Manual Photography for iPhone and Android

1. Manual Photography for iPhone and Android - Introduction: Welcome to the class Manual photography for IPO and Android. Floor from the Val PH, my photography company, and I have more than 13 years of experience teaching and working professionally in corporate fashion and portrait photography. I have covered London and Paris fashion weeks, for international magazines. I have an artistic work in contemporary photography in which I use both my canon and my iPhone to take my series. I show my work in solo and collective exhibitions, and I had won artistic brands and awards. In this class, you will learn about mammal photography for iPhone and Android devices. You will master the exposure triangle how to control the shutter speed and SO on both devices. This class is open to everyone with or without any knowledge in photography. At the end of the class, you will be able to transform your mobile camera into a manual camera without having to carry heavy stuff. These lessons are part of my longer class, a smartphone photography, a complete guide for IPhone and Android. I invite you to do the final project to practice what you learned in the class. Without further ado, please pick your mobile, and let's get started. 2. Manual Photography. Exposure Triangle: In this lesson. I will talk about manual photography. You know that apart from your mobile, we need light to be able to see a photo. We control the light using the exposure triangle. Understanding these concepts will help you if you want to manually control the settings of your camera. If you're using an android, the way that you will do that is by using the promote. If you're using an iPhone, it will be through an app that is called R plus. In upcoming lessons, I will explain you in detail how to use the pro mode on Android and the row plus ap on IPO. Let's start now with exposure triangle. We have three things to control, the aperture, the share speed, and the Io. Aperture in photography is the opening of the camera lens, which is related to the amount of light that passes through the camera lens. The aperture is measured with the F number. The smaller the number, you will have a shallower depth of feel, and the bigger the number, you will see everything more in focus or have a deeper depth of feel. In photography, death of feel is the sound within a photo that appears sharp and in focus. It extends in front of and behind the point where we have our focus point. Subjects located in this area will be in focus. Subjects outside this area will be out of focus. In this example, I use an F number of 1.4. The focus is in the little angel. As I have a shallow def, you can see that the foreground is out of focus and also the background. In the second example, I use an F number of 16. Again, the focus is in the little angel, but as I use a bigger F number, I have a deep deaf of feel. I expanded my focus area both to the foreground and the background. Another thing to have into account is that the smaller the F number, more light will enter to your lenses. The bigger the F number, less light will enter to your lenses. The next thing that we are going to talk about is the shader speed. This is the amount of time that the shutter of your camera remains open. As slower shader speed allows more light in. The photo will be brighter. This is ideal for photos taken at night. Also, a slower share speed will capture more movement. In this example that I'm sharing with you, I was able to capture the movement of the dancers. I recommend to use a tripod for this type of photography because if not, you will also have your camera movement. Faster shatter speed allows less light in. This is helpful for capturing photos of fast moving objects to be able to freeze the subject. A share speed of 1/125 is a standard when you don't have a moving subject. If you're shooting sports or other types of movement, you will want to use a higher share speed such as 1/250 or even faster than that to freeze the action. In my example, I use 1/250 to freeze the model. When you're using this high speeds, make sure that you have a lot of light available for a well exposed photo. The third element that we're going to talk about is the IO. This controls how sensitive is your camera sensor to light. Low values are for brightly lit objects. Higher values are for poorly led objects. Have in mind that the iso that you're using, as your camera sensor is being more sensitive to light, you will have more digital noise. In the example, you can see that at higher levels, the digital noise is more visible. I recommend to try to keep your IO as lower as possible. But of course, if you are indoors and you need more light, you will have to increase the IO. Always check that the digital noise that you're seeing is not too bad. When you're shooting night photography, my advice is to keep your IO as lower as possible. Instead, use a tripod and use slow sheer speed. With that, you're allowing a lot of light to enter your camera. But without having to decrease the quality of it, using a higher ISO that will turn to a photo with a lot of digital noise. In my example of the city of New York at night, I use an ISO 100 and kept my camera on a steady place. 