hi, this is emil pakarklis,the founder of iphone photography school. and in this video,you're going to discover seven hidden iphone camera features thatevery photographer should know. now, you probably already know howto use the camera of your iphone. and it's really easy totake a quick snapshot. but if you want to take your iphonephotography to the next level you have to go beyondtaking quick snapshots and learn how to take full controlof the camera of your iphone. and as you are about to see in this video,the most essential controls of your iphone
camera are actually completely hidden andmost people don't even know about them . but before we get started, i want you toknow that i wasn't always the guy teaching thousands of people how to takeoutstanding photos with the iphone. i didn't always have 93,000followers on instagram. and honestly, not too long ago i didn't even knowhow to take interesting photos myself. but as i kept working to improve my iphonephotography, i discovered seven essential camera features that apple has prettymuch hidden from casual iphone users. so that only the best photographers willbe able to find these hidden features
and use them for taking incredible photosthat leave everyone else speechless. so the first hidden iphone camera featurewe're going to discuss is swiping your finger left in order to openthe camera app from the lock screen. so right now you are looking at the lockscreen of my iphone and from here if we wanted to open the camera app youwould first have to unlock your iphone. and you can do this using the touchid which sometimes works and other times it doesn't work so well oryou could enter your passcode. but either of these options is somewhatunreliable and both take time. so a better way to starttaking photos immediately
is to simply swipe your finger acrossthe screen from right to left and you'll see that the cameraapp opens immediately. and by using this feature, you canliterally go from taking your iphone out of the pocket to the firstphoto in two seconds or less. and this feature is absolutelycritical because if you are using it, you can often capture the kind of momentsyou wouldn't be able to capture otherwise. simply because therewouldn't be enough time for you to get your iphone out andstart taking photos. now, if you're using an older version ofios which is the operating system running
on your iphone,this feature might not work for you. but what you have to do thenis locate the camera icon at the bottom right handcorner of the lock screen. and simply hold your finger on thatcamera icon at bottom right and gently swipe your finger up. and you will also be able to openthe camera app very quickly. and you'll be able to go from takingyour iphone from out of your pocket until the first photo in two seconds orless. now, this feature is very simple.
but it's very, very important. it literally helped me takehundreds if not thousands of photos. i would have not otherwisebeen able to take, all because i'm using this feature toquickly open the camera app of my iphone. so the photo you're looking at now isactually one of the iphone photos that i took last year. and of course, all the photos you'regoing to see in this video were shot and edited on iphone. and this particular photo, i didn'tknow this was about to happen, but
what happened there is that a carjust drove past me really fast, and i saw all this dustcoming from the car. and i immediately recognized this wasa unique photo opportunity because cars don't go on this road very often. so i grabbed my iphone,swiped the camera icon up, and i was able to capture this photo. and because of this, i ended up with actually whatis one of my favorite photos. this photo did really well on instagram.
i think it had almost 2,000 likes. and there's even a hugeprint of this in our office. but had i not used the swipe upfrom the lock screen feature, i would have probably missed this photowhile i'm typing in the passcode. so that's why i'm sucha big fan of this feature. now the second hidden iphonecamera feature we're going to talk about is a little bit more technical. and this is setting focus and exposure. so right now, i am once againgoing to pick up my iphone and
i'm going to show you exactly what imean by setting focus and exposure. okay, so right now you're looking at someflowers on the tripod in our office at iphone photography school. and what you can see here is thatthe flowers are in the foreground and they're much brighter thanthe office in the background. and you know i can take some photos butthe thing is in this situation, i don't really know wherethe iphone has set focus and whether the right parts ofthe flowers are going to be in focus. and i also don't have anycontrol over exposure until
i actually started adjusting it manually. and just to make sure that youalways get your photos sharp and you get the kind of results you're lookingfor predictably, i strongly recommend that you get in the habit of setting focus andexposure in your iphone photos. so how do you set focus? well actually it's really simple. all you have to do is tap your finger onthe part of the image that you want to be in focus and the iphone willautomatically set focus on that point. so right now you can see i havetapped my finger at my coworker's
feet actually and you can see the iphonehas focused on this part of the image. and you will now see that the flowersin the foreground are out of focus. so i took a photo now. and you'll see thatthe iphone has refocused. and once again, i don't know wherethe iphone has focused this time. but it's probably not exactly right. so if i want to adjust focus here,i definitely have to do it manually. and i can experiment witha few different options here. for example i can focuson my coworker's feet, or
i can focus on this flower hereon the right, and each of these points is going to give me a totallydifferent focus and different image. so, it's quite important to figureout which part of the photo you want to be really sharp, andset focus on that part of the image. so right now you can see i've even setfocus on the trees outside the window, and that's possible, too. and obviously, the flowers inforeground are totally blurred out. but what you might not know is thatwhen you set focus with the iphone, you're also setting exposure.
