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How to shoot on iPhone 7
- robertwalsh0 9y agoThese bite-sized video that show the real UI are a great idea. It seems obvious now in retrospect for them to execute something like this - I know so many iPhone shooters that will love this resource.
- andyfleming 9y agoPart of me really likes it, but part of me hates it. The visual is beautiful and elegant, but I find myself wanting to read the text while seeing the image.
- wapz 9y agoI really hate the UI they used for this for the same reason as you. When I hover over an image I can't see what that image is about. I have the move the mouse away from what I want to focus on. That seems like poor design IMO.
- seanp2k2 9y agoExactly. Too many people in software thing that "design" is the paint brush. They think design is CSS. It can be part of it, and certainly visual design deals with these things sometimes, but design is the way something works, NOT JUST HOW IT LOOKS. Something can be a fantastic design but text-based, or use grey forms and white text boxes. Great design helps users intuitively use software quickly and efficiently. Conversely, terrible design can look good. There are tons and tons of apps + sites these days which look cool / modern / fun while being absolutely awful to use. Some of them are almost on purpose, like Snapchat with hidden features that you'd have to discover by randomly swiping, tapping, holding, shaking, etc. Oversimplification can also be bad design. See: Google's recent phishing happening where the malicious authorized app appeared as "Google Docs" with a legit logo everywhere including in the "authorized apps" section in your account, with the actual publisher hidden in a small grey arrow drop-down menu item ( https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/google-docs-phish-worm-grabs-your-google-app-permissions-contacts/ https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/google-docs-phish-w... ).
- tudorw 9y agoWell said, this is a visual puff piece, could the information have been conveyed more effectively using a single page magazine style layout, undoubtedly, that was not the brief, I imagine the designers were led to create something visually exciting that will show people how great their iPhone pictures can be.
- i336_ 9y agoI agree with your sentiment and am sad this got voted down. I wouldn't mind https://eev.ee/blog/2016/02/20/twitters-missing-manual https://eev.ee/blog/2016/02/20/twitters-missing-manual for Snapchat.
- azinman2 9y agoNot sure of the desktop design but worked just fine on my (i) phone.
- r00fus 9y agoIt's designed to be seen on an iPhone.
- loxias 9y agoA+ and thank you for using an article, instead of saying "to be seen on iPhone" ... (like the marketing guidelines decree).
- cyberferret 9y agoAgreed. I've been taking photos with iPhone for as long as I can remember, and now have a 7+, and consider myself 'reasonably good' at using it to take photos, but watching these little snippets, I actually learned a few new things that I didn't know. It's easy to become complacent about constant iOS upgrades. There are often lots of nifty little features that are probably too tedious to be explained in a lengthy update spec - But broken down into actual 'use cases' like this in incredibly useful and powerful.
- arvizard 9y agoApple excels at this. I walk across an Apple store on my way to work everyday and on most mornings, I see a small group of people in the store getting trained on various things Apple. I see old people learning how to use an iPad. During the weekends, small kids learn how to use Apple products. I am an Android and Windows user and while these OSes offer lots of features, I wish the companies behind them put in more effort in promoting their product.
- peterburkimsher 9y agoCould the two cameras be used to get 2 different perspectives, and therefore remove power lines or other imperfections?
- HappyTypist 9y agoNo, not really. You will never get 100% coverage, meaning you'd have the synthesis the image. When you're doing that, you'll have better luck synthesising the removal the whole way. Quick test: try using your own eyes, close one eye and then alternate, can you be really see through power lines / poles / whatever?
- Tanegashima 9y agoThe two cameras have different focal distances so what one camera sees is totally different from what the other sees.
- hprotagonist 9y agoHuh. I did _not_ know that you could force touch and slide to manually adjust exposure.
- lflux 9y agoI'm missing the "How to shoot one-handed at a concert"[0]. I'd love to have zoom not be a pinch only [0] since my other hand is holding my drink
- djrogers 9y agoI believe the answer is "don't use digital zoom". If you've got a 7+ then you dot have either problem - there's a zoom button on the screen you can tap or drag, and there's a second camera with a zoomed view.
