Apollo: Immersive illumination

Enough said really. I do wish I could take everything in Portrait mode without giving up the Live+HDR that I’m used to, and the RAW photos I take under some circumstances (mostly when using external attached lenses). Unfortunately iPhone can’t handle that much photo taking. Apollo is absolutely amazing. I got it because I saw it featured in the App Store and I thought it was neat and clever, and then one night a couple weeks later I actually started using it, just briefly with a Portrait photo I had taken a while back. Then I discovered it was absolutely Magical. Like, from my point of view as a developer, it’s amazing how well it works and what it does. I honestly didn’t realize iPhone captured that much data with the Portrait mode photos. So it makes iPhone seem more amazing too. From my point of view as an amateur photographer, I sincerely wish I could do Portrait mode photos for everything. I’d go so far as to say that this comes very close to making actual studio lighting setups obsolete. It is (in my opinion) that good. Of all the photography and image editing apps I’ve paid for, this is the most worth the money I spent on it. Just hope now that Apple can bump up iPhone’s processor to handle Portrait+HDR+Live Photos all at once. (Be nice if we could throw in RAW photos too, but I’m less concerned about that at this point.) I just literally feel like I need to take a Portrait photo and a Live Photo anytime I’m photographing something within Portrait range.

Thought this app would be kinda cool concept is good but it won’t access any photos so it’s absolutely useless complete waste of money I was asked to edit my review of this app so here it is this is a great concept but it can’t access any of my portrait mode photos that it has already filtered it wasn’t that it wouldn’t access my regular photos that I left a bad review I knew it would do that before hand I checked the app out first and read as much about it as I could so I already knew it would filter and only use portrait mode photos but every time I chose one to edit it says it can’t access I checked the setting to make sure it wasn’t on my end as well and I did give permission to the app to access my photos and it still can’t access my portrait mode photos that it displays when you open the app I can only access the sample photos provided with the app so once again until this problem is resolved this app is useless to me and was a waste of money and the issues are not do to user error

For the reviewers who aren't able to edit their existing portrait photos, I had the same issue. I found that any portrait photos I capture after I've downloaded the app work. It doesn't seem to recognize older portrait photos but works really well for new ones. I actually like how the Help Tips are defaulted to on until I get used to the functions. After a few times through it was easy to turn Help off. For the developer, it might be helpful if you can explain how to turn Help off right in the app. Like the info you have when the question mark it tapped.