I’m always impressed by what great photosyou can take with the camera on an iPhone. In the beginning, I didn’t care about thephoto settings and just started taking pictures. Only later did I understand that there aremany useful features hidden behind this actually simple interface. There are so many interesting things to discoverthat I am sure the following minutes will be worth your while. Today I will show you how to get the bestresults with your IPhone 13 or 13 Pro or Pro Max.I will focus on the photo settings. For the video settings there will be anothervideo. And in case you are new here, my name is Werner,I live in the Italian Alps and on this channel I do reviews and tutorials on consumer cameras. Consider subscribing to the channel if youare interested in these topics and have fun with this video! You can open the camera app in different ways:Of course by tapping the app icon, in the control center you will find it in the lowerright corner, from the lock screen by swiping to the left or by pressing the camera icon,and also by using Siri. Open CameraWhen you start the camera app, you will see the last image you captured in the lower leftcorner. In the middle there is the shutter buttonand with this little circle of arrows on the right you can switch between the back camera,which is your main camera, and the selfie camera, which is the front camera. In the line above you can switch between thedifferent modes.On the right there are the three photo modesPhoto, Portrait and Pano, on the left you find the three video modes Video, Cinematic,Slo-Mo and Time-Lapse. While photo and video are self-explanatory,you can use Portrait to create a blurred background. Although this actually also works with objects,the mode is called Portrait, because this effect is especially well suited for portraits. In Panorama mode you can capture images witha field of view that is much wider than the camera lens would actually allow. This is especially suitable for landscapephotography, for example. The new Cinematic Mode is a kind of PortraitMode for video. In Slo-Mo mode you can capture slow-motionshots, and in TimeLapse mode the camera captures images at certain intervals, which are thenmerged into a video file.The result is a kind of accelerated video. This is an excellent way to capture passingclouds, for example. But as I said, today we are talking aboutthe three photo modes. Let’s first have a look at the different functionsof the shutter button. If you want to take a simple photo, of courseyou tap the shutter button briefly. You can achieve the same result by using thevolume buttons. It makes no difference which of the two buttonsyou use. If you want to quickly capture several photosin a row, you can swipe the shutter button to the left. Now your Iphone will capture photos in anextremely fast sequence until you lift your finger. This is called the Burst Mode. This feature is often used for photographingaction.But it can also help to capture laughter orsmiles. By the way, in the settings you can also setthe Burst Mode to be activated by using the Volume Up button. This would be especially interesting if youwant to use this mode frequently. If you press and hold the Shutter button,the Iphone automatically starts to capture a video. The recording ends as soon as you releasethe Shutter button. This way you can quickly capture a video withouthaving to switch to video mode first.Apple calls this QuickTake. If you want to capture a longer video thendrag the shutter right onto the lock. Now the Iphone will continue recording evenif you release the shutter button. While recording you can also continue to takepictures by tapping on the shutter button that appears on the right. You can also start capturing a QuickTake videoby pressing and holding one of the two volume buttons. Now let’s take a look at the zoom. Above the menu bar you can see a small 1x. It is yellow. This means that the main camera is currentlyactive. By tapping on the 0.5 to the left of it, youactivate the ultra-wide camera and via the 3 the camera with the telephoto lens.However, the latter is only available on thetwo Pro models. Normally you will see a small 1x right abovethe menu bar. This indicates that your Iphone is currentlyusing the main lens. If you tap on the 1x the Iphone lens changes. Now it says 0.5, which means that the iPhoneis using another lens or basically camera. It now uses the ultra wide camera. The field of view is now much wider. Depending on the model of your Iphone youcan also select the third camera or the third lens and a 2x or 2.5x will appear.This stands for the telephoto lens. There is one thing you should keep in mind. Even if it does not look like this on thedisplay, the different lenses have different technical properties. The main camera produces less distortionsthan the ultra-wide camera and it has the largest aperture. It can therefore achieve slightly better resultsin low light conditions. The telephoto lens produces the least amountof distortion and is therefore best suited for portraits. However, it has the smallest aperture andtherefore achieves the worst results in low light. If you now tap and hold one of the numbers,a kind of zoom slider appears and you can swipe left and right to zoom in and out moreprecisely. For this tutorial I use an iPhone 13 Pro,so you can see 0.5, 1, 3 and 15 as numbers.1 stands for the main camera. As you can see, the main camera has a lensthat is equivalent to a 26mm lens on a full frame camera. The ultra-wide lens is equivalent to 13mmand the telephoto lens to 77mm. Everything above 3, on the other hand, resultsin a digital zoom, which basically leads to a decrease in image quality. 