- darkstar999 9y agoI believe the answer is "don't record at a concert because it annoys everyone else and the video is garbage anyway".
- camillomiller 9y agoThat'd be an amazing quip among this video. You start the video of 'how to shot with iPhone at a concert" and it just says "don't. Enjoy the show"
- ngcazz 9y agoWeren't Apple researching techniques to disable recording during certain events?
- darkstar999 9y agoI sure hope not. That sounds sketchy.
- throwanem 9y agoThey appear to have patented a method that's based on infrared emitters installed in the venue. See page 7: http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=09380225 http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=09380225 - that seems to be only the drawings, not the full filing, but it's patent #9380225 if you want the full detail. I'm not surprised that they have not implemented this. It would take about five minutes for someone to reverse-engineer one of the beamers, and then about five more for someone else to turn it into something you could hang off your keyring to mess with people, and about thirty seconds after that to produce a huge consumer backlash.
- swah 9y agoI'm an Android user for 10 years now but.. every time one of those websites/ads appears its always from the same company. Apple is so ahead of the other companies on actually promoting their stuff.
- nimchimpsky 9y agoNo idea what your first line means.
- swah 9y agoI wish Motorola surprised me with something like this for once... thats all.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoIt's only Apple who does neat stuff like this for their phones.
- gordon_freeman 9y agoI am happy Android user as well and own Nexus 6P. One thing I tell everyone is that N6P takes as good photos as iPhone7/7P but Google is doing so poor job in communicating that through their marketing.
- swah 9y agoNexus 6P isn't even available in my country (Brazil) other than in Ebay-like places. iPhones 5/6/7 on the other hand, are everywhere, even if they cost a kidney. Nobody outside bubble wants a Nexus 6P. There are hundreds or thousands of fitness people making a living on Instagram, promoting healthy products mixed with booty shots. 99% percent of them have an iPhone as the only tool they need to do their job.
- diminish 9y agoSo IOS share must be very strong in Brazilian markets: It's above 4%. https//www.neowin.net/news/kantar-android-sales-up-in-most-markets-ios-down-in-china-windows-phone-sales-fall-again
- sideproject 9y agoIs there a technology to.... say.... zoom-out more? For example, when you take a selfie, sometimes things are too close.. I wish I could 'somehow' zoom-out, but I wouldn't have a starting clue how that would be achieved.
- modeless 9y agoUncrop https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/sq_photo_uncrop/ https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/sq_photo_uncrop/
- i336_ 9y agoWow. It's so infuriating when there's nothing I can download though. :(
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- ClassyJacket 9y agoYou can buy wide angle lenses that clip onto the phone :)
- prawn 9y agoI bought one on Amazon for $30 (brand is AUKEY) and used it with my iPhone on a recent hiking trip. You have to be careful of aligning it perfectly, but it's a huge help when photographing landscapes with a phone. You can capture a noticeable amount more of the scene.
- custos 9y agoThe title made me think it was someone shooting an iPhone with a firearm...
- sundvor 9y agoLikewise, my scan was like this: "How to shoot [an] Iphone" -> (Apple.com) -> "ON!" (doh).
- naviehuynh 9y agoFunny how they still use the old iOS theme on their player's seek bar. It has been years since the introduction of new UI and I still find it suck. Look at the share button on "Edit selfie" video, it just feels like a toy design project of some students.
- saagarjha 9y agoThis is the behavior of all their custom players; I don't think they've updated them in a while.
- rahilsondhi 9y agoThis is amazing. I wish the selfie video would talk more about angles. My girlfriend tells me my angles are always wrong :/ Also, Google should do this for Pixel.
- sidcool 9y agoSpot on. Pixel has a better camera than iPhone 7/plus, but the marketing efforts are missing
- Tanegashima 9y agoI'm sure you never used an iPhone, or you suffer from cognitive dissonance.
