I've had good luck with My Photostream as well as AirDrop from iOS to Mac. Thanks!
Sent from the iMore App. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Sound off in the comments. There is another option, at 240 frames per second, but its really, really slow, too much so for my tastes. In her spare time, she sketches, sings, and in her secret superhero life, plays roller derby. Your HomePod now speaks several new languages, T-Mobile now has a brand new way to buy an iPhone for business, Read everything from iPhone to Apple Watch, Mags delivered straight to your door or device. Heres what I use: 4K at 24 frames per second, which is great for a cinematic look. (I usually drop contrast, apply a filter, then raise contrast again to make the blacks in an image pop.). Another new feature for the iPhone 13 series brings Portrait mode like background blur to video. Sucks? If you've ever found yourself in a tricky lighting spot as a photographer and want a few aces up your sleeve for dealing with it, read on. Dont forget that you have the option of a wide or portrait lens, 1x and either 2.5 (on the 11 and 12) or 3x on the 13. Just click the camera icon on the home screen and it will take you straight there.
Ally recommended a whole mess of great apps, New Eve Motion gets light sensor, Thread support, and more. This negates the point of using Bluetooth to trigger it, and means a long time delay before any shot is taken. No, iPhone photography isnt 100% automatic. Sometimes the default Camera app just isn't cutting it for low-light pictures and that's okay. There are going to be times when, no matter what you try, you won't be able to get good lighting for your shot. Whether outdoors or indoors, the image your camera sees isn't necessarily always the image you want to end up with. This article was also published here.
Get the best of iMore in in your inbox, every day! I couldn't match the light indoors. Apple TV+ to spend $95 million on just three actors, can you guess who? NY 10036. For truly dark shots, you need the shutter open long. To boost colors and lighting, you can use iOS's built-in editor or a third-party extension. 
If an image is too dark or light, you can adjust it here with the exposure slider. Follow her on Twitter @settern. If you do iPhone photography, common sense may say you pick up the iPhone, open the camera app and just start shooting. On another note, from http://www.imore.com/spotlight-add-swatch-color-protection-case-scenario, do you know the difference between "Pantone Universe Cover + Bumper" and "Pantone Universe Cover". You can get long, milky flowing water by using the Long Exposure trick here, and no tripod is needed here. Youre given a choice.
I shot these shots below in total darkness. Keep your finger down on the volume up or down button and youll be able to stop action by taking many photos in a row. Please refresh the page and try again. You wont see it during the day.) For slower footage, just use Slow Motion at 1080p at 120 frames per second, which looks fabulous. Pretty cool, right? A fun feature that brings in seconds of video for your stills. Thus, I was inspired to jot them all down and explain them one by one, with tips on what I think are the best settings for each one of my top 13. The iPhone lenses arent as tack sharp as the pro lenses, but they sure are versatile. Bumper is the version I have; cover is just a plastic backing that has the same sort of coverage as the Apple Leather Cases. Indoor and artificial lighting can aid you from shooting in the dark, but, well not all indoor lighting is created equally. It has no "off" switch, and runs down in around 2 weeks of no use (so it'll often be out of batteries when you do go to fetch it.) Serenity Caldwell This should be obvious to anyone whos ever used a smartphone camera before, but the big white button is the shutter and the circle is for switching to the selfie camera. Dont wait for the camera app to open. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. DxO ONE is a 20MP DSLR-Quality Camera That's Used with Your iPhone, Tric is the World's First Professional Flash Trigger for iPhones, Apple Acquires LinX, A Camera Maker That Promises DSLR Performance in Phones, Oops: HTC Unveils its 24K-Gold One M9 with a Photo Taken with an iPhone, The Nocturne App Uses an iPhone's Camera to Reveal Celestial Objects, Woman in Random Act of Kindness Video Says She Feels Dehumanized, James Webb Telescope Breaks Record for Oldest Galaxy Ever Observed, Photographer Waits Eight Hours to Capture Dream Lion Shot, The 0.5 Selfie is the Latest Photo Trend Taking Over Instagram, Clueless Cameraman Causes Chaos at World Athletics Championship. You can edit in something like CameraPlus and export to Camera Roll for a fixes version of your edit that will transfer. Thatll work, but there happen to be so many settings and features hidden within these phones that stump way too many people, even some of us pros sometimes. Just take the shot, and afterward, click the tab above the photo, and select Long Exposure. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). You can only take pictures from their camera app. Additionally, since I make videos that are also 16:9, its way easier to insert photos into the timeline this way. Try using the flashlight from a friends phone instead. HDR not quite giving you the result you want? Also an iPhone 13 exclusive, you can get way, way closer than ever before with the macro feature. Oddly photo stream images on aTV or iPad retain their iPhone edits it's only iPhoto that won't retain them as the edits are 'non destructive' and thus kept in a separate 'side file' to the photo that at the moment only iOS can read. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Want to get a video quickly and dont have time to switch from Photo to video? The iPhone offers so many choices on frame rates and speeds. Its hard to get a "good" light from it, as it doesn't have a great range of colour temperature options. That's a shame to hear, as I'd heard good things about it elsewhere. She's been talking, writing about, and tinkering with Apple products since she was old enough to double-click. There was a problem.
