Photography, Travel
Hawaiian Hibiscus and the New iPhone 14 Pro Max
Testing out my new iPhone 14 Pro Max on one of my favorite flowers
While the iPhone will never shoot quite as good of a photo as my Nikon Z9 or my Nikon Z7II, each generation of phones gets closer and closer. I just upgraded to the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which has been getting rave reviews. And I have done some testing out of its camera on recent trips to Sedona, Arizona and, last week, in Maui.
While the hibiscus is not a native Hawaiian plant, they are ubiquitous in local gardens and resorts. They float softly in the gentle breezes, their paper-skin petals fluttering. And their stamen explode from a long stem into a curling mass of pollen-studded antennae tipped with fuzzy red balls.
It’s that long stem that makes the hibiscus a bit hard to photograph because the flower does not sit “all on one plane.” With a DSLR, you can control the depth of field. And you actually can do that on an iPhone too, but I doubt that very many people (including me) actually do. It’s meant to be more of a “point-and-shoot,” which means that the phone picks the depth of field (the f-stop).
So, I was impressed that the phone was able to capture the detail from the petals to the tip of the stamen in the next…
