10 TIPS to help you take AMAZING iPhone Photos!
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
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Your iPhone camera is a phenomenal piece of tech, but like any tech, you need to know how to use it to get the most out of it. In this video, I'll share 10 tips and tricks as well as best settings for the iPhone camera app.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Always use the grid
1:34 - Sponsor message
2:41 - Shutter button modes
3:47 - Live Photo 'Key Photo'
4:37 - Tap to Focus
5:49 - Manual Exposure
7:03 - Perfect horizontal photos
7:50 - Macro mode control
8:37 - Preserve Settings
9:38 - Long Exposure settings
10:41 - Tall panoramas
11:23 - End - Наука та технологія
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Great video! While following along with your video on my iPhone 13 Pro Max, I made a discovery that pleased me. I just happened to be aiming the camera at a sheet of paper that had writing on it, and a little icon appeared in the lower right of the screen. When I tapped it to see what happened, it captured the writing and gave me options to copy, select, look up, translate, or share what was written. I was especially excited about the translate option.
If you tap on the screen in panoramic mode you can switch between left-to-right and right-to-left modes
Nice, I actually didn’t realise you could do that!
Does panorama only work when you hold the phone vertically?
Swiping right to start recording a video also allows you to record a video if listening to music via bluetooth on a speaker without stoping it. handy for catching your 3 year old dancing!
Great tip! Thank you 😊
Most don’t know that tip 😎🥃
THIS is amazing. I’m so glad you shared this comment
You mean holding down the shutter button then swiping right to lock it ?
Omg!!!! Best tip ever!!!! Thanks!!!!
I think your iPhone content and topics are the best and your delivery is top notch. I look forward to every new tutorial.
Two additional tips about using Panorama mode that you could have mentioned:
1. When shooting a pano and want to end it simply reverse the direction you are moving the camera and it will end the shot instead of trying to hit the button to stop it.
2. If you want to start your pano in the opposite direction tap the pano preview screen before hitting record and it will reverse the direction.
Hey man I appreciate your videos and dedication to educate people like myself who need the mentoring, on how to work within apple system
I’m just glad people are finding the videos helpful!
It would be nice if Apple could add manual focus functionality (something like exposure slider), in macro shots it is often really hard to get a proper focus, esp. when doing photos of small objects hanging in the air (like some small flower on a tree branch, spider hanging on a web etc.).
This is great! I would love if you will do a video on how to capture a sunrise, sunset or bright moon with iPhone!
Quite interesting ! Your tip on Macro mode very appreciated. Thank you.
You could have mentioned the magic 'i' feature. This displays when there is more information available about an object or location. Tapping this gives you more information about an object, plant or building that you have taken a photo of. this is good for identification of unknown plants etc.
All your videos are always well explained. Cheers & thank you!
Thanks for your videos, at last I know how to turn off Live Photos without having to remember to do it manually each time
I’ve used so much storage since this option became available and I’m very appreciative of your help and knowledge
Thank you again
Would love to see an iCloud Drive version of this series
I’m really glad you said that, it’s something I’ve been considering lately, I just wasn’t sure if there was the demand for it. 👍🏻
@@ProperHonestTechIt can be a confusing system so I think people would enjoy watching a video on it. Also, thanks for the other videos! The reminders one has changed my life and I’m more productive because of it!
Your videos have taught me so much about my iPhone. I really appreciate them.
I’ve been trying to do long exposure with my iPhone 13 Pro since I got it 6 months ago because it is one of my favourite types of photography. Thanks for letting me know how to do it 👍
Thank you for all your useful tips, I am very appreciative of now being aware of the “preserve camera settings” as I’ve been struggling to find out how to turn off ‘Live Photos’ I always forget to deactivate when taking a picture as I’ve used up so much storage for over the last couple of years … phew! at last! Thank you again
Glad it was helpful!
So very helpful, thank you. I’ve had the iPhone XS Max for a couple of years now and I have not put the many features to good use just yet.
Tom - another excellent tutorial. A few comments: Live Photo - hate it! Regarding the Preserve Settings - I have found that the changes you make here don't necessarily occur immediately. It seems to take awhile sometimes for your choice to be put into effect. Also, the Live Photo switch in Preserve Settings seems to function opposite of what the other controls do - the default is for the Camera app to always turn Live Photos ON, so if you don't want it to do that (see my previous comment about hate it!), you have to turn this switch on, then, when you set Live Photos to Off in the camera controls, it should stay off for future sessions. Next, there's a caveat to using the "slide shutter button to the right to take a video" - if you do this, the video taken will only be at 1080p resolution, so if your intent was to take a 4K video, you're better off just switching to Video mode in the first place. And finally, one tip that I find useful is that in Video mode, you can change the resolution and frame rate by tapping in the upper right hand corner of the screen where the settings are displayed (this may only apply to newer phones?).
