The CORRECT iPhone Camera Settings for Amazing Photos - UPDATED for 2023

[Music] so these are just some of the pictures I've shot with my iPhone over the years they always get a lot of likes on Instagram and Twitter and the most common question I get is how I set up my iPhone to take these pictures I'm always trying to figure out what are the best settings what are the best options to get the highest quality images from my iPhone and Apple are always changing the settings are always adding features and stuff like that every single year so I like to go through it quite regularly and make sure that it's set up correctly to take best quality pictures before we get into it I'm using an iPhone 15 Pro some of these options and features functionality and stuff like that won't be available on older iPhones so please do keep that in mind but as long as you have a recent iPhone maybe 13 Pro 14 pro or 15 Pro you should have similar options so the first thing we're going to do before we get into the camera app is going through our settings so we're going to go to the settings app then we're going to scroll down we're going to find camera like so so we'll first start with the video settings I have 4K at 24 frames per second I have enhanced stabilization on HDR video off I'm personally not a fan of HDR video I think the iPhone footage just looks better without it if you have a look at all these options here make sure to just follow them the same yeah I usually just have all of these as is if we go back slow-mo I've left it I think on default cinematic I've also left on default I think and then the next one is formats this is an important section here so I have camera capture on high efficiency I have photo mod on 24 megapixels and then the most important feature here and the one that's going to matter the most when it comes to getting the high quality pictures is pro raw and resolution control you've got to make sure that option is enabled and then when it comes to the pro default I have it at the most highest setting which is pro raw Max which gives you up to 48 megapix pictures and that's what we want we want to be able to use that sensor on the back back of the phone to get the highest quality pictures to get the most high resolution pictures we can scroll down so this is a new feature which is only on the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max and that is Apple pror which to be honest is definitely more of a pro feature but yes I do have this option enabled and then I have PR res encoding on log so yeah those are the format settings if we then go to The Preserve settings for me this one is a big menu because a lot of these options when I go in and out the camera app I want them to stay as they are so we have the camera mode on we have the creative controls on depth controls off Micro Control on that's one of the most frustrating features where when you're taking a picture of something and you're quite close it automatically changes to macro mode and I just don't see why I'd rather that was an option that I can enable and then when you tap on it in the camera app to disable it it will stay disabled which is yeah that's something that you definitely want to enable exposure adjustment night mode portrait Zoom action mode is usually off Pro raar and resolution control I definitely want that on and then Apple PR res we want to preserve that setting I don't know why I didn't already have it preserved and then live photo I also want to preserve that all of these options here the aim is that when you go in and out of the camera app they they stay as they are when you go back into the camera app let's continue scrolling down record stereo sound I have that off that's really down to personal preference Some people prefer stereo sound I just prefer it as mono volume up for taking pictures in a burst I have that enabled uh QR codes enabled detected text enabled I might actually disable this cuz I don't use it that much composition these ones you definitely want to enable the grid and the level the level feature is new to iOS 17 and older devices now have it where when you're taking a picture a little level will come up on the screen just to show that you have the phone level which is really nice I'm not sure why that wasn't there before and then as we scroll down we have a few other options here like so and that is pretty much it now we're going to go into the camera app itself and adjust some of the settings in here so usually when I take Pro Raw imag I like to make sure that I'm at the one times focal length and I usually leave it on 24 mm what you can do here is you can actually tap to turn off the raw Max option but something that I discovered recently which I never knew existed was that you can actually hold it down to bring up all the options so you can actually choose raw 12 instead so instead of taking raw pictures at 48 megapixels maybe if you prefer smaller far sizes and you don't mind 12 megapixels instead of 48 you can have raw 12 instead so yeah I usually leave it on Raw Max I have the flashlight usually disabled I don't really see any need for the flashlight night mode also is usually enabled um this is a pretty neat option the exposure but I usually leave that on zero most of the other options that you see here are just left on auto I don't actually want to be mess around too much with the settings I don't want to have to mess around with the settings before I take a picture I just want to be able to open up the camera app take a picture and have the highest quality image so that maybe I can edit it later on another thing to keep in mind is is that when you do have the pro raw option enabled you now don't have live photos and I know for a lot of people live photos are quite important because live photos are almost like a little mini video right but yeah you can't have both of them on at the same time so that's something to keep in mind I don't really care too much about live photos I much prefer having Pro raw enabled another neat little thing which I don't think a lot of people knew existed is that you can swipe up to get a bunch of other settings here to mess around with stuff so flashlight again the live photo you can also change the aspect ratio of your images you can change the exposure again here we're going to leave that though you can set up a timer and there's even photographic Styles but I always leave it on original I don't think it's worth going through the photographic styles that is it that's all you need to do with a camera app and as long as you follow the settings that I just showed you will have the highest quality images so that now we can edit them in an app like Lightroom and take them even further the other benefit of shooting Pro roll which I actually completely forgot to mention is that it strips all of the processing that Apple does so in the photos app you will see the processing you will see that apple have added their own sort of look to the image it might be oversharpened some people like the oversharpened look but I personally am not a fan