- Kluny 9y agoHold the camera higher so you're looking up at it. Up-the-nose shots are most people's problem. It's really unflattering.
- lifeformed 9y agoNothing happens when I click on any of the play buttons. Is anyone else having this problem? This isn't the first time an apple.com site didn't work correctly for me at all... Do I have to be on a Mac or iPhone to view it or something?
- Comkid 9y agoRunning Chrome on Linux, videos play fine for me, they're just MP4 videos with HTML5 video controls.
- comex 9y agoAre you using a browser that doesn't support H.264, perhaps?
- lifeformed 9y agoJust the normal version of Chrome. All plugins off yields the same result.
- lucasmullens 9y agoBroken for me too. For me it might be because my laptop has a higher device pixel ratio.
- eridius 9y agoThat seems rather unlikely. Why do you think that would possibly affect video playback on a website?
- lucasmullens 9y agoThe second line of the page "on iPhone 7" gets cut off on my laptop, and that's most likely DPR issue. Certainly possible for a button to become unpressable due to CSS issues around DPR.
- throwanem 9y agoIt took a while to load on my phone (crowded spectrum, frequently crappy bandwidth) and nothing appeared to be happening until it did. Might be the same thing you're seeing.
- terrywang 9y agoI've been an Android user since Nexus S (Android 2.3), Nexus 4, Nexus 5, all the way up to Nexus 5X (7.1.x). The LG made Nexus 5X bricked (suddenly rebooted and never boots again) at 13 months old due to a known hardware fault, there is a lawsuit against LG in California https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/lg-bootloop-defect-lawsuit-expands-to-cover-g5-v20-and-nexus-5x-devices/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/lg-bootloop-defe... My Nexus 5 had power button issue (it automatically switch off, sigh...) Nexus 4 build quality was bad, too. I lost 3-4 days worth of photos (was travelling and didn't backup). Luckily I was able to boot once (out of 40 attempt) after it bricked by giving it some heat (thermal issue). Backed up the photos before it quickly died again (there are videos on YouTube to fix the problem using heat gun), finally I decided I've had enough with crappy Nexus phones (I am fine with Android though). Pixel / Pixel XL is more expensive than iPhone 7 or plus, really cannot justify. Finally I've moved to iOS again, after 6-7 years as I decided not to manually flash phone OS and root any more (I have my Arch Linux workstations and MBPs). My requirements for a phone comes down to: - Reliable hardware and high quality finish - Strong hardware based/accelerated encryption - Fingerprint recognition and authentication - Stable and Swift OS (greatly improved with APFS, regained faith in Apple) - Good camera - the best camera is the one with you - Long battery life (ideally support both fast charge and wireless charge) The iPhone 7 Plus meets all. So far I've been on it for 2 weeks. iOS definitely has better attention to details and better UX at the cost of more control over the OS, a lot of apps on Android that doesn't support fingerprint authentication support that on iOS, I was surprised to find out. The only complains are that 1. there is no HN client as good as Materialistic (let me know if you know any...) 2. no strongSwan native client (Gboard has introduced more language support so it's no longer a big concern). Other than that I am happy.
- internet2000 9y agoiOS supports IKEv2 VPNs natively, no need for an app.
- terrywang 9y agostrongSwan for Android offers a lot more than just IKEv2. - support for MOBIKE -> automatically reconnect when switching connectivity - importing JSON format VPN profiles via HTTPS - easy X509 certificate import - 1 click IKEv2 + RSA authentication with X509 authentication I am yet to figure out how to best do IKEv2 + X509 authentication on iOS 10.3.1 and adjust strongSwan accordingly.
- jamesmccann 9y agoDo you need a video to tell you to switch to the front facing camera to take a selfie?
- caryhartline 9y agoSome people just never notice certain parts of UI. There are millions and millions of people with iPhones and there is likely going to be someone who just learned about the camera-switching icon for the first time. Plus, that same video showed people that you can use the volume buttons as shutter buttons which is something most people likely don't know about.
