welcome back everyone my name is joel feld and today we're going to discuss
in depth the photo mode within the camera option of your iphone for taking photos let's let's go
uh let's talk about the photo mode which you probably use 90 of the time and let's discuss
some of the options and kind of go in depth of all the different modes for the timer for
the flash exposure the autofocus all of that so let's go ahead and dive right in
if i touch the camera app usually it will go to the photo mode depending on where you
last left it or the settings that you currently have configured but right now i'm just on the
photo mode here and i'm just kind of hanging out in my studio the first couple things i want you to
note are the the options across the top so on the phone i have the top left a little lightning bolt
which represents the flash so right now it's set to on and if i touch that little option it's going
to put a line through it meaning that the flash is turned off if i touch it again i turn it back on
the next one right next to it is called night mode and this best works and this works best
when it's really kind of dark outside and it's almost like combining a a long exposure where
it keeps the shutter open to let more light in to produce a better photograph when it's dark outside
the middle choice going onwards is a little toggle menu that actually pulls up a screen
right on the bottom there so if i touch this again notice i see slow mo i see video photo portrait
if i touch at the top it now turns to different options that i can have more control over
and then in the top right i have live mode which i can toggle on and off now these quick access
buttons in the top left and the top right really are actually in the bottom here so when i touch
that option in the top center that little carrot it actually gives me the choices for the flash
the night mode the live mode the ratio exposure a timer and filters so let's go ahead and start from
the beginning if i touch in the bottom left i can go to the lightning bolt which actually gives me
my flash options usually the flash is not set to auto where the phone is going to determine
what it thinks is best in order to use a flash or not to use a flash and sometimes you're in that
position where you really don't want the flash on well just touching that top left option sometimes
uh you know depending on how you move your camera around it will actually turn flashback
on so if you touch flash off and keep it that way instead of having it on auto that might be helpful
so i'm going to touch flash off and i'm going to touch the lightning bolt again so i can see
the other choices the next option here is night mode and night mode if i slide this to the right
it brings me to auto or if i keep on sliding to the right it brings me to one second
now the reason i only see one second is because i have these nice bright lights
on me and maybe i'll turn those off at the very end and i'll show you kind of what that means
actually let's just do it now let me turn this off there we go and let's turn this other one off here
all right
so now it's kind of dark in here hold on let's turn off this other light
and turn off this light you've seen everything okay notice it got really dark and notice the
in the top left it shows a 3s so what that means is on here it's going to do two seconds maximum
and if i even close the shade here let's bring this down a little bit it's going to get darker
come back around this way go sideways and so now if i take a picture with this
notice how it kind of goes through it has those little cross hairs so it wants you to line up
those cross hairs and and so it can capture all of the lights and let's go even further darker
and turn this guy off there we go now we're in like four seconds six seconds all right so this
is a good example so notice on my camera i have and then we'll go back to vertical here so it's
changing from five seconds to six seconds if i touch up there and go to night mode it's doing
max if i keep it at auto it's going to do what it thinks is best now the night mode is designed
where you don't want to actually move as much as uh move around because your your photo could come
out blurry so it's best to have it with a tripod so i'm going to touch the shutter button and it's
going to count down tells me to hold still and then it takes that photograph and if we look at it
it's going to kind of supposed to do really really well in the darkness which it actually does a
a decent job it's just a matter of making the making it so you're not moving around so much i
notice if i do move too much that's where it gives me this little crosshair and if i the goal is to
hold that crosshair right in the middle so let's do that again i'm going to take a picture and
purposely move it so it wants me to match up the little plus sign there and then it takes the photo
so that is night mode it's designed for pictures in the dark when you don't have a lot of light
all right let's turn these lights back on and move on to the next option it is live photo now
live photo is a lot of fun because live photo allows you to uh it captures it's like taking
video in front of the photo and after the photo and you can do these really fun effects
with live photos live photos right now i'm going to turn it on now i'm going to wave i'm going to
wave here what i'm going to do see i have my screen over there so if i take a live photo
