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Better low-light and night photos

Better low-light and night photos - iPhone Tutorial

From the course: Mobile Photography Weekly

Better low-light and night photos

- [Narrator] Making photographs at night can lead to a lot of really cool and interesting possibilities for photographs, but it also comes with its own set of challenges as well simply because the light levels are so much lower than during the daytime. Hi, I'm Sean Duggan and this week, we're going to take a look at some shooting techniques and also some special apps for getting better night and low-light photos with your camera phone. So the first thing to keep in mind is that in low-light situations, the camera has to use a longer shutter speed to make the shot. And so if you're hand holding the phone, that could lead to an unsharp shot just because you're shaking the phone during the exposure. So what you need to do is stabilize the camera by any means possible. Now the most ideal way is obviously by using a tripod such as I have here but if you don't have a tripod or it's not feasible in the situation where you're at, find some way to stabilize the camera. You can brace it on a…

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