- madshiva 9y agoit's not they don't notice, they don't care and don't use all the functionnality. They are quite stupid. (feel free to downvote me) but I think the same, "how to do simple" things is useless. If the user don't want learn something new, why they will see a video about it?
- i336_ 9y agoI agree with your sentiment, in the same way that people are described as stupid in here: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html At the end of the day, UIs are unnatural interfaces. Skeumorphism only makes things worse. So UX design can only meet the user half way; intelligence must be employed to get the most out of an interface. I see these videos as akin to using a TV remote instead of getting up to change the channel: people are lazy, so appeal to that laziness (along with the whole "here have some pro resources" thing as well) as a form of sales. It's brilliant.
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- wand3r 9y agoLook; I'm a long time Apple user and they have a great camera...But seriously; this is like their core thing for several years. They need to implement a rule that requires scaling performance and battery life at parity with camera improvements...
- tptacek 9y agoI did not know about burst mode!
- djrogers 9y agoOMG - I have been using burst mode forever, it's the only way to get decent shots of my kids! It does burn up storage fast, but at least the UI for saving and discarding pics from bursts is decent.
- Tanegashima 9y agoApple always comes up with great soundtracks to their ads/infomercials. Sometimes made by themselves/exclusively for them. I wish they would give developers a royalty free library for our App demo videos.
- remir 9y agoIf I'm not mistaken, the sound loops and jingles in Garageband are royalty free.
- Tanegashima 9y ago... and used to exhaustion on YouTube mainly
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- nsxwolf 9y agoI love Portrait mode and have taken some photos with it that I am happy with, but really, it would be nice if they also showed us how they professionally lit that cafe, because you are never, ever going to take a photo that looks like that in the real world.
- mirkules 9y agoThat's the secret sauce that makes professional photographers professionals. 90% of the work is setting the lighting and composing the scene, and I know at least one pro photographer who doesn't let his clients snap photos with their iPhones while he works, precisely because it's not the camera that makes the photos beautiful but rather the setup.
- wowtip 9y agoI am just a happy advanced amateur photographer, but I wish I had been given a dollar each time someone complimented my Pentax dslr of taking great images. :D
- coldtea 9y ago>because you are never, ever going to take a photo that looks like that in the real world. You'd be surprised. You can take professionally looking photos (even with a phone or compact) at any kind of place. Instead of "professionally lighting" you can just make sure your subject sits on the side of a large window or other light source. EDIT: Seeing their "portrait" video, it's actually all available light, as you can tell by the shine on the talent's forehead. Pro lighting would be much more diffused and not directed like that.
- rhinoceraptor 9y agoHas the edge detection gotten better? I tested it a couple months ago and for subjects with a sharp outline, the edges would have a weird fuzzy outline. More complex subjects seemed to work better: https://imgur.com/a/ILM5p https://imgur.com/a/ILM5p
- rubatuga 9y agoWow, these are really great tips for anybody thinking that their photography is a bit stagnant. Thumbs up to Apple for providing a simple, creative, and 60fps <3 videos that could be generalized to any camera.
- dustinmoris 9y agoLuckily I have a Google Pixel, the only thing I need to know to shoot a perfect photo, in fact an even better photo than an iPphone 7 could ever take, is: 1. Open Camera app 2. Take photo It is really that simple, no jokes :) Maybe I should create a website with these instructions.. mhh..
- Sharlin 9y ago"Your photos are great! You must have a good camera."
- setq 9y agoMy father thinks this. £10,000 of Nikon kit later it still looks like shit.
- Accacin 9y agoYeah? But this article is how to shoot decent photos on an iPhone 7. Not sure why you feel the need to mention that you have a Pixel, as it's not really adding anything to the conversation.
- olofd 9y agoWith that logic there whould be no need for Photographers or education in Photography either. Just get a good enough Camera you say?
