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iPhone SE (2016) Pictures taken with the iPhone SE 2020
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dew on the wild flowers and another turtle
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I’ve recently bought an iPhone se 2020 and have noticed that when taking pictures outdoors the photos sometimes appear different in regards to the colour temperature of the overall image. I took a bunch of photos in a row today and some are warmer than others. I’m not sure why they differ so much despite being taken all within seconds of each other. I’ve attached some examples to this post. I’m just not sure if this is common or not and if there’s anything I can do about it? Thanks for your help.
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This is usually due to metering inconsistencies. An iPhone usually gets its white balance information from a square directly in the centre of the camera app, moving by a mm in any direction can cause the reading to be taken from a slightly different area and in your case with the sky and the brownish coloured grass these are completely different colours for the phone to take into account.
The positioning of the larger brown dog may also have a part in the way the software balances the colour for the image as it seems to be more central and side on in the warmer picture.
If you touch an area on the screen to focus where you need it the metering is then taken from that area, which would hopefully make the shots more consistent.
Ok that clears things up a lot, thanks so much for your help.
A flowering plant in Spokane, WA's Manito Park:
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A custom cheesecake we had Lilac City Bakery make for a special occasion (I love pizza, so...):
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A custom cheesecake we had Lilac City Bakery make for a special occasion (I love pizza, so...):
The bee is a great shot. You are very gifted with the camera.
Agreed. I must be doing something wrong, as I can never get good close-up shots with any phone.
Thank you @BasicGreatGuy and @ssledoux. All I did was get as close as I could to some bees without annoying them and getting stung and snap away! I took a load of shots and then later when home I kept the best ones and deleted the rest. I cropped it a little and did a bit of editing with it in Snapseed. There are several people I really envy in the Photo of the Day threads. Some of the photos they produce are simply stunning. I strive to reach their standards.
Similar to a photo I uploaded on here several weeks ago, but this time I took two and changed the focus.
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Okay, how do you keep your phone from taking Lives? How do you turn it off?
Yeah I’m definitely camera challenged.
Yeah I’m definitely camera challenged.
Same. That is the only great weakness I can find with it so far. Everyone seems to make their font on instructions super tiny, so I take a pic and zoom it. It is fine with the 11PM, but the SE2020 has issues focusing close up.
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I know in the camera app, you can tap the live circles icon to toggle it for the current photo. I believe you can set the default in camera settings but would have to double check later.
I did figure it out. You shut off live, and then there’s ”Preserve settings” where you can have the camera remember your last used settings. I can’t believe I’ve been dealing with the lives all this time and that’s all I had to do. ?
And some more! First two were shot on the native camera app - no editing. Last one was taken using ProCamera's HDR setting.
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Great pics!
So on the first one, did you shoot then adjust it to make it look like a portrait? I’m so lost with what I can do with this camera. I just aim, click, and hope for the best. ;-p
Nope. I took it with the normal 'Photo' setting but I pointed the yellow square on the can to set that as the main focus object. I didn't need to edit it at all afterwards. When I take my photos I often take several. For every good one I take there are several poor ones as well!
Wow - see I had no clue that was a thing, but I just did it with my airpods that are sitting on top of a magazine. It didn’t really have that effect, but probably just because they were right on top of one another. I’m definitely gonna try that though. It almost makes your photo looks like portrait mode.
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