of it so when you take that Pro raw image that you shot and you put it into an editing app like Lightroom which is what I'm going to show you next it strips all of that and gives you a baseline image which is not flat there is still color in it but the idea is that there is no crazy Pro processing on it there is no weird sharpening there's no leveling of the highlights and the shadows and stuff you're getting an image which is going to be very similar that you get from a proper mirrorless or DSLR camera so here we have an image that I've imported into Lightroom a proo image that I've shot on my iPhone 15 Pro this is the standard image before any edits and it already looks pretty good like you can see the lots of detail here the highlights and the Shadows look really nice um but we're going to edit it we're going to make it look a bit different different and we're going to use some presets now the presets are my own presets I'll leave a link to them but they're not required you don't have to use my presets you can find other presets and stuff it's just my presets have a specific style that I like if we scroll down go through some of my presets we can see how much it drastically changes the look of the image sometimes way too dark but we can adjust it later on the main thing is with the presets is that they start they're sort of like a a starting layer starting way to adjust the images so we'll go through find one that I like need to find actually I like that one let's go with this one here then we're going to go to the lighting actually one thing we do need to check is we need to scroll along and go to profiles and make sure that we are on Apple Pro raw like so so yeah we'll make sure that's enabled then we're going to go to lighting and we're going to bring things down huh what is that oh okay it's because we have the Shadows all the way up we'll bring down the whites as well bring down the blacks bring bring down the whites bring down the Shadows like so bring down the exposure bring down the highlights there we are and that's added quite a bit of color to our image but I actually think it might be a bit too much color so we're going to bring down the saturation a little bit bring down the Vibrance to five as well make it maybe a bit warmer like so and there we are now we have a look on our images so that is before and that is after and you can see how much of a big difference that is just from adding a preset and making a few adjustments and the main thing is that you play around with it you adjust it to whatever you think looks best there isn't a right or wrong way to do it here but if you're looking for the sort of similar type of images that I've got you can follow this sort of process as well let's do another image so I have an image here of a very nice yacht we're going to go to presets we'll have a look through see what there is quite actually I'm much scroll down cuz I know there is one that I really like I think it might be one of these yeah I like this one so 0309 make sure that our profile is of course on Apple Pro it is nice then we're going to go to exposure we're going to brighten up a little bit because I do think the image needs to be brighter brighter NE to around there bring down wait do we want the contrast yeah actually we do want contrast we'll bring down the highlights instead bring up the shadows of Tad color let's go to the temperature maybe make it a bit warmer like so and I think that is pretty much ready I think that is already image so that is before that is after and you can see it's a very subtle difference but there is a difference there and that's what I like I like making subtle changes subtle differences to the image where it doesn't look super overly processed but the idea is that you giving the image a certain Vibe a certain look to match whatever mood you're looking for so this this is Monaco where it's sunny it's warm I want to give the image a warmer look but still keep the blue ocean the bless of the ocean in it and that's what I've done you can see the ocean I think looks like a nicer color and the image looks brighter looks sunnier looks warmer as well because I up the temperature and up the brightness of the image here we have an image of a front of a building so yeah let's add a preset again let's go through our presets see what I like the look of uh oh that looks quite nice looks very summary quite like that let's bring yeah actually we want the contrast let's bring down the exposure oh let's bring down the highlights like so y that's cool maybe bring down the Shadows a little bit yeah that looks very sunny I quite like the look at that look how much of a difference that preset has made that's insane but there's one issue with this image and that it doesn't really look that straight so what we're going to do is we're going to start messing around with the geometry of this image and it's something that I think more people need to do so we're going to go into geometry like like so we can have it do it automatically but we're not going to do that we're going to do constrain crop and then we're going to actually we don't need Distortion we need the vertical crop like so there we are I think you know what that's ready to go I think that's it I think that's all we need to do so we can see what the image look like before that's what it look like before you can see it sort of doesn't look straight and then after after adding the geometry and the filter and stuff look how much of a difference that is like it's huge it gives the image a completely different feel all because I shot in Pro roll brought it into Lightroom slapped a preset on made some geometry adjustments made some exposure adjustments and we have an image that I think looks incredible I like this could be a wallpaper on my phone and this is what is important when it comes to getting the best quality the best looking pictures out of the iPhone it's a two-step process you've got to first set up your iPhone get the settings right to take those high quality pictures and then you've got to bring it into an app like Lightroom you don't have to use Lightroom you can use other photo editing apps and then use those apps to get a certain look so that it doesn't look like an iPhone image and these ones don't look like iPhone images they almost look like they were shot with a mirrorless camera before I go I have something that I basically stole from s PA and that is the gentleman's agreement so the agreement is it sounds ridiculous but I think it's also pretty cool so the agreement is that I give you guys this content for free this educational content you learn a thing or two and all I ask in exchange is that you like subscribe and leave a comment so yeah please do that please let me know if you sign the gentleman's agreement in the comments below I hope you guys enjoyed it follow me on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe for [Music] more

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Length: 12min 54sec (774 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 24 2023