Originally Posted by
ameerat42
Hmm...! DULLsville, alright, and I don't mean the Balgowlah shopping centre.
Your camera image shows a tonal flatness (your misitiness) and low saturation.
The processed version is only a minor improvement, and I don't mean that you
lack processing skills. I think you've got some challenging output from that
phone cam.
I take it then that these are out-of-phone jpegs, and...
...
I've looked up the picture-taking settings for the phone... - there aren't many.
Two things about Open Camera:
- it can't give you what your phone does not have;
- and anyway within this app you should select Settings-Camera API-Camera2 API
(the alternative is "original camera API", but that's used by the native camera app).
In whichever app you can access it, find Scene Modes and try a few that are NOT
"Normal" or "Standard".
Going back to one of your original questions about gamma settings, look for a Manual
mode setting. In the Open Camera app, press the square icon that contains the -/+
symbols. I don't know how in the native app.
And referring to one of Tannin's qs: the Exif in the posted photos DOES show sRGB
and Auto WB.
Finally, I've tried Irfanview to simulate your processing, and also Photoshop, and even
another freebie called Faststone Image Viewer. - A challenging image in all three.