iPhone 12 pro max best camera settings for low light photography
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- Well if you're looking for the iPhone 12 pro max best camera settings, this is where you will find it.
The iPhone 12 Pro has a sensational camera with great computational photography. But we all know it can struggle when it comes to astrophotography, or does it?
In this video, we will go through some of the best camera settings for the iPhone 12 Pro Max and set your camera up to really take advantage of that large sensor.
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I know I'll forget these details so I've made a note of them in OneNote so I'll always have them with me on the phone when I eventually get a clear sky and can start shooting. Thanks a bunch!
Fantastic video, and so easy to follow. I’ve been trying to accomplish this and didn’t know to shut those settings off. Thank You!
Simple, short video with everything you need, taking photos and editing from the same device, this kind of video I really love. Keep it up mate, love from Saudi Arabia.
Awesome, thank you!
Congratulations on hitting 20k subscribers and i have been here since it was 2k subs so proud of you keep up
I appreciate it! Thanks for sticking around mate
Very well done Shayne. Very well done. Learned alot from you 🙏🏻 been doing the astro photography since my 11 pro and now with these settings that I learned from you, I think I’m gonna do a great job. Thank you mate. See you on the top soon.
Thanks mate, I appreciate the kind words.
Bro awesome amazing tips 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Top notch. Those iPhone settings will make all the difference. I’m off to a star party this coming weekend (bound to rain) and cannot wait to try all this out. 👍👍👍👍
Cheers mate, good luck!
Big astrophotography nut here and I just got the iPhone 13 pro as a work phone upgrade. I didn’t even know this was possible until I watched this video and the one you just did on the iPhone 13 pro. Thanks 👍
Cheers mate, your next trip out I know you will give it a go.
Finally!!!! You explained it so we could understand, everyone else had me lost. Thank you
You're welcome!
Very helpful! Can hardly wait for nighttime!
Glad to hear it!
Thank you sir, your videos been helping me a lot with my photography on the iphone.
Cheers mate, thanks for watching :)
Awesome knowledge ! Thanks so muchhhh ❤
Excellent. Thanks !
Great video that explains the solutions instead of complaining about the problems.
No point complaining about it if it can be fixed.
This is helpful. Thanks for creating a post on this
Glad it was helpful mate
You are brilliant and well spoken in explaining the iPhone 12 Pro series photography tips. I learned something I was not aware of from turning off scene detection and HDR mode as well as some other features you highlighted. I enjoy taking photos of the night sky’s stars and visible planets in my area of the US in North Carolina. There fortunately is not too much urban light pollution but still some here in outside near Greensboro. I am excited to start trying the new settings but need to find my tripod buried in the garage somewhere. In the meantime I’ll stabilize on my wooden fence tonight and see what difference in quality I get.
I’ve subscribed to you months ago but had not activated my notifications button until now. I watched your video on photographing the moon at night. Not certain if that was addressing the older phones before this 12 Pro. Hoping on better results here now. But I think daytime moon photos will still produce the best outcome as the contrast issues you mentioned before.
Thanks again. You’re awesome! I’ll keep watching for more of your tips and express my improvements ahead as well. Gday Mate!
Happy to see you growing so fast. From 1.18k in october to 20k in march. Keep growing 💯
Thanks mate, I wouldnt be growing if you guys were not watching! I appreciate it.
Cant wait to try this out. Awesome!!
Hope you enjoy it!
Love your videos man, do you think you can attempt a star trail time lapse on iPhone again much love man
Thank you, Shayne! I’m excited to take pictures of the northern lights! 😊 Greetings from Alaska!
Nice! Sounds great
Thanks for the great video on iPhone 12 night mode settings. I’m sure that you have discovered that the night mode and smart HDR are mutually exclusive features that is made clear by your turning off the Smart HDR in the settings menu. When in Night mode clicking the HDR icon has the opposite effect on the night mode icon and visa versa. Night mode is a very powerful tool and any stray ambient light - like in my location - can easily cause bright spots and lens flares ruining any Astro shots.
Exactly mate. What I have found with the HDR turned on in the menu is that any ambient light will occasionally have a great hazy area, when I turn it off, I am yet to see it.
@@ShayneMostyn so are you saying that we need to go into the camera settings and turn off HDR to do Astro? I think in the new iOS 15 smart hdr and scene detection are gone.
wow thank u sir! i use to just take a pictures and thats is but now u showed me this. wowww
Glad I could help!