Thanks for the comment, and I agree with you in general about Live Photo, other than the long exposure mode, I really like that. But yes, beyond that, I get cross when I think I’ve taken a regular photo only to find out it’s a Live pic.
Hi can I ask you about something, the preserve settings does it work for you like it should ? Mine doesnt reset to default when I change something in the camera app, like if I adjust the settings for exposure and then close/reopen the camera, it opens up just how I left it, same if I go to video and then next time I open the camera it still stands on video instead og going back to photo mode as default. So I have to change everything back manually to default before I close the app, very annoying. And I dont have any of them enabled under preserve settings (except for live photos) so it's not cause of that.
You are the best out there! Thank you!
Thanks for these great tips. Really appreciate your work. 👍🙏
Excellent work Sir ! Keep it up !
Just turned the grid on! Thanks!!
The grid turned on in camera also helps keep the camera both plum and level if you align the horizon or built vertical forms in the image, best to stick to aligning objects near middle of frame in wide angle.
Great tips! Thanks man ✌️
I have learned so much from watching your videos. Thanks!
Thank you for the very useful tips.
Love Live Photos, using a loop or bounce effect after the fact I’ve gotten some awesome video clips, usually funny in bounce, friends dancing or ethereal in loop. Also funny in loop with some audio added. Plus it’s always on quasi burst, grabbing a preferred key image( not full res)after the fact.
Great video. Thanks! I love taking closeup photos of flowers in Portrait Mode but it’s hit and miss. I would love to hear your thoughts on how to take better Portrait photos.
Great,I learned so so much. Wish you wore my kids teacher, You have a great gift
So much great information here… thanks so much!!!
Glad it was helpful!
I knew most of this but thx for reminding me especially burst mode
bokeh is not just depth of field. it is the lens flare blotches of highlights within the out of focus area of photo, which are characteristic of specific lens.
Great tips, nice job.
One thing you forgot to mention about live photos is that when you set a new keyframe, that new part of the live photo will be sent out when you text someone or transfer it to a machine or device that doesn't recognize live photo.
Also the new key photo is not full resolution. Which makes sense, Live Photo isn’t a full burst mode.
You can also take PANOS right to left or top to bottom by taping the ARROW for the desired direction of the PANO shot.
I try to start my outdoor panos pointed at the bright side of the pano, selected left or right as you mention, this will create a pano that isn’t blown out on the bright half, this will create an image that is a bit underexposed on the dark half of the pano, but in edit in photos app underexposed can be rescued, overexposed not so much.
I’m finding all these videos very helpful, but just occasionally you are going to fast and if your colour blind like me, I didn’t even realise you were highlighting the steps. Many people aren’t phone savvy, that’s why we are here! I know you can rewind, but just a smidge slower would help. You have to cater for everyone that’s true but remember us older ones!!! It’s harder to learn something than be brought up with it. Anyway your videos are great and you speak beautifully. Hope you get loads more subbies. Thank you.
Hi Helena. Thanks for the feedback, it's appreciated. Unfortunately, for every person telling me to slow down, I get 2 comments telling me that I'm going too slowly and to speed up. As you can imagine, making videos that appeal to everyone and all skills levels is impossible, so I do try and strike a happy balance. In your case, it might be worth using the UA-cam speed control to watch the videos a bit slower. It will probably make me sound weird, but it would at least allow you to keep up with the pace a little.
Thank you for your comment. I did not know that I could change the playback speed of a UA-cam video!
I agree. For instance, “tapping on the +- for additional camera controls..”. Even rewatching at 0.25 speed, I have no idea where these +- controls are. I have an icon on the top left that jumps into a lot of extra settings, but different from those shown in the video. The rest of the suggestions are helpful.
Will try these. Thx. Liked and subbed
Best feature i found is you can set a filter etc before taking the shot so you can see on screen post photo what it will look like for eg monocrome etc
Is it possible to switch between the front and back camera while video recording?
Thanks!
Thank you! :)
Excellent video.🇺🇸🐻
Thanks so much.. I have tried to find out how to shoot in burst mode and couldn't find the answer.. I stumbled onto your video.. Also watched the Siri Tips.. All so useful, thank you.
I did a tall panoramas when we visited the sequoia’s out in California.
