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Apple iPhone XR Camera Review

01/11/201801/11/2018 by Austin Mann

We’re delighted to publish, Austin Mann’s camera review of the new iPhone XR. Mann traveled with his beautiful wife, Ester through Grand Canyon NP, Petrified Forest NP and White Sands National Monument in a cool Airstream for this test. “With the beautiful new LCD display, Smart HDR, and Single Lens Portrait Mode, there’s been a lot to test. My main questions about iPhone XR: How are the portraits? How’s the screen? How’s the battery?”, he said. Questions that we want answers to too! Read on to find out….

To read this alternatively on Mann’s website, please go here.

Mobile Photography & Art – Tip of the Day – Set Up An Alternative Face ID in iOS 12

21/09/2018 by Joanne Carter

We are re-igniting our Tip of the Day section and we have a great one here that you may not be aware of yet. With iOS 12 it’s now possible to set up an ‘alternative appearance’ for unlocking your iPhone X, Xs, Xs Max or XR. Previously, only one facial id could do this. This maybe a useful feature if you need to unlock your child’s device, or perhaps if you share a device. Whatever the reason, here’s how you do it:

By the way, if you’d like to read our previous tips, please go here.

Apple iPhone Xs Camera Review

19/09/201819/09/2018 by Austin Mann

We’re delighted to republish our good friend, Austin Mann’s camera review of the Apple iPhone Xs today. He took a trip to Zanzibar, the images are gorgeous. In this review, Mann gives his first impressions, his thoughts on the new Image Signal Processor (ISP), vertical panoramas in the iPhone Xs as compared to the iPhone X, perks and perils of computational photography, the updated Portrait Mode and interesting discoveries with the app, Halide’s new technical readout information. Don’t miss this! (foreword by Joanne Carter).

If you prefer to read the original article on Mann’s own website, just go here.

Far and away the most significant camera update in the iPhone Xs is its new Smart HDR capabilities. Powered by the A12 Bionic chip, in the picture above the iPhone Xs is able to capture the dark shadows of the rock while maintaining strong detail in the sunlit clouds.

I’ve never worked with a camera that can balance light like this—not even close.

See this photo below of the sailboat backlit by the sun. With a traditional camera, we’d either lose total detail in the shadows and maintain the highlights of the sky or we’d blow out the highlights in the sky and maintain detail in the shadows of the boat. Previously we couldn’t capture both in one frame (and merging multiple exposures in a fast moving scene like this wouldn’t work, either).

‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew ‘Using iPhone’s Portrait Mode’

10/09/201810/09/2018 by Rad Drew

I’m excited to share another How I Did It!™ video tutorial created for TheAppWhisperer! The feedback from our wonderful mobile phone community has been great! If you have a particular topic you’d like me to cover in a future video, please share your suggestions! And thank you Joanne Carter for creating this space for sharing and learning, and for inviting me to be a part of it.

Today’s video tutorial features the Portrait Mode in the iPhone’s native camera app. The Portrait Mode works in combination with the dual lenses on the iPhone 7 Plus, 8 Plus, and iPhone X, to allow us to create a narrow depth of field that was previously only possible with traditional cameras. A narrow depth of field is a great way to draw the viewer’s eye to our subject, whether the subject is a face, a flower, or other element that we want to isolate and feature.

In this tutorial I demonstrate the use of the Portrait Mode and show how, with the 8 Plus and the X model iPhones, lighting can be selected both when shooting as well as after the shot has been taken.

Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more to come! Until next time, keep on shooting!

PolarPro Mobile Filter System

24/05/2018 by Joanne Carter

Like many of you, I came to photography back in 35 mm film days. Nights (with others), in a darkroom gave me immense pleasure. The simplicities of mobile photography are extraordinary and you won’t find a bigger advocate of it because of this. That’s not to say that I don’t excited about accessories though now and again and right now, I will say in my typically British understated way, that from what I’ve seen so far, the Iris – Mobile Filter System by PolarPro and expansion pack, looks quite ingenious.

Compatible with iPhone X, iPhone 7/ Plus, iPhone 6/7/8 and Pixel 2/2XL mobile devices, the Iris Mobile Filter System includes ND8, ND16 and ND32 filters for reducing shutter speed in various lighting conditions. I have not (yet) seen these products physically, but what I have seen by way of their website and the YouTube video (below), they look good.

Go here to find out more and I’ll report new findings when I have further information.

Apple iPhone X – Portrait Lighting

28/02/201827/02/2018 by Joanne Carter

Apple have released an excellent video demonstrating the process they went through to create Portrait Lighting. It combines timeless lighting principles with advanced machine learning, take a look…

Mobile Videography – Cinematic ITALY – Shot on iPhone X in Brescia

08/01/2018 by Joanne Carter

Matteo Bertoli is a videographer whom we have often featured and admired, not least with his latest film, filmed during the 2017 Christmas holidays when he went back home to Brescia in Italy.

“I decided to go out and shoot some clips with my iPhone X. Everything was handheld. No slider, no tripod, no lenses. Just my iPhone X and my hands. I used Filmic Pro to record every single clip. The app on the new iPhone X is absolutely perfect. No lags and no problems at all. 100% compatible with iOS 11. I recorded everything in 24p Filmic Extreme quality in 4k.

Everything was edited and graded in DaVinci Resolve 14 on my Macbook Pro 15″.

The music was scored by Martin Pankuweit for this particular video.

Take a look at this beautiful film below…

Mobile Photography – iPhone X – Reviewed – DxOMark

06/11/2017 by Joanne Carter

Just published by DxOMark, the iPhone X review makes interesting reading. “It’s exceptional for stills, achieving the best Photo sub-score yet at 101 points. The overall score is affected by a slightly lower result for video, but at 97 points, the iPhone X ties with the Huawei Mate 10 for the second-highest score in our … Read moreMobile Photography – iPhone X – Reviewed – DxOMark

Mobile Photography – Apple iPhone X – FIRST LOOK and Field Test with Chase Jarvis

01/11/2017 by Joanne Carter

We know that many of you have already pre-ordered the new Apple iPhone X and are eagerely awaiting it. Well, Chase Jarvis from CreativeLive, managed to get hold of one a little sooner and put it through its paces around New York City.

Take a look at the video below and to view the stills from his shoot and more details, head over to CreativeLive here.

Mobile Photography – iPhone X Battery Size Larger

27/09/201727/09/2017 by Joanne Carter

Interestingly enough, news just in, confirms that the battery size of the awaited iPhone X is larger than the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. The iPhone X will contain a 2,715mAh battery, the iPhone 8 sports a 1,821mAH and the iPhone 8 Plus a 2,675mAh cell. Random Access Memory (RAM) capacity, which is essentially memory, not to be confused with storage space, is also larger on the iPhone X, it weighs in with 3GB in total, that’s more than the iPhone 8 but is equivalent to the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 7 Plus. All these issues are crucial to mobile photographers, good news.