Friday, 16 November 2012
Taking Better Pictures with your iPhone
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For many people the iPhone has replaced their point-n-shoot camera as their primary camera, if you fall into this group, do you know how to get the most out of your iPhone’s camera? Here are some tips that will help you start taking better pictures with your iPhone right now.
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It’s fun
It’s fast
It’s convenient (since I already have it with me)
Over the few years I’ve had an iPhone, I’ve applied a lot of the tips and tricks I’ve picked up using “regular” cameras to shooting with the iPhone. I’ve also figured out a few things (quirks, tips, etc) that are specific to the iPhone itself. In this how to I’m going to pass on my favorite, simple tips that will help you take better pictures with your iPhone right now. In fact, I recorded a short video that shows you all these tricks in action, take a gander:
To recap my favorite tips are:
Turn the flash from Auto to Off. If your picture is too dark, then try using the flash, just remember it might wash out your subject, cause red-eye, and glare.
Turn on the grid. Just lining your subject up using the rule of thirds will make a huge difference in how your photos turn out.
Tap to set the focus and exposure. Get what you want in focus, in focus. Apps like Camera+ let you set the exposure and focus separately, the default camera app doesn’t.
Tap and hold to set the exposure to enable the focus/exposure lock.
Turn on HDR from options. Remember not all settings are worth HDR and it will take a little longer to process in HDR mode.
Avoid digital zoom. The photo quality will degrade quickly. Sometimes you can achieve the same effect with cropping.
Panorama works only under iOS 6 and on iPhone 4S iPhone 5.
Tap the arrow in Panorama mode to switch direction
Turn your phone landscape to take a vertical panorama
I didn’t talk about the “purple haze” lens flare issue, because…I don’t think of it as an issue. All cameras and lenses will get lens flare when the sun or a light sources in in frame. The purple cast is just a quirk of the iPhone. You can both use that creatively (J.J. Abrams added digital lens flare in the Star Trek movie) and if the color is wrong, fix it in something like iPhoto.
Those are my top iPhone photo tips
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