Thank you so much for this really helpful video. I love your style of presenting the video. I am looking at the iPhone 13 pro, although I feel that maybe they are more for professional photographers. I love a good image but am also more point and shoot, though I do frame my shots. I would love to have the telephoto lens. Am I punching above my weight?
TVM great video, the photo bursts we’re driving me bonkers. I can take a single shot but other people that i’ve given my iPhone to have taken up to 8 pics @ a time. LOL. Finally got rid of all the bursts in my photos. Best wishes from Adelaide; South Australia🇦🇺💐
Excellent!
Great tips ,any ideas how to take photos via a time lapse mode say every hour from 6am to 6pm and email these ?
Great info!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks just Thanks
@Proper Honest Tech The preserve settings doesnt work like it should on my 12 pro max, tested on my moms also and asked others who had the same problem. The problem is when I change something say in nightmode or if I change the exposure with the +/- setting, then when I close and reopen the camera app it doesnt reset those settings back to default like it should. And I already checked and I dont have any of them enabled under preserve settings. Does the reset work for you ?
I wish apple would bring back the burst mode to work like it did.. it’s so annoying to do the whole press and drag to the left … I always go the wrong way .. and the moment is lost!! 😔
Thanks for the tall panoramic tip!!! Didn’t realize it could do that ..
I had the same problem then I discovered you can control burst mode by using the volume up button instead. Much easier to manage.
@@marycarron5118 thanks for the tip. 🙌🏻
But because of my case pressing the volume up button is difficult because you need to hold the phone properly with both hands and then Apply pressure to the button. Wish Apple would realize that It’s so much simpler holding the shutter button. Because that’s just a natural action. 😞
Great Video. Re Shutter button modes. when I press and hold the shutter button it does burst not video. What am I doing wrong?
Live Photo is also the only way to get the camera shutter should to turn off. I hate announcing that I’m taking a photo. Wish there was a way to turn it off for screenshots too (without putting phone on silent)
Great info about this cool built-in camera. Plz slow down when showing how it all functions and go over the steps again before going onto next “trick.” Thx!!!
UA-cam has a function where you can slow down any video which might help you out.
Thanks for the info. My most frustrating problem with iPhone photography is the lack of a start and stop or continue the video. One must go to imovie to link them together.
or you could use the clips app.great for linking videos and photos together.
Sometimes I find the titles of your videos a little “clickbaity”, but I have learned that they, i.e. you, always deliver. I love your channel!
Hi Robert. I'm sorry you feel that way. I would define 'clickbait', as promising something, then not delivering. I always try to ensure that my videos provide as much value as is possible. The thumbs and titles do of course have to be tailored to stand out from the crowd, otherwise the videos would not get views, but I try my best to ensure that every video massively delivers in terms of information, and that I never promise something in a title or thumb that is simply not true, or not delivered in the actual video. I am however glad that you're enjoying the content.
@@ProperHonestTech Sorry, let me phrase my point better. Lots of other channels have similar sounding titles to yours but don’t actually deliver on what the title promises. So they are “clickbaity” but yours are not, because yours deliver. Your videos are always useful and very well explained, so bravo to you sir.
@@robertallair7278 gotcha, and thanks for clarifying! 👍🏻
If you enjoy street photography, get a plug in Apple audio cable - when in camera mode, the button on the cord acts as shutter button. So it may appear you are walking along watching a video - you can take discrete photos.
I have an old iPhone7pro that I love, actually prefer it to the newer models because it has buttons.
BUT, when I try to take panoramic images, it doesn't seem to go the full 365 degrees. It always stops the photos before I get back to the original starting point. Is this a defective iPhone or something I am doing wrong, or what?
love your channel. 2 questtions: how can i take a pic through a window screen , (birds at my feeder) the camera insists on focusing on the screen. Second, pictures of the bright moon. I've tried the square with the =/- but moon is still too bright and becomes a big blur of light.
Proper Honest Tech
I think some things must be to do with set up as I’ve never seen the cross hair, I opened my phone up and tried and it still wasn’t there!!
Preserve settings is what I want but does not work. I’ve tried to turn off Live Photo and preserve this but it does not take. Any thoughts?
Is there a way to make the selfie camera not be a mirrored image? I’m a guitar player and I want to look correct when I record myself playing. I hope this is possible…
Go to Settings, then Camera, then toggle on/off Mirror Front Camera accordingly, to get whichever effect works for you.
@@ProperHonestTech I’ve tried this and it still makes me look like I’m playing guitar backwards lol
Wondering why you couldn’t just use the front camera? Why selfie mode if both your hands are occupied with the guitar? It’s on a tripod, right?