15x, so a 15times zoom is the maximum on theiphone 13 Pro. The iPhone 13 and 13 mini have only a 5x digitalzoom range. To further zoom in you need to edit your image. You can also zoom in and out by using twofingers. In this case you can always read the currentzoom factor here.When you capture a picture with your Iphone,you will of course determine the framing on the display. So what should be on the picture, how shouldthe picture composition look like. Basically the framing of your picture willcorrespond to this outer frame. In most cases you can also see the area outsidethis frame.This exceeding part is slightly darkened. In older versions of IOS this shaded partcould be captured and used in the editing process to adjust the framing of the image. Since IOS 14 this is no longer possible.The dimmed part should only help you to findthe optimal framing. For the right composition the grid also helpsyou. So you can stick to the Rule of Thirds, forexample, which is important for a good composition. You can activate and deactivate the grid andalso the dimmed area outside the frame in the settings. In addition to the right framing, focus andexposure are crucial for a good photo. The iPhone’s camera sets focus and exposureautomatically and does an excellent job. Faces are recognized perfectly. You can see this by the yellow frame thatappears when the camera detects a face.And actually, with the iphone you can alsoget a blurred background or foreground naturally, for example when you capture objects in thenear foreground and the background is far away. So it is quite possible that certain areasof the image are in focus and others are not. Therefore it can sometimes be necessary toadjust the focus manually. You do this by tapping on the object or personin the image that should be in focus. Now your iPhone also adjusts the exposureto the new focus. You can also correct the exposure manually. You do this by tapping on the sun next tothe focus square and by swiping up or down.Upwards the image becomes brighter, downwardsit becomes darker. You can also lock the focus and the exposure. Suppose you set the focus and/or the exposuremanually and want them to stay locked even when you move the phone. You can do this by tapping and holding onthe appropriate area. Now the AE/AF Lock sign appears in yellowat the top. You can now move your phone without changingfocus and exposure. This can be useful for example if you wantto change the framing after setting the focus. The ultra-wide camera of the iPhone 13 Proand Pro Max has also been given a special capability.It can focus extremely close. Apple calls this Macro Mode, because by gettingvery close to an object you can take very big shots of small details. You don’t need to have the ultra-wide cameraactivated for this. The iPhone automatically switches to MacroMode when the distance to an object becomes less than 14 cm. So if the ultra-wide camera is not active,the iPhone automatically switches from the main camera or telephoto lens to the ultra-widecamera. You will notice this when there are strangeimage jumps. If these image jumps bother you, you can deactivatethe automatic switching of the lens in the settings.Personally, I think that the macro mode isa great feature. You should try it out – the results are amazing. Apart from these basic functions there area few additional settings and features. To use them you have to open an additionalmenu. You do this by using the arrow at the topin the middle or by slightly swiping up with your finger. Instead of the different shooting modes, youwill now see a series of icons that stand for different features. The icons at the top of the screen indicatewhich of these features is currently active. On the far left you will find the flash. You can set it to automatic, on or off. Notice how the flash symbol at the top ofthe screen changes. Right next to it you can see the symbol forthe Night Mode. The Night Mode will dramatically change theresults in low light conditions. Normally the Night Mode will activate automaticallywhen it is very dark.I can show you that here quite simply by holdingmy hand in front of the lens. When the yellow night mode icon appears atthe top, you know that the night mode is now active. In NightMode your IPhone uses longer exposuretimes. Depending on how dark it is, your iPhone willneed a shorter or longer exposure time to get a good result. You can see the duration of the automaticallyset exposure time right next to the icon, for example 2 or 3 seconds. During the exposure you should hold your iPhoneas still as possible. Above the Shutter button a timer appears whichcounts down the remaining time.If you shake or move the iPhone, the devicewill recognize this and two crosshairs will appear, one yellow and one white. You should move the iPhone in a way that theyellow crosshair lies directly on top of the white one. This helps to reduce movements and you canget a better result. You can also change the exposure time yourselfby tapping on the Night Mode icon and moving the slider to the left or right. By moving the slider all the way to the leftyou can also disable the Night Mode. A longer exposure time will not lead to abrighter result but it could lead to better image quality. It makes sense to increase the exposure timewhen your iphone is on a tripod. There will be no movement and you can achieveoptimal results. However, if you want to adjust the exposureand brightness of the image when the night mode is active, you can do this by movingthe sun icon up or down. By the way, if you are interested in whichMiniTripods or other accessories I use for my iPhone, check out the links in the videodescription.The next icon to the right refers to LivePhotos. Here, too, the automatic is normally active. You can also turn LivePhotos on or off permanentlyhere. With LivePhotos your iphone captures a clipof one and a half seconds before and after the photo was taken. Therefore a short video clip of three secondsis created. You can watch this miniclip by tapping andholding on the screen while viewing your photo. You can change the so-called Key Photo withinyour clip and you can also add cool