Master the iPhone Camera App: A Beginner's Guide — Transcript

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1. 0:09Hi, everyone.
2. 0:10I'm David Addison, and I'm taking over from Emil to give you
3. 0:13a guided tour of the iPhone's Camera app.
4. 0:17I'm just here to familiarize you with where everything is so
5. 0:21that when myself or another instructor
6. 0:23further on in the course uses a function or a feature,
7. 0:27you know where it is.
8. 0:29Now, I am using a tripod and a phone holder.
9. 0:33You don't need either of those things to do iPhone photography
10. 0:36or to follow along with this video.
11. 0:39I'm simply using it for sake of ease.
12. 0:42So I'm not holding the phone this whole video and it's shaking around.
13. 0:45So it's better for your viewing experience as well.
14. 0:48Now if you are curious, this is
15. 0:49a Manfrotto Compact MKC3-H01.
16. 0:55That is an extremely catchy name.
17. 0:56I'm sure that has gone into memory immediately.
18. 0:59This phone holder is a GripTight PRO 2 from Joby.
19. 1:04But, of course, there's many tripods and phone holders available.
20. 1:07These are just two that I happen to like and use.
21. 1:11Now I am using an iPhone 15 Pro Max and you
22. 1:15don't need the latest and greatest iPhone to follow along
23. 1:19with this video because this may have some settings and
24. 1:23functions and features that you don't have on your iPhone.
25. 1:27But don't worry because I took these photos with an original
26. 1:31iPhone SE.
27. 1:32It's far more important that you understand framing,
28. 1:35how to frame your shot,
29. 1:37and lighting over any setting or functional feature in the
30. 1:41Camera app.
31. 1:41The original SE hasn't got half the functionality
32. 1:44of this iPhone 15 Pro Max and you'll be learning all about
33. 1:48how to frame and lighting further on down the course.
34. 1:53So let's jump into the iPhone 15 Pro Max's Camera app.
35. 1:57Starting with this big white circular button here.
36. 2:01It's a very important button.
37. 2:02It's called the shutter button and it's what you press mainly
38. 2:05to take photos.
39. 2:07So just press that and the photo is captured.
40. 2:11But notice how gently I press it.
41. 2:14I'm gonna advise that you just tap it.
42. 2:16Just caress the shutter button and the iPhone will respond.
43. 2:20Don't jam your finger into it like that. It's not necessary.
44. 2:23And you introduce camera shake as well which can blur your photos.
45. 2:27So just nice and gentle.
46. 2:30Up here we have our preview and this little rounded rectangle
47. 2:35here this is the last few photos that you've taken.
48. 2:38In fact, you could keep scrolling through all your photos if you
49. 2:41wanted but just so you can check what you've captured is okay.
50. 2:46You can zoom in,
51. 2:47make sure everything's what you wanted and you can edit your
52. 2:50photos here as well.
53. 2:52Go back like that or you can swipe down and go back
54. 2:57like that as well.
55. 2:59Now there's a little circular arrow button down at the bottom here
56. 3:04this is your selfie switcher so you should see me.
57. 3:07Hello everyone, here we are. Tap that.
58. 3:10So that switches between the back cameras on your iPhone and
59. 3:15the front camera which on the later models is hidden over here.
60. 3:19So you can't see it but we know that that is the camera that we are in.
61. 3:24Now speaking of the back cameras your iPhone
62. 3:28this 15 Pro Max has lots of different options for different lenses,
63. 3:32different amounts of zoom,
64. 3:34different frames and things like that.
65. 3:35So I'm going to go through them with you now.
66. 3:37Starting with this 0.5 so this refers to
67. 3:41the ultra wide lens you can see immediately we get a much
68. 3:45broader field of view, a much broader frame with the
69. 3:480.5x lens.
70. 3:50You'll hear this called the ultra wide and this is also the
71. 3:53lens that has the macro capabilities which we'll go
72. 3:57into later on in the course.
