Become a photography pro by unlocking the iPhone’s hidden camera features
These features are ideal for people who want to increase their photography inventiveness without paying any money.
Modern camera applications provide a surprising amount of power and capability. My iPhone’s camera has almost completely replaced my huge digital camera and lens kit, partially because it’s always with me and partly because it’s so dang excellent.
Taking a shot is usually as simple as opening the app and tapping the shutter button. However, there are some very fantastic features hidden inside the software that you may have overlooked.
So, open the Camera app on your iPhone and follow along with me.
See that little triangle pointing up at the top? Tap on it.
That will unveil a whole array of tools at the bottom on the screen!
Note that you can also swipe up from the middle of the screen to access these tools.
From left to right, these tools are:
- Flash on/off
- Live Photo on/off
- Aspect RatioExposure (only present on the iPhone XR and above)
- Timer
- Filters
click Exposure, and you’ll find a slider at the bottom that allows you to increase or decrease the exposure of the image.
At the top-left of the screen, there’s a histogram that will show you if parts of the image are underexposed (red on the left of the histogram) or overexposed (red on the right of the histogram).
The Aspect Ratio setting allows you to switch between common aspect ratios,…
The Timer feature allows you to have a delay of 3- or 10-seconds before the shot is taken. Great for group shots!
The Filters button gives you access to an array of filters, and you can see their effect in real-time.
Let me show you one final feature that I just love, and use a lot. This is the effects you can add to Live Photos.
Took this Live Photo of a waterfall.
Pretty boring. But if I go to Photos, find the image I want to edit, and then swipe up in it, I get access to three effects that I can add:
- Loop
- Bounce
- Long Exposure
Loop and Bounce create short videos, but Long Exposure creates a smoothed-out long exposure effect that was once only possible with high-end cameras.
Much better……. Have fun with ur iPhone.