so right now i've tapped on the window and essentially the exposureis set on the window. and this essentially determineshow light or dark the image is. so right now i'm gonna tap my finger onthe flower in the foreground again, and you're going to see that the image willimmediately become a little bit darker. simply because by setting focuson the flower on the foreground, i'm also setting exposure on that point. now what's also interesting about exposureon iphone is that you can adjust it. so all you have to do to adjust exposureis to touch the screen with your
finger and either slide your fingerdown as i'm doing right now. and if you do that,the image is going to become darker and you are reducing exposure. or you can slide your finger up,and in that case, the image is going to become brighter andthat way you're increasing exposure. and this is another way youcan control how dark or light your image is going to become. okay so right now, just to demonstrate howexposure works on the iphone, i'm going to set focus and exposure on the chair ofmy coworker, which is relatively dark.
and the consequence, the entire imagebecomes a little bit brighter, and you can now see that the flowers in the foregroundare brighter than they were before. so if i wanted to correct forthat, i could. so i could actually make sure thatthe flowers are correctly exposed, even though the focusis not set on flowers. and in that case, all i have to do now issimply swipe my finger down the screen and you will see that the image gets darker. and now the flowers are onceagain properly exposed but they are not in focus at the moment.
now, obviously this is not what we wanthere because the flowers are the most important part of the image. so i have to pick one flower and make surethat this one flower is in perfect focus. so i'm going to pickthe flower at top left. and once i have set focus on the flower,i'm going to slightly adjust exposure. and the general guideline with exposureis that if you're not sure, you want to expose your image to be just a tiny bitdarker because if an image is darker, you can always correct thatthrough post processing. but if you have any white over exposedareas as we did before on the flowers, what is
going to happen is that, no informationwill be saved in these parts of the image. and as a consequence there is no way youcan recover detail from over exposed areas so they're simply white. so to make sure that doesn't happen, and also to kind of makethe background stand out less, in this image it makes more sense decreaseexposure, which is what we've done now. and now that i'm happy with exposure,i'm going to go ahead and take a photo and you'll see whatthis looks like in just a moment. okay, so right now you're looking at thefirst photo we took in the previous video
demonstration. and you'll see that here we haveset focus on my coworker's feet and as a consequence the flowers inthe foreground are out of focus. and here is the same photo, but this timethe focus is set correctly and also, we've reduced exposure a tiny bit, and you'llsee that the flower is perfectly in focus. it's extremely sharp, andalso the rest of the image is darker, meaning that the flowers stand outmore against the dark background. and by the way,these are just flowers in our office. yes, they do look really nice buta point i'm trying to make here is that
you don't have to travel toexotic places to do photography. if you have some flowers at home, that's all you need to getstarted with iphone photography. but now let me show youone more example of what kind of difference exposurecan make in your photos. so the photo you're looking at now isa beautiful winter photo i took recently. and the thing with this photois that i actually had to manually adjust exposure orelse it simply would not work. so right now we're looking atthese two photos side by side.
and in photo on the left what i did was,set focus on the tree but then i manually increasedexposure by swiping my finger up. whereas the photo on the right,in this case i did not adjust exposure. and you can see thatthe difference is huge and certainly the photo on the leftlooks a lot more pleasing. and here the snow whichis white in real life, actually looks white on photo, whereasthe photo on the right is totally blue. and if you've seen snow, you knowthat snow does not have that color. so this is another example of whyit's important that you take control.
not just the focus, but also of exposureto make sure that you get sharp and well lit iphone photos. now the third hidden camera feature we'regoing to talk about is locking focus and exposure. so you just learned how to set focus andexposure. but it turns out that the native cameraapp of your iphone also allows you to lock focus and exposure andthat's what we're going to look at next. okay, so right now we're looking atthe same flowers in our office and i'm going to quickly set focus andexposure for this photo.