That’s cool, differently going to try this
For sure mate.
Wow, that turned out amazing!
I certainly thought so mate
wow! thank you for this instructions!
You are so welcome!
Looking forward to trying this this summer out at the lake. Way too much light polution in the city to get great shots
Have fun!
Got heaps out of this mate. Great stuff!!
Ah you have the 12PM now dont you? You need to do this mate
Hmmm… that’s the second video I watch from you Shayne (the first one was on the iPhone 13 Pro). I’m gonna get an iPhone 13 Pro for xmas and I love astrophotography, unfortunately I don’t have the budget now for large scope, high end cameras, guided tripod, etc… so I was wondering if we can do it with an iPhone… and yet I found you channel, that’s an instant sub!! Thanks
I can definitely agree on that. And back that
Thanks mate, I appreciate it. Enjoy!
Cheers mate
you can do way better astrophotography with way less money, any aps-c camera with wide aperture lens and image stacking will produce way better results for 1/2 of the price of the iphone. Incomparably better results.
Of course you can mate. But nobody is going to go and buy a phone just for astrophotography, its a ridiculous proposition. These videos are for people who are buying a phone, or already have the phone.
Nice to see you haven’t stopped evolving in iPhone photography :-)
Never will mate.
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Thanks buddy it helps a lot! Problem solved love this tutorial video worth watching 😁
No problem 👍
Thanks
No problem
🙌🏻 thank u so much for this video!!!! Full moon and moon in general obsessed here 😬so I just upgraded from a 7+ and the other day I tried to shot the full moon and I got pretty disappointed by the quality of this 12 max pro, like it looked awful .. I was so worried!! 😅
Cheers mate, thanks for watching :)
I did it! Only used iPhone..no other editing app.. was able to capture the Big Dipper ..thank you!!
Excellent! Glad you hear it
Nice 👍🏻 thanks
Thank you for the tip! I’m going to apply these on my 12 Pro Max. Thank you so much!
Wow this is nice thanks
This was awesome! I had actually taken a photo of the Milky Way while camping this last summer but hadn’t turned off the scene detection or the HDR and it was handheld. It isn’t perfect, but using your editing tools, it looks much better! I which I could upload it and get your opinion.
Thats great mate. You can upload it in the FB group if you like
Deciding wether to buy iphone 12 pro or not, man this video made it clear🤙🏽
Yeah its good mate
Damn… I wish I knew all this a fortnight ago! I was wild camping in the Lake District on the top of haystacks, we had a moonless clear night sky with not a breath of wind, perfect conditions for the best astrophotography! I need to get back out there!
Well you will know for next time ;)
Congrats on 20 K. You deserve it.👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thank you very much! You have been here the whole time!
@@ShayneMostyn you deserve it!! With 1000;s of TH-cam channels isn’t taking you long to get 20 K , that because of you and your content and just saying it how it is, as an Aussie👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Your videos are really good. I’ve started Astro photography with my 12 pro max
That's awesome! Enjoy!
@@ShayneMostyn thank you, have a good day
The next clear night I will have a go
Hey Shayne! Thanks so much for this. I’m using iPhone 13 Pro Max and noticed that HDR and Scene Detection aren’t options anymore. Upon looking up Apples documentation on this, Scene Detection is listed as an iPhone 12 exclusive. HDR is also mentioned as an iPhone 12 and earlier feature - and iPhone 13 Pro is only mentioned as video HDR.
With these settings gone, do you have any other suggestions at all? I took some photos tonight and they just aren’t what I hoped for. I then used my 12 Pro Max and got better results with those settings turned off. Interested to hear your thoughts.
Yes I noticed it too. Im assuming it does it all automatically. Did you try shooting proraw?
Hi Shayne I'm a big fan of astrophotography and i have been following you since you had about 3000 followers i have some pictures captured it would be great if you edited it. I took it from iphone 12 promax
Indeed a game changer. Who would've thought a mobile phone camera can produce such great quality astrophotography.
Cheers mate, thanks for watching :)
Nice video
Brilliant, I think I’ll give up with my iPhone 13 mini ,regards Frederick
Cheers mate, thanks for watching :)
Would you make a video on best astrophotography settings for iPhone 12? I’ve seen many videos for the iPhone 12 PRO MAX but nothing for the plain iPhone 12.
Not sure if I can get my hands on one mate. The process is exactly the same, with the exception of ProRAW.
