Yes, that makes sense to me. Black and white film is a very flexible medium - you can make very different prints from the same negative, it has lots of latitude to play with the contrast, dodge/burn, etc, so there’s not…
You absolutely can: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1156653713048409... (taken with BayerCam.app, not Halide, but Halide can capture the same raw Bayer data) It's not an amazing photo by any means. But it is…
I always found this UI pattern a bit odd, because there just aren't that many situations where you want to compare the left side of image A and the right side of image B. I see it a lot in photography, to show…
Done, cheers for the heads up.
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1158908195095453...
Here is the same post on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1158908195095453... I publish all my posts on Threads/X/Bluesky/Mastodon because I have to meet my customers where they are, but Mastodon is…
Oh hi everyone! So funny to see how my quippy little tweet blew up the last few days on all the platforms (much more than when I share actual things I make, to my great dismay - if you're an artist/photographer, check…
Working on developing a suite of apps around photography, from cameras to editors and utilities. https://heliographe.studio The goal is lightweight, composable tools with clean interfaces that respect user agency and…
If you’ve gone all the way to shooting medium format and learning how to develop film, I can’t help but encourage you to get into printing black and white as well. (color is IMO less interesting - more finicky, less…
Cheers! Got an update coming out soon for that one, it's actually the one that makes the least money haha. I think it's way too nerdy and weird to ever hope to reach a broad audience even amongst photographers, unlike…
> I'm quite aware that doing things my way isn't commercially viable Depends what you mean by “commercially viable”. I’ve been making high quality products as an independent software developer in the photography space…
Yes! As a software developer in the photography space, we are deeply in need of projects like this. The photography world is mired in proprietary software/ formats, and locked down hardware; and while it has always been…
Yes, that matches my observations. I develop photography software and in early versions of iOS 18, sometimes saving a large image to the camera roll would fail because the daemon in charge of carrying out the photo…
Working on indie photography software (iOS/macOS for the time being): https://heliographe.studio My most recent release is a camera app dedicated to RAW photography, which focuses on being fast & lightweight &…
Yes, making money on iOS is an uphill climb, many times more so if you’re not playing the TikTok ads and subscription model. I’ve been making iOS software independently for almost 2 years now…
It will capture the depth map and generate the semantic mattes (except in some edge cases) no matter the subject if you explicitly set the camera in Portrait mode, which is how I would guess the plant photo from the…
> but apparently recent iPhones capture them for standard photos as well. Yes, they will capture them from the main photo mode if there’s a subject (human or pet) in the scene. > I made an app that used the depth maps…
Yes, those depth maps + semantic maps are pretty fun to look at - and if you load them into a program like TouchDesigner (or Blender or Cinema 4D whatever else you want) you can make some cool little depth effects with…
I just shipped a camera app for iPhone dedicated to Bayer RAW capture (that's the true, unprocessed sensor output of your device - not Apple's ProRAW which is already demosaic'd and has noise reduction, etc).…
I’ve been making photography software as an indie developer for a bit over a year now: https://heliographe.net A few released apps for now that are iOS/macOS, with some exciting more things in the pipeline. If you’re a…
I was skeptical too - friends encouraged me to post my latest project there, a panoramic camera app I made entirely for my own satisfaction (I certainly used none of the “growth hacking” best practices like…
I'm making photography software: https://heliographe.net Right now my work is Apple platforms only (revenue through App Store), but I'm actively looking into ways to expand to other platforms. As a long time…
+1 for Acorn, and also check out Retrobatch by the same developer - it's a super powerful image processing environment - the way I'd describe it is like having a visual command line dedicated to image processing (but…
It’s supported, but unfortunately no 3rd party APIs yet. It’s a bit surprising they wouldn’t ship them on launch to encourage adoption. I make photography/camera apps and would like to support JPEG XL natively (without…
Oh weird, there is a link in my bio! I wonder if HN isn’t displaying it because this account is a new account? Regardless, thanks for the kind words! (and for those wondering, the link is https://heliographe.net :)
Yes, that makes sense to me. Black and white film is a very flexible medium - you can make very different prints from the same negative, it has lots of latitude to play with the contrast, dodge/burn, etc, so there’s not…
You absolutely can: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1156653713048409... (taken with BayerCam.app, not Halide, but Halide can capture the same raw Bayer data) It's not an amazing photo by any means. But it is…
I always found this UI pattern a bit odd, because there just aren't that many situations where you want to compare the left side of image A and the right side of image B. I see it a lot in photography, to show…
Done, cheers for the heads up.
