Processing iPhone ProRaw in Lightroom query

[JohnNewman]

I'm taking a lot more images on my iPhone now and try to get the best results from the tiny sensor by often shooting ProRaw. Sometimes the embedded jpeg is all I need (so I extract it) but on other occasions it's useful to have the DNG file which I know isn't a pure Raw file but has Apple's computational wizardry applied.

However, I recently had some correspondence with a chap whose results from his iPhone 15 Pro I hugely admire. One of his comments was "Adobe Camera Raw has a nice profile called ‘Apple ProRaw’ when you can select an amount for all the clever processing the iPhone does. So you really can make the images just how you like as everyone has a different threshold for what they thinks looks natural."

So my query is what does dialling down the profile actually do? I believe (but don't know for sure) that it wouldn't affect the Deep Fusion applied by merging multiple exposures but might affect (excessive?) noise reduction and/or (again possibly excessive?) sharpening.

I don't have any version of Lightroom at the moment but am considering getting it. But I'd welcome any comments or thoughts please.

I'll duplicate the post in the retouching forum in case this isn't the best place to ask this question.

Many thanks for any input,

John

 

[DM-CO]

I'm taking a lot more images on my iPhone now and try to get the best results from the tiny sensor by often shooting ProRaw. Sometimes the embedded jpeg is all I need (so I extract it) but on other occasions it's useful to have the DNG file which I know isn't a pure Raw file but has Apple's computational wizardry applied.

However, I recently had some correspondence with a chap whose results from his iPhone 15 Pro I hugely admire. One of his comments was "Adobe Camera Raw has a nice profile called ‘Apple ProRaw’ when you can select an amount for all the clever processing the iPhone does. So you really can make the images just how you like as everyone has a different threshold for what they thinks looks natural."

So my query is what does dialling down the profile actually do? I believe (but don't know for sure) that it wouldn't affect the Deep Fusion applied by merging multiple exposures but might affect (excessive?) noise reduction and/or (again possibly excessive?) sharpening.

I don't have any version of Lightroom at the moment but am considering getting it. But I'd welcome any comments or thoughts please.

I'll duplicate the post in the retouching forum in case this isn't the best place to ask this question.

Many thanks for any input,

John

I have not found that the slider for Apple ProRAW in LR does much except change the “brightness” of the image. I do use ProRaw extensively but I don’t bother with the slider.

others may have a much deeper understanding that I do and I will defer to them.

 

[JohnNewman]

Thanks, that’s helpful. Maybe easiest to take a 7 day trial of one of the versions of Lightroom.

Regards,

John