and now that i'm happy withthe result i'm going to take a photo. and what happens as i take a photo is thatthe iphone automatically resets focus and so you can that there weresome changes on the screen and now all the focus and exposure that i hadset is gone simply because i took a photo. and this, obviously, is not perfect. because i like those focus andexposure settings, and perhaps i want to take another photo, but now i have to spend a lot of timegetting the settings right again. and the way you can prevent thisis by locking focus and exposure.
so how do you lock focus and exposure? well, actually it's really simple. all you have to do, is tap yourfinger on the screen of the iphone, where you want to set focus. but instead of releasing your finger. you have to hold it down on the screen,for just a couple of seconds as i'm doing it right now. and what you'll see is that, this text ae/af lock is going toappear at the top of your screen.
and that means you've successfullyfully locked focus and exposure. so right now, you can go ahead and adjustexposure by swiping your finger up and down the screen. which is what i'm doing now. and once you're happy with the exposure,you can go ahead and take a photo. and what you'll see right now is that,you can take a photo and after the photo is taken, the iphonewill not reset focus and exposure. what'€™s also interesting here is that, no matter what you do,the iphone will not reset focus.
so, you effectively disabledthe autofocus function of the iphone. and as i move my hand in front of thescreen, you will see that nothing happens and the focus and exposure stayjust the way they were before. what i can also do iseven pick up my iphone, try to take some other photo orgo somewhere else. but no matter what i do, the focus andexposure will remain unchanged. so now i've placed my iphoneback where it was before. and you'll see thatstill we have focus and exposure set on the flowerjust the way we wanted to.
now if you want to get out of this,it's pretty easy to do that. all you have to do is simply tapyour finger on the screen and the focus andexposure lock will be turned off. so this is how you set andlock focus and exposure on the iphone. this functions is particularly importantwhenever you have a lot of movement or action in the scene and you don't want the iphoneto reset focus and exposure simply becausesomething in the scene moved. let's say you have people likei have in this example and
we also have some birds here. and for this photo it was really importantfor me to actually set focus manually. because if i don't do thatthe iphone might accidentally set focus on the reflection, which ismuch closer than the actual subjects. so i wanted to make sure that the focusis correctly set on the actual subjects. and in terms of exposure iwanted to make sure that the subjects are silhouettedas they are in this case. and to do this while everythingis moving in this scene i actually had to lock focus and exposure.
and that's exactly whati did in this photo. and that's why it worked out so well. and by the way, this photo was takenwith iphone 4s a few years ago, and no, you don't need the latestiphone to take great photos. and here's another photo where ihad to use the same technique. so here we have a cyclist, a person idon't know, cycling through the scene. and to make sure that everything was sharpand in focus and that the exposure doesnt get messed up simply because someoneis cycling through the scene. what i had to do was actually setfocus and exposure in advance and
then wait forthe person to go through the scene. and then i was already ready to capturethe perfect photo without having to worry about focus and exposure whilethe person is cycling through the photo. now the next technique i want totalk about is taking hdr photos. hdr stands for high dynamic range. and it's a camera techniquethat allows you to take photos where both the highlights orthe bright parts of the image and the shadows or the dark partsof the image are well exposed. so let me show you how this techniqueworks with a quick video demonstration.
okay so right now,you're looking at my iphone again. and here we have the forest,which is quite dark. and we also have a relativelybright sky at the top. and bright sand atthe bottom of the screen. so in terms of exposure, this is kind ofa challenging situation because we can not expose everything correctly. so either the sky andsand are going to be really bright, or the forest is going to be really dark. so a solution for this is enabling hdr.
now if you look at the left hand sideof the screen, towards the bottom, you'll see the letters hdr. and if you tap your fingerthere you'll see that by default the hdr is set to auto. and you don't want to keep the hdr onauto, because essentially that means that the iphone will decide whetheryou're using hdr or not. and that is not ideal. instead you want to bedoing this yourself. and you want to consciously decideif hdr should be on or off.