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1158908195095453...
Here is the same post on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1158908195095453... I publish all my posts on Threads/X/Bluesky/Mastodon because I have to meet my customers where they are, but Mastodon is…
Oh hi everyone! So funny to see how my quippy little tweet blew up the last few days on all the platforms (much more than when I share actual things I make, to my great dismay - if you're an artist/photographer, check…
Working on developing a suite of apps around photography, from cameras to editors and utilities. https://heliographe.studio The goal is lightweight, composable tools with clean interfaces that respect user agency and…
If you’ve gone all the way to shooting medium format and learning how to develop film, I can’t help but encourage you to get into printing black and white as well. (color is IMO less interesting - more finicky, less…
Cheers! Got an update coming out soon for that one, it's actually the one that makes the least money haha. I think it's way too nerdy and weird to ever hope to reach a broad audience even amongst photographers, unlike…
> I'm quite aware that doing things my way isn't commercially viable Depends what you mean by “commercially viable”. I’ve been making high quality products as an independent software developer in the photography space…
Yes! As a software developer in the photography space, we are deeply in need of projects like this. The photography world is mired in proprietary software/ formats, and locked down hardware; and while it has always been…
Yes, that matches my observations. I develop photography software and in early versions of iOS 18, sometimes saving a large image to the camera roll would fail because the daemon in charge of carrying out the photo…
Working on indie photography software (iOS/macOS for the time being): https://heliographe.studio My most recent release is a camera app dedicated to RAW photography, which focuses on being fast & lightweight &…
Yes, making money on iOS is an uphill climb, many times more so if you’re not playing the TikTok ads and subscription model. I’ve been making iOS software independently for almost 2 years now…
It will capture the depth map and generate the semantic mattes (except in some edge cases) no matter the subject if you explicitly set the camera in Portrait mode, which is how I would guess the plant photo from the…
> but apparently recent iPhones capture them for standard photos as well. Yes, they will capture them from the main photo mode if there’s a subject (human or pet) in the scene. > I made an app that used the depth maps…
Yes, those depth maps + semantic maps are pretty fun to look at - and if you load them into a program like TouchDesigner (or Blender or Cinema 4D whatever else you want) you can make some cool little depth effects with…
I just shipped a camera app for iPhone dedicated to Bayer RAW capture (that's the true, unprocessed sensor output of your device - not Apple's ProRAW which is already demosaic'd and has noise reduction, etc).…
I’ve been making photography software as an indie developer for a bit over a year now: https://heliographe.net A few released apps for now that are iOS/macOS, with some exciting more things in the pipeline. If you’re a…
I was skeptical too - friends encouraged me to post my latest project there, a panoramic camera app I made entirely for my own satisfaction (I certainly used none of the “growth hacking” best practices like…
I'm making photography software: https://heliographe.net Right now my work is Apple platforms only (revenue through App Store), but I'm actively looking into ways to expand to other platforms. As a long time…
+1 for Acorn, and also check out Retrobatch by the same developer - it's a super powerful image processing environment - the way I'd describe it is like having a visual command line dedicated to image processing (but…
It’s supported, but unfortunately no 3rd party APIs yet. It’s a bit surprising they wouldn’t ship them on launch to encourage adoption. I make photography/camera apps and would like to support JPEG XL natively (without…
Oh weird, there is a link in my bio! I wonder if HN isn’t displaying it because this account is a new account? Regardless, thanks for the kind words! (and for those wondering, the link is https://heliographe.net :)