To me, the "hotdog skin complexion" aspect is a dead giveaway for when a photo was taken on an iPhone. It's so over the top and unrefined that I wonder how not only Apple let it happen, but seemingly entertain it/make it worse over generations of devices? Certainly such photos won't "age well"? And it's not like it has to be this way because of technological limitations, take Pixel photos, for instance, they get their colors much more balanced and faithful.

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silisili 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Same with Pixel, which actually did it years before I'd presume.

I'm white as ghost. Pixels are determined to make me looked tan for absolutely no reason. I mean, maybe I look 'better', arguably, but it's not me. Is that what people want?

I bought the kid some newfangled Polaroid type thing, and she uses that way more than phones anymore for photos. Maybe the kids will be ok.

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dialup_sounds 6 days ago | parent [-]

Google made an publicized effort to better represent darker skin tones, which may explain the tan. It probably thinks you're overexposed and desaturated instead of pale.

https://store.google.com/intl/en/ideas/real-tone/

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nmeofthestate 6 days ago | parent [-]

"What we need is a great big melting pot

Big enough to take the world and all it's got

Keep it stirring for a hundred years or more

And turn out hot-dog-coloured people by the score"

	▲	trallnag 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's basically what the USA are. Although Brazil is probably a better example.

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globular-toast 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I would bet that they are user testing the processing algorithms and that people actually prefer the slightly more saturated picture.

It's similar to the loudness war in music. Slightly louder/more saturated looks subjectively better when compared side by side. Apply this slight increase over and over again and you get something that no longer reflects reality.

This is complicated with pictures of people because people want them to look "good", not accurate.