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iPhone 11 Pro Night Mode is the real deal - post your photos here [MERGED]
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Need to experiment more but lots of lens flair off the led fixtures.
Rack of Bicycles outside of my work site taken in Night Mode. Pro Max.
Night mode with my iPhone 11 Pro Max. Im really impressed
I just took this in response to a thread requesting night sky photos. With a tripod, you can get up to 30s exposure. I did some small edits in the stock photo app right there and POW! I can’t believe I took this with a smart phone! iPhone 11.
saw a thread asking about night photography shots, so I ran outside and set my iphone 11 on a stand, selected 28s exposure and took this! I did do some editing in the stock photo app but I still Can’t believe it. My last phone would have a seizure.
Interesting tip: I didn’t use it for this shot but - I have an Apple Watch. Its easier to set the camera up pointing at a bright star for a 28s exposure (or more?) and use the shutter app on the Apple Watch tap on and focus on the bright star to get the right focus. Otherwise about half my photos were too blurry.
I thought the same thing. No. You do need some light to get a picture to turn out unless you have it on a tripod and do a longer exposure. Find some more diffuse light and try to hold itvery still and up the exposure time to 5 seconds or even ten if you hold it very still.
then, set it up somewhere and take a shot with 28s exposure. Mind blowing. But if you shake or have absolutely no light and only 3 secondexposure...itwill look dull or blurry
Night mode with my iPhone 11 Pro Max Window shot...
The iPhone 11 can do Night Mode as well! just took these in my messy closet. 🤣
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Night mode inside a beer bottle (4” long exposure...)
I got some good examples recently. My living room is dark in the evenings as it faces away from the sun. I left the lights off and tried a picture with flash and night mode. Incredible results!
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Nice... so far I’ve seen iso 6400 on my 11 Pro Max. I didn’t think it would go that high. It’s definitely beyond the native ISO. It was very noisy
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Night mode doesn’t really work if it is completely dark. I tried the same thing in my bedroom. In low light it took an incredible photo. In darkness the photo I got showed darkness.
yeah it’s no different than setting a digital camera (Nikon,Sony, etc) on a tripod in a dark room and taking a long exposure at high iso, you’ll still get lousy results.
Prince’s Paisley Park. I had to shoot from across a busy highway so not as good of a shot as I would have liked. But it was completely dark out.
I'm noticing the shots are better when you keep your hands as steady as possible and when you increase the night mode second counter... which come to think of it is kind of obvious.
The 'bad' shots I've seen with Night Mode are when people are trying to make up for light that wasn't there in the first place (i.e, outdoors at night under sparse moonlight). The better shots are when people are trying to enhance a scene that's already relatively well lit for bare eyes (indoors with dim mood lighting, pictures of buildings at night, etc.).
The 'bad' shots I've seen with Night Mode are when people are trying to make up for light that wasn't there in the first place (i.e, outdoors at night under sparse moonlight). The better shots are when people are trying to enhance a scene that's already relatively well lit for bare eyes (indoors with dim mood lighting, pictures of buildings at night, etc.).
I hope people realize that some shots actually look better *without* Night Mode. It's likely a personal preference but if you're taking a picture of a dimly lit, gloomy looking street at night, preserve that gloominess! I feel like if everyone exclusively uses Night Mode at night I'd get sick of it after a while.
Wow! You must be in a relatively rural area? I’ve never seen that many stars in the sky around here!
This really is quite remarkable. I d done a few more night shots experimenting with exposures up to 15 secs on a tripod, and pleasantly surprised how theyve come out. Just wish I was in a darker, less light polluted area.