Night mode in iOS 13 can certainly produce some really fascinating shots, like this one that I took above my mum’s house yesterday. It feels odd to be revealing the reality that is obscured by darkness by actually distorting that very reality through software.
@martinfeld I feel a corollary of ‘nobody hearing a tree falling‘ ... if you can’t see a tree does it exist?
Does lack of light causing a tree to be invisible mean that reality changes depending on the light available ... ergo a simple flash light can change reality?
Or is light simply a filter that extends what a human eye can detect much as a telescope / pair of binoculars?
@JohnPhilpin Yes, I think that what you’ve said with the filter works really well; it’s the thing that makes our perception of a certain stream/realm of reality possible. I suppose what I find interesting here—and I should have been more specific—is that looking back on this moment, your memory of the event or perception of what was real is altered. Technically that has always existed with any form of photography and even more so with modern developments ranging from HDR to Photoshop, however this is now live, algorithmically driven alteration of a scene that becomes the ‘real’ record of the moment. I love it but am also fascinated by the perceptual effect! 🙂
