4 tips to help you take professional photos and record videos on iPhone
If you use an iPhone, there are many hidden features that you may not know yet or have not taken advantage of yet, specifically with regard to photography, as most iPhones come with hidden imaging capabilities that allow you to take pictures or record videos professionally, beyond the settings that are activated by default.
Here are 4 tips to help you take professional photos and record videos on iPhone:
4 tips to help you take professional photos and record videos on iPhone
1- 4K video recording
Most smartphones come with a 4K video recording feature that can be very useful in the case of recording long videos, such as: birthday parties for a family member, where family members can watch them later on a TV that supports broadcasting in this resolution, and if you use a model iPhone 8 or later, you can use the following steps:
- Open the (Settings) Settings application on your phone.
- Click on the option (camera) Camera.
- Click on the option (record video) Record Video.
- From the menu that appears, choose to record 4K clips at the frame rate that your phone supports.
Note: Videos recorded in 4K can consume storage space as well as drain battery power, so return to the default video recording settings right after you are done.
2- Quickly take pictures or record videos
Sometimes you may pass events that require you to photograph them to keep them or share them on social media, but the process of opening the phone and then trying to adjust the camera application settings to do this may waste us the moment, for that you can use (Burst Mode).
As this mode allows you to take pictures faster and in just seconds, by pressing the Volume Up button directly after opening the camera and to activate the feature on the iPhone, follow the following steps:
- Open the (Settings) Settings application on your phone.
- Click on the option (camera) Camera.
- Toggle the button next to (Use Volume Up for Burst) to On.
3- Using the shortcut
If you are outside and want to take a picture of landscapes, but you are gloved then you may find it difficult to press the shutter button or even the phone itself, in this case, you can set shortcut buttons to do this, such as: the volume up button, where you can change the function of the volume up button to capture Continuous photos, zoom and others through the camera settings.
4- Take high-quality photos:
By default, your iPhone takes pictures and saves them in JPEG format, but if you want your photos to contain all the details, you can use the RAW image capture feature that allows you to keep all the information for the image, such as: contrast, exposure, and saturation, where this information is important Extremely when editing the image later.
If you are using an iPhone 12 Pro or iPhone 12 Pro Max, this feature has been updated to ProRAW, and to enable this feature, follow these steps:
- Open the (Settings) Settings application on your phone.
- Click on the option (camera) Camera.
- Click on the option (Formats) Formats.
- Toggle the button next to (Apple ProRAW) on.
- To take pictures in this format, open the camera app, then tap the (RAW) button at the bottom.
