Delivered on MacMania 15 in Australia. Covers how to get the most from your iPhone/iPad camera, along with Camera+ for better photography and Touch Retouch HD to correct your photos

1. iOS Photography*
Allison Sheridan
November 2012
* I had MASSIVE assistance from Steve Stanger in producing this talk
Find him at stevestanger.com
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2. What We’ll Cover Today
Tips for Shooting
Tips for Processing
Photo Workflow
Moving Photos from One Device to Another
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3. Tips for Shooting
Big, heavy cameras are easy to hold still
Light iPhones are hard to take a steady photo
Use Two hands for stability
Remember iOS takes the photo when you release
Avoid pushing the button and jiggling the phone
iPhone volume + button also takes a photo
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4. iPhone Likes LOTS of Light
iPhone 5 is better than 4S but the camera’s sensor just
isn’t big enough to let in a lot of light
If you have to shoot in low light find a way to stabilize
the camera
Set it on something (something stable)
Maybe even get a case that stands up easily
Lean yourself against the wall
Turn on lights in the room, or turn people so they’re
facing the available light - no backlighting!
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5. Other Ways to Help in Low Light
Some camera apps offer a steadying option
Camera+ has a Stabilizer mode
You tell it to take the picture but
it waits until you (or your subject
stops moving
Another option is a Timer mode,
gives you a chance to set the iPhone
down to stay steady
iPhone 5 camera has less grain in
low light than previous iPhones
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6. How About Digital Zoom?
Digital zoom is the zoom slider in most camera apps
Don’t use it.
Never.
Never Ever.
If you want the photo zoomed in
Take the shot at full resolution
Crop the photo in a secondary app
I’m not kidding
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7. HDR Photography
HDR = High Dynamic Range
Your eyes can see shadows in white clouds and
shadows in dark mountains at the same time
A camera sensor can’t
HDR photography is taking one or more photos at
different exposures and combining them into one
iPhone has HDR built into the camera as an option
Doesn’t work on moving objects (weird effects)
Can sometimes save bad lighting
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8. Tips for Processing
Great apps out there for post-processing on iOS
Don’t go crazy with post-processing - be wary of going
wild with effects
Good apps have sliders for intensity of effects
0 -100% but you don’t have to use 100%
Try doing multiple saves so you can roll back
Often these apps erase ALL of your effects if you hit
undo (example Snapseed)
iPhoto and Touch ReTouch allow multiple undos
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9. Even More Processing Tips
Consider processing in multiple apps
Set contrast and vibrance in one
Add a border with another app
Remember all the filters in the world won’t save a
poorly shot photo
Try to frame and get lighting right before shooting
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10. Shallow Depth of Field
Digital SLRs have lenses that can get that beautiful
shallow depth of field
The iPhone camera cannot produce this effect because
the lens isn’t fast enough (doesn’t have a large enough
aperture)
You can fake the effect with Tilt-Shift applications
Designed to make objects look like small toys
Done right can blur the background
Snapseed and Instagram have Tilt-Shift
Demo Time - Finally!
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11. Demo Time - Camera App
HDR - be cautious on movement
Embrace the grid
Panorama
How to change direction to right/left
HUGE files - can be up to 28MP!
Turn on Voiceover
How it shows 1 face, 2 faces
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12. Demo Time - Camera+
Camera+ $1 http://campl.us/
Normal operation
Two-fingered tap for focus & exposure/white balance
Don’t touch zoom!
Stabilizer, Timer, Burst (lower quality)
Store in Camera Roll, Lightbox, or both
Quick edits - scenes, adjust, crops, FX, Borders
Share
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13. Demo Time - Snapseed
Snapseed snapseed.com $5 iOS
Interface explanation
Drag up/down to change tool
Drag right/left to change intensity
Crop & Straighten first
Selective Adjust
Add control point, pinch to change selection area
Details - sharpening - loupe
Tuning - brightness, contrast, saturation, white balance
Grunge, borders, vintage - fun but overused
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14. Demo Time - Snapseed
Tilt Shift - also for depth of field
Drag to change the point that is in sharpest focus
Style Star to change whether effect is linear or
elliptical
Pinch to change the radius of the blur
(elliptical not just circular)
Two fingered rotate to change the tilt and thickness
on linear blur
Change transition width with one finger
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15. Demo Time - Transferring files
Photostream
Kinda hard to demo...and great when
it works...
Use the Camera Connection Kit $29 apple.com/store
From “Real” Camera to iPad for backups and editing
iPhone to iPad for backups and editing
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16. Transfer Photos Over the Air
Photo Transfer App $3
Requires network connection but NOT Internet
Bluetooth between iDevices
Transfer between iDevices, Macs and
even PCs and Androids
Launch Photo Transfer App
Select Send or Receive
On Mac navigate to web address
On iDevice tap on appropriate device
Transfer for backup or to give to someone
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17. Secret App for Photo Transfer
Hidden secret - there’s a built-in app for transferring
photos to your Mac
Image Capture FTW!
Want to move all videos
off your iPhone?
Want to clean up those
photos you didn’t mean to
take, or the 2nd HDR?
Import into iPhoto,
Aperture, or to a folder
Import selectively or import all
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18. Ooh - Aah!
Touch ReTouch HD - $2 iPad, $1 iPhone from Handy
Photo Lab
Erase things you don’t like from your photos
People, outlets, lampposts
Use your finger to paint over what you want to erase
Use brush or lasso or clone stamp
You have to see it to believe
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19. Giant Link Farm of Doom
Steve Stanger http://stevestanger.com
Camera+ http://campl.us/
Snapseed snapseed.com $5 iOS, $20 Mac/Windows
Bought by Google recently...
iPhoto $5 in the iTunes Store
Touch Retouch iphotomania.com $1 iOS/Android
Instagram instagram.com/ Free iOS/Android
iPhone Connection Kit apple.com/store $29
Photo Transfer App phototransferapp.com $3 iOS/Android
Touch Retouch handyphotolab.com $2/$1 iPad/iPhone
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20. Email: allison@podfeet.com
Twitter: @podfeet
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