One of the hardest parts of photography is visualising the final edited image. But everyone has in their pocket a phone that can massively help. In this video I share how I use my phone to shoot and edit every photo before I get my camera out.
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Excellent tips as always! Thank you Nigel!
Couldn't find that 'long exposure' feature on my iPhone, so off I googled… "You'll need an iPhone 6S, 7, 8 or the new X and iOS11, the latest edition of the Apple mobile operating system." Confusing. Ive got the 'lve photo' feature on my SE, but not the 'long exposure' option. HTH.
Humans are not born with photographic vision in their brains ready and all. We even need to learn to look (register) and see (understand). Depending on where they live, children cannot travel through traffic alone below, say, 10 years old. They need to train their brain for traffic. The magic number for learning, in general, is 10,000 times. Taking a photo (composition) with the phone is smart as it trains the brain in visualising. An approach to get to the 10,000. I promise, somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 it will start happening in your brain and you do not need that phony camera anymore.
You know how to make sense of the things we use but take for granted. Would you say it does not matter about the camera in todays times but more the editing software? Because we view our photos on a device 90% of the time.
Pebbles is such an awesome dog!!
I use Snapseed in the main, occasionally a VSCO filter on low setting, but now I want to try out Lightroom Mobile. Thanks Nigel.
Lol, Pebbles is the star as always! Thanks Nigel for sharing your knowledge and skills.
Sorry, asked the question before you finished and gave me the answer.
Which phone editing app are you using?
Funny I been doing this for years. And that was a muddy puddle lol
Very informative Nigel, Thanks 👍
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Have you ever missed the light or the conditions changed as you're going through the process with your phone?
You've talked me into doing the same 👍Thanks a lot! (P.s. Gorgeous photographs, man!)
Nigel, this is a very helpful advice. ATM I only use my phone for scouting and finding compositions. I never had the idea to use it during the time on location. I will give it a try! Thanks a lot.
amazing trick, its so simple… the People always have it with them, but they never use the good stuff , if you know what i mean 😀
and i think YOU FORGOT ONE THING: editing on a retina Screen is much better than on desktop, you can see sharper an mooore colours. but awesome video!
i started photography with my galaxy2, galaxy s7, huawei p20 pro and finally i got a sony a7ii 😮
ah and edit: i used snapseed first, super awesome, than + lensdistortions, vsco and now lightroom CC, its so powerful on smartphone!
EDIT 2: but first…. let me take a selfie! xD
Excellent video!. I didn’t know about LE on iPhone and now I’m itching to go and try it out. Thank you Nigel!
Been doing the same for over 2 years. Then when I got the Note9, editing on my phone was even faster thanks to the stylus and beautiful display
Your advice is exceptional, just like always in your videos; Thank you from Ray in California
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Once again, great video. I try to snap an iPhone image at each location mostly for two reasons. One, to have a photo I can share quickly on Facebook, and secondly to have a geotag of the location for metadata in Lightroom. I'm still trying to find a good RAW camera for the iPhone, but I am still searching. Do you ever shoot RAW on the iPhone? Thanks!
😂😂😂 Oh, Pebbles
That's a nifty "live photo" long expo trick! Galaxy smartphones have "pro mode" & you can do 10sec long exposures.
What’s the app for the long exposure?
I use my LR mobile app to take all of my composition ideas first and then edit it to see what my white balance may need to be in camera versus waiting to get back from location with the DLSR and have a lot of editing to do.
I use PureShot on my iPhone. Camera+ is good for better-than-average snapshots but if you pixel-peek your shot all the settings go back to Auto. PureShot has a DLSR layout and remembers your settings even if you close the app.
this is like previsualization in moviemaking where they use inexpensive video cameras to simulate a scene before they commit cameras, sets, lights and actors to film actual production.
This is what I call a useful video 😄👍🏻! Although I use my phone even with an additional camera app, I never used it systematically before taking a camera shot! And I learned today that Snapseed has much more to offer than what I use today … Isn’t this worth a video 😉?
Thanks for this, I've used my phone for a while to help get me in the right direction when I get things back into Lightroom, never actually thought of editing "on-site" to help visualise it further.
Great video, as always 👍 I've been using the same technique to visualize my photos for the last year or so. It has greatly improved my photography, but I tend to forget it when on location🙈😂 it's really a great tool.
Its unfortunate when at the end the video links obscure the final images, but regardless, excellent film and advice, so thanks.
I found myself doing the same thing from time to time, so it's nice to see it confirmed by you 😉 Also, really nice to see the phone and camera shots next to each other for comparison. Never heard of SnapSeed but the download is already running 😉
Never thought of using my iPhone for this, I used Snapseed all the time.