mobile photography goes replace what we do with professional cameras inexorably. There are many things we can do with the cameras we carry in our pocket and with a few tips and tricks we can give the results an even bigger twist. Let’s review some resources that the camera of our iPhone offers us to capture the world around us.
Panoramas with the same person more than once
There are some cute creative resources that have to do with panoramic photos. The grace of this system to capture our environment is that the capture has an extension in time. This allows us to modify said environment as we capture it.
We can therefore, placed in an open and wide space, start capturing from the far left, photograph the subject of the image, take a break, wait for the subject to reposition itself in another position to our right and capture it again. The result is an image that contains the same person twice, a most curious effect.
Use the timer for more stable images
It is clear that the iPhone image stabilization system he knows how to do his job very well. It is rare that we see a blurry image and yet there are times when it is necessary to go further. Photos in which we are very close to the subject and for which we do not have a tripod are ideal for this system.
No matter how much we stay still, the simple touch the movement on the screen to capture the image or pressing the volume button is sometimes too much. For these cases, we can simply use the timer. We play to start the countdown and hold our breath for a few seconds for greater stability.
Reflections in the water
Another very fun system for taking creative photos is use the reflections that can be seen in the aquatic elements. It serves us as a puddle pool in the street. The idea is to point the camera directly so that we capture the inverted image of the scene with the typical undulations of this system.
So it’s usually a good idea apply a black and white filter and, once the image is captured, flip it over to view it in its true orientation. This produces a most curious effect because, in most cases, when we see a picture like this, we detect that something is different, and it is often surprising to discover what it is.
vertical panoramas
Second resource with panoramic photographs. In this case it is panoramic in vertical format. The truth is that the system is not specially designed for this, but it opens the doors to very curious executives. Sometimes we just run out of context when what we want to capture is too high, we can use the 0.5x zoom, but sometimes we still run out.
In these cases, a short panorama in the vertical direction allows us to easily capture tall buildings and other frames which require hindsight and distance. Another option with vertical panoramas is to capture, for example in a street, a semi-circle of 180º so that we see both directions of the same street at both ends of the panorama.
Another flash iPhone
Occasionally capture some textures a second light source is convenient. When the texture has a certain relief, it is more interesting to use a second iPhone or iPad to be able to bring out the full volume of the image.
The idea is point directly to the texture we want to photograph and use a second iPhone to apply perpendicular light. In addition to receiving notifications from our iPhone or iPad in the blink of an eye, the flash achieves the most interesting effects on walls, fabrics, leaves, etc.
We end with a little post-production tip
Sometimes the resulting image contains an element that we do not want. An electric cable, a pole, an advertisement or even a person crossing at one end of our composition. In these cases, we can use an application to remove parts of the image and restore the “original” background.
One of the best options is TouchRetouch which we analyzed some time ago in Applesfera and which allows us to mark exactly the areas to remove with surprising results well achieved.
Sure there are still a lot of resources and tips that we can use to improve the image capture that we do on our iPhone. This without going into questions of composition and other nuances of our images. Here we wanted to collect only a few fairly basic ones that, without a doubt, have all the potential to give us the most interesting photos.
Pictures | Jordan Brierley, Adi Goldstein, Mehdi Messrro
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