r/iPhoneography 12h ago

Why photos are grey ? iPhone 17 base

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u/eatingthesandhere91 11h ago

Too much light pollution, in combination with computational photography.

If you have the regular 17, you should have a setting to adjust photographic styles.

u/_zurik_ 7h ago

Light pollution, long exposure capturing. With some edit you can revive the color and details and bring it almost close to real world ones.

u/Captain231705 12h ago

Uncalibrated. This is why calibration shots and grey cards exist, look them up. Normally I’d suggest editing this in post, but the base models don’t do RAW, so you’ll lose quality (but can absolutely recover the color).

u/cineglitch 12h ago

Increase the contrast

u/aarongruber510 6h ago

Just use your internal editing in the iphone gallery app to edit it. More contrast, push down the blacks, increase lights and exposure, boost saturation. Just play with it.

u/Mark_TE 2h ago

Ever heard of light pollution?

u/ImStuckInNameFactory 5h ago

Probably auto exposure, it is designed to adjust exposure until the average brightness of the photo is "middle grey" / "18% grey"

u/Tapelessbus2122 5h ago

over exposure and light pollution

u/GrillingEnjoyer 1h ago

You will never get good photos like that in a city.

u/elvinLA 24m ago

Because the sky you're taking a picture of is gray.

u/BarnacleMcBarndoor 12h ago

You trying to do long exposure shots of the sky?

u/ASUR_444 1h ago

No, just night mode

u/BarnacleMcBarndoor 1h ago

Ah, yea that’s just from it picking up city/town lights because of the longer exposure and probably a majority of the shots it’s taking before it compiles it together have that same light pollution.