
If you want to manually fiddle with the iPhone camera settings, then we have bad news. While you can focus on a specific area with a tap, thus overriding the phone’s autofocus, there’s not much more you can do to tweak your snaps while shooting. However, it is possible to change the exposure level with a swipe of your finger. Just manually focus on your subject by tapping them in the viewing window and you’ll notice a box appears around them, along with a sun icon on the right side. Press your finger to this icon and slide up to boost the exposure, or down to make things darker. What are Live Photos and how do they work, Apple’s Live Photos feature captures a second or two of live action with each photo that you take. This is a decent feature if you’re constantly snapping your kids, as these little snippets can be quite comedic when you’re scrolling through your virtual photo album. To activate or deactivate Live Photos, just tap the central icon on the left edge of the iPhone’s camera app.
If you own the latest iPhone, you’ll notice that the camera app no longer offers manual control over the HDR function. However, you can still bring back full manual control over HDR, to enable or disable it at will. This option can be found in the iPhone 8 or 8 Plus’ settings menu; just tap camera, and you’ll see the Auto HDR option in there. Tap that to bring back manual control. Trying to strengthen your camera abilities, to get better everyday shots on the iPhone, Here’s some quick and easy tips for improving the quality of your shots. The iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus both have a special optical zoom mode thanks to their secondary telephoto lens. You can use this to get closer to your subjects, with no loss in detail. On the right edge of the camera app’s viewfinder you’ll see an icon that says ‘1x’. This is the current level of zoom. Tap that to switch to the telephoto lens.
You’ll notice the image instantly grows bigger and the icon changes to ‘2x’. You also have a digital zoom with all iPhones, which basically crops the edges of the picture and blows up the centre of the image, to artificially zoom. To activate this, just swipe your finger up or down that zoom icon or pinch with your fingers on the screen. The iPhone 7 Plus an 8 Plus serve up a new and exclusive camera feature known as Portrait mode. Portrait mode plays with the depth of field of a shot, blurring out the background by capturing a photo using both lenses. Check out the before and after results below for an idea of how this works. You can find Portrait mode by entering the camera app and flicking your finger down the screen once. Note that this mode requires you to position the camera at least a few inches away from your subject; you’ll know if you’re too close as the app will warn you to move further back. When you’re ready and the Depth Effect icon is yellow, take the shot by tapping the shutter button as usual.


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