Take professional quality photos with your smartphone
Lisa Du is director of ReadyTechGo, a service that helps people gain the confidence and skills to embrace modern technology.
During a recent photo-taking session a friend happened to showed me something really neat about iPhone cameras: you can adjust the brightness while taking a photo!
What this means is that, whenever you’re pointing your iPhone camera towards something, and the photo appears too dark or too bright, you’ll be able to adjust the brightness to a setting that’s just right. No more dark, blurry photos!
Here’s how you do it:
- Open up your iPhone Camera by going to your menu screen and tapping on the Camera app
- Point your camera towards something that you wish to take a photo of
- Tap the screen on wherever you wish the Camera to focus
- You’ll see a yellow box with a little sun icon on the right
- Swipe upwards on your screen to make the photo brighter. The little sun icon will move upwards
- Swipe downwards on your screen to make the photo darker. The little sun icon will move downwards
And there you go! Now you can take your photos with the perfect lighting.
This feature is available on all iOS 8 devices and above, so feel free to try this on your iPad as well! But sorry, Android users...your cameras don't have this feature yet.
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