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What is white balance on your iPhone? Light has different colors. When the sun nearly sets (the golden hour) the light has an orange warm color. On a cloudy day the light is blue and cold. This color temperature is expressed in Kelvin. The higher the Kelvin value, the bluer the light. Warm red light …
Introduction I bought my first digital SLR camera with a 50 mm lens. This lens creates a beautiful blurry backgrounds (bokeh) when making portraits. Unfortunately, with my iPhone 6s it is not possible to photograph portraits with blurred backgrounds. However, you can blur the background with the iPhone camera apps FabFocus and Focos 2.0 and …
What is lens flare in your iPhone photos? Lens flare or sun flare are the stripes and circles that you sometimes see in your iPhone photo around the sun or other bright light and are caused by reflections in your lens. Lens flare can mess up your photo, but sometimes it adds extra atmosphere and …
Introduction to long exposure iPhone photos Photographing long exposure iPhone photos is a technique that you can use for your photography to add special effects to a photo. For long exposure photos, the shutter of a camera is opened for longer, so that moving parts are displayed in an unsharp manner. For example, a slow …
Introduction Photographing the moon with your iPhone is difficult because it is too small for the automatic exposure. The dark sky around the very bright moon causes the moon to be overexposed. The result is a bleached moon without details. I have tested three camera apps on my iPhone 8 Plus to see which gives …
What is noise? Noise are the random speckles that are mainly visible in photos that are made in low light and with a high ISO value. The ISO value indicates the light sensitivity of the sensor and a high ISO gives more noise. If you shoot with the iPhone Camera app, the noise will be …
Introduction With vignetting you can make the corners and edges of your photos darker with the photo editing app Snapseed, so that the focus is on the center. I often use this technique to emphasize the subject of a photo and add extra atmosphere. This page contains videos and a manual. Video: How to add …
Introduction Recently I have purchased a Black Eye HD external ultra wide-angle lens for my iPhone 8 Plus. This lens can easily be placed with a clamp on the front camera or the back camera. The lens is equal to a 16mm lens in 35mm format and the large angle of view of 160° is …
Introduction to RAW camera apps Your iPhone comes with the iPhone Camera app that is well-organized and user-friendly. You have all the functionalities in one place and you can start the app in many ways; even without first unlocking your iPhone. However, with the iPhone Camera app you cannot take RAW photos and you cannot …
Why do you need a special iPhone app for shooting the stars? The light of stars is very weak and therefore it is difficult to photograph them. With an SLR camera, you can increase the amount of light that falls on the sensor with the aperture, set a slow shutter speed in seconds or minutes, …