73. 3:59Now we have the main camera the 1x lens
74. 4:04otherwise known as the wide lens or the 1x lens.
75. 4:07Now this lens is hiding some secrets.
76. 4:11There are some hidden lenses within this lens because you
77. 4:14may have noticed that this iPhone has three cameras on the
78. 4:19back but we've got four here.
79. 4:21In fact, there's there's seven on the 15 Pro Max.
80. 4:24You access those by just tapping 1x again.
81. 4:27You can see 1.2, 1.5.
82. 4:30So now we get a slightly different frame.
83. 4:32So in this example I can use that to just crop out those
84. 4:36small bollards there
85. 4:38get a different frame.
86. 4:40Those are digital lenses and those work
87. 4:44by using the 1x camera and just punching in.
88. 4:49So it uses part of the image sensor of the 1x camera to give
89. 4:53you that zoomed in look and the 2x works in
90. 4:57the exact same way.
91. 4:59So those are all your digital lenses.
92. 5:02Now we've got one more optical, one more physical lens which is
93. 5:06this 5x and unless you have 15 Pro Max you
94. 5:11will see some different numbers here but they generally do the
95. 5:15same thing so far as this is gonna be your widest option,
96. 5:19this will be the midpoint and then this will be your telephoto.
97. 5:24Telephoto meaning like really long zoom
98. 5:27and you might see 3x, 2x
99. 5:29something like that but they do the same thing as what mine
100. 5:33does and you can also tap and hold and zoom like this as well.
101. 5:42So those are your camera and lens options.
102. 5:45Now next to those we have your camera modes.
103. 5:48So we are now in Photo mode which is the default camera
104. 5:51mode this is where we'll be spending the vast majority of our time.
105. 5:55It's where all your camera features and settings are for the most part.
106. 5:59Now above that here we have Video mode and I can tap it to
107. 6:03switch to it or I can swipe like this.
108. 6:07So Video mode and then we have Cinematic,
109. 6:09Slo-Mo, and Time-Lapse.
110. 6:11And I'm breezing through those because this is iPhone Photo Academy.
111. 6:16I don't wanna be spending too much time on video stuff.
112. 6:20What I'm much more interested in is the photo functionality
113. 6:23which is down here so we have Portrait now this is the mode
114. 6:27that you use to take stunning portraits of people.
115. 6:31It also works with pets and objects and what it does is it
116. 6:36applies a blur effect live in the photo
117. 6:40that you can adjust later,
118. 6:42you can adjust the lighting which isn't going to work here
119. 6:44because we don't have a subject in front of us but there will
120. 6:47be a video all about Portrait mode coming up.
121. 6:51And finally we have Pano, Pano is short for panorama
122. 6:55and this arrow gives you a clue as to what to do and you get
123. 6:58some instructions on the screen there again full episode on
124. 7:01panorama coming up where you move the phone and you
125. 7:06capture a frame that is just impossible
126. 7:09to capture in a single image.
127. 7:11Panorama lets you stitch images together across the whole scene.
128. 7:15They're stunning. You're gonna love it.
129. 7:18Now let's go back to the Photo mode and carry on our tour.
130. 7:23So over here we have this lightning bolt icon which is
131. 7:26the flash icon.
132. 7:28Now when you see a lightning bolt like this,
133. 7:29it doesn't mean that the flash is on.
134. 7:31It's on auto. When it goes yellow, it's on.
135. 7:34I'll turn it on in a minute so you know what that looks like.
136. 7:37If I can tap it, turn it off.
137. 7:40Tap it again, it's on auto.
138. 7:42And what auto means is the iPhone's gonna decide when it
139. 7:45thinks the flash should come on and it's gonna do everything in
140. 7:48its power to not bring the flash on because
141. 7:52it doesn't really look very good even on the latest and
142. 7:54greatest iPhones it's not great.
