6 Essential iPhone Camera Tips for Taking Great Photos

[alessio94x]

What i would like to know is why my 15 Plus is taking such awful selfies. I hardly take any but yesterday I wanted to take some with my sisters over Christmas and wanted to highlight how nice the camera in my new iPhone is and it somehow sucks?

I don’t know what happened but it looked crystal clear and colorful before taking the shot but once the photo was taken, everything looked so washed out? I thought it was a bug at first and even rebooted the phone.

Like look at my shirt or my skin.

I miss my 12 PM selfies

I also noticed it coming from a 12 Pro... in low light conditions selfies on 15 Pro are so bad. You can improve them only enabling the night mode (1 sec is enough). So disappointing... 15 should be at the next level but definitively not for the front camera... ridiculous!

 

[carlsson]

I thought iPhone cameras are taking great pictures all by themselves nowadays? Why would it be essential to follow half a dozen tips?

Until an AI will take the photos for you, you have to do it for yourself.

You don't have to think about this in a year or so…

 

[zapmymac]

Use a tripod or monopod or anything to reduce movement #1 best rule

 

[spcopsmac21]

I'm gonna take so many great pictures of my cat now

I’m gonna take some good pictures of a ***** cat also.
Might need a few candles and Barry White.

 

[spcopsmac21]

I also noticed it coming from a 12 Pro... in low light conditions selfies on 15 Pro are so bad. You can improve them only enabling the night mode (1 sec is enough). So disappointing... 15 should be at the next level but definitively not for the front camera... ridiculous!

Yea night mode pictures feel generations behind. Nothing turns out good

 

[0lf]

another tip : use the zoom to frame the image before taking the shot instead of crop after.
here is a shot taken at ~7x (7*27=189mm)

and here is the crop from a 77mm shot to match the framing

 

[now i see it]

Tip #1:
Don’t use an iPhone

 

[victorvictoria]

Good ideas for using tech. But more important is developing an aesthetic that makes your photos worth saving and sharing. For that to be true, you need the mentorship of a professional whose photos you admire. Pictures of flowers are nice to look at once, but then, without context or something unique, no one else wants to see them. Photos with more than 3-4 people in them without strategic focus get more boring the people are in them, especially to the people who aren't in them!

 

[svish]

Mirroring the front camera is one of the first things I do while setting up a new iPhone. Viewing outside the frame is another very useful camera app feature.

 

[rdevillers]

Great tips and reminders! Thanks

 

[psac]

Another grid person here. I also find it useful for just getting the camera level without actually putting the level feature on by lining up the lines of the grid with something in the view.

 

[rcoranje]

What i would like to know is why my 15 Plus is taking such awful selfies. I hardly take any but yesterday I wanted to take some with my sisters over Christmas and wanted to highlight how nice the camera in my new iPhone is and it somehow sucks?

I don’t know what happened but it looked crystal clear and colorful before taking the shot but once the photo was taken, everything looked so washed out? I thought it was a bug at first and even rebooted the phone.

Like look at my shirt or my skin.

I miss my 12 PM selfies

There must be something wrong with your iPhone or your technique. My 15 plus takes perfect selfies.

 

[eAi]

So how do I create burst shots with a timer? My iPhone 13 was able to do so, but the new iPhone 15 is unable to do this?

On my iPhone 13 it does this automatically, but won’t do it in low light I think (as presumably the exposures are too long to do a burst)