Up: [[Photography]] Course: iPhone Photography with Emil Pakarklis Created: 2023-07-27 ## Modes Portrait lets me blur the background behind my subject. Pano is if I want to capture a really wide landscape Slo-Mo is if I want to slow down video. Timelapse is the opposite. Both of these are for video. Flash icon in white means it is on auto and the iPhone will decide whether it needs the flash or not. Almost never comes on and that’s a good thing. Emil says that for the most part you don’t want to be using flash, even in low light. Concentric circles = Live photos. Gives me not just the photo but a short 3 second video that includes before and after pressing the shutter. Very useful when there’s some kind of movement in the scene. Emil recommends keeping it on. But keep it on in Auto because Live On and Flash On will disable Night mode. ## Hidden Menu Available at the arrow or by swiping my finger down the screen. Hidden Menu contains: Flash and Live, both with auto, off and on options 4:3 aspect ratio of images. There’s also square and 16:9 available. In 16:9, the there’s less being captured because the frame is wider. The top and bottom of the image are cut out. However, if I shoot 16:9 and then want it to be 4:3, I can still do that as long as I haven’t exported the photo out of Apple. Exposure -- This is the icon with plus and minus in a circle. Default is 0:0 which is fine most of the time. For a brighter photo, slide in the positive direction. A time I might want to do that is in snow. Apparently my phone can get confused and make snow dark. Self-timer -- Options are off, 3 seconds, 10 seconds. Used if I want to be in the scene. Overlapping circles are filters. They are the same filters are that available in the phone app to be applied later. If I choose to apply in advance, I can remove later, same as aspect ratio. Night mode - to shoot at night, obviously. Customize - Recommendation is to leave at standard. This one cannot be reversed post-photo.