The flexibility that iPhones give us when taking photos is impressive. In the end, having the camera in your pocket at all times is a great incentive to capture what we see. Do we want to take our best photos? Here are three very interesting little tips.
When it comes to talking about resources to improve our photos, we could talk about a lot, including these six essentials to take the best photos with our iPhone. From the rule of thirds to the use of specific lenses for certain shots. Today, however, we will focus on three of the simplest resources.
RAW or HEIC depending on the amount of light
The first is to use the most appropriate file format. By default, our iPhone takes all photos in HEIF format, a very efficient codec. However, the system gives us also works in RAW format
When we take a photo on our iPhone, the physical information captured by our camera sensors goes through a lot of stages. In the latest models, it is about 3 million steps. It’s part of what we call computational photographywhere it is the chip of our phone, accompanied by the neural engine, which gives us the final photo.
When we shoot in RAW format, the number of processes performed by the system is much less, but the most important thing is that it protects a lot more information so that in a later edit we have a lot more headroom. In general, as long as we are ready to process the RAW photo to our liking after taking it, the recommendation is to use RAW when there is a lot of ambient light and HEIC when there is little. The results may surprise us.
Photo styles: the theme of the photos matters
Another very interesting resource is to use the photographic styles that come with the iPhone 13. Thanks to them we can choose a “theme” for the photos we are going to take
With this we achieve a truly creative effect which, above all, gives uniformity to the different planes. We can customize the photographic style according to the theme we are going to photograph and the mood we want to convey. To do this, just open the camera app, touch the arrow in the top center to reveal the options, and choose the fourth option, the one shaped like three overlapping squares.
Here we can choose between strong contrast, Bright, Heat oh Cold, being able, in addition, to modify the tone and the warmth to our liking. This style of photography it will remain until we manually disable it
Lock exposure and focus
The last resort is exposure and focus lock. Thanks to him, we can obtain chiaroscuros, images with a more pronounced bokeh effect much more. To fix these two variables, all we have to do is touch somewhere on the screen for about 3 seconds to lock both focus and lighting.
So we can swipe up and down to adjust exposure manually. Even if we focus on the sun or the interior of a dark room, it will not change the lighting setting of the image. With this we can capture light sources in a very creative way.
Similarly, the focus will also be locked, so we can move closer or further away from the subject to create a bokeh effect additional than the photos would already have on their own.
Photography with our mobile can be really creative. Thanks to these resources we will have more tools to take exactly the image we want to take. Resources, as we see, really simple, but at the same time very versatile for an already versatile device.