- mgcross 9y agoI've got a Pixel too, definitely a better camera than an iPhone 7, but not 7+.
- PascLeRasc 9y agoThis was a bad comment. What keyboard did you make it on?
- saurik 9y agoIn "how to shoot a group portrait" (or all of them, honestly ;P), one of the steps should be "turn the damned camera 90° so everyone is actually in the frame".
- Kluny 9y agoFor three people like in the demo video, if you rotate 90 you have to come in close to get a well framed shot and then their outfits aren't in the frame. Not important to everyone, but definitely important to some.
- ShirsenduK 9y agoThere was a time when Apple products were user friendly but now we need guides. They said technology would ease our lives. I'm disappointed with this shift at Apple where they want to look and sound cool rather than be useful.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoI'm an Android guy, but a camera is not a photographer. It's not reasonable to expect it to make decisions about lighting, angle, composition, and so forth for you, no matter how high-tech it is. Those are things the user needs to know how to do.
- ShirsenduK 9y agoTechnology should take those decisions for you. Others like Google will show how to do that.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoYou want your phone to, what, grow legs and scuttle around to find the best angle and composition? You're not being reasonable.
- dutchbrit 9y agoSeems like I don't have the option to choose portrait, nor do I have the option to change exposure, is this a guide for all iPhone 7's or just the iPhone 7 plus?!
- narrowtux 9y agoPortrait mode is a feature that uses the dual-camera in the iPhone 7 Plus. EDIT: Everything else in that guide should work on the normal iPhone 7. Most of the guides work with older iPhones too.
- Tsiklon 9y agoFrankly, I just learned about the exposure setting after watching those videos. When you tap to focus on an item, the box should appear with a sun beside it, you can draw your finger up to increase the exposure, you'll see the sun move up in relation to the box.
- philipjoubert 9y agoIn case anyone is curious - these videos were shot in and around Cape Town, South Africa.
- duncans 9y agoShould be made more obvious that the actual useful content of the page needs to be scrolled down to. A more useful link (that scrolls to the content) to give friends family might be https://www.apple.com/iphone/photography-how-to/#section-card-grid https://www.apple.com/iphone/photography-how-to/#section-car...
- jwblackwell 9y agoA lot of people have no idea you can take a photo with the volume buttons. I frequently see people struggling to take selfies with the touchscreen button.
- djrogers 9y agoI find it easier to take selfies with the onscreen button, as I can hold the phone from the bottom where i'm not likely to cover up the camera. It's awkward (with my hands and my 7+) to hold the phone in such a way that a) it's pointed at me, b) I have the volume buttons under a finger/thumb, and c) I'm not blocking the front camera in any way...
- qrbLPHiKpiux 9y agoAll vertical shots. Communicating to the masses. Market to the masses, live with he classes.
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- phdify 9y agoThis is a stellar example of marketing gone wrong by a company that's out of touch with a vast number of their customers https://phdify.com/essay-types https://phdify.com/essay-types. Yet it simply doesn't matter. Apple's massive revenue stream and its astronomical cash hoard makes them impervious to various failures here and there. It's great to be Apple
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- mandeepj 9y agoShooting a panorama on iphone is neither easy nor intuitive. Unfortunately, they did not even explain that in these series.
- juandazapata 9y agoAnybody knows what's the genre of the music used in the videos?
- jkoschei 9y agoSounds like instrumental hip-hop. If you're on Spotify, check out the "Lush Vibes" mood playlist for similar.
- juandazapata 9y agoThank you Internet stranger!
- wlfmn 9y agoYou may even enjoy a subgenre in the same vein; chill-hop.
- bluetidepro 9y agoI don't know what genre this is considered, but I used Shazam on the music in the videos, and the artist in most of them is "Electric Mantis". Found 'em on Spotify. Good tunes.
- juandazapata 9y agoThanks, didn't think about Shazam. Enjoying the artist right now.
- nfriedly 9y agoI like that the action shot one has nothing to do with careful timing - just hold down the button and pick out a good photo later.