The bright and saturated LCD screen of my new phone is very misleading. Photos appeared to look good often turn out to be disappointing when viewed on a laptop (the opposite is also true for my DSLR, where photos look so so can be much better when viewed on a bigger screen). Slowly I learn to adapt my eyes, but it is still a lot of hit-and-miss.
The unexpected effect of having an overly saturated display is I start to pay more attention to colors. I go back to basics, to compose in one color, two (complimentary) colors, and a jumble of colors. Photos taken this way help me to appreciate paintings. When I noticed the mixed colors of a Japanese maple tree made a photo look like an Abstract Expressionism painting, I thought, "this is so cool"!
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