and i wave now if i touch on the top left i have this live photo if i press and hold
it actually records it almost like a video so you capture some of the audio before and some
of the audio afterwards now what's really cool about this is if we go into our photos
and we scroll down and go to do where is it live photos there we go three thousand
three thousand of them ah live photos is fun let's pull up some of the photos
actually let me give you a good example we were in lanesboro let's just do this photo here
all right so now lanesboro is actually the children's museum yes the children's museum
um because you know not a child but anyway so here's a live photo and notice in the top left
just like a previous video with portrait mode i have live showing in the top left
to represent that this is a live photo and if i touch and hold on that photo with my thumb
it actually plays it for me if i swipe up on that video it now gives me choices for different
effects for this live video so i actually have the live video itself the raw natural one
if i touch on loop it will go through and now it does an automatic loop for me so it will loop
and it will loop and if i swipe back up i can do bounce effect kind of like the boomerang
effect a little bit so it bounces back and forth and then the next one is long exposure
which just looks terrible because it's not ideal for this particular photograph
i'm gonna keep it on bounce and then it will actually stay that way for me so that's pretty
much what live photo does it allows you to have some action to your still image i'm gonna go
to my favorites though because i know i have some other live photos that are good examples
okay so here's another one live photo this is a bounce one this is in lanesboro the one i was
talking about so i had a pile of leaves and i'm just kind of bouncing and i threw them up in the
air if we look at the original photograph of the live photo again it's all non-destructive
so i can always go back and see what the original looked like so here's the photo
and so it takes like that 5-10 seconds worth of video
and there it is and if i swipe up i can loop it and now it just looks like i have
a never-ending amount of photos or leaves coming out of my arms or i can do the bounce
and then it kind of goes back and they come back into my arms and then again long exposure
not the most ideal for this because i'm moving and that's kind of not what it's intended for
however a long exposure is good for something like this photograph where here let's turn the sideways
it makes the the water nice and smooth because the the water is always moving but everything else is
nice and still so if i go back to the original photograph here notice this is the original
i keep on going back and forth i don't know why i did that this is the original where it's it's very
it's capturing the water it doesn't look smooth it doesn't it just it's there but if i swipe up
on this and i can look at the loop i can look at the bounce or i can look at the long exposure and
now it's got that nice soft flow of the water and again this is you prop up your phone against a
rock or if you have tripod anything like that keep it super still and you'll have nice nice results
for for these options so let's go back to the camera and that is live photo now the next choice
that we have is our ratio and so this either makes it into a square photograph a 4x3 ratio or a 16 by
nine ratio for widescreen uh usually majority of the time you'll want to keep it at four by three
just because if you want to print um you know four by six photograph probably is a better ratio
than 16.69 because you're gonna what that's more of a widescreen format so you're gonna
end up chopping things off most people keep it at the 4.3 unless you want to shoot square for
you know i don't even know instagram or maybe your profile picture i don't know but you have
that choice to change that the next option is actually new and i discovered it right i noticed
it i should say when ios 14 i think 14.1 came out so if you haven't updated your phone which
actually ios 14.2 just came out yesterday so update your device if you haven't already but
i now have a control for the exposure so i can actually drag this all the way down or all the way
up and it's going to make the overall photograph lighter or darker for me which is kind of nice
so you have that choice the next option is and actually let me take a step back
you know often when you're moving your phone around notice how the light and everything
changes because it's automatically adjusting the exposure and the focus so i always tell people
that whenever they're trying to take a photograph always touch first on what you're trying to focus
on because that's going to focus the the lens on that subject but also notice that little
sun to the right i can actually drag on the screen up and down to increase the the brightness or the
the darkness like the exposure also so naturally here um if i ever if i touch in the ceiling here
notice how it makes everything else really really bright if i touch here on the light
everything else goes dark because i'm changing focus and the exposure on the light versus the
ceiling this works really really well if you're outside which it's now kind of dark outside but
if you're out in the bright daylight and if you hold your phone up and you touch the sky
it's gonna focus in auto exposure to the sky so you'll be nice and blue but then everything
