Ahoj... This is Zdenka. I'm holding this really shiny phone in my hands, Samsung
Galaxy S 10 plus which has pro photography mode in its' camera native
app. If you want to learn how to shoot fully manual mode on your
smartphone, this tutorial is for you. We will also answer questions, where, how and
when. Don't miss this video. It is very detailed. Let's get started.
And for the new faces, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. I have been working as a
photographer since 2007. I make photo and video tutorials, tech reviews and
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I've had this phone for some time now and I have to admit that I'm quite
enjoying the camera besides all those lenses this smartphone offers. It also
has Pro photo mode. What is the advantage of shooting in Pro Mode? Well first of
all, you can save the images in a raw format instead of JPEG. Raw is not
compressed, JPEG format is compressed. If you're gonna be editing photo in JPEG
and then save it again as a JPEG, you will compress it even more so you will
lose certain quality in your images. If you're gonna be editing the file in RAW
format and then later save it in JPEG, you will keep the most in your photos.
You will keep the most quality. Let me open camera pro mode and let me show you
where you can enable saving the images in RAW format. Click on settings, save
options and select raw copies and as it says here images will be saved in JPEG
and RAW while shooting in pro photo mode. Let's return to the pro photo mode and
let's start with the top buttons. Right beside the Settings button you will find
flash. It is turned off by default. You can turn it on and off right here. Next
we have a timer which is great for taking creative selfies or long exposure
photos where you can accidentally shake the camera by pressing the shutter
button. You can choose either 2 sec, 5 sec or 10 second timer. Let's move on
to ratio button. 3:4 ratio is a typical camera format. It fits on 6x8 inch
prints. 9:16 ratio is the modern TV computer screen size. It is hard to
print it though. 1:1 ratio is square it is great for
Instagram and full, you know full is just full phone screen size. For now
I am going to select square 1:1 so you can see the controls very nicely.
Normally though I shoot in 3:4 ratio. Next we have metering. We have 3
options here. First one is center-weighted metering which reads the
light in the middle of the frame ignoring the corners.
Number 2 is matrix metering. It basically breaks the frame into small squares
segments and sets the exposure based on the reading the info from the whole
frame. Number 3 is spot metering which is best used to expose object or subject in
the scene. I personally use it the most. Last button at the top is out of focus
area. You can select either center or multi, whichever you prefer. Let's go down
to ISO which is cameras sensitivity to light. During the day when it is bright
and sunny, you will select ISO 50. When it will get darker, you will have to go with
ISO up 300, 400 and when it is really dark, you might have to go even higher
but the higher ISO the more grain, noise you will get in your photos. The more light
the better it is. Right now it is bright so I'll keep it at the lowest ISO I
possibly can. Next we have shutter speed. Before you select the right shutter
speed, you have to decide which aperture you want to choose. Is it going to be F
1.5 which means that only small area will be sharp, the rest will be blurry or
F 2.4 which means that a bigger area will be sharp. If I'm taking photo of a
small flower, then I will choose F/1.5. If I'm going to be taking photo of lets say
a landscape or nature or a larger area then I will go with F/2.5. The choice we
have with shutter speed here is either auto or we can tap here to control
shutter speed manual. If you select auto then you can adjust
the exposure here on the right. But let's go back to normal shutter speed. We can
make the image a little bit lighter or darker. If you want to take a photo of an
action, sport or fast-moving object and you want to freeze the action, then you
need to select quite fast shutter speed. I would suggest 1/250th of a second or
even faster. If the image or the preview of the image gets darker, then just
increase the ISO. For regular speed use middle or if you want to blur slightly
fast-moving action. You can also shoot very slow shutter on the right you can
actually go all the way to ten seconds. It is ideal for those water shots you
know River or a waterfall where you want that soft creamy effect. But for that
you need an ND filter and I included link to such ND filters in the video
description below. I have them all and they work perfect with this smartphone.
Let me put the ND filter on just like this. Now I am blocking the excessive
light which is getting through the lens and I can take very long exposure shots.
So I can set it up to all the way to 10 seconds. Of course for that you want
to select a timer as well because you don't want to accidentally shake the
camera when you are pressing the shutter button. The color profile selected on
this camera is set to standard but if you want to play around, you can change
it by simply tapping this button here. You can slide left and right to change
your color temperature. Tint, contrast, saturation, highlight and shadows. Next we
have auto focus AF. Just tap anywhere on the screen and it will focus there or
select MF which is manual focus that I like. The camera has focus speaking so
when you move your focus whatever is sharp will lit up green. Last
control here we have is white balance. Here you can just slide and select the
correct white balance. Sunny day, overcast, fluorescent
and tungsten bulb. So that is Pro photo mode explained. Hit the thumbs up button
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see you my friends in the next video Cau.... Ahoj.... .