This article will be out of date in a matter of months with the release of the iPhone 6, what will come packed with improvements in the native App of your camera. But for those of you who, like me, have a previous iPhone and want to get the most out of the camera, you will find some tips to take advantage of all the potential you have in your hands.
1. Login
First of all, to say that the iPhone has practically become an extension of ourselves, we take it wherever we go and we always have it at hand. However, What if we apply this to photography? We can get used to accessing the camera always from the lock screen. This will save us a few seconds valuable when the moment we are going to capture is fleeting. Or if this is not possible, always remember that the camera is accessible from the control center of our device.
2. Square yourself
Another very useful tool, this time when framing is your own grid that the application brings. Can be activated in film and camera settings (Settings / Photos and Camera) and it is a very useful tool when making straight photographs, it gives us a grid that we must align to our liking with some element of the photography environment.
3. Don't let your pulse tremble
Another key element for a photograph from a mobile device is the stability, It will be somewhat complicated considering the iPhone is relatively small and above all, very light. To solve this problem in the market they have been around for a long time Tripods of infinite sizes and heights adapted for the iPhone. But if, like ordinary mortals, you do not have this utensil, you can always think that you are a sniper about to shootSo take a deep breath and breathe out little by little.
4. Calculate
Shutter time. Don't panic, it's just the time it takes for the photograph to actually be taken, the milliseconds that pass between the camera's shutter opening and closing. This is a concept that can be regulated in professional cameras. Not on the iPhone (for now) . But we can give you some useful tips, you should know that what we see on the screen has a certain delay (insignificant) versus what the camera "is seeing." On the other hand, the moment the iPhone actually takes the picture is when we stop pressing the fire button, why should it be done in a way fast and smooth to avoid, thus, that the camera shakes.
5. Light up
The light. It is an essential component in all photography and although the iPhone camera behaves quite well in low light situations, always and due to the small size of the sensor, the quality will always be better when the object / landscape / person / whatever we want to photograph is illuminated From where? Well, preferably the light source should be behind us.
6. More light?
The flash. It is normally used in low light conditions to highlight what we find in the foreground in the photograph, but also we can use it during the day, For example to illuminate the shadows that another light source is causing, for example, if we photograph a face in the sun, it will produce shadows that are projected on it, if we use flash, those shadows will be illuminated by its light and thus we will enhance the entire face, not just sunlit.
7.HDR
Combined with the flash we can try to activate the HDR mode of the camera, thus we will obtain a Photograph with very vivid colors and a great deal of detail.
8. Get closer
Never never, We should NEVER use digital zoomAll this does is enlarge the size of the pixels with the consequent loss of quality and detail in the photograph. To supply this, whenever possible we must get closer to the object or, failing that, choose to use photo retouching programs to achieve the same effect.
9. Retouch without going overboard
Speaking of Applications, it is highly recommended to have a wide collection of applications dedicated to photo retouching, already include a camera "Own" or just dedicate themselves to retouching. In this way we can complete the functions that our native iPhone camera lacks at first.
These are some tips, very basic, but that really work for all available photography modes on the iPhone. Anyway, with the arrival of the iPhone 6 and iOS 8, we will see a very significant advance as far as this type of photography is concerned. Look.