{"id":1694,"date":"2025-09-13T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:37:12","slug":"ai-and-the-pixel-pro-10-photos-some-early-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"AI and the Pixel Pro 10 Photos &#8211; Some Early Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have started to explore the camera and photo editing capabilities of the Pixel 10 Pro, which I took delivery of a few days ago. I have been a long-time Apple fan, so this is a return to an ecosystem that I&#8217;ve not tried in (my Amazon purchase history reliably informs me) more than 12 years &#8211; but that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the whole I&#8217;ve been very impressed with the camera. However, taking a rather drab picture and then trying to breathe some life into it has proved an informative exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"813\" src=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250912_080925134.MP_.jpeg\" alt=\"Pentonville Road Facade\" class=\"wp-image-1696\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pentonville Road Facade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ignore the leaves in the top right, which are knocking my eye out even now. The auto-erase feature works quite well, although there is a bit of a UI car crash if you are trying to draw around something that abuts the side of the frame. Let&#8217;s ignore that for now and focus on a couple of other details. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first is some unusual artefacting on the edges of the window frame: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"597\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/window.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1697\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although there is what looks like the signs of compression, there is a pattern around a lot of these high contrast boundaries. It reminds me of some of the weirdness I used to see with HDR software: the reassembly of the bracketed exposures sometimes went awry, and edges had strange shadows and overlays. My working assumption is this is a burst of images that are then assembled into a single shot &#8211; and not entirely successfully in high contrast areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What really piqued my interest was what happened when I tried the auto-framing feature:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5966\" height=\"4491\" src=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250912_080925134.MP2_.jpg\" alt=\"Auto-framed wide exposure\" class=\"wp-image-1695\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Auto-framed wide exposure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though I didn&#8217;t select the widest lens, the camera took a picture with it at the same time. The framing is quite pleasing, from a basic geometric perspective. However, it has introduced a few unwanted elements into an already anaemic picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First is the lifeless building on the left; second is the tomb-stoning. Last, is the plain weird artefacts in the foliage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1243\" height=\"1297\" src=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/foliage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1698\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Foliage artefacts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having looked at the picture on a monitor, there are bands of distortion in the centre left and right of the image. I have no idea what&#8217;s going on here: there is clearly some sort of wrinkle in what, at least at fact value, appears to be a non-generative feature of the software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have started to explore the camera and photo editing capabilities of the Pixel 10 Pro, which I took delivery of a few days ago. I have been a long-time Apple fan, so this is a return to an ecosystem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/?p=1694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}