How To Take iPhone Pictures Like A Photographer With The ProCam App
The iPhone's cameras are good enough that even professional photographers spend some time using the smartphone and Apple recently highlighted the ProCam app as being a popular and versatile tool. Apple interviewed a well-known iPhone photographer, Koichi Miyase, to get some tips that anyone can use, along with app recommendations.
Pictures shift from warmer tones at sunrise and sunset to a cooler yet higher contrast appearance in the middle of the day due to the quality of sunlight changes. These changes happen across an entire landscape in complex and subtle ways that would be difficult to recreate with a filter or special effect. Being a smart device, the iPhone can help the user identify and adjust to changing light conditions. These changes provide unique opportunities specific to a particular place and time with a bit of creativity.
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Apple featured the work of photographer Koichi Miyase in the App Store recently and asked which iPhone apps were used to capture such striking photos. 'ProCam 8 Manual Camera + RAW' topped the list with 'Sun Surveyor,' an app that reveals where the sun and moon will be with an AR overlay. Miyase notes that ProCam 8 has an on-screen guide that shows when the iPhone is tilted or level, as well as a grid overlay option for the golden ratio. This pattern repeats throughout nature and is preferred by many photographers when framing a subject in the camera's preview. The manual features of ProCam 8 allow focus and exposure to be set manually, while other aspects of camera settings are left to the app to figure out. Some of Miyase's tips include adding human silhouettes to landscapes to bring life to the picture. This invites the
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