Elevate Your Photography Game: Unveiling 8 Hidden Features in the iPhone Camera App for Stunning Shots
Take your photos to the next level with these 8 hidden features in the Camera app on your iPhone:
1. Adjust the aperture to change how blurry you want your background to be
- Make sure you take photos in Portrait mode
- Open the image and click edit
- Click the f 2.8 in the upper left corner
- Adjust the depth below the image
2. Adjust the light on only your subject
- Make sure you take photos in Portrait mode
- Open the image and click edit
- Below the image you can select image effects
- Select your preferred effect and adjust how much you want to apply
3. Take bursts of photos if something happens quickly
- Open your camera app
- Hold the photo button and drag it to left
- Open your image in photos
- In the bottom right click "Select..."
- You can now scroll through and see all the photos taken and select your favorites
4. Zoom smoothly while filming:
- Open the camera and start filming
- Swipe slowly between 0,5, 1x and 2
5. Use Siri as a remote control for taking photos
- Open Shortcuts > Gallery
- Type "Say Cheese" and "add shortcut"
- You can now say: "Hey Siri, say Cheese", and Siri will take your photo (Siri will ask you for permission the first time)
6. Turn on a grid-view for your camera to get better compositions of your images (and a hidden leveling tool if you take pictures from above):
- Go to Settings > Camera
- Turn on "Grid" and open "Camera"
- To follow the golden ratio place your subject where the corners meet
7. Add long exposure to your images
- Make sure you have Live photos turned on when photographing (upper right in your camera app)
- On a picture with a lot of movement click on "Live" in the upper left corner
- Select Long Exposure
8. Make your panoramas wider
When taking panoramas you want to show as much as possible of the environment. How to make sure you use your widest angle when taking a panorama:
- With the camera app open click "panorama"
- Click 0,5
- Your panoramas will now be even better!