effects to your Live Photo. We will have a look at this in a moment. You can also tell that your iphone is capturinga Live Photo by the yellow Live icon at the top of the screen. This icon stands for the newly introducedphotographic styles. These are not to be confused with filters. In its default setting, the iPhone producesa relatively natural look that is relatively close to reality. Other smartphone manufacturers, for example,prefer a more vivid look with more saturation or more contrast.With the Photographic Styles you can now changethe general look of your iPhone photos. Unlike a filter, it does not simply applya colour to the whole image. Instead, skin tones are still meant to looknatural and different objects in the picture are adjusted differently. This is already done when the photo is taken- so unlike filters, you have to adjust the setting before taking a photo and cannot changeit afterwards. In addition to the iPhone Standard Look, thereis Rich Contrast, which provides more contrast and a more dramatic look, Vibrant createsbright and vivid colours.Warm offers golden undertones for a warm lookand Cool has blue undertones for a cooler look. Using Tone and Warmth you can also adjustthe looks yourself. You can reset your own adjustments using thecircle on the right. What you have to remember is that once youset a style, it stays set until you change it again, even if you close the camera app. Don’t forget this, because otherwise you mighttake all your photos with a once selected style without really wanting to. With the icon to the right of the PhotographicStyles you can change the aspect ratio of your photos. A normal photo sensor delivers a photo ina 4:3 format. You can also set a square aspect ratio ora 16:9 aspect ratio which is more typical for video recordings. You should not forget that you can also changethe aspect ratio when editing your photos. Right next to it there is a very importantfeature, the Exposure Slider.With this feature you can make your imagebrighter or darker, that means you can overexpose or underexpose your image a little bit inrelation to the settings of the automatic exposure control and this for a maximum of2 stops. But wait, wasn’t there already the sun iconfor that? Yes, but with the exposure slider you canmake smaller and more precise adjustments and you have a little more control. In addition, the exposure correction willbe kept and will stay the same if you take more photos. I have to say that the automatic of the iPhoneprotects so-called highlights very well and there are hardly any overexposed areas inthe pictures. So for such cases you hardly need any exposurecorrection.It’s more that you might want to capture adarker or brighter image to create a certain mood. The next icon is a timer. This allows you to set that the image is nottaken until three or ten seconds after pressing the shutter button. This can be useful if you want to take a groupselfie and place your iPhone on a tripod or in low light with longer exposures to avoidany shaking. On the far right you will find the icon forthe different image filters. The filters change the colors, contrast, whitebalance and also the saturation. There are Vivid, Vivid warm, Vivid cool, dramatic,dramatic warm, dramatic cool, mono, silvertone and noir.Keep in mind that you can add exactly thesame filters later when you edit your image. Before we take a look at the portrait mode,I would just like to point out that basically the same features are available when usingthe Selfie camera. For example, there is also the night modeor the live photo mode. What there is not, is a real zoom feature. You can only slightly zoom in or out by tappingthe two arrows or by using two fingers. It is also interesting that the Selfie-camerashows you a mirrored image in the preview, but captures the image without mirroring it. The picture then looks different from thepreview. If this bothers you, you can change this inthe settings. When capturing selfies, remember that youcan use the volume buttons as shutter. This is especially useful here.If we now switch to portrait mode, we findthe usual settings for flash, eventually the night mode, exposure correction, timer andfilters in the menu. Photographic Styles and LivePhoto are notavailable here. However, there are two new settings here,different portrait lighting effects, which you can select here by swiping to the leftand right and the F-Stop or Depth Control as Apple calls it.As explained in the beginning, in portraitmode your iPhone creates a blurred background, as if you had taken the picture with a Mirrorlessor DSLR and a fast lens. In general, the smaller the number of theF-stop the stronger the effect will be, that means the blurrier the background will be. The bigger the number the smaller the effectwill be.Just like it would be on a bigger camera. Basically the feature works incredibly well. Only in very small details, such as protrudinghairs, can you sometimes spot imperfections. As already mentioned the portrait mode alsoworks with objects. But especially with objects you have to makesure that there is an appropriate distance between camera and object to activate thefeature. The camera tells you this at the top of thescreen. And the Portrait Lighting is also a greatfeature. It is designed to simulate professional lightingtechniques. If you’ve been into photography, you’ll knowthat good lighting often makes a bigger difference than the actual camera. You can select different lighting effectsby swiping to the left and right. You can also see the effect in the preview. With Studio Light the face is well exposedby a soft light. It reminds you of a beauty filter, with ContourLight the external areas of the face or the object are darkened a bit. This gives the picture a little more depthand drama. With Stage Light the subject is isolated inthe spotlight.The outer area is completely darkened. Stage Light Mono creates