Camera help with a window

[Allysisa]

Hi everyone your probably sick of me and I understand I'm a right royal pain in the butt!!!!!

But 9/10 times I take a pic say in my front room with the grandkids playing and the place where the window is is always blown out I can take 20 pics and 1 will have the window as it should with the net curtain..... I've tried everything but I get the fruit camera out and it takes it with the net curtain and not blown out window x 

I'm going crazy...... 

Thanks in advance x

[Chappell101]

Did you find it the same with ExpertRaw fully speced out (Auto HDR, Lossless, Adaptive pixel) to retain highlight detail as well as stack shadow that can do a wider HDR? Is the room you are shooting in noticeably dark so the dynamic range is very challenging? Note you will find colour different on ExpertRaw it's intentionally left flatter for you to edit in post and won't automatically lift your shadows as much for you but it will have more data in the image to be able to retrieve them in post in Snapseed or the Gallery.

You won't like the other option I would suggest which is just using a polarizer/ND and a specialist case to use the lens to subdue excess light as I have the feeling that if you are struggling with just getting the shot by exposure setting alone this would make things much more complicated for you manually doing your settings and a inconvenience if you're not a photographer who already carries these.

[Allysisa]

To be honest I haven't tried expert raw I do t know how to use the filter thingy.... But it's worth a shot thanks x.

[Allysisa]

I have set the camera to -3 to 1 at times and this helps but I'm not very good at settings I have auto HDR on as you mentioned I should before but I will try expert raw thak again ....

[Chappell101]

Those 3 settings being on are important to balance a HDR shot in ExpertRaw's settings as it can go just that bit further in tolerances but you wont get a finished image from it all the time (Not really what and who it's for)

Manually setting your exposure compensation (☀️/EV) is normal it's what it's there for to help in challenging lighting. If you get used to dropping it till just the highlights aren't blown out you will get some great shots in the normal camera.

I can see you like the simplicity of the iOS camera even if that comes at the expense of image quality. You probably would have liked Googles Pixel Camera it's very much also made with the benefit of being accessible for novice shooters too on the Andriod side but there is more you need to ask of a phone than just the camera. OneUI is a little bit more flexible for productivity than Google's offerings.

[GoanGeek]

Hi.

Could you search for 'hdr' under phone settings and turn on Superhdr.

Samsung works in two ways.

Hdr under camera settings and hdr for gallery.

It maybe possible that the Gallery is not displaying your hdr photos.

Try sending the photos taken on your Samsung to your fruit phone and see if they still look blown out.

Or check them under Google photos and see if there is a difference .

[Allysisa]

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[Allysisa]

They look the same when I send them to the fruit phone most window shots have a blown out glare hole and the fruit phone has the bet curtain in the shot with the photo I've taken but I love my Samsung so it's hard and I'm not great at photography x

[Chappell101]

That's a good point. I'd not considered the screen settings. Running the screen at the full extra brightness is also a bit of a no no as it leaves no headroom for the HDR variation to work effectively.

[Babishko]

@Allysisa, I would always try and take your pictures with any light source (window etc.) behind you. If I were in a living room photographing towards a subject in front of a window, I would have to manually drop the exposure of my device by some margin. This can be done in auto mode, but I can't stress how important it is when starting in photography to get your light source to work for you, and not against you. Good luck, and happy shooting!.