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Tips for Taking Better Photos With Your iPhone
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Hey Apple, you want to know how to shoot good?
Fix your lens (yeah...you remember purple glaze?)
Low light capability....taking picture during daytime don't cut it.
Stop bragging about "m8" and stop stating "innovation my a**" because it wasn't...not for long time.
f/1.7.....talk to samsung about this...you'll learn alot.
Fix your lens (yeah...you remember purple glaze?)
Low light capability....taking picture during daytime don't cut it.
Stop bragging about "m8" and stop stating "innovation my a**" because it wasn't...not for long time.
f/1.7.....talk to samsung about this...you'll learn alot.
This isn't anything from Apple, just tips for existing devices from MacRumors.
Taking photos with your iPhone would be a lot easier if Apple had kept the functionality that took the photo when you took your finger/thumb OFF the button (like the Camera+ app still does). It's much less likely to produce camera shake than jabbing the button to take the picture.
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I have a proper DSLR (Canon 70D) but at times my iPhone 5s takes better photos, especially if I don't have time to get the settings just right. But a proper camera is way more flexible and that is not gonna change in the near future, especially with the iPhone, wish Apple would include more manual control in the included software.
Making a movie in portrait should be a crime punishable with the death penalty.
Honestly, we need to get those genes out of the pool asap.
It's related to the Golden Section and the Fibonacci Sequence. Both can be found throughout nature, music, art and architecture.
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 etc.
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Photographer friends don't let friends use Digital Zoom
on old point and shoots, First thing I did for anyones camera's i'd setup is disable it.
the Android Camera (Stock) has a little graphic that stays over the viewfinder if you're recording in portraight mode indicating you should turn the camera on its side.
it doesn't stop the filming, but its at least something!
Photographer friends don't let friends use Digital Zoom
on old point and shoots, First thing I did for anyones camera's i'd setup is disable it.
the Android Camera (Stock) has a little graphic that stays over the viewfinder if you're recording in portraight mode indicating you should turn the camera on its side.
it doesn't stop the filming, but its at least something!
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Seems like a "tips and tricks" type of article, which is fairly consistent/standard with a tech site/blog.
Rule #1 in iPhone photography: clean your lens.
Since the phone is often in your grubby hand, maybe even when eating, it gets dirty. Sure, keeping the phone in your pocket provides some wiping action. But the first thing I do when taking a photo is to quickly clean the lens (eg, with my shirt). This will prevent horribly blurred photos -- like Tim Cook's Super Bowl pic.
Since the phone is often in your grubby hand, maybe even when eating, it gets dirty. Sure, keeping the phone in your pocket provides some wiping action. But the first thing I do when taking a photo is to quickly clean the lens (eg, with my shirt). This will prevent horribly blurred photos -- like Tim Cook's Super Bowl pic.
That's a big one. While there's definitely a place for vertical pictures, let's face it, not everything is low and wide, I've seen too many vertically-shot pictures where horizontal shots would have produced much better results, and when those vertical shots are then uploaded and posted posted here, there and everywhere and subsequently watched on our predominantly horizontal screens, they yield that super-annoying VVS syndrome.
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you'd be very surprised.
The blur in photo like that is a combination of factors. When you see motion, its directly related to the shutter speed. The faster the shutter speed, the less motion that will be detected.
But you run into problems with shutter speed, as it relates to the "holy trifecta" of photography. Thats Aperture, Shutter and ISO. these are the 3 things that work with eachother to determine the photo quality.
In a case where the camera itself is moving, and you want a stable, clear shot, you require increasing the shutter speed. Doing this however, decreases the time the light is allowed to hit the sensor. So, in trade off, you would haev to increase the amount of light coming in, via aperture. With Aperture lowered and more light allowed to come in, and shutter speed increased, you would then up the ISO to account for the rest of the loss of light.
This coould all be done very easily with any Mirrorless / DSLR, and even some manual mode point and shoots.
However, Due to the really small size of smartphone camera sensors, the fixed apertures, and general lack of custom controls of things like shutter speed, you almost have to entirely rely on "Auto" and image stabalization. And in the case of Tim Cook's photo, The Auto failed to adjust for movement, and there is no OIS in on the standard sized iPhone.
Not that I expect him to be carrying a DSLR to a ball game.
He took a pciture with the best camera he had on him, and unfortunately for the situation, it wasn't enough
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Going to come across rude, and I'm sorry
But if you are consistently getting better photos from any smartphone camera than a 70D from Canon, you've got either 2 problems:
you've got a horribly mangled or busted ass lens on your DSLR
Or you haven't the clue how to properly use the camera.
Perhaps I should have phrased what I was trying to convey a little differently/better: even a professional with a professional camera could end up with a similar photo under similar circumstances of just taking a quick shot while running and celebrating.
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Great tips for very amateur photographers like me. My single tip is - make sure your lens is clean. Because of the protruding lens of the 6 mine seems to be a magnet for finger prints, dust, dirt, etc. Unless I use lens cleaner on mine before every picture I take with my 6 Plus they end up looking like something from a JJ Abrams movie.
It's a nightime shot of subjects that can be reasonably expected to move. You can't take a shot like that unless you can confidently dial in a high ISO-- 1600, 3200, 6400. The iPhone can't do that without ending up like mud.
On a small sensor like the iphone's, dialing down the aperture doens't do a a lot besides reducing the light that falls on the sensor. It's nowhere near as creatively inspiring as slapping a cheap nifty fifty on a dlsr and seeing the very clear difference between f/16 (deep focus) and f1.8 (shallow focus with a background blur, softness and if you insist, Bokeh),
Yes, the iPhone's auto exposure mode screwed up the shot, but quite frankly, there isn't a whole lot it could have done. The light dictated a grainy, slow exposure.