now for landscape photos, andchallenging photo situations where some parts of the image are much brighterthan others, i recommend leaving hdr on, but for all other situations youcan pretty much leave it off. but for this we're going to turn hdr on, and right now i'm just going to takea photo and it just so happens that there's a bird flying through the scene,so let me take a couple of more photos. and now let me openthe photos we just took by tapping my finger at the bottomright hand corner of the screen. so right now you can see that this photowe just took has the hdr icon next
to it at top left, and that's how we knowthat this is the hdr version of the photo. now, if we go to the left,you will see another photo which is pretty much identical,but this is not the hdr version. so, my iphone is setup so that every time i take a photo,it saves two versions of the same photo. one with hdr and one without andthat's what i recommend doing and in the moment i'll showyou how to set that up. okay, so now, as i keep going to the leftyou can you see that i have another hdr photo, and here is the nonhdr version of that same photo.
and what you can also see is thatif we zoom in a little bit and get closer on the hdr photo, you'll seethat the forest is properly exposed, and as you zoom in you can seemore detail on the forest. you can see that the trees are green,which is how they should look, as opposed to being completely black,and in general you can just see a lot more details in the forest, andthe forest is exposed properly. whereas if we go to the other photo whichis not hdr, you'll see that the forest is much darker and as you zoom-in there,there is less detail and in general you can see that the forest isunder exposed, but in the hdr version,
both the forest and the sand inthe foreground are exposed correctly. so as i said before, hdr is reallyuseful in landscape photography. for example, here you can seean example of a landscape photo. this one does not have hdr on, and if you look at the sky you'll see thatthere's quite some overexposed areas in the sky which are essentiallyareas that are completely white and where we don't see any detail anymore,which is not a good thing in photography. but now look at the sky carefully as i'mswitching to the hdr version of the same photo.
and you'll see that the hdrversion is exposed properly, and we don't have any issues with exposure. and in general you can just say that thisphoto is better exposed thanks to hdr. so here's another example. this is the non-hdr version of the photo. and here is the hdr version of the photo,and as i said before, hdr is probably best used for landscape photography, butthere are some drawbacks to using hdr. and if you look at the grass inthe foreground now, you'll see that it does not have as much detail andcontrast as the non-hdr version had.
so if you look at the photo closely now,paying attention to the grass on the left. i'm switching to the non-hdr again, andyou'll see that the non-hdr version this time has more detail andmore contrast in the foreground. which could actually be a good thing, butat the same time the sky is blown out, meaning that it's totally white at the topleft and that is not a good thing. so, here you'd have to makea creative choice about which version of the photos you'd prefer, butno matter which version you like better, what you want to do is make sure thatthe iphone always saves both the hdr, and the non-hdr versions of the images foryou.
and to do that what you need to dois open the settings on your iphone, scroll down until you find photos &camera, and then go all the way down and in the bottom of the screen you'll findthe option to keep the normal photo. and you want to make sure thatthis slider is turned on and if it's on, your iphone willsave both the hdr and the regular version of the photos that youtake using hdr mode of your iphone camera. now the next hidden iphone camera featurei want to talk about is burst mode. and this is really, really awesome. it's actually one of my favoritehidden iphone camera features.
so let me pick up my iphone andlet me show you how burst mode works. so, right now what you'relooking at is a beach scene and you can see that i've already set andlocked focus exposure on the sand where i know that a personis approaching from the left. and what you can now see that our subject,which is a person i don't actually know, is walking through the scenefrom left to right. and i'm trying to take some photosof the person, but the person will be gone pretty soon and i will havemissed the opportunity to take this photo. and with human subjects whoare walking through the scene,
there's quite a big difference interms of when you press the shutter. now what you want todo in photos like this is to press the shutter when the legsof your subjects are wide apart. because for some reason that just looksa lot more pleasing to the human eyes. where as if the legs are overlapping,that just doesn't look so good. and to do this it's pretty hard to pressshutter at the exact right moment, especially since this person will begone from the scene really soon, and then i won't have time totake this photo again. so what i'm doing in situations like this,
when it's important to getthe exact right moment and when there's some kind of movement inthe scene is, i'm using the burst mode. so to activate the burst mode,what you want to do is tap and hold your finger down on the shutterbutton which is what i'm doing now. and you'll see that a whole bunch ofphotos are quickly being taken, and you'll see the number next tothe shutter button that shows how many photos you've already taken. so as you can see i just took 34photos in a matter of seconds. and now let me open the camera roll andlet's take a look at these photos.