143. 7:58Now you may want to use it if you're in a bar or a nightclub
144. 8:01or something like that and there is no other option
145. 8:04turn the flash on it might give you good results but I'm gonna
146. 8:08try and avoid it as much as I can.
147. 8:10You can see even when I take a photo the flash didn't fire
148. 8:15because it doesn't need to.
149. 8:17Now this little green dot here this is a privacy
150. 8:21setting this is built into the iPhone you can't turn this off
151. 8:24this lets you know when the camera is in use.
152. 8:27So if you don't have the camera up like I do and you see the
153. 8:31green dot something's using your camera.
154. 8:33What's going on?
155. 8:34But now obviously I'm in the Camera app that makes sense to
156. 8:37have that little green dot.
157. 8:38And finally down here on the side we have Live Photos.
158. 8:42Now Live Photos are fun little videos that you get along with
159. 8:46your photos they come with audio as well they're brilliant
160. 8:49and you can go in later select your frame you can watch a
161. 8:53short little clip back of the moment.
162. 8:56They're really really fun.
163. 8:57I'm gonna go into them in a lot more detail a little bit later on.
164. 9:01And just like with the flash this is auto.
165. 9:04So Live Photos is now off, Live off
166. 9:07and Live auto.
167. 9:08The difference is that when Live Photos are on auto they
168. 9:11always seem to be on.
169. 9:12Whenever Live Photos is on auto and I take a picture I always
170. 9:16seem to get a Live Photo.
171. 9:17It's even recording Live Photo now because the video starts
172. 9:21from even before you press the shutter.
173. 9:24Now one last thing over on this side is the hidden menu
174. 9:28waiting patiently for me to show you it.
175. 9:30And if I tap this arrow,
176. 9:32you see the hidden menu reveals itself.
177. 9:35I can also swipe right on the screen like that
178. 9:38to open it, swipe left to close it again.
179. 9:42So let's open it and see what is inside.
180. 9:44So we have the flash setting over here.
181. 9:48You confirm that flash is on auto.
182. 9:50We've got on and off.
183. 9:54So if I turn the flash on you can see now it turns yellow and
184. 9:59that confirms that this is active and this is
185. 10:03part of the design language of the iPhone that it uses to help
186. 10:08you keep track of where you're up to,
187. 10:10what you've got turned on and things like that.
188. 10:12That becomes very very helpful a little bit later on with a
189. 10:14few more of these functions as I'll show you.
190. 10:17So the hidden menu is open so it is yellow.
191. 10:19We are in the 1x camera. It's yellow. You get the idea.
192. 10:23So now when I press to take a photo, you can see the flash fires.
193. 10:29Cool. So I'm gonna put it back on auto.
194. 10:32Don't need you on.
195. 10:33Same thing with Live Photos we have Live auto and on which
196. 10:37again I have never found any sort of difference between on
197. 10:40and auto so I'm gonna leave it on auto like that.
198. 10:45Next we have Photographic Styles and
199. 10:49Photographic Styles applies a filter or a
200. 10:53style as the name suggests to your photos and these are very very subtle.
201. 10:57What the iPhone is doing here just looking at the frames
202. 11:00analyzing it and it's applying an intelligent amount
203. 11:06of adjustment to your frame so we've got
204. 11:08Warm, we've got Vibrant, we've got Cool and there are some
205. 11:14sliders here that I can adjust.
206. 11:16So I can let's go on to the the the Warm one and I can make warm
207. 11:22not so warm.
208. 11:23I can make it cool.
209. 11:25I can make it really cool.
210. 11:26And you'll have a look down here at this icon on the right hand side.
211. 11:31As I make it cooler,
212. 11:32the Photographic Styles icon that has now appeared
213. 11:36goes red and it goes blue as I make it cooler.
214. 11:40Very very cool.
215. 11:41So this icon is now going to stay here as long as I've got a
216. 11:44Photographic Style applied.
