Hey guys EBPMAN here and it's been
several weeks that I've been living with
the Samsung Galaxy s8 a matter of fact
this weekend I was at a Cubs game and
had many friends at least four friends
that were there present each of them
having an essay and I noticed that there
were things they didn't know about the
camera they were taking pictures but
really not taking advantage of all the
capabilities and thus very simple things
that they can do to get better pictures
so today we're going to do a quick 8
things you should do how to get the best
photo experience when using deff 8 so
let's check out these tips they're the
ones I share with my friends and I'm
sharing them with you so the first tip
is how do you start the camera quickly
given the fact that you don't have a
home button well you can set this up so
that when you press the power button
twice
it goes into camera mode let me show you
how you do that to find this feature
you're going to go into settings and
after choosing settings you're going to
type in camera a little closer you can
see that this is a quick way to find it
and you go into quick launch camera and
what you're going to do here is you're
going to make sure you notice how it
kind of popped in here you're going to
make sure that this little area right
here is on that gives you the ability to
press the power button twice to get into
camera mode so my next tip is all about
selfies so now to access a selfie mode
all you would have to do is you just
swipe up and you go into selfie mode as
you can see right here the problem as
you can see from this footage it is very
narrow so you're not getting a wide area
if you go into settings you'll notice
that there's a picture size if I change
picture size and I change it to 16:9 and
I go back what you notice is now there's
a wider area being covered so once again
that's a quick way where you could get a
wider area now keep in mind that by
doing that you do reduce somewhat the
resolution but not substantially from
your camera now there's another way to
get a wide-angle selfie and let me show
you that now to get that wide-angle
selfie if you go here for a second
you'll notice that their selfie and then
there's wide selfie the other area just
expands the image here you can see a lot
more but in this area this is almost
like a panorama shot so what you could
do is you can press the photo button
take the picture and then you could pan
to the left and to the right and by
doing this you're going to capture
everybody in the photo now the last step
about selfies is this little button
right here
you know if you're in a dark area very
few people remember to turn on the flash
by turning on the flash when you hit the
selfie photo option what will happen is
the screen will turn white it will
illuminate the area that you're in and
then the photo will be taken and you're
going to get a better photo so here's
one of the photos we took at the game
this was a selfie it was not the
wide-angle selfie that I showed you but
it was a 16:9 you know aspect ratio
photo and it included us completely as
well as a larger portion of the
background now these settings can also
be applied the 69 16 by 9 ratio can be
included in photos now the photo quality
you could obviously zoom in and get some
really nice quality out of this but let
me show you the difference with your
camera you can run into the same
situation here so notice this is a 4 by
3 and if I switch over this is a 16 by 9
so once again same photo I try to keep
my hand as still as I could you'll
notice how much I'm covering on the left
side on the right side and now look at
here how much more you could be adding
covered all you have to do is change
those settings and again here you see
those settings for the rear-facing
camera this is the version of the photo
that had kind of the cropped sides but
it was still really crisp and clear and
then I switched it over to the 16:9 9.1
megabits or megabytes and I got the
wider shot now in the past when you
wanted to zoom in while taking a picture
you kind of do one of these things right
to take the picture and now what you
could do is right here in this area you
can actually go up and go down and then
once you have the right magnification
you take the photo ideas zoom it and
click so now let's talk about filters
lots of filter options so what you can
do is by swiping over you're going to
see all these filter choices and you may
want to rearrange some filters that are
your favorite I really like
black-and-white photos so you know when
I tap on that it changes to black and
white this one kind of brings in some
color you can see that differencing
these two but they're not always going
to be placed in the order of your
preference so all you have to do is
press and hold on the filter and then
you can drag it and put it in the place
that you want it to be that makes it a
lot easier so that when your
going to take a photo you can quickly
find the settings that you want now you
do also have the ability to add more by
clicking on that plus sign you're going
to go into the actual this is the Galaxy
App Store and download more filters that
you can apply and I've brought some in
so if I come back to that setting right
there you'll notice this memory one this
is one that I brought in because it has
the ability to bring in some color but
also bring in some black and white so
lots of filter choices you don't have to
stick with the ones that are there and
you can also rearrange them now
additional filter options are that you
can find is you'll notice that we were
up here for a second you have the
classic colors if you go here this is
going to also change some of the colors
and how the schema is so and anything
about is you see that happening in real
time you do have the ability to add in
this case effects so you can add words
so Cheers
so you see this a lot an Instagram and
on Facebook so you'll be able to do that
you also can add you know faces so you
know once you're on the character I
don't know that it will do this you see
this a lot on snapchat but what you can
do is using these as overlay on the
person who you're taking the photo and
after three people you can do this you
can actually do these overlays so you'll
be able to have almost like a snapchat
type of experience now the last thing
when it comes to filters I just wanted
to show you is you can also get more
filters just by hitting the plus sign so
here you have animal masks Halloween
masks angel eighty masks you could and
there's also going to be more and more
being created now that this is a new
feature available with the s8 and si
plus so experiment and then also
download more if you like now another
thing I wanted to show you is the
shooting modes and there are a lot of
different shooting modes I'm not going
to go into pro there's panorama which
allows you to shoot a panorama shot you
can experiment with that there's also
their slow motion there's hyperlapse
animated gif a food one that you can use
but I wanted to share one that gets a
lot of hype geese on Apple and it's a
shame because Samsung had this well
before a lot of the Spartan moons
started to implement now I'll just be
fair and
effective Apple has the best
implementation when it comes to the
selected focus capability and what
selected focus is going to do is going
to give you the image that's closest
will be sharp and the background image
is going to be blurry so what you do is
you just go into focus of the item that
you want to keep sharp you tap on it and
you have to be steady and then you hit
it and what it will happen you'll notice
here on the side how it's doing this
this little thing it's kind of creating
that that blur so now when you go in
here you'll notice he is in focus but
everything else is blurred out and when
you tap you can actually I'm switch
between fire focus and also a pan focus
so you notice how it's changing so
you'll be able to get that blur effect
let me show you how it looks with photos
pictures and some other things that I've
take now one other thing I just wanted
to highlight with this photo is I did
not use selected focus but you'll notice
how the background is blurred and that
was simply the fact that I was close
enough to the to the drink when I took
the photo that the rest got blurred out
so you don't always need to use
selective focus to get that bokade
effect in the background now one last
thing I wanted to mention about
selective focus is that selective focus
effect is also available for selfies so
if you'd like to take a selfie picture
and have the background blur you can do
that as well now something else I wanted
to add another feature and this becomes
very very useful especially when you're
photographing kids so I have nieces and
nephews and you know if they're playing
a game and I want to be able to track
what they're doing and still keep them
focused I enabled this feature right
here which is tracking autofocus and the
neat thing about this is that it's going
to keep the subject that you tagged in
focus as you're taking pictures or as
you're recording so for example I'll
select this guy right here and notice as
I'm moving him around you'll notice that
the focus window remains on this
character so imagine if you have your
niece or nephew is twirling around
running around and you wanting to take
them your dog your pet this is going to
allow you to keep them in focus at all
times and all you have to do is enable
that feature so those are my tips and
tricks getting the most out of your
phone with the Samsung Galaxy s8 and s8
plus again not everything that the phone
can do
but the things that I find explaining
and teaching my friends and family how
to use that makes their life so much
better richer when it comes to
photography using the smartphone if you
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