the same effect inblack and white and Stage Light High Key does not darken but lightens the outer area, forexample like a portrait against a white background. If you find the effect exaggerated or tooweak, you can adjust the intensity. In the menu tap on the Portrait Lightningicon and now you can adjust the effect by dragging the slider to the left or right. Also note that you can change and adjust thePortrait Lightning and F-Stop when editing your portrait. Here on the left, you can also switch betweenthe main camera and the telephoto lens on the 13 Pro and Pro Max. For best results of close-ups of faces, Irecommend using the telephoto lens.With the Panorama mode you can capture anextremely wide field of view. As the name suggests, this is great for capturinglandscapes or cityscapes. Because of the ultra wide lens this featuremay have lost some of its importance. Nevertheless, it still produces results thatwould not be possible with a simple shot. Basically, several images are combined. To do this, start recording and move yourcamera along the arrow from left to right.If you tap on the arrow you can also changethe direction and capture the panorama from right to left. Make sure that the arrow is moving along theyellow line during the recording. If you do not succeed, you will see unsightlywaves in the image. Apart from that there are hardly any settingsin this mode. You can change the lens and that’s it. Now let’s have a quick look at the editingtools. If you tap on the small image of your lastshot in the lower left corner, you will see your last image in full size and can editit in many different ways.Today I will only give you a brief overviewand point out a few important things. Editing photos on the iPhone would be thesubject of a separate tutorial. If you swipe through your last photos, youcan see in the upper left corner if your photo is a portrait photo or a live photo. If not, this area remains blank. This is important because portrait photosand live photos allow different editing steps. Generally, the editing menu opens by pressingedit. With the first icon on the left you can makebasic adjustments to the photo. You can adjust the colors, exposure, whitebalance, saturation, sharpness and so on. With the second icon you can apply a filter. These are exactly the same filters that wesaw in the capture settings. And by clicking the icon on the right youcan rotate, crop or adjust the format of the photo. If it’s a live photo, you can also changethe key photo and the duration of the shot by clicking the first icon on the left.If you tap on the small live icon at the topleft, you can add some cool effects to the live photo. You can add a loop to repeat your shot continuouslyor bounce to repeat your shot alternately forwards and backwards. I find Long Exposure especially interesting. This simulates a long exposure. This works well with moving lights or forexample with water. If your shot is a portrait, as mentioned before,you can use the editing tools to change the portrait lighting and the depth of field,that is, the F-stop. Now let’s have a look at a few important settingsof the Camera App. With preserve settings you can for exampleset the camera to remember certain settings. For example, you always want to use the samefilter or the same exposure correction or you always want to start the app in videomode.Live Text is a new and very interesting feature. The camera of your iPhone can automaticallydetect text and you can then copy and edit this text. When your iPhone detects a text, you can seethis by the yellow borders and the small text icon. If you tap on the text icon, you can selectparts of the detected text, copy it, use it for a search, translate it or even share it. This feature can be very useful. If you don’t need it, you can deactivate ithere in the settings. Also interesting is that you can disable certainintelligent capture features of your iPhone here.With Scene Detection your iPhone detects whatyou capture and automatically applies the appropriate look. Using prioritise faster shooting, multiplephotos can be taken more quickly by repeatedly pressing the shutter button. The ultra-wide lens and the front camera createunattractive distortions. They are automatically corrected and removed. Using Smart HDR, your camera captures imageswith different exposures and then combines them into one photo.This is especially important when the scenecontains very bright and very dark areas. This way you can preserve details in the verybright and very dark areas. This can prevent, for example, very brightareas in the image from burning out. Personally, I consider all these featuresto be advantageous and therefore leave them activated. Now two very important settings. Under Formats you can choose between HighEfficiency and Most Compatible. If High Efficiency is activated, your iPhonesaves the photos in the HEIF format.This saves a lot of storage space and thequality is said to be even better than that of a JPEG file. However, older computers and operating systemscannot handle this format. In this case, your iPhone will convert thefiles into a JPEG file when you transfer them. If you want to save the photos in the JPEGformat already on your iPhone, then choose most compatible. If, on the other hand, you want to edit yourphoto heavily and therefore want to save as much information as possible in the photofile, then you should activate Apple Pro Raw. The photos require considerably more storagespace, but contain more information for editing and also give you more dynamic range. However, this feature is only available onthe Pro models. And with this I want to say goodbye for today. If the video was interesting or helpful foryou, give me a Like as feedback. If you want to support this channel you canuse the link in the video description to buy me a coffee.There will be more videos about the IPhone13. So stay tuned and see you next time!.