You also have studio lighting choices. I default to Studio Light for the best overall, most pleasing look, and High Key Light Mono for headshots. By If you have a late model iPhone, you get three lenses to work with. Just slide the shutter to the left, and youll get a 1080p video instantly. Thank you for signing up to iMore. I am glad I switched to iPhone. Thank you. If there are other photo-related tips you want to see on the site, let me know and we'll put it on the list. You can reframe the photo to exclude the light source from the image. If you insist on shooting a backlit picture maybe there's an exquisite sunset you want to capture you can use Apple's HDR feature to try and balance out the exposures between your subject and your background. I got a Nova Bluetooth Flash a few weeks ago, and was a little disappointed last updated 18 April 18. iMore is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. A fantastic way to blur the background on portraits. So it's email or lose pretty much.
If storage is an issue, switch to 1080p at 30 frames, or go for 60 frames if youd like to either speed or slow down the footage. This is an automatic setting that only kicks in once it gets dark, (really! To do this properly, however, I'd suggest using a tripod or other camera stabilization device for your iPhone; otherwise it can be much harder to match the two images. Elsewhere on iMore, Ally recommended a whole mess of great apps for this purpose, but I'm partial to Manual (opens in new tab); the app lets you set both ISO and shutter speed, which can help boost light levels in your photographs. @LozzBlanko Unfortunately until Apple releases the mythical Photos app 'sometime this year' the only garaunteed way of getting post-processed photos over to your desktop (on iPhoto or otherwise) is to select them in your phone's album and email them to yourself. But yeah, without Photos for Mac it can be a pain. Photojojo also offers a $15 Pocket Reflector to bounce ambient light and a $30 Pocket Spotlight which connects to your headphone jack and provides constant LED lighting on your subject. You can make little loops and bounces, and theyre fun, but the best feature is long exposure. Maybe I will wait for the next version:). Its softer. I've heard great things about (though haven't personally used) the Nova Off-Camera Wireless Flash (opens in new tab), a $59 Bluetooth-based LED remote Flash that provides ambient off-camera lighting for your images. Just open the Camera app and tap the HDR button, then select On. Thanks for the tips. The sun may give us light and life and all good things, but it's around precious few hours when you want to spend time taking good photographs. Only on the iPhone 13 Pro models so far.
Try it by coming in tight on a strawberry or something else rather small. You can always mess around with the app's Exposure slider and lock focus, but if those tools aren't doing what you want them to, it might be time to pick up a third-party manual camera app. About the author: Jefferson Graham is a Los Angeles area writer/photographer and the host of the travel photography streaming TV series Photowalks. I, as a rule, dont like taking photos with filters, because if you dont like the look later, youre stuck with it. Otherwise, Apple wont let you go to the full 30 seconds; it will just give you a second or so exposure. Serenity was formerly the Managing Editor at iMore, and now works for Apple. Sun Strategy is an amazingly powerful Sun / Moon ephemeris, surveyor, planning and weather tool for photographers. Otherwise its wait for 'Photos'. Thank you Serenity. iMore is supported by its audience. You missed adjust the exposure in the iOS camera app: http://www.imore.com/how-quickly-adjust-exposure-ios-8-camera-app. Leave it off. But Id still rather shoot normally, and do my edits in Lightroom after the fact. Heres what youll see, and what I personally recommend. Next, open the camera app. Beyond Styles, you get a series of Instagram-like filters here, including black and white, warm and vivid, and like the Styles, good news, they will revert to normal in editing, so have fun. Id rather do my processing afterward in a software program like Lightroom. The Nova looks very interesting. Thanks for your suggestion. Do you have any great suggestions for getting good lighting from bad? That being said the same is not true of third party editors. Traditional tungsten bulbs can cause horrible yellow tints; fluorescents can make your photo too blue; and LEDs can make everything look washed out and pale. But Apple reminds me that you can take the filters off by selecting the Edit tab in the Photos app after youve snapped the shutter and bring it back to normal. But it's not the end of the world: That's what post-production is for, especially if you're planning to only use the image for social media sharing rather than for printing and hanging. Sadly, I'd have been better off with a cheap LED panel light (or for someone to make a light that switches on for 20 seconds or so when you tap a button.). Heres why you can trust us. Cinematic, widescreen 16:9, like on flat-screen TVs, square for Instagram, or 4:3, the standard, like the TV sets of the old days. Thanks for your input! 16:9 is actually a crop from inside the 4:3 version, but for my money, the wider shot looks better on the big beautiful iPhone screen, so thats what I use. You will receive a verification email shortly. Or you can refocus the image on the darker area of the photograph by tapping and holding on the viewfinder while in the default camera app.