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irratebass said:
What camera or app do you use? Your pics are always so vibrant and just pop
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Generally I use an iPhone 7 and make a few tweaks in the Preview app built into MacOS:
  1. Start with as good a photo as I can get - in focus, well-lit, etc. If I take one pic of a cigar and it doesn't look relatively sharp and contrasty fully zoomed in I take another.
  2. Dropbox transfers photos from my phone to my laptop.
  3. Open the image in Preview, crop, tweak exposure and contrast if necessary (it usually isn't - see #1), increase color saturation just a bit.
  4. Resize - generally to 20%, but it depends on how much I had to crop.
  5. Bump up the sharpness slider a bit.
  6. Save and upload to BOTL!

So really it's not the camera or app, it's technique.
 
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zyxwvutsr said:
Generally I use an iPhone 7 and make a few tweaks in the Preview app built into MacOS:
  1. Start with as good a photo as I can get - in focus, well-lit, etc. If I take one pic of a cigar and it doesn't look relatively sharp and contrasty fully zoomed in I take another.
  2. Dropbox transfers photos from my phone to my laptop.
  3. Open the image in Preview, crop, tweak exposure and contrast if necessary (it usually isn't - see #1), increase color saturation just a bit.
  4. Resize - generally to 20%, but it depends on how much I had to crop.
  5. Bump up the sharpness slider a bit.
  6. Save and upload to BOTL!

So really it's not the camera or app, it's technique.
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Sheesh that's a lot, but your pics are badass, so there's that.
 
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