The cover of the newest issue of MacWorld not only has a gorgeous picture of an iPhone 4, it was taken with one — and all the editing was done in-phone too.
In order to accomodate the loss of resolution from his usual rig, photographer Peter Belanger had to shoot extremely close to the subject, as he couldn’t afford to crop. Once he got the shot, it was edited using PhotoForge to tweak the color, and Resize-Photo to get the right DPI for printing. Belanger said:
“The iPhone’s Retina display was truly awesome. I was really able to see the detail in the photo as I was shooting. It made me wish Apple produced all its monitors this way. The final photo was dust-free and looked great. I was extremely impressed with the detail that the iPhone was able to capture.”
Now, someone should go out, and photograph the magazine with their iPhone 4, just to make the whole thing a bit more meta.
[via 9 to 5 Mac]
Luckily they didn’t have to use the flash.
If you still have the plastic on the back it covers the flash and causes it to look fun. Maybe that is the issue you may be dealing with.
Luckily I can shoot photos at an even higher resolution than this with my super fast EVO 4G!
I’d love to see that cover up close – but the shot looks pretty decent from here!
Great to see we still have “geniuses” around who think it is all about higher resolution.
I think this is great, just goes to show what you can do with the most advanced smartphone in the world. Go Apple.
False Jojobajoo. My friend has the Evo and she even admits that the camera sucks on the phone. Your mixing up megapixels with camera quality.
And unfortunately, the EVO 4G battery still sucks. No matter which way you hold it.
Yes, I have also taken some stunning photos with the iPhone4! Quality looks amazing on the screen! It’s the best phone camera I have ever seen! The video quality is a mind blower also! Great phone!
Most smartphone cameras can take great photos given the proper lighting, framing, time to set and of course digital manipulation. I would like to see a “proper” photo shoot face-off between the EVO or Droid X and the iPhone 4. My guess it would be very close.
Wow!!! phone showing 5 bars on AT&T.
Excellent look. i like it.