@@KevinsGuitarStories Once you take your selfie, select the picture, select edit, select crop and then you can mirror photo with the upper left corner symbol
@@TxHornyToad yes I know that trick lol, but I want the image correct when I live stream…. Is THAT possible? Thanks
I am using i13 pro with ISO16.3 but did not have the "Apple ProRaw" nor do I have the "Macro Control" does anyone know why? Thanks
What is MIRROR FRONT CAMERA?
A RAW tutorial would be interesting and valuable.
Swiping left did not give me the option you mentioned I have an IPhone 13 ProMax
Seeing Broadstairs makes me homesick.
It's a stunning part of the country - I feel super privileged to be able to call this part of the country home now (relocated last year)
Is long exposure settings available for iPhone 11 Pro Max?
Yes, as it’s on my Older Xs too.
@@withdirtybags thanks!
UPDATE: I appreciate that you love your new Pro phones but am looking for help with my 13 mini.
Great tips! I have an iPhone 13 mini and don’t see a cross hatch for leveling photos, so I’m assuming that’s also PRO only.
I’ve tried messing with exposure and night mode but still get the shadows of me holding my phone. I’ve turned the flash to on, but it flashes right before the picture is taken. Didn’t have this problem with my iPhone 6. What am I missing?
The pro has the better camera functions by far. That’s why I traded in my mini in the first week
@@richeyrich2203 don’t need a better camera. It should work better than my old 6. It’s either defective, or I have a setting wrong.
Since I got my 12 pro max with nightmode I never uses the flash because it already takes good photos in low light without flash just using nightmode. And I never really liked the look that flash gives on the iphone.
@@artfartzy that’s nice but doesn’t help me.
@@arashy I know, it's really strange it doesnt work for you, and I dont see any setting for this thing that can be turned on /off so very strange.
What exactly is macro mode please?
support.apple.com/en-mt/HT210571
I need help with icloud. I want to download all my camera photos to my computer, but I do NOT want to upload pictures or get dozens of duplicates.
Am I doing something wrong? In the new ios 16.02, holding the shutter button and then swiping left no longer seems to turn on burst mode.
Touch the button gently (no pressing!) and swipe to the left
@@Kipperbox That works. Thanks so much.
Ummm, your closed captioning appears to be for a different video (something about charging your iPhone’s battery)?
Thanks for letting me know, admin error at my end. Fixed now. 👍🏻
Burst= use once then hide
I don’t have crosshairs 🤔
Something that annoys me with the camera settings is the ability to set the exposure length ONLY when the background light level is determined by the OS to be “Night”. Setting the aperture to the smallest, while maxing out the exposure is the best way to make awesome silhouettes of foreground features/people at sunset/sunrise, but as soon as there is enough light, the camera switches to “Day” mode, and won’t allow long exposure times. I know, it helps to preserve the sensors, but it’s pointless, as you can max the exposure level in day mode, seriously over exposing the image.
Yes we know the problem, they hold it vertically!!
The perfect horizontal photo with the double crosshairs isn’t available in Greece. I’m on 13 PM and iOS 15.4.1, tried it numerous times but never appeared the crosshairs.
Wow, seems strange that they would geo lock this.
@@ProperHonestTech it’s pretty weird. I have at home an iPhone 12, 12 PM, neither has this feature, nor a setting exist.
@@vded13 Strange works fine on my 12 pro max, have you tried putting a white card or paper on a table, then hold the phone above the paper and raise up the phone until the whole paper is on the screen, then you should see the double crosshair.
@@artfartzy I’ll give it a try with your instructions and will let you know.
You need to have the grid turned on for the crosshairs to appear
Ad for Samsung Fold pops up😂
10:52 Tip #11
You don't have to keep panning until the iPhone says that the panorama is done. You could press the stop button... _(and here is the tip)_ pan backwards when you think you are done capturing the panoramic photo. This will stop capturing the panorama.
You seem to know a lot about panorama mode. I have an iPhone7pro that every time I try to use that panorama feature will to end the photo before I pan all the way back to the starting point leaving all my panorama photos incomplete. Am I doing something wrong?
@@justgivemethetruth I only use the panoramic features once in a while.
When you activate the pan-mode on your camera there will be a long horizontal bar with a rectangle in it. But I’m sure you get the basic concept of that mode.
*Direction*
The pan-mode usually starts left and you will have to pan right after hitting the capture button (trigger)
But if you press the rectangle, you can change the direction of the pan-mode.
