Smartphones: portable cameras ready at the touch changing the way we think about photography. Starting with the very first iPhone, iPhone cameras allowed anyone to take a picture anytime anywhere. However, the first iPhone camera quality was horrible if lighting was not perfect. With each new iPhone the camera, quality steadily improved.
Fast forward to this past fall, Apple launched a whole marketing campaign “Shot with an iPhone 6.” The camera quality was one of, if not the biggest, improvement on the new iPhone 6 from the previous iPhone models. The campaign encouraged iPhone users to submit the breath taking photos they had taken with their iPhone 6 to advertising the amazing quality of the camera.
Apple released the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus this past fall. These phones both boast 12-megapixel iSight camera and improved noise reduction leading to a much higher quality photo. The 6 Plus and 6s Plus come with optical image stabilization for photos and the 6s Plus also includes this feature for video.
Perhaps the most talked about feature of the 6s product are the live photo feature. The live photo feature acts like a very short video, capturing the milliseconds before and after the picture. Not unlike the moving photos in Harry Potter.
In today’s world many professional photographer have resorted to using their iPhone to snap amazing shots. Ben Garvin, a reporter for the Star Tribune, now uses his iPhone for almost all the photos he takes including difficult sports shots.
He has a few tips and tricks to making your iPhone photos ‘Shot with an iPhone 6’ quality out from all the other clique instagram pictures. One of the biggest mistakes iPhone users make is zooming. You can always crop your photos and zooming will only reduce the picture quality.
Flash is also working against you when taking photos with your iPhone. It causes your subject to be washed out and not as high quality. The auto-exposure and auto-focus lock more commonly known as the AE/AF lock should always be used to insure an adjusted and clear photo, tapping on your screen boxing the subject of your photo ensures that it is focused.
It seems liking everyone these days is attempting to take and show off artsy or creative photos. One of the biggest mistakes with this is tilting your phone, this doesn’t add perspective to your photo is just makes it tilted, whenever you have the perfect artsy subject take shots both horizontally and vertically, no need to tilt, the photo will speak for itself.
