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When you are learning photography two words sound about as daunting as jumping out of a plane. Manual Mode. I love to photograph using Aperture Priority mode. There I said it. Lisa Michele Burns.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn. Tags: aperture photo tips technical tutorial. Keep Reading Blog Comments Reply romeo May 12, at pm. Some smartphones also have monochrome aperture, monochrome portrait and monochrome pro modes, which give you even more opportunities to explore. Keep in mind that when you shoot in black and white, you should pay special attention to textures, patterns, lights, and shadows.
Super macro is a great camera mode to use when you want to shoot something that is so close to your lens that you can't get a good focus on the subject. Most smartphone cameras tend to get a little bit blurry and have difficulty focusing at a distance of around cm away, so this is a big deal for people who like to take close-up and detailed shots. The most common subjects within the landscape that you can use super macro mode with are leaves, flowers, bugs, butterflies and bees, though sometimes you can even shoot food with the super macro function for a better perspective!
Try using this function during autumn in Iceland , when the foliage in nature takes on brilliant hues of red, orange and gold. The light painting mode is great for expressing your creativity with the landscape.
This mode often includes a number of options that will allow you to add awesome effects to your photos such as traffic trails, light graffiti, silky water and star trails.
Traffic trails are a great effect to use during the blue hour when shooting cities or landscapes, particularly if there is a road that goes through your shot. Simply mount your smartphone on a tripod to catch the warm yellow and red lights of cars as they move through your frame.
Light graffiti allows you to create patterns out of light in the dark. Simply use a torchlight or something similar and write or draw something in front of your smartphone camera while it is taking an exposure. This option allows you to create that special milky effect with running water, such as rivers and waterfalls , without having to use any filters. Simply focus on your subject, push the button to begin shooting, and away you go!
An example of the silky water effect. Long exposure taken with a smartphone at noon. Here is an example of a photo of a waterfall taken both with and without the silky water effect on my smartphone.
The difference is quite fascinating! Normal vs silky water effect with a smartphone. HDR mode allows you to recover detail from the highlights and shadows. Shooting with the HDR mode on your smartphone will allow you to capture more details within the lightest and darkest areas of your shots in order to create a single photo with even exposure.
Experiment with the in-built filters when shooting with your smartphone camera. Most smartphone cameras these days have their own presets or filters that you can choose to use during shooting. For example, there are polarising filter effects and even a range of filters that mimic certain types of film, including sepia mode and monochrome.
Experiment with the filters while you're taking photos of the landscape. You might find one that you particularly like that allows you to express your creativity. Underwater mode does exactly that — it allows for the best type of exposure when you are shooting in water. Before using the underwater mode on your camera, you should be absolutely sure that your smartphone is waterproof. Waterproof means that your phone will be resistant to water regardless of how long it is submerged, while water-resistant means that it will stop water from entering to some degree, but not entirely.
Shooting with a higher ISO on your smartphone camera can allow you to capture the stars at night. Perhaps the best of all the camera settings on a smartphone is pro mode. With pro mode, you can choose the type of light metering that your phone camera uses in order to achieve better results. Other options that you can play with in pro mode include the white balance as well as whether you allow your phone to autofocus or choose to manual focus instead.
Check to see which ones are available on your phone and experiment with how you can use them. These shooting modes are there to help you to take different kinds of shots in a range of diverse conditions so that in a few clicks, you can be more creative and take better landscape photographs.
About the author: Roberto Pavic is a landscape photographer based in Croatia. You can find more of his work by following him on Facebook or Instagram. This can save you the hassle of constantly having to adjust settings in manual mode. Even minor changes in lighting will force you to change settings. With aperture priority mode, the camera will handle all the minor adjustments and allow you to control the important stuff.
At any aperture, the camera will have a very fast shutter speed in bright conditions. A fast shutter speed will freeze all motion without blur, and this is usually what we want.
As the light outside gets dimmer, the camera will automatically adjust and make the shutter speed slower and slower. If you are shooting handheld, you will reach a point that you can no longer hold the camera steady enough for the entire duration of the shutter release.
Any shake at a slow shutter speed will result in a blurry image. Workaround : Even in low light, I still use aperture priority. The reason is that I use a tripod for most of the photos that I take.
Often we need a long exposure or slow shutter speed to capture these types of scenes. Workaround : While we can switch to shutter priority mode in this case, you could also adjust the aperture so that the camera adjusts the shutter speed to whatever you want. For example, if you make the aperture smaller higher f-stop , the camera will compensate by making the shutter speed longer to allow more light.
If you make the aperture wider lower f-stop , the camera will make the shutter speed faster. So, you could easily shoot long exposures using aperture priority mode. This is usually what I do.
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