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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by johnisgood on Thursday December 30, 2021 @06:56PM (#29743106)
I am not sure what you are trying to say here. They definitely did not ask for their face to be replaced by leaves either. Is it either unmodified, or leaves? Is not there a middle ground?
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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by alkonaut on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:14PM (#29743263)
They asked for their phone to make a best effort to stack many pictures into one, cleverly aligning objects as well as possible.

And the camera failed. The alternatives would have been an extremely dark picture of a person without a leaf-face, or an extremely blurry picture of a person without a leaf-face.

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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by johnisgood on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:19PM (#29743302)
> The alternatives would have been an extremely dark picture of a person without a leaf-face, or an extremely blurry picture of a person without a leaf-face.

If that truly is the case, then.. woah. It definitely failed.

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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by KarlKemp on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:09PM (#29743231)
This is the "smart HDR" option on an iPhone, described as "In difficult lighting, the best parts of multiple exposures are combined into a single image".

So there is the middle ground of disabling this. Or, alternatively, just not caring about such an error once in a million shots.

(as an aside, I'm pretty sure the structure of the leaves is responsible for this error, as it's an area with usually many strong edges in a somewhat repetitive pattern. That invites misalignments.

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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by johnisgood on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:14PM (#29743271)
Yeah. If I tap "Selfie" on my stock Android 11, I can see my face being smoothed out. I can tell that it is modified. If I have an issue with it, I can disable it. :)
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