217. 11:47So if I go on Tone you'll see the line those dotted lines
218. 11:52actually fill up and just to give you a reminder of what
219. 11:55you've got going on because Photographic Styles are that
220. 11:57subtle you can often forget that you actually got one applied.
221. 12:01But just keep in mind with Photographic Styles that once
222. 12:05you apply one you can't remove it later.
223. 12:08That is it.
224. 12:08It is baked in to your photo unlike filters which I'll
225. 12:13show you in just a minute.
226. 12:14So that is Photographic Styles and I can also reset my
227. 12:18Photographic Style by coming up to this
228. 12:22circular arrow and tapping Reset.
229. 12:27I will just
230. 12:29re-reset it to how I had it and carry on.
231. 12:33So tap here to get out of Photographic Styles
232. 12:37and then we can move on to aspect ratio.
233. 12:40And aspect ratio is the size of your frame so we have four
234. 12:44which is the longest part of the frame by three the shortest
235. 12:47part and it'll always be that relationship so we've got
236. 12:51square which is one by one and these aren't in millimeters or
237. 12:55centimeters or inches it is just a ratio.
238. 12:59So 16:9 for example isn't bigger than
239. 13:034:3 just a different ratio to each other.
240. 13:06You'll see 16:9 here looks like a video frame it looks like
241. 13:09I've actually got more I've got a wider frame but I'm actually
242. 13:12not it's just digitally altering the frame for me it's
243. 13:17actually using only a part now of the full sensor to
244. 13:21give me that view.
245. 13:22Well unlike Photographic Styles I can actually revert back to
246. 13:264:3 later cause regardless of which aspect ratio I choose if
247. 13:30I choose 16:9 not actually capturing just 16:9 it's
248. 13:34capturing the full sensor and just cropping it.
249. 13:37So don't worry if you accidentally leave it in 1:1 or
250. 13:4016:9 and you're like no I wanted more it's there for you.
251. 13:45So that is aspect ratios and over here we have exposure.
252. 13:50Exposure is a photography term to mean dark and light
253. 13:54so we can bring it down with the slider darker -2 or lighter
254. 14:02+1.7 whatever we want and we also get this
255. 14:06cool meter over here.
256. 14:08You see a line like this in photography it's called a meter
257. 14:12and it's very cool how you get one included there again just
258. 14:16to give you a reminder because it can be very subtle if you
259. 14:20+0.3 can look very similar to as if you've not adjusted it
260. 14:24at all so it's just gonna stay there as a reminder for you.
261. 14:28If I tap the icon again I get back to the hidden menu
262. 14:31Let's keep going. This is the timer. So we have 3 seconds.
263. 14:36Again, it's gonna show up down here. Now we have 10 seconds.
264. 14:41So if you want to run into the frame,
265. 14:43if you're taking a picture with a group or even by yourself,
266. 14:47this is what you could use.
267. 14:50So 3 seconds could be to eliminate any sort of camera
268. 14:53shake if I tap that by the time the camera
269. 14:57has taken the photo the phone has stopped shaking so that's
270. 14:59what you could use 3 seconds for and 10 seconds again if you
271. 15:02want to run into the frame and you can see it actually gives
272. 15:05me a little countdown here and you can see the light flashing
273. 15:08on the front of the iPhone to let you know when the photo is
274. 15:10actually taken when you're in front of the camera.
275. 15:12Apple know that's what you're probably going to use this
276. 15:14feature for.
277. 15:16Now finally we have these three overlapping circles
278. 15:20and these are your filters these are much more
279. 15:23obvious than your Photographic Styles.
280. 15:26These are like traditional filters that you might apply
281. 15:30to a photo later.
282. 15:31So I've got a Photographic Style and a filter on at the moment.
283. 15:35I've got Dramatic which they seem to be working quite well
284. 15:38together Dramatic Warm, Dramatic Cool you get the idea
285. 15:43Mono.