so at first you might think "oh no 34 photos!how am i gonna go through that?" but actually it's really easy to do that. so, here you can see thatthis is a burst photo that consists of actually34 separate photos. and at the top you can selectthe select option, and once you do that this allows you to select your favorites,so you don't have to keep all 34 photos. and at the bottom of the screen. you can slide through these photos reallyquickly, until you find the ones you like. you'll find that, there's one photo,
where the iphone has alreadyplaced a dot under the photo. and this will typicallybe the sharpest photo that the iphone thinks is the best photo. but obviously the iphone doesn'tunderstand which photo actually looks best, so it simply picks the photothat it knows is the sharpest one, and what you can now do is selectthe photos you want to keep. so right now i just tap my finger at thebottom right of this photo and you'll see that blue check mark appear, and thatmeans that i'm going to keep this photo. and this way you can gothrough all of the photos and
keep any of the ones you want to actuallykeep and then discard everything else. so i'm looking for photos wherethe subject's legs are wide apart, because i think thoselook better visually. so i'm going to select these photosthat i like and discard everything else. so once i find a photo that i'm happywith, i'm just going to tap the okay check mark, and everything else will bediscarded the moment i press done. so here, i'm just making my finalchoices and before i discard everything, i just want to make sure thati've kept the ones i like. and once i'm confident about that,i'm going to tap done at the top right.
and i'm going to keeponly the five favorites. and right now, everything else just gotdeleted, and i only have five photos and everything else is gone. so you don't have to worry that youriphone will be full of photos just because you took a burst mode photo. but now let me show you some examplesof iphone photos that i have taken using the burst mode feature. so here this first photo is actuallytaken at the same beach and once again we have a subject that i don'tknow walking through the scene. and here i
wanted to make sure that the subject isright in front of that road because that looks better visually and i wanted to makesure that the subject is in full stride. and this is such a short moment andif i mess this up, i'll have to wait for a long time until someoneelse appears on the scene and because of that here i used burst mode. and i took a whole bunch of photos andi could then pinpoint to the one photo, where the composition is perfect, and where subject's legs are wide apart whichlooks really nice in a photo like this. so here's another example ofa photo i took using burst mode, and
obviously, any kind of action shots,sports events, or anything where there's a lot of movement,is perfect for using the burst mode. and finally, here's an interesting burstmode photo that i took just recently. and here, a guy was apparentlytrying to take some jumping photos with his girlfriend and unfortunately thegirlfriend, and i don't know these people, but the girlfriend did notknow about the burst mode, and the guy had to keep jumping for 20 times because the girlfriend couldnever get the shot exactly right. and i saw that this keeps happening andthen i decided to actually take a photo of
them taking these jumping photos,and since i was using a burst mode i could actually get the exact right momentthe first time i was taking photos whereas they had to keep practicing thisuntil they got the exact right shot. so, if you're doing anykind of jumping shots. you definitely want to use burst mode, andthat way your subject won't have to jump another ten times until you get theshutter pressed at the exact right moment. now, the next hidden iphone camera featurei'm gonna talk about is taking photos with the volume buttons. so, let me show you what thatlooks like on a quick video.
so, here you can see that i'm standingon the balcony of our office and i'm just going to take somephotos to demonstrate to you, how the volume buttonshutter release works. so, the good thing about thisis that i get to hold my iphone just like i would hold a regular camera,which is really convenient. and what i can do is simply use the volume buttons on the side ofthe iphone as the shutter release, and as i press down the volume buttons,the photo is automatically taken. now what i can also do is get reallyclose to the surface, as you can see
me doing right now, and if i now rotatemy hands i can still capture a photo, and press the shutter easily, but theiphone is not really close to the surface. and now if you just look at my armscarefully you'll see that i'm once again, using the volume button shutterrelease to take photos. and this way i can more easilypress the shutter while my iphone is actually reallyclose to the surface. now in case you're wonderingwhy i'm holding my iphone so close to the surface,this is the reason why i'm doing that. as you can see, i was able to createa pretty interesting and creative photo on
the balcony for our office building so youdon't have to go too far, or you don't have to go to famous places in order to takephotos. as long as you know what you're doing you can take great photos withyour iphone no matter where you are even if you're at your office,which is where i'm recording this video. so, as you can see by now,placing my iphone close to wet surfaces is one of my favorite photographytechniques, but to do this right, you definitely have to lock focus andexposure, or else the iphone will set focus on the surface itself and everythingin the background will be out of focus. so you want to make sure that youlock focus and exposure, as i showed
you earlier, but if you do this, you cantake some really extraordinary photos. for example, this photo i took withmy iphone 4s several years ago. this is still one of my favorite photosto this day, and the reason i'm showing you this is that, as long as you knowwhat you're doing, you don't need a fancy camera or even the latest iphonein order to take great photos. and finally, the last technique i want to show youis taking photos with your headphones. so let me take you behindthe scenes in our office and show you how this feature works.
