How To Take The Best Photos With Your iPhone

January 22, 2022

Anyone with an iPhone can take a photo using the smartphone’s built-in camera apparatus.

Even people with late-model iPhones, however, find that sometimes their pictures come out at a lower quality than what they would like.

Capturing a professional-looking photograph using an iPhone camera is like achieving a mobile casino bonus – it’s a winning moment. The iPhone camera allows you to work without bulky equipment and gives you the advantage of being able to capture photos at a moment’s notice.

Check out some experts’ tips for taking high-quality pictures with your iPhone.

Camera Shortcut

One of the advantages of having a camera on your smartphone is that it gives you the ability to take pictures at a moment’s notice. If you see a funny situation, if a child does something cute, if pet gives you an especially loving look – whatever the situation, you can pull out your iPhone and get that shot.

To get your camera up and working as fast as possible, you can bypass the whole process of unlocking the phone, finding the app, tapping on the icon, and waiting for it to load by swiping up the camera shortcut from the lock screen. That way, you can take your photo with almost no wait time.

HDR

Your iPhone has a High Dynamic Range that balances the highlights and shadows of images so that neither is being ignored or favored. The HDR brings detail out of the lightest and darkest parts of your picture and so there’s a better overall balance of colors.

Activating HDR mode can make photo download take a little longer but since HDR mode is particularly suitable for portrait and landscape shots, where there’s a range between the lightest and darkest parts of the photo, it should be suitable.

Simply click on the “HDR Mode” where it appears on your screen to activate the mode. Alternately, you can set HDR through the settings app so that it will automatically open whenever the camera senses that it’s appropriate. To set HDR through the settings, open “settings,” go to “camera” then to “HDR” and then toggle “Keep Normal Photo” to “on”.

Natural Light

Use natural light wherever possible. Regardless of the subject, light is one of the most important elements in the photograph. It’s best to make use of the available natural light to make the photo seem as natural as possible. Using the phone’s built-in flash may give you inferior results, especially if you aren’t close to the subject.
Position your subject so that it’s lit well from the front. You don’t want it to be silhouetted by the light from behind. If you find that you do need artificial light you’ll need to think out your shots a bit more. For instance, bringing the subject close to the glow of the artificial light as opposed to having the subject deeper in the shadows will help. Faces should always be as well-illuminated as possible.

You might even consider trying one shot with a flash and one shot without seeing which one works best.

Burst Mode

The Burst mode is especially suitable for action shots. You know what we’re talking about – when you’re chasing your dog around the dog park, attempting to get a good shot of a sporting event or trying to capture a child who just won’t sit still. Even if you are running while you are snapping, using the burst mode makes it more likely that you’ll get a clear shot.

To shoot in Burst mode, just tap and hold down the volume up button or the shutter button when you begin. While you’re holding down either of those buttons a counter will appear at the bottom of the screen which will let you know how many shots you’ve taken. When you’re ready to stop shooting you pick up your figure. The burst will be saved to your camera roll.

Rule of Thirds

The Rule of Thirds, an old photography trick, is as applicable to iPhone photography as much as it’s pertinent to old camera photography. The Rule of Thirds refers to the advice that has been given to photographers for many years to split the scene into blocks of nine in a 3×3 grid. The rule states that the photographer should position key elements along the four grid lines that divide the screen into 9 so that the composition will be laid out in a way that is more appealing to the eye. So, for instance, when shooting a sunset, the photographer would place the line of the sunset along the top horizontal gridline.

Whereas the 3×3 rule was once something that photographers needed to keep in their heads, today you can activate a grid overlay on your iPhone through the menu.

Editing

Taking a good photograph is only the first part of the photography process but your iPhone makes it easy to complete the process through editing. You can edit various effects including Straighten, Vertical, or Horizontal by tapping the effect that you want to edit and dragging the slider to make those adjustments.

Additional editing tools include

To edit part of a picture, select the “brushes” tool. Select the type of adjustment that you want to make and then drag the brush to paint the area that you want to change. You can zoom in or out.
Remove objects by downloading the TouchRetouch tool and opening it on your iPhone. Choose the photo that you want to retouch, click “Object Removal” at the bottom of the screen and use the Lasso or Brush tool to remove whatever you want to take out.
Crop a photo by opening the photo that you want to edit and tapping the “crop” button. Drag the corners of the image to resize the photo and then tap “Done.”