Google Pixel turns ten this October. If you trust its photographs, you already trust what software can do with an image.
On 4 October 2016, Google unveiled the first Pixel phone. It helped change expectations of what a phone camera could achieve through computational photography.
HDR+ combined multiple captured frames to retain highlights and reduce noise. Later came portrait mode, using machine learning to identify the person and soften the background, and Night Sight, taking low-light photography further.
A photograph could look remarkably natural while involving processing most people never saw.
That’s an interesting starting point for a conversation we hear increasingly often:
“I don’t want an AI image. I want a real photograph.”
We understand. You want to recognise yourself. Natural skin. Believable light. Your own expression.
But software is already part of the photographs you trust.
A digital camera records light on a sensor. Software turns those measurements into colour, contrast and detail. A phone can combine several exposures into a single picture and use AI to help decide how parts of it are treated.
The person is real. The light was captured. The finished photograph is the result of several processes.
At Headshot London, Augmented Imagery builds on that relationship between photography and software, alongside the established craft of retouching and compositing.
We take an original photograph and work on it.
Your expression, character and presence give us the foundation. We can develop the surroundings, extend the composition, incorporate other photographs or create a setting around your brief.
That goes further than the processing inside a phone. A newly created environment is a deliberate addition. Using AI enabled tools doesn’t mean the person in the portrait has to be invented.
Nearly 20 years of corporate photography guides those decisions. Light, perspective, scale and skin texture all need to work together. The result needs to feel like you.
A carefully taken phone photograph can give us a useful starting point. Our upload guide explains the requirements, because sharp focus, good light and an original full-resolution file still matter.
Perhaps your next portrait is for a keynote invitation. A press interview. A business whose ambitions have outgrown its surroundings.
Ten years after Pixel helped show what software could bring to a photograph, we’re exploring where that photograph can take you.
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