Over 350 million people carry a camera connected to the Internet. It may not be the one with more megapixels, or brighter lens, but has since become the most popular on Flickr, the largest online store images. iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 are the three most used cameras in the world. Yes, this is a phone that has forced manufacturers to reinvent traditional: o create high-end products with interchangeable lens or throw submersible models, shock resistant or wifi and great autonomy, one of the biggest bets of the compact Casio.
What is Apple's mobile camera to beat the rest? Something obvious, always on hand and, with sufficient expertise, does more to make a memory. Outside the A6 chip and eight megapixels, the secret is in the software, the famous applications. According to the apple company is the fastest growing category in the AppStore. Of the more than 900,000 proposals to install, 20,000 are photographic, from simple to advanced editing tweaks.
The phenomenon, dubbed iPhoneography, is simplicity allies. No buttons, no complicated adjustments or a long learning process. Tips to improve results do not differ too much from the first steps with a traditional camera, the sun on his back and better approach if the light is clear. It is always better hold the phone with both hands and horizontally, unless you are really going to do a portrait or scene required. One of the lesser known resources is that you can shoot giving the volume up button. It also works if you press the same button on the headset of the same brand. A good way to gain stability.
The focus and exposure can also be modified fairly intuitive, just tap a specific point of the screen to change the focus. And if you find the right fit and you want to keep, you have to keep your finger on the same site, after a couple of seconds appears at the bottom lock indicator. Very useful, for example, to get it right a face. Returning to touch the screen is unlocked.
You can shoot pressing the volume button or the same button brand headphones
An area too dark with a close-up can ruin a scene worthy of remembrance. In the camera options, or if you have iOS 7 in the top of the screen, are the initials HDR (high dynamic range). When activated the phone gives a double result, the picture normally and after processing the proposal two, one very light and one very dark, and overlapping. The result is usually satisfactory, although it ends up with the nuances of the skin and sometimes are blurred.
How to take a photo of the stadium full? Or of that hard-summit achieve? The picture not help, but can only be done with the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 or S and C models that will arrive on October 25 in Spain. By choosing this option in the main menu pops up and follow the arrow, as a reference of a straight line to mobile rebuild after the shots into one. They can be horizontal or vertical, for fans of skyscrapers. The result is photos up to 28 megapixels,-careful internal memory, fly-, covering up to 240 degrees.
The phenomenon of iPhoneography has already its own stars. E whether ornot their awards, the IPPA . Some of the iPhoneógrafos most famous and previously engaged to photography. This is the case of Benjamin Lowy , Getty, whose picture with mobile after Hurricane Sandy was cover of Time. explained in the same journal that discretion shooting with mobile allows you access to places where I could not with his usual stuff. Kraft Brooks covered the 2012 election campaign in the United States only with the iPhone. Their work, also in Time, was featured as' political photographer of the year " .
The proposed Dave Webb is much more artistic. Applications Photo Forge and Snapseed are your allies when it comes to edit the images. Brad Mangin , photographer of San Francisco, has published its instatáneas in Sports Illustrated. Kevin Russ , Martha Cooper and Rick Rocamora are other highlights. Lisa Bettany what has adopted with such passion that saw the default tools fell short. It is the cofounder of the application Camera + .
Applications for iphoneógrafos
Mextures : (1.79 euros): Ideal for those who love the lights, grains and textures. Over , free, seems designed for propagandists and friends of the posters. Add text and drawings to photos, comes with social networking. Lens + (89 cents) is a nod to nostalgia analog. Converts the screen in a traditional camera with its settings of focus, exposure, increases ... May be completed with Camera Bag 2 (89 cents), a collection of filters care and with surprising results. Ideal for those who view Instagram as a toy.
Who can resist to have a profile picture within a circle? The medallions are the latest craze. Krop Circle helps to create and modify . It's free.
The real laboratory, either on the desktop or in your pocket, it's called Photoshop. The mobile version costs 4.49 euros . Snapseed meets very similar features and is free. If all else fails, there's always leave it Perfectly Clear (2.69 euros), a concealer that recognizes the type of scene and quite rightly proposes tweaks.