286. 15:43Unlike Photographic Styles you can actually revert these back
287. 15:48later you can remove them if you don't want it.
288. 15:51So let me show you what that looks like if I tap to take
289. 15:54this photo the timer is still on 3, 2, 1, there we go
290. 15:59here's that photo I can come to Edit
291. 16:02and I can actually come over here I can apply a filter later
292. 16:08as well and I can revert the photo back to
293. 16:13its original form.
294. 16:15So that's really helpful so don't worry if you leave a
295. 16:18filter on and you decide that you don't want it it's not a problem.
296. 16:22Right.
297. 16:23That is everything that we can see on the iPhone's camera.
298. 16:26You can see things have gotten quite complex here with all
299. 16:29these icons subdued all over the screen.
300. 16:32I'm gonna come through and reset each one.
301. 16:36It's not a problem.
302. 16:38Very, very easy to go back to the way we have things
303. 16:43and clean things up
304. 16:47and close the hidden menu.
305. 16:50Well, that's not all.
306. 16:51There's a couple of more things that I want to tell you about.
307. 16:55Now, these are things that only activate in certain
308. 16:58circumstances and one of them is Night mode.
309. 17:00So Night mode is a low light mode and it's the iPhone
310. 17:04helping you out when it thinks there's not enough light around
311. 17:07and you may have come across it as you're trying to follow
312. 17:09along here and wonder what it is.
313. 17:10So you'll see the icon appear here next to the flash and
314. 17:14you'll see it in the hidden menu again next to the flash.
315. 17:18Now I can't turn on Night mode I can't force it to come on in
316. 17:21this situation because there's too much light around for Night mode.
317. 17:24It's an automatic mode.
318. 17:25We've got a full video coming up where we do low light photography.
319. 17:28So stick around for that if you're curious about Night mode.
320. 17:32Another one is watch what happens when I tap to focus here.
321. 17:37Now on the 15 Pro Max we have the portraits in Photo mode feature.
322. 17:41Again this might not happen for you on your iPhone.
323. 17:43Don't worry it is a mode that allows you to switch
324. 17:46automatically between a portrait photo and a regular photo.
325. 17:50So when I tapped to focus this f came up here.
326. 17:55Nothing's gonna happen at the moment because there's no
327. 17:57subject for me.
328. 17:58I don't have a dog, a cat,
329. 17:59a person or an object or anything like that and if I did
330. 18:02you would see that artificial blur gets applied that I can
331. 18:05remove later and choose between a portrait mode photo and a regular photo.
332. 18:10Again full episode on this coming up later on.
333. 18:15Finally watch what happens when I bring my hand close to the frame.
334. 18:19You see that flower icon here?
335. 18:22This is iPhone automatically switching between the regular
336. 18:26camera and the macro camera.
337. 18:29So it's doing me a favor when it automatically detects that
338. 18:33something is close and I might want to take a macro photo it's gonna switch
339. 18:38automatically and you can turn this off just like that
340. 18:44but more on this when we cover macro photography further on in the course.
341. 18:50Now there's one more thing you've done so well to get to
342. 18:53this point because it is a lot and we're not expecting you to
343. 18:56be experts right off the bat immediately.
344. 19:00What I recommend you do is familiarize yourself with
345. 19:03everything, go through it, turn things on, turn things off,
346. 19:07just get used to it so that when you see myself or another
347. 19:10instructor later on using a certain function you're more
348. 19:14familiar with where that is and what it's for.
349. 19:17And that one other thing I mentioned is the image format switcher.
350. 19:20So the iPhone will allow you to shoot in different image formats.
351. 19:23So what that means is you get different types of images.
352. 19:28Well, this needs to be turned on in the settings.
353. 19:31It just so happens that settings is the next episode.
354. 19:35So I will see you in that one where I show you how to turn on
355. 19:39the image format switcher and go through all of the iPhone's
356. 19:43Camera settings.
357. 19:44Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.