Hi Shayne, ure doing such a great job on this channel !
I got a big question here...
Which one is more effective for astrophotography in your opinion GoPro 8 or iPhone 12 Pro ?
Thanks mate, I appreciate it. I think the iPhone 12 Pro is better. The GP8 had / has a real problem with hot pixels.If you shoot the photo in the iPhone like I did in this video, it get a better result.
Hey, great video - can you tell me how you make a 30 second shot? Is that in time lapse??
hello,
no, you have to open night shot option when in Photo, and swipe to the right and choose “Max”. If capturing while holding the phone with hands you’re gonna get 10 sec max, but when it is set still (on a tripod or any other support) you can get full 30~
i love this channel so much! thank u for all of your content! if there is any way i can support to help keep this alive do let us know! Fellow strayan!
Thanks mate, I appreciate it! I do have memberships on the channel if you would like to support. There are a number of benefits for the members on the channel. If you click the "JOIN" button on any of my videos, you will see the benefits. Thanks mate!
with the sensor shift technology in the pro max, apple could easily bring the pixel shift function to the phone, so it would take multiple photos and the sensor would move minimal between each shot and bring high resolution photos... hardware is there, just needs the software
I couldnt agree more mate. There is so much potential with the iPhone hardware. I often think they leave the cool / more advanced enhancements up to app developers.
What settings would you recommend for an indoor concert? Big stage that I’m not anywhere near. So I’ll be taking a distant pic of the artist performing
Hmm I would recommend just enjoying the concert mate. If its dark, the iPhone (pretty much any phone) wont be much good for this. If youre some distance from the stage, you need a good zoom.
This was very informative! I never would have thought to make those changes on the Settings but it makes a lot of sense.
Cheers Greg, its only something I have thought of testing recently. It certainly makes a big difference to this type of photography with the 12PM.
@@ShayneMostyn Hey Shayne, on the Iphone 11 pro max do I copy the settings available in this video? Also, could you explain how to shoot in Raw on the Iphone 11 pro?
@@slim7406 Some of these things are not on the 11 mate. The 11 doesnt have ProRAW either, its only on the 12 pro series at this stage.
@@ShayneMostyn I know that but do I disable and enable the settings that correspond between the two phones or do I have to do something different?
@@slim7406 hmm I’m really not sure mate, I haven’t tested it on the 11. I would certainly try both. Leave HDR on and then try one with it turned off.
Would you, in some point, try out the astrophotography capabilities of the regulatr galaxy s21, I know it has a great camera setup, but would be great that a professional like you, do some tests and see its limits. Thanks for your great content !!
I dont have access to one at this point, but I would suggest its going to be almost the same as this one. The process to capture it is exactly the same.
@@ShayneMostyn Thanks for attention and your advise, blessings and hope your channel raise as high as it deserves, great content! Thanks
Another great Shayne. I live in a high light pollution area in the U.S but my in laws have a place in Northern Michigan and I figured out that my 11 Pro could make it come alive at night in photos. These tips will help even more. I never thought to turn off scene optimizer. The 12 Pro is my daily driver now (I like to shoot one handed much of the time) but I decided to pick up an S21 Ultra when I found a really good deal on Swappa online to play with based on your videos. I want to learn a bit more about manual controls and it seemed like the right tool since I don’t know how far I want to push Astro stuff. Since I have the Snapdragon version, I was able to get the GCam Astro working and I have tested it out and it has produced some remarkably clear shots in an area with heavy noise pollution. I am dying to test it out “up North” soon. Clearly GCAm wasn’t designed for this sensor, but it still stacks five minutes of shots with 16 second exposures as the longest and it should be fun.
I would be interested to see the results of that. I think the manual mode would likely capture more stars over the Gcam.
@@ShayneMostyn I will let you know when I get “Up North” as we call it. I finally had a clear night to test the Ultra 30 second long exposure against my 12 Pro in Night Mode and the Ultra is quite impressive. I don’t have the Max, but the iPhone 12 Peo is just a tad behind. The G Cam app on the Ultra really looks nice also but if any light comes into he picture it just sucks it right in so I can’t fairly compare it until I get out of this light pollution. The iPhone night mode has that issue a bit also, but I am just amazed that the GCam works so well when it hasn’t been tuned for this sensor. Sorry if I am a slow on the uptake, but I missed exactly how I join that Discord and give you some money to keep this up. I would love to do that..