okay, so for feature number seven, i actually want to takeyou behind the scenes, and show you the set up we had for recordingsome of the earlier demonstrations. so you'll see here that wehave two studio lights. we have our flower, as the subject. and because we have these lights soclose to the flower, the flower's brightly illuminated,which makes the photo sharper, and which also allows me to demonstrateeffective exposure for you. and here we have the iphone on a tripod.
so that when i record the videothe iphone doesn't shake too much, and of course when you're using a tripodyou're also going to get a sharper photo. now one of the problems you have whenyou're shooting with a tripod is that, when you actually touch the screen to takea photo, the iphone moves a little bit, or if you are going to use thesevolume buttons right here, then the iphone is goingto move even more. and your goal in photography is try toreduce the movement of your iphone as much, as possible so that you can getthe sharpest photos possible. and the solution for this is toactually plug in your apple headphones.
so these are the white headphones thatcome when you first buy the iphone. if you just plug them in andopen the camera app. what you can then do isactually take photos using these volume buttons onthe headphones of your iphone. so right now, so that i don't haveto touch the screen of my iphone, i can just press the volume buttons,either volume up or volume down, and a photo is taken every time i do that. and this is particularly usefulwhen you're working on a tripod, or if you're doing street photography andyou want to remain unnoticed so
that other people don't evenknow you're taking a photo. okay, so here's a quick exampleof a street photo i took using the volume buttonsof my apple headphones. i was actually pretending i'm listening tomusic and i don't even know these people. they are strangers in new york city, but isaw that this moment was potentially very interesting which is whyi got out my iphone. and, as i was pretending to be listeningto music, i could actually take a photo of these people without them evennoticing that i'm taking a photo. and that's the reason whyyou can see candid emotions
on the faces of these people. and here's another exampleof the same thing. here you can see a photographer sellingphotos on the streets of san francisco. and i was able to get actuallypretty close to him, and he didn't even notice that i was taking aphoto even though he is a photographer and that's because i was pretending to belistening to music on my headphones, while i was actually taking a photo ofthis man using my apple headphones. i hope you enjoyed the hidden camerafeatures we talked about in this video. this techniques have helped me takesome of my best iphone photos.
and now that you know these techniques,you too can use them for taking outstandingphotos with your iphone. with that said,this is just the beginning. there's only so much i can sharewith you in this short video. and while i didn't hold anything back,there's so many other techniques i didn'thave time to share with you today. and actually there's somethingeven more important than any of the techniques we talked about. you see, the techniques we coveredtoday are extremely powerful.
but the only way to really take youriphone photos to the next level, is by changing the way youlook at the world around you. some people say they have nothing totake photos of where they live, or that the iphone can't take great photos, butof course, none of that is actually true. there are amazing photoopportunities everywhere you go. you just have to know how to use them. and that's exactly why i created iphonephoto academy, which is the only online course that will help you take incredibleiphone photos that everyone adores, and that you'll be proudto look at years later.
now, i have to warn you that iphone photoacademy always sells out quickly, and the registration will only stay open fora few more days. so, if you want to find outmore about this course, you should do it now whilethe registration is still open. so go ahead and click on that big yellow,funny looking button below this video and it will take you to the next page,where you can learn more about iphone photo academy, andsee if this course is a good fit for you before the registrationcloses in just a few days. so go ahead and click on that buttonbelow, and i'll see you on the next page.
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