3. iPhone: Manual Photography with Raw+ App and Portrait Mode: On IPO, if you want to manually control the settings of your camera, you will have to download an app called Raw plus or another similar. This one is free, and you will find it in the Apple store. Remember what we saw on the previous lesson on manual photography and exposure triangle. Open the w plus a, and you will find at the bottom the ISO and the shutter speed sliders. Move the slider that says shutter speed to be able to change it. If you move the slider to the left, you will use a slower shutter speed, and more light will enter to your camera. If you move the slider to the right, you will use a faster shutter speed and less light will enter to your camera. You can also adjust the one. If you move the slider to the right, you will be using a higher. Your camera will become more sensitive to light. More light will enter to it. If you move the slider to the left, you will be using a lower less light we enter to your camera. Another tool that you have is the white balance tool. It will help you to keep the colors of your image as true as possible to the original. The different types of light are represented with these icons. A WB means automatic. Your mobile will adjust the color temperature automatically. Then you have the shade option. Then you have the cloudy color temperature, flash, if you're using the flash, daylight, then you have white fluorescent. If you are indoors or another type of light is Tugsten. The white balance tool is at the top of the row plus app. You will see the light icons that I have just explained. Just the icon according to your current setting. This app will only allow you to change the share speed and the IO, but not the pertur. If your most important thing in the photo is to be able to adjust the aperture, you will have to do that with the portrayed mode. This is a great mode to shoot people. But you can also use it to show details and textures of things. If you have a fashion brand or you sell accessories, it's a great way to show the details and the texture of your clothes. If you're doing landscape photography, it's great to take a photo of the whole space, but also it's good to get closer to something that you like, something that call your attention, and use the portrait mode to shoot that. This is a way to get more involved in what's happening in a place. Select the portrayed mode on your iPhone. In iPhones, you have two options, the three x and the one x om. If you tap on the upper right corner, you will find an F. It stands for the F, the per of your lens. This resembles analog or DSLR cameras that have lenses with different apertures. It's important to adjust the F number correctly because if you have two persons or two objects in a photo and you don't use the correct F number, it could happen that the other person or the other objects appears out of focus. You can see in my example that by changing the F number or depth of field, I make the object at the back to appear in focus two Another thing to have into account, we can choose to tap on the subject that is in the foreground or the subject that is in the background. 4. Android: Manual Photography with Pro Mode and Portrait Mode: Let's continue with the pro mode on Android. This mode allows you to manually control the settings of your camera. Remember what we saw on the previous lesson on manual photography and exposure triangle. To use the pro mode scroll to the right on the menu of the camera of your Android until you see more then tap on pro mode. Tap on the icon of the shutter speed to be able to change it. If you move the slider to the right, you will be using a slower shutter speed, and more light will enter to your camera. If you move the slider to the left, you will be using a faster shutter speed and less light will enter to your camera. You can also adjust the oe. If you move the slider to the right, you will be using a higher on, and more light will enter to your camera. If you move the slider to the left, you will be using a lower iso n less light will enter to your camera. If your mobile has the white balance tool, it will help you to keep the colors of your image as true as possible to the original. You can set the color temperature according to the situation you are in. In photography, the color temperature is measured in calves. For example, the color temperature of daylight is 5,500 Kalvin. On the promote tap on white balance, and move the slider to the left or right. If you move the slider to the left, your mobile will adjust the color temperature, so it looks colder. If you move the slider to the right, will adjust the color temperature, so it looks warmer. Most of the andro mobiles will only allow you to change the share speed and the ISOM. Meaning that the upper tour will be set automatically by your mobile. It could happen that in a new model, you will be able to also adjust the upper tour. If your most important thing in your photo is to adjust the upper, you will be able to do that using the portrait mode. This is a great mode to shoot people. But you can also use it to show details and textures of things. If you have a fashion brand or you sell accessories, it's a great way to show the details and the texture of your clothes. If you're doing landscape photography, it's great to take a photo of the whole space, but also it's good to get closer to something that you like, something that call your attention, and use the portrait mode to shoot that. This is a way to get more involved in what's happening in a place. In Android, you will have to tap on more, and I could say portrait or live focus or lens blur. You will see a slider that you can move to the right or to the left with it, you will be changing the de f of your photograph.