I have not had a chance to get away from light pollution yet, but surprisingly I think I am getting more stars with Gcam on the Ultra than manual mode. When GCam fails, it fails bad, but when it works it works really well. This is surprising to me since it was not tuned for this sensor. I plan on really putting together a good comparison on the facebook group as soon as I can get to a better location, probably in May.
@@JasonPeltz you must have the snapdragon version right?
@@ShayneMostyn Correct. I did see online their are now Exnos versions that people say are working, but I am using SD Ultra.
Can I ask Xiaomi Mi11 to do so? I really like night photos!
Tnx ...
You recommend Snapseed or Lightroom for editing raw photo?
Both will do it mate. Although LR has more tools that I use with this type of photography.
Thanks for continuing to also use the iPhone for Astro - for a moment I was worried your channel was going to become an all Android Astro Channel 😅
Never. I will always do both. Most of the time, each "camp" will learn something for the video.
Hey Shayne, how're you doing mate. i'd like to sugest a theme for your videos. i havent found videos about lens for iphone 12 pro (Landmarc, Ulanzi or Moment) for astrophotography. Do you think there's a good one for astrophotography?? Cheers.
Thanks mate, its something I am looking at right now.
Will you be checking out the new Mi 11 Ultra? Its GN2 sensor in the main 24mm camera should be great for astro.
Possibly. I will wait and see mate.
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Can i do that in iphone 11?
Hi Shayne. I noticed tha LR has Noise Reduction too. Do you prefer the NR Apple Setting?? Why not adjust all settings with Apple editor (or LR)??
Certainly does mate. It doesn't deal with the artifacts on the image in night mode on the iPhone as well (yet) in my opinion.
Great video. I was wondering why you dont edit the photo in lightroom only? Is it better to do tweaks in photos first then lightroom for fine tuning?
When I shot this video, the noise reduction in Lightroom for the ProRAW wasnt that good. Its better now.
@@ShayneMostyn thank you sir. Helped me a lot
Iphone 11 could shoot like that or only raw format makes this shoot?
Do you take multiple 30sec. exposures or just one? Do you stack them with software if you take more than one? I know I do when I use a DSLR.
Just the one mate. I have a video about stacking these, but in this video, its just the one shot.
Hi, i really love astrophotography, which iPhone should i get? iPhone 12 or 12 pro?? Plssss help
12 Pro for sure. It has the ProRAW feature. Its a huge benefit to astrophotography on the iPhone.
3:24 So I wasn't the only one hahahaha
Hi Shayne, Just watching this video now, i noticed in your settings Lens correction is switched off , in my phone its on, should i disable this setting too? Thanks
Gday mate, I have tried both and for this type of photography I have noticed no difference at all.
What setting would you recommend using for ISO? Also, is there any way to control the shutter speed or exposure time like on the Galaxy S10?
I would start at 1600 mate and adjust it from there.
@@ShayneMostyn great, thanks for the advice.
hahaha almost to easy to get good photos :D well explained as usual
HAHA cheers mate
My biggest question is, which app do you use for taking the 30 sec exposure?
With the camera app, you click on the night mode and then switch it to « max » it will select 30 sec automatically if the phone is stable and don’t know if I was clear in my explanation
Is there any way to stack photos using a mobile device or are we not there yet? That would be nice to be able to run an app to stack multiple photos to get an ever better image using just a phone.
There are, but not like this. There are apps that will stack photos to create a star trail, but nothing to line up the stars.
I took a few different shots of the moon last night through my telescope , a couple with and a couple without pro raw and the ones without pro raw looked better. Maybe it’s because I used a telescope, but when I went to Snapseed to edit they looked really dark from the pro raw. It may be a combination of a bright moon and using a telescope, not sure though
Pro raw will always look dark, but will be a better pic after an edit.
@@ShayneMostyn ok wasn’t to sure if it was normal, I’ll try to edit and see how it comes out, thanks again brother
Will turning off "Scene Detection" and "Smart HDR" help the non-Pro iPhone 12's? I take it that it'll be not as clean (to noise) as with the RAW file but will it help in general? It's sad that it doesn't have that "ProRaw" feauture :(
I honestly cant say mate. It would make sense to try it though.
@@ShayneMostyn Okay thanks! Will try it as soon as the new moon comes. Great vid though, hope your channel grows bigger mate!
