Awesome! I love how phone cameras these days have dedicated astro modes, you can get really good results with some tinkering.
I downloaded the photo and pushed it a bit further in iOS free Lightroom, you can squeeze a bit more faint detail out of them, especially if your phone can save RAW format photos.
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you can squeeze a bit more faint detail out of them
What exactly did you do here? Up the contrast or something?
Adjust the color curves I'm guessing
What phones have this option? How would I find it?
Google Camera on any Android will have the astro mode in Night Sight
It requires the phone is perfectly stable or else it won't activate.
also hey lmao
Hmm I have something called "nightscape" but I think it can only do 30 second exposures
Are you sure you're using Google Camera and not some random bundled camera app from Samsung or whatever?
It looks like the default one to me, but I guess it could be a bundled one. But I tried downloading another camera app and it showed the same 30 second exposure limit so I'm guessing it's a hardware limitation.
I wonder what's going on in the background there in processing the picture. 5 minutes exposure creates star trails even on a wide angle lens. Must be multiple exposures and focus stacking.
Very nice!
Wow, technology!
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