Whats the main thing wrong with this photo ?

swanseamale47 said:
Where the heck can you buy tyres for £45... have you got a time machine?
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There's a lot of competition in Dudley (Where I work) I've just brought one for Mrs Badgers car Citroen C1( really my spare car) after a puncher which was £44.50 I have the same car But with a Peugeot badge on and am about to put two on the front. I cover quite a lot of miles so always go for something economical at least 60 miles to the gallon mine returns between 68 and 72 mpg it cost me just over £100 to insure and tax is £20. I'm not a car fan its just a useful tool.
 
Going back to your original post, I think what tends to happen with mobiles is that, even though you don't see it, they basically do an HDR process. they may only give you one photo, but they'll take an number of photos and stitch them together to try and achieve the 'correct' exposure in every shot.

So that original shot looks too heavily saturated and has that slight over-done HDR 'false' look to my eyes. It can be a good effect, but not if that's all you ever get.

I also had a similar issue with a lot of early PAS digital cameras in that they always seemed to try and get everything in focus. Which also looks false.
 
I think the problem is composition. I'm thinking the subect is the dog but in the OP's photo the forest overpowers the dog. Go down a bit and someone cropped it and the dog stands out a lot better!
 
Nod said:
Most people will only show the pictures on the device they were taken with.
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My son does that with his phone. Photo's look good on the screen but they have never been off it. Lately he's thinking of starting to use a DSLR camera and suddenly the phone screen will be gone. he does get some nice looking photo's looked at on the phone screen though, no idea what they would look like on a larger screen!
 
BADGER.BRAD said:
Just as a comparison here is a photo taken today with my little compact. This is as from camera other than being reduced in file size for TP but to my eyes it looks a lot more realistic compared to how I saw it with the naked eye. Of course different day,lighting +++ The lesson is cheapish smart phone cameras are still naff !

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For your first image, I find that the strong shadow acts as a barrier. In comparison, this shot you can flow through the picture and visually follow the trail. There are some technical differences but the composition of the second image is better in my view.

Dave
 
I'm not a great smart phone fan really but have given that particular phone back to my son, it was far too big and fragile and even using phone apps I could not get even a reasonable image from it. To my eye they all looked totally false. My old battered smart phone has been given a new battery and does it's job for me, Mainly as a music /podcast player. I think it's been about two weeks since I last made a call on it. The one thing I wish it would do is what 3 words as I spend a lot of time mooching around the countryside and always wonder what would happen if I did have an accident, unfortunately it is just too old !
 
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looks like the a10s has a 1/3" sensor which is very tiny - some phones are getting closer to the 1" sensor size now so can compete better with dedicated cameras and there is the saying that the best camera is the one you always have with you
 
As @boliston has alluded to, there's a huge variation across phones as well as if you were buying DSLRs/mirrorless. That's a budget phone that won't compare to the latest and greatest that you'll hear people raving about.
 
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