Absolutely brilliant, as usual! I noticed you had lens correction turned OFF, what does that one do? Thanks a lot for churning out great videos with superb photography 😁👍
Thanks mate, for this type of photography, I havent see it change anything at all.
Thanks 😊
Smart HDR does not seem to be an option in iOS 15 for my 13 pro
Do you have a similar video with the settings for iPhone 13 Pro Max? The latest iPhone has different settings for camera and I can't find Smart HDR etc...
No mate, its all gone now in iOS15 We no longer get the choice.
@@ShayneMostyn no way! Are you planning to do any video with the settings for iPhone 13 pro? Or you simply don’t need to do these first two steps with the newer iPhone?
@@solidsn2011 Dont need to mate, it just works as is
@@ShayneMostyn thanks a lot! Can’t wait to try it out!
Need another video for the 13pro
I will when its released.
@@ShayneMostyn legend 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Great content but could you tell me when the milky way will appear in the Middle East (Syria)
Thanks mate! Your best bet is to get the PhotoPills app. It has the AR feature that you can use to find that answer. It moves a little each day and will be above the horizon at different times for different locations. This video will show you how to find it with the app th-cam.com/video/cfTXEToEt-w/w-d-xo.html
Did you use Apple camera app or camera +2?
Apple camera app.
Hi there, I am wondering how dark the area that I need to be at to shoot such a photo 🤩!
I saw this light pollution map but I don’t what is the best area to shoot cause all the map around my area have different degrees of light pollution
You will need to travel mate.
I wish iPhone 11 have that options
What did you use to film this?
Hmm this was a while ago. Probably the Sony ZV1 I would say mate.
Handshake: good stuff. Enjoy them even if I don`t have an Apple.
Thanks mate
how do you set the focus for dark scenes?
Do you mean for foreground or stars?
@@ShayneMostyn
Hello Shayne, what I mean is how to put the focus on the stars. Normally the screen is too dark to put the focus rectangle on an object and the camera is not able to find the right focus. Thank you for your support
Shit hot Shayne, cheers, bring on the droid stuff :)
Its coming mate. 😉
How to stop the count down flashing. The flash icon is turned off but if the timer is set on 10, it dose 10 flashes. I don't want that.
Not sure you can mate. I will have to check it out
Also make a video on realme devices please🙏
Because we don't have money to buy I phone 12 pro 🤨🤣🤣
I will see what I can do mate.
@@ShayneMostyn thanks 😊 👍
Would the iPhone 12 pro do the same as pro max?
Pretty much. The Max is slightly better, but the 12 pro will do a good job too.
CAN YOU MAKE A VIDEO FOR THE IPHONE 12 TOO?????????
I dont have one sorry. But the process is exactly the same, except for ProRAW.
@@ShayneMostyn you legend
Would you apply these settings to shooting people at night?
Yeas for sure mate. You may need an external light source to shine on the person.
Nice! Beautiful night sky. Now I was going to buy some Apple stuff but my house is full of junk. The sky here is full of light as them darn greenies support crime and strong lights to mitigate the former. Gotta get out west to pull that Milky Way apart.
Ok one question, in the beginning you said "you'll need 30 seconds for the shot", but the max the iPhone has is 10 seconds...how 😭
Needs to be on a tripod
202 likes without dislikes epic!
Thanks mate. I dont get that many dislikes, I like to think that I am helping people.
@@ShayneMostyn it's your quality 💖
Idk I feel extremely disappointed with my pro 12 max - the fact it is plagued with a hardware issue and can’t even focus on objects is a letdown
Never had an issue like that mate. Mine has never let me down and I used it as my daily phone for a year or so.
@@ShayneMostyn I took mine to apple and the auto focus just doesn’t work. Even switched out to a new one it has a hard time focusing on smaller objects. I’ll try your tips for the scenery shots though thank you
At 6:30 your telling me Android can already do this and the iPhone is just getting closer not even there yet with the capabilities of camera!. 🤦🏽♂️😱
?? Yep, Androids can do it. The iPhone is getting better and better though
10 seconds max exposure
Gday Иван Уваров, to get 30 seconds, the phone will need to be on a tripod. Once its on a tripod, leave it for a moment and it will change to 30 seconds.
@@ShayneMostyn thank you very much
That's very good, however the average person has neither the skill or time to edit and the tripod just defeats the object of taking in the moment 😏
Thanks mate. The average person can do all of it, that’s why I do these tutorials. To show the average person what they can do.