, fine detail preservation is excellent in both outdoor and
indoor conditions; and although softer and noisier in extreme low
light, zoom
shots remain acceptable.
The performance of the camera is pretty good though, as it's got good low
light capabilities for
indoor shots, and while the snaps aren't that much better than those we've seen from the last iPad Air (apart from being a little bit sharper) one of the best things is the post processing.
Fine textures are nicely rendered in most conditions and noise is generally well under control, with only some luminance noise visible in blue skies and under
indoor and low -
light shooting conditions.
Color shading is visible in images
shot in both bright -
light conditions outdoors (top) and when using a tungsten 20 lux
light source
indoors (bottom)
Indoor images
shot with fluorescent
lighting render a slightly cyan color cast.
Good
indoor exposures lead to pleasant color rendering, with bold and vivid hues present in many low -
light shots.
In a
shot I took
indoors while facing the
light, the View 10 overexposed the right side of my face, and its megapixel deficit made for a portrait that was softer than the 5T's.
In good outdoor
lighting it's possible to get some half - decent
shots, but it struggles most of the time while
indoors.
Indoor, natural light — those big 1.55 µm pixels, f / 2.0 and auto HDR + make indoor shooting in natural light as good as it
Indoor, natural
light — those big 1.55 µm pixels, f / 2.0 and auto HDR + make
indoor shooting in natural light as good as it
indoor shooting in natural
light as good as it gets.
It will be fine for most people as you'll get good details in the outdoor
shots, but
indoor shots are grainy — good luck with low -
light environments.
So while smartphone cameras are traditionally bad for
shooting indoors, the ZenFone comes with a low -
light Owl mode.
The best aspect of the Earth 1's video performance is noise reduction, with fairly clean files
shot in both outdoor and
indoor lighting conditions.
The increased
light gathering ability of this camera means that the S7 Edge can use shorter shutter speeds and lower ISOs when
shooting indoors, which helps deliver better quality.
Well
lit outdoor
shots and
indoor shots with adequate
light are surprisingly great and a big step up from the Redmi Note 3.
In good outdoor
lighting, photos from the 10MP sensor looked good, but its small size whiffled
indoor and low -
light shots.
The larger aperture allows for about 25 percent more
light to hit the sensor than a device with a more common f / 1.8 aperture — for example, the iPhone 7 — which should result in impressive
indoor and low
light shooting.
With an f / 2.6 aperture and 1 - micron pixels it's not worth using in even mixed
lighting conditions or most
indoor shots — there's just too much noise and blur far too often.