else is gonna be darker whereas if you touch some place on like the trees or a house or something
like that it's gonna blow up the sky which makes it really really bright and then everything else
is going to be in focus and correct exposure so just kind of play with those you know touch
where you want to go and then drag up and down so it looks best to suit what you're looking for
and then you can go from there the other option too is you can lock your auto exposure in focus
notice as i move my screen around that yellow box will often pop up let's see if we can make it do
it again probably won't because i want it to do but that's okay anytime you touch on the screen
it doesn't but if i touch and hold on the screen it now produces an auto exposure auto focus lock
so now no matter where i go it's automatically locking that exposure and and that focus on
where i touched on the screen at that point in time so now notice if i come down here
it's not going to change it's still focused in on that light and then i can take the picture
and go on about my way i can also then come back down to the exposure here and further
adjust everything if i wanted to so lots of little controls for the exposure and the focus the next
thing down here at the bottom and let's take off auto focus just by touching it the next thing down
at the bottom is the timer so the timer is the one that looks kind of like a little clock if i
touch this i have a timer for either 3 seconds or 10 seconds and let's do three seconds here and if
i do that i'll it actually counts down three two one and then it takes the photograph we'll do ten
seconds here and it counts down on the screen here ten nine and it actually shows the little light
there so that you have a reference so you can count three two one and then it takes a photograph
and so now you have that timer also if you have an apple watch you can control it with your watch
too which is really nice i don't have one but i used to when i did it was nice now the last
and final option let's go ahead and turn uh that off we'll put exposure back to where it was and
the last option that we have under the just the photo mode itself is the filters and the filters
are just the fun kind of you know instagram kind of you know filters for your phone um
that's that's really all that they are they just change the photograph and so i can say
dramatic warm perfect so let's do it up close to the microphone dramatic warm it looks so
cool and then i can come back to the photograph notice it's a live photo i can touch and hold
i can hear my audio with it i can touch edit on there and i can also always go back and change
that dramatic and those effects and filters also so i'm going to touch cancel discard
those changes and i'm left with that live photo with that filter applied
so photo that's pretty much the whole gist of it it's one mode that we use probably the most
but there's a lot of a lot of different choices a lot of different settings within that one app
also notice also now that the filter is turned on i forgot to turn it off it shows that little
the three little color circles in the top right so i'm going to touch the top center i'm going
to slide to the right i'm going to go to my filter and move it back to the original that way it's not
there anymore so that is the photo option oh one last nice trick for you you know you're out and
about and you you want to quickly take video so if you touch and hold if you touch quickly on the
the white circle shutter button and slide to the right it automatically goes into video mode and
now i'm taking video and even while you're taking video i can touch the white circle and it will
take pictures while taking video which is really cool the other option if i touch and hold on that
that white shutter button circle oh we should call it maybe just called the shutter button i don't
know i would imagine it is but if i touch and and quickly squat uh slide to the left notice on the
screen now it's taking a burst photo and a burst photo essentially means it's taking rapid shots
it's a whole bunch of photographs so if you want to capture you know your kid running and jumping
through the air and kind of freeze that moment in time of them jumping i just took that burst
mode and when i go to those photos it's now says burst in the top left it took 35 photos just now
and i can even touch select in the bottom center and i can actually see all of those individual
photographs there now to take a look at this a little bit better let's actually go to the
photos oh we're really going in depth here i tell you what let's go into photos let's go to bursts
and i have all of these burst photos so here's a good one here's lisa doing a cartwheel so we're
out on california so a burst photo automatically takes all of these pictures that i want to use
and if i touch maybe or i tap the photo here and now i can select that photograph
and i can say done and it's going to say hey do you want to keep only this one as a
favorite or keep everything i'm going to say keep everything so burst photo really cool
but again the way that you do that just touch and hold slide really fast after
you touch it or really just slide to the left if you touch too long then it's going to take
a picture and that way you have that burst photo that is the photo mode on your iphone
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