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In this video, I want to show you
how to make the best possible photo with an iPhone at night.
I shot this two days ago, and I actually printed it
with a professional lab to see if the iPhone
could took good photo at night.
I know it can do during the day,
but at night, it's much harder,
and I'll show you all the tricks.
Come and join me.
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So you see me I'm in Lightroom mobile,
I went to the pro section, and selected Pro,
that's very important, and I clicked on the ISO button here,
and then you move up and down this little button
and you get the proper ISO.
The name of the game is to go the lowest possible
so when you shoot at night, I tried to be at 32 or 40 ISO.
In this case, it was so dark that it went down to 40 ISO.
Next is the speed.
So what I do is, I move up and down the same slider,
and I usually at night I try to have
like 120 fifth of a second, because it's a very wide angle,
and it's pretty stable and with a self timer,
should give us a sharp photo.
So I set it to 120 fifth of a second
hoping there is a knife, see the light.
Next you have to make sure you're shooting DNG and not JPEG.
So just click on the left side here,
make sure DNG is the option because you wanna shoot row.
This is where you're gonna get the best possible
quality photo, very important.
Also super important is the self timer.
You've got, you know, different option off two seconds,
five seconds or 10 seconds.
I just use two seconds, two seconds is enough.
Then once you shoot raw,
you don't really need to worry about the white balance.
But in this case, I took the bulb white balance,
is a little bulb symbol as a web bonus,
because it's the one that works the best at night
with a CD lights on,
and then it's just a matter of you know,
find the right composition here.
I mean oh do in Paris, you know,
it's really the blue hour and trying different photos,
and we're gonna go to Lightroom on the phone itself,
and I'll show you the whole retouching
and how to get the best out of this photos.
Alright, so what I'm going to do now is,
I'm gonna retouch this photo.
So this is the photo that I just shot,
that I just showed you in a tutorial,
and the first thing I usually do is,
I go to exposure, that's the low sunshine you see there,
and then I'm going to do my white and black.
I just wanna, you know, make sure
there's enough darkness,
which is easy on a mind photo.
I'm going to lose my white.
On this one, I have to make it a bit brighter for you guys,
'cause I pre record this tutorial a couple of times
and every time it came up too dark.
So I have to exaggerate the exposure,
but in real life, it's just because as a tutorial,
I'm going to open up the shadow,
a lot bring down some of the highlights,
and the white balance is already correct.
Remember, because I had the white balance
on the lamp like Tiki lamps,
and if you put your finger you consider before,
the after I would go also to white bands
maybe add just a little bit of magenta.
I usually don't add vibrance and saturation on night photos,
'cause they're already so dodgy.
I also don't do dodge and burn,
because there's so naturally dodge and burn DC,
and it's so saturated already.
I just love the look at night.
I couldn't believe you can get that with an iPhone.
So but let me show you how I truly work.
So this is the photo I got from some museum,
I'll say one of the nicest Museum in Paris
and the way I work 'cause you know, I go fast at night,
is I use my presets,
which you can have a whole bunch with my free toolbox.
The link is just down below the video. It's really cool.
So you click here on presets,
I'm going to use one of the blue are preset
to blend already in our light,
and look at that it's already looking good.
On my screen is looking awesome,
on your screen is probably just needs to be boosted
a little bit.
So I'm gonna exaggerate exposure,
but that is just for the tutorial,
and 'cause it looks really awesome,
and yeah, most of it is cool, I might just go in there
and add a bit of magenta, but it's done.
You see it was one click.
So that's why I use preset 'cause you can go so fast,
and by the way, guys, I'm in Paris.
Look at the before you put one finger and after.
It's really cool.
I'm in Paris doing a whole new course
on the basics of photography.
So if you get my free toolbox,
you will get my daily newsletter
and you will know exactly when it comes out.
It's a five module course that takes you from zero to Pro.
The first module is all about the basics of photography.
Everything like very basic.
Then we get into finding the photo
and composition ,very heavily.
I took a cameraman all summer with me,
and we filmed all over Switzerland, Salsa, France and Paris,
really showing you all the bad photos
and all the good photos.
Then I have a whole module on retouching, all these photos.
So it's all the basics of Lightroom, Photoshop and Luminar,
and then we have a whole social media module base,
how to export for social media,
how to get the best of social media, you know,
how to print, I bring you to like a professional lab
and we print some of the best photos like big prints,
and then there is a whole business module coming at the end.
So this is going to come out in about a month.
It's the best tutorial I've ever done.
So stay tuned for that.
Anyway, so one trick is once you apply a preset
on a photo like this and you like it,
you can just go here, take the three dots,
click on copy settings, and you see the check mark here,
you just click on it, and for example, on this one,
I'm just gonna click three dots, paste settings,
and boom, it's done.
Let's take the next one, same thing, paste settings,
boom, and well you can adjust you know,
this one looks a bit dark, so fine,
you can just adjust, you know the exposure,
but if you shot at the lowest ISO possible
like I showed you, you will be golden, you will be golden.
It's very important before ,after,
and one thing I didn't mention also,
I'm using the iPhone 11.
The iPhone 11 has got a very wide angle,
called ultra wide and that's how I got that shot.
That's why I didn't show you on the shooting video.
But this works for any version of iPhones or Android.
Just make sure you use the lowest ISO possible at night
and all the tricks I just showed you.
You're gonna get some amazing night photos.
Hope you like this.