You know that thing where you see a gorgeous view (left) and try to take a picture of it, but your phone camera is a joyless fucking nihilist who refuses to see the beauty in anything and only sees this (right)
As a more thorough demonstration, today the road looked like this:
(blatant paint-over of my own photo, because I needed you to see what I saw)
And my phone camera made it look like this:
prev tags WHAAAAT
ok im gonna explain it anyway bc of this sO HERE IS MY QUICK BREAKDOWN
[please note my breakdown IS android specific bc that's what i have, however i know that the settings should be SIMILAR for an iphone. i just couldn't tell you the exacts]
GO TO THE "MORE" SETTING (should be visible as soon as you open your camera)
GO TO "PRO"
PLAY WITH THE ISO, THE SPEED (shutter speed) AND THE WB (temperature)
a HIGH ISO will help brighten your photo, a LOW ISO will help dim it.
a FAST shutter speed will DARKEN your photo, a SLOW shutter speed will make it LIGHT. this will also have an effect on how your photo takes!!! the slower your shutter speed, the steadier you need to hold your phone or it WILL become blurry, but it allows more ambient light and is thus recommended for taking photos of, say, stars. a fast shutter speed is how you take photos of objects in motion, but it lets almost no ambient light in (this is where you would want to up your ISO!)
the WB/temperature will shift your photo from being more warm toned to more cool toned.
here are some examples i took of the same sky. each photo has a different ISO, Speed, and WB:
and here is a much more subtle example where I was messing only with the ISO and shutter speed:
finally, here is one compared to a photo I took at the same moment with just my phones normal camera:
(you can REALLY see the sun rays peering out over the clouds in the photo on the right, which is what i was trying to photograph!)
As you can see, the difference are HUGE even when they're subtle!!!
your regular phone camera SUCKS but it DOES come equipped with the right settings to take gorgeous photos. you just have up know what to look for!!!!!
[sidebar: NONE OF THESE PHOTOS ARE EDITED BTW!!! this is exactly how the phone took them!!!]
