
Long exposure shots are also employed to take creative Light Painting photos: photos where the light source moves during a long exposure shot to emulate a "drawing" effect with the light.

For the Google Pixel 4 and the Google Pixel 4 XL, Google Camera enables features like Astrophotography mode: a dedicated photo mode that takes very long exposure shots and employs Google's new Night Sight sky segmentation and optimization algorithms to allow the smartphone to capture decent photos of the starry sky, a feat that has otherwise remained very difficult to achieve for other OEMs and their flagships. While the "Go" variant initially didn't include most of the cool features you'd find in the full-blown app, Google has been working on bringing support for some of those novel features over the last few years.Google Camera has practically been the highlight feature of the Google Pixel lineup, and often the saving grace for devices that otherwise would have been mediocre experiences. Google even released a trimmed-down version of the Pixel's Google Camera app, called Google Camera Go, which can be sideloaded on various devices without additional modding. With the appropriately ported Google Camera app (often referred to as simply GCam by the community), you can use Google's superior HDR+ optimization and its Portrait Mode on virtually any smartphone that supports the Camera2API. That's the exact reason why Google Camera ports are so highly requested for non-Google devices. Google Camera and its post-processing algorithms undoubtedly changed the game in terms of what we expect from smartphone cameras, elevating the Google Pixel lineup to some of the best Android phones for photography on the market for several years.


