The Unstoppable Rise of Computational Photography

By Jason Row

Summarized text:

In this article, the computational photography defined as when the camera uses
processing power to overcome the limitation of its hardware. Most commonly, that
hardware is either the sensor or the lens (Row, 2019). Nowadays, the use of computers
with processors, an essential part of modern photography, in to the cameras is rampant
and there is one genre driving the computational photography – the smartphones.
Smartphones are improving as times goes by when it comes on how it produces photos.
The race of companies among Apple, Huawei, Samsung, or Google to achieve
professional photographic tool took worldwide market into storms. Also, the future of
computational photography where nowadays throwing DSLR cameras replacing it into
mirrorless camera because of the potential use of computers into it.

That’s why, the effect of the application of computer in the photography or specifically in
our cameras creates much power into producing images. In this, we press the shutter
the camera will take multiple images virtually simultaneously, then process images in
real into a single shot. Giving some drastic revolutionary images with different functions
or simple aid for photography especially on smartphones. With the use of computational
photography, better example of this that used on smartphones is the High Dynamic
Range or HDR. HDR is the simplest form of this and has been around for a while. Other
techniques produced are bokeh, night modes, high key filters, etc. which gives an
intensive quality of images processed with a smartphone.

Link: https://www.lightstalking.com/computational-photography/
REFLECTIVE SYNTHESIS ESSAY

1. What are the factors that affected you in choosing your content in the
first DF?
2. What is the pattern of development you used in your summarized text
and what were the factors that affected you in choosing the pattern?
3. It is possible to combine one pattern of development to another
pattern/s of development? What do you think is the best
combination?

ANSWERS:

1. I chose the topic as it is timely and most of us can relate. We are in the era where
smartphones can be an effective substitute for a professional camera. The
evolving technology is something a reader can easily read and be interested in.

2. I used the Cause and Effect Pattern as it will help me explain the topic broadly.
Using this pattern will be more effective for the reader to get the gist of the topic
without using that much technical words; allowing them to understand it without
hassle.

3. Yes, it can be possible. Two patterns that we can best combine are Recount of
Sequence and Description. Those two can help support a narrative as with
Description, a Recount of Sequence can be more understandable yet still concise
in a way.
Interview:

1. What have you learned about my output?

Well obviously I’ve learned about computational photography which nowadays are
smartphones have today. That this computational photography is the one comprising
about the images we produced when we take photos using our smartphones. And it
really enhanced our photos especially when you’re a mobile photography enthusiast.
This is also a nice topic because as an aspiring photographer with that summarized text,
I’ve learned so much already about computational photography. I understood it already
how it works on smartphones.

2. What are the key idea of my output?

I think the key idea of the output is about the computational photography and how it
affects the photography using smartphones. Like as stated on the text example High
Dynamic range photography, bokeh effects night modes, etc. These are examples of
functions that used computational photography which creates intensive quality of
images.

3. What do you think its objectives?

I think the objective of the summarized text made by my cousin is that it tackles about
the cause of a drastic revolutionary images made by computational photography on our
smartphones. And obviously its objective is to explain to the readers about the effects of
it to the photos produces by a smartphone.

4. What are your suggestions to improve my work?

I think your work is great. It has a lot of information of it about the topic. The
construction and grammar of the sentences is good. But I think it should be more
concise. Like, there are some parts that are unnecessary but it’s still great. That’s only
thing I can say into your summarized text.
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isipan.

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kabagutan.

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care routine, at ang paborito kong gawin bago matulog, ang magbasa ng aking
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Tuwing gabi madami akong naiisip at laking pasasalamat ko sa Diyos na kami’y ligtas sa
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mga taong kailangan ng tulong. Bukas sasabihin ko kay Mama na magbigay kami ng
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