*Stop* _method 1_
When you start a panorama you slowly pan your camera to the direction the arrow points at. Do not stop or pan the other way.
You hit the trigger again, and the capture stops.
*Stop* _method 2_
Start capturing as I described in method 1. But instead of hitting the trigger to stop, pan in the opposite direction.
So, in case you start in pan-to-right mode, start panning to the right. When you think you have captured everything you need in your frame, start panning to the left until you see that the capture stops. That opposite pan can be a little bit faster.
*Fun trick*
Have someone stand on one side of the frame and start capturing the panorama. Once the person is out of the capturing rectangle, let the person run behind the camera to the other side of the frame. Try panning very slowly while the person is moving.
You might have to play with this a couple of times. But, this way, you can have one person in one picture without the use of photoshop
If you have your iPhone on a tripod, it will now give you the ability to take photos as long as 30s. Somehow it knows it's on a tripod.
How is it possible to focus on the whole pic and not specific areas?
As long as you dont tab on the screen it should focus on the whole area of the screen. As long as you dont have something standing very close in front of the camera.
Sorry to be negative but you are shooting through points too fast and without enough detail for idiots like me! Lowest common denominator please, WHERE do I find “Live Photo” thanks.
It’s the icon in the top right of the camera app. At 4:12, I highlight what the icon looks like, which I think is really as much as I can do, I have to try and cater educational content to as wide an audience as I can.
Thanks for your reply. My note sounded like a criticism but isn’t, I do like watching your videos but at my age get very frustrated at not being able to keep up! There is no detailed help from Apple on this (or anything else t b h) so I have to keep stopping the vid, re-winding and listening again. A 20 minute vid will take me an hour to watch and take sufficient notes. However I am getting there - thank you!
@@popcornmike7 I watch UA-cam in the Safari browser on a mac, which allows me to:
a) speed up or slow down a video (click on gear icon) - x0.75 slows fast speech enough for me, without making the presenter sound drunk
b) show captions (click c on keyboard to toggle them on and off)
c) show transcript - need to have captions on, and I don't think every video has them (Proper Honest Tech does), click on ... icon under the video. This lets you read what you've missed, and clicking on the time stamp takes you to that point in the video. You may even be able to copy text into a note app for future reference.
I hope these tips work for you.
@@fujigirl1234 Thanks Elaine, I will certainly try to use your tips!
iPhone photo / Lightroom Photo > SnapChat/Instagram photo
The camera on the iPhone 13 pro is the worst camera I have ever used. I switched to it from Samsung Note 10 because the camera is supposedly good and have seriously regretted it. The Note 10 just blows it away. The photos are look like watercolour paintings, not photos and are blurred with blown out highlights. Thousands are complaining about this but no tech UA-camrs ever mention it.
"Thousands are complaining." You're literally the first complaint about this that I've read, despite having made iPhone 13 Pro videos (with lots of comments), and watched lots of them. I respect your opinion, but I definitely don't agree with it, even the tiniest bit.
@@ProperHonestTech Google iPhone 13 pro bad photos. I'm not the only one complaining about it.
@@ikonographics I see a few people moaning about over sharp photos, and a few people moaning about over blurry photos in some tech forums. Happens with every new phone. But it's cool, just don't buy one, and stick with your Note 10, which you're happy with. Problem solved.
I'll jump in here to add my experience. I switched from the Note 10 to the iphone 13 Pro Max, and the iphone is clearly superior to the old samsung model. Sir, I'd suggest checking your settings, or if everything seems to be in order, then perhaps you were issued a bad phone? Again, the iphone 13 Pro Max is leaps ahead of the Note 10, and I am speaking from experience owning both phones. I wish you success! Peace! Pete in AZ.
Strange I never seen that mentioned about the 13, I have a 12 pro max so cant check. But I know the old iphone 7 plus had that bug where photos often looked like watercolor painting.
Refreshing to hear someone not pronouncing Ts as Ds..photos not phodos
I justa watched the first 30 seconds or so of this video. Video in that aberration of vertical format? Not for me. 😡😡😡
What on earth are you talking about!? It's a horizontal video, just like all of my regular (non Shorts) videos. You must be referring to something else.
I appreciate you! But … “You’re using the camera WRONG” offends me, in the same way that “iPhone for Dummies” does. I’m no dummy, and idiot lit like this is hard to read.
I'd respectfully advise you not to get offended by something like a UA-cam thumbnail. It's designed to grab people's attention, in the hopes of getting them to click on the video. It's not a personal attack against you, someone who I've never met.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Thanks!
You're welcome, and thank you so much!