Gadgetory

here we are the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco a beautiful setting to show you some photography tips that'll help you maximize the modes and features that are already on your smartphone to show you these tips I'm using the iphone 5s and i'm using the LG G flex for example HDR mode almost every phone is gonna have this maybe you know it is maybe you don't it's called high dynamic range it's a great way to take really great looking photos but there's ways to use it in ways you should probably avoid what HDR is doing is taking three photos consecutively and then combining the best aspects of those three photos into one super image so it's gonna be great for landscape photography it's gonna really bring out the detail and trees things like that the other key thing about HDR photography is that you need to hold your camera very steady is taking three photos if you're moving while you're taking those is gonna look weird now you probably already know about that feature that lets you tap your screen to set the focus and exposure for your shot well if you want to make sure those settings don't change all you need to do is tap and hold to lock those settings that's great I mean I think that's another great way to take close-up photos too especially if autofocus is having a hard time locking in what you want to take the picture of being able to really lock it down with your finger is a good way to go another great tip is to know that there's more ways to take your picture than just hitting the shutter button on your screen a lot of times you can get a shaky shot because you're pressing the screen so hard now on the iphone you might already know that you can use your phone's volume up button to snap the photo well you can extend that feature with your headset and when your headset is plugged in you can use the inline Mike's volume up to also snap a photo and use it as a sort of shutter that's cool and then you're you're totally erasing any kind of vibration that might be transmitted to the phone on the LG G flex you there's a cool feature where you can actually activate the shutter with voice commands i could say cheese and just took a picture I mean you can also say whiskey whiskey random I love it whiskey another great thing about today's smartphones and they're super fast processors is that you can enable a burst mode that allows you to take our rapid succession of like 20 shots all at once and then you can just pick out the best one later on it's really great for taking pictures of kids or pets or sporting events anything where there's a fast paced action shot you want to capture you just take all the shots all at once and then pick out the best one later on hopefully you get some that aren't blurry on the iPhone all you have to do is tap and hold that shutter button and you'll just see that number of shots climbed super fast and when you're done at least on the 5s the phone will create a thumbnail that you can tap and then choose your favorites that you can keep as your primary photos yeah on the LG G flex actually have to hit the mode button go into burst mode it's still pretty quick and then it'll do a rapid fire boom 20 shots right there so now that you know how to use more of your phone's modes and features hopefully you'll be taking more creative and interesting photos to upload to Instagram yeah I'm pretty excited to use my camera again and have an excuse to shut whiskey in public whiskey God if I could