Go to Settings > Camera > Grid to summon a Rule of
Thirds grid to help you with your composition.
The Pano mode can give a wider
field of view than any lens, making it
perfect for landscape photography.SHUTTERSTOCK CONTRIBUTOR
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After shooting a series
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PHOTOS EXTENSIONS
LIGHTROOM
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Lightroom has a more
advanced set of retouching
tools than iOS Photos. It also
boasts a camera mode that
can shoot raw .DNG files.
This enables you to tease out
missing detail without adding
compression artefacts, creating
professional results.HALIDE CAMERA
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This app gives you DSLR–
style camera settings, such
as White Balance presets and
manual ISO adjustment. Focus
peaking enables you to see which
areas are sharp. You can also
AirDrop its .DNG files to your
Mac and edit them in Photos.a landscape’s shadows, midtones,
and highlights. The three exposures
are then composited into one shot.
On the iPhone 11 Pro, you can turn on
Smart HDR in the Camera Settings
menu to make the Camera blend the
best parts of separate exposures into
a single “best exposure” shot.5
File formats
iPhones such as the 11 Pro can
save photos in the HEIC (High
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are easier to share online, edit in
third–party apps and view on PCs.iPhone left to right to capture a
panorama, but if you tap the arrow
it will jump to the opposite side of the
screen, letting you pan right to left.
The Pano mode works best on static
landscapes. If there are moving
subjects they can be distorted when
the panned video is stitched together
into a single shot. You can also tilt
the camera vertically in Pano mode to
capture more of a tall building. This
mode can also be used to capture a
wider angle of view on iPhone models
that lack a Wide or Ultra Wide lens.
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High Dynamic Range
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high–contrast lighting. If the camera
exposes to capture more highlight
detail then the landscape’s shadows
can be underexposed. If shadow detail
is captured then the brighter sky can
be blown out. By setting older iPhones
to HDR mode, they will snap three
consecutive shots to capture detail in
On the iPhone 11 you can blur the background or
foreground of any subject for prettier pet portraits.Image rights from top to bottom: Adobe, Lux, Shutterstock.
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