Starting in 2021, Google’s new Pixel smartphones have shipped with under-the-hood “Real Tone” camera modifications the company claimswill help them take better, more satisfying pictures of subjects of color.Meanwhile, more sophisticated smartphone cameras can pull off even more clever tricks, like capturing multiple exposures of the same scene and cobbling together the best bits of each.“Through that work, we’ve tuned exposure and brightness to better represent darker skin tones in lowlight situations.” Beyond that, Google also says its Pixel phones have also been tuned to better detect faces of people with darker skin, and to adjust an image’s white balance to more accurately render their skin.Our take: In the first set of photos, the Samsung phone let the tree’s yellow light overpower Sturgis and Nell’s natural skin tone, but the Pixel and the iPhone were pretty close.The Pixel photo most accurately depicted what I saw with my eyes, but the iPhone retained some of the warmth of their skin tones even while brightening their faces."