Photography at your fingertips
Photography can come with a lot of pressure. You want to be the best and always put your best work out there. Sometimes you just need to get out and take pictures without a care in the world. My friend said “These pictures are so blurry but I’m having fun which is all that matters”, and I couldn’t agree more! You should do things because you enjoy them, not because you need to be the best! However I understand the stress of wanting to be the best, with only having a phone camera it can be hard, but let me help! How do you put your best pictures out there when you dont think your photos are high quality and you only have your phone camera?
Setting your iPhone for the professional look
You can get pretty high quality photos by knowing how to manipulate your camera settings on your phone. By clicking your screen and adjusting the sun icon you can change the exposure. Dragging the sun icon down will make the image darker and dragging the icon up will make the image brighter.
iPhone VS professional cameras
In some cases your iPhone camera might be better than a professional camera, especially if you are taking pictures at night. Last night I went to see the northern lights with a friend and we were struggling with our professional grade cameras. It was hard to get the focus right when you couldn’t see anything, plus the shutter speed was so slow you had to stay extremely still for long periods of time. With all of these challenges I ended up switching to my iPhone camera. I am glad I made the switch as I was able to get some amazing shots!
These photos were both taken with my Canon eos t3i.
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These were taken on an iPhone
Editing
iPhones come with editing on the photos app, this is pretty decent, but you might want to look into other apps too! I know a lot of people like photoshop. I will admit it, photoshop isn’t my favorite. It does the job, but I feel like it makes editing more complicated than it needs to be. An app that I prefer is vsco. I know it was a huge trend that turned into a meme with vsco girls, but those girls are onto something. Vsco is very user friendly and free compared to the price of the adobe suite. On vsco there are preset filters you can use and also you can create your own custom edits. There are premium versions that you can also purchase. With vsco you can also post your work for others to see which is fun, and it doesn’t feel as serious as instagram. I have both of these platforms, and you should definitely check them out @self_love_lens my logo is the same as my website logo! You can’t miss it!!
Let me know in the comments if you try out these iPhone photo tips or have any questions!! Good luck on your next photoshoot!