Pavel Jelic iPhones get better and better photo systems practically every year. It's like yesterday when we only found a single lens on the back of iPhones that already took very nice photos. The latest iPhones already have three different lenses, where, in addition to the classic one, you will also find an ultra-wide-angle lens and a so-called telephoto lens for portrait photos in the photo system. Thanks to this, people nowadays no longer invest in expensive cameras, but prefer to buy a more expensive phone with a high-quality photo system, which can often match the quality of photos with mirrorless cameras.
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Vratislav Holub However, it should be noted that even if you own the fastest car in the world, anyone with a weaker car can beat you – the article that is found is important in this case between the seat and the steering wheel. If we transfer this to the world of professional photography, then the user with the latest phone does not necessarily always take a better photo than someone with the previous generation. Even in this case, it is very important what the user has zkušenosti with taking photos, and whether he can set everything up so that he can take a photo in perfect quality. So I would like to welcome you to the first part of the series Professional iPhone photography, in which we will look at how you can take beautiful photos with the help of an iPhone (or other smartphone). We will have a look at it, what should you take pictures of?, let's talk a little about theory, which we will then convert to practice, and finally we'll show each other adjustment photos in post-production.
Device selection
The first thing you should be interested in when taking photos with a smartphone is device selection. In the beginning, I mentioned the fact that the latest doesn't always mean the best, but "from here on out" - it's practically clear that the iPhone 11 Pro will take a better photo under the same conditions than some old Android phone (I personally call such a device a "potato") . So to be able to take good photos, I recommend owning one of the newer iPhones as well – specifically at least iPhone 7 and later. Of course, technology advances every day and it is 100% certain that in a year or two this article will no longer be completely relevant. Personally, as part of this series, I will take photos with iPhone XS, which has a total of two lenses. The first of them, wide-angle, has 12 megapixels and an aperture of f/1.8, the second lens is a so-called telephoto lens, also has 12 megapixels and an aperture of f/2.4. You can read more about luminosity in other parts of this series. In addition, the A12 Bionic processor inside the iPhone takes care of several different functions, for example Smart HDR or the ability to adjust the depth of field in real time.
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Three questions
If you have adequate equipment for taking pictures, then you can rush to the first three questions, which in my opinion need to be answered before you start taking pictures. First you should ask yourself what do you want to photograph, then what atmosphere the photo should create and finally where you want to place the photo. There may be more questions before the photo shoot, but these are among the most important. If you can answer these questions, then it is enough to get acquainted with aspects, which you must be interested in when taking photos - they include above all light, weather, idea and more. However, a complete analysis of the previously mentioned questions and aspects will be answered in the next part of this series. Therefore, be sure to continue to follow Jablíčkář magazine so that you do not miss other parts of our new series. You can view all our series using this link.
I look forward to the next parts. ?
Cool, another one coming out next week… :)
I stopped at the sentence where the author compares the iPhone to an old android, which he calls a 'potato'. Why not compare it to the old iPhone, which can probably also be called a potato. Or with an old compact camera. There are also new androids that take photos definitely better than the iPhone (dxomark). The title certainly does not correspond to the content, but I do not consider this to be professionalism. More like blindness.
It doesn't really matter if I call an old Android or an old iPhone a "potato". In both cases, the cameras are worse than current devices, that much is clear, and I think most readers understood what I meant by that. And if you judge the entire series, which will have several episodes in the finale, by its first episode, you are unfortunately blinded. Do not judge the book by its cover :-)
You can, but you don't. I don't judge a book by its cover (I would judge an article by its title, but I judge it by its content). I didn't write anywhere that I was condemning the whole series because of one article. Rather, I'm slowly forming an opinion about the author (You), and no, I don't have an opinion yet, I'm just building one.
I would recommend readers, contrary to the opinion of the author of the article, to get a scanner for taking photos. If he buys a mobile phone with a good camera, let him take pictures of nature, people, etc. rather than photos.
Come on… :)
The whole article seems like a sloppy lesson from an apprentice. Basically, I only learned about the author's aversion to android. It was all over before it started. What I miss most here is at least an outline of the answers to the mentioned three questions.
After all, this is a series, so what is it about? You will learn more information in the next parts, from then on the series is a series. It is mentioned in the article, I don't know how else to write it.
Really bad. Zero information :/
.And it will get worse, other parts try to go in depth, but the informational value is still minimal and often confusing. The author is the editor-in-chief of the magazine?!
What exactly is confusing about the other parts please? Thank you for the info :)
Excellent article for me, excellent series. Yes, 80% of it I knew or knew, but still 20% was new or useful for me. And yes, I only take photos on my mobile phone when absolutely necessary (I almost always have at least a Sony RX100M3 in my pocket), but sometimes a wide-angle lens just comes in handy.
The article is missing a link to 2 episodes of the series. Do I really have to search through a search engine?
Hello, at the time of writing the first part, the second part had not yet been released, so the link is missing here. You can find the second part here: https://jablickar.cz/profi-foceni-iphonem-dulezite-aspekty-a-trocha-teorie-2-dil/