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by heliographe 2mo ago
It's Bayer RAW: not yet demosaicked sensor information from a single exposure, without any of the extra steps you get shooting a format like HEIC/JPEG (or even ProRAW [0]), where lots of additional processing is done, including co
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by heliographe 2mo ago
> The ultrawide lens is not one I used a ton on previous iPhones, so outside of macro mode I don’t really miss it. I’m surprised though that I really miss the telephoto lens. There’s so many options where I want to see something that’s
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by heliographe 5mo ago
Yes, that makes sense to me. Black and white film is a very flexible medium - you can make very different prints from the same negative, it has lots of latitude to play with the contrast, dodge/burn, etc, so there’s not necessarily a s
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by heliographe 5mo ago
> I now have a small library of simulated materials: watercolor washes, dry brush strokes, felt-tip pens, cracked glaze, pencil fills. None of them are physically accurate. I’m not simulating fluid dynamics or anything like that, I don’
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by heliographe 7mo ago
You absolutely can: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1156653713048409... (taken with BayerCam.app, not Halide, but Halide can capture the same raw Bayer data) It's not an amazing photo by any means. But
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by heliographe 7mo ago
I always found this UI pattern a bit odd, because there just aren't that many situations where you want to compare the left side of image A and the right side of image B. I see it a lot in photography, to show before/after process
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by heliographe 8mo ago
Done, cheers for the heads up.
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by heliographe 8mo ago
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1158908195095453...
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by heliographe 8mo ago
Here is the same post on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1158908195095453... I publish all my posts on Threads/X/Bluesky/Mastodon because I have to meet my customers where they are,
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by heliographe 8mo ago
Oh hi everyone! So funny to see how my quippy little tweet blew up the last few days on all the platforms (much more than when I share actual things I make, to my great dismay - if you're an artist/photographer, check out my apps
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by heliographe 10mo ago
Working on developing a suite of apps around photography, from cameras to editors and utilities. https://heliographe.studio The goal is lightweight, composable tools with clean interfaces that respect user agency and privacy, pr
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by heliographe 11mo ago
If you’ve gone all the way to shooting medium format and learning how to develop film, I can’t help but encourage you to get into printing black and white as well. (color is IMO less interesting - more finicky, less creative latitude) It’s
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by heliographe 1y ago
Cheers! Got an update coming out soon for that one, it's actually the one that makes the least money haha. I think it's way too nerdy and weird to ever hope to reach a broad audience even amongst photographers, unlike the others t
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by heliographe 1y ago
> I'm quite aware that doing things my way isn't commercially viable Depends what you mean by “commercially viable”. I’ve been making high quality products as an independent software developer in the photography space for a bit
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by heliographe 1y ago
Yes! As a software developer in the photography space, we are deeply in need of projects like this. The photography world is mired in proprietary software/ formats, and locked down hardware; and while it has always been true that a dig
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by heliographe 1y ago
Yes, that matches my observations. I develop photography software and in early versions of iOS 18, sometimes saving a large image to the camera roll would fail because the daemon in charge of carrying out the photo library transactions woul
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by heliographe 1y ago
Working on indie photography software (iOS/macOS for the time being): https://heliographe.studio My most recent release is a camera app dedicated to RAW photography, which focuses on being fast & lightweight & techn
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by heliographe 1y ago
Yes, making money on iOS is an uphill climb, many times more so if you’re not playing the TikTok ads and subscription model. I’ve been making iOS software independently for almost 2 years now ( https://heliographe.studio ) and am
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by heliographe 1y ago
It will capture the depth map and generate the semantic mattes (except in some edge cases) no matter the subject if you explicitly set the camera in Portrait mode, which is how I would guess the plant photo from the article was captured. My
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by heliographe 1y ago
> but apparently recent iPhones capture them for standard photos as well. Yes, they will capture them from the main photo mode if there’s a subject (human or pet) in the scene. > I made an app that used the depth maps and portrait eff
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by heliographe 1y ago
Yes, those depth maps + semantic maps are pretty fun to look at - and if you load them into a program like TouchDesigner (or Blender or Cinema 4D whatever else you want) you can make some cool little depth effects with your photos. Or you
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by heliographe 1y ago
I just shipped a camera app for iPhone dedicated to Bayer RAW capture (that's the true, unprocessed sensor output of your device - not Apple's ProRAW which is already demosaic'd and has noise reduction, etc). https:/&#x
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by heliographe 1y ago
I’ve been making photography software as an indie developer for a bit over a year now: https://heliographe.net A few released apps for now that are iOS/macOS, with some exciting more things in the pipeline. If you’re a phot
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by heliographe 2y ago
I was skeptical too - friends encouraged me to post my latest project there, a panoramic camera app I made entirely for my own satisfaction (I certainly used none of the “growth hacking” best practices like ads/tracking/upsell pop
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by heliographe 2y ago
Yes, it’s directly based on the trichromatic photographic process, which I learned about reading an article about Gorsky. And yeah, it’s super interesting how when a new recording technology is created, we seek to avoid its limitations; but
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by heliographe 2y ago
I'm making photography software: https://heliographe.net Right now my work is Apple platforms only (revenue through App Store), but I'm actively looking into ways to expand to other platforms. As a long time photograph
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by heliographe 2y ago
+1 for Acorn, and also check out Retrobatch by the same developer - it's a super powerful image processing environment - the way I'd describe it is like having a visual command line dedicated to image processing (but better becaus
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by heliographe 2y ago
It’s supported, but unfortunately no 3rd party APIs yet. It’s a bit surprising they wouldn’t ship them on launch to encourage adoption. I make photography/camera apps and would like to support JPEG XL natively (without having to rely o
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by heliographe 2y ago
Oh weird, there is a link in my bio! I wonder if HN isn’t displaying it because this account is a new account? Regardless, thanks for the kind words! (and for those wondering, the link is https://heliographe.net :)
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by heliographe 2y ago
I’m an indie app developer building photography apps because I love photography. I don’t harbor any particular resentment towards the App Store; in fact I am fine giving Apple 15% of my proceeds (I make way less than $1M a year) to handle c

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