Do You Know The iPhone Long Exposure Trick?

It's been around for a long time but lots of iPhone users still don't know that they can get a cool long exposure effect easierly and for free without ever leaving the native Camera app!
You can of course do this on other phones, but it was an iPhone I had in my hand and each platform does it slightly differently.
[I do apologise that you're treated here to my ears tack sharp but nothing else! I've been playing about with vintage lenses and thought I had it sorted manually focussed on my eyes but obviously not! I love the look but filming myself, monitoring focus but also not forgetting to look into the lens is beyond me so far but practise practise practise...]
When we open the camera app there is a concentric circle symbol in the top right corner. By activating it we are given a few options in a drop down in the left corner when we open the picture on the roll. One of these is long exposure. This can give a nice effect blurring and blending water movement, clouds or light. Anything moving really. You need to get the phone nice and steady and find a composition that has strong static elements with something moving around it.
True long exposure is when the shutter is open for longer periods of time 1/30 sec - 1 sec - 30 secs - 1 min - an hour etc. This isn't doing that but rather taking a short 3 second video then compiling the frames to give the effect. You do lose some resolution but it is still good fun and you probably wouldn't notice on social media posts.
For seeking more quality and creative freedom in long exposures whilst using your phone there is a video coming soon on just that using dedicated long exposure apps. Stay tuned!
Thanks as always for your support. If you have any questions by all means let me know in the comments.
I have smartphone masterclass workshops running in Cornwall, UK this year. You can check those out here;
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1.17 Activating Live Mode in the Camera App
2.00 How it Works
3.30 Warning About Resolution
4.15 Some Examples
5.47 What To Avoid
6.49 Stability
#photography #longexposure #iphone

[@hayabusaTravels]

1. put your phone on a tripod;
2. use the wired headphones to take pictures every 2-3-5 sec (or however you need them to be taken). The volume up or down from the headphones will triger the shutter and it's recommended to use this method to not introduce movement when pressing to take the picture.
3. take how many pictures you need - more is better. Underexposed images are better because you'll recover details in editing easier.
4. fire up Adobe Photoshop or any other image editing software that has image aligment and most important, stacking options.
5. Done with no ND's or apps to buy!
Oversimplified the Adobe Photoshop part, but you get the picture!

[@stevensmartfilms]

How to do it

[@mhouslay7281]

Great video.
Super helpful and interesting.
Nice pictures as well.
Thanks very much indeed for sharing.

[@wildernessphotographic]

Thanks very much, I really appreciate it 🙏 Have fun making your own 👍👍📷

[@hawaiianstarman]

Thank you. Great tips.

[@wildernessphotographic]

You’re most welcome Joseph thank you for watching and taking the time to comment 😀

[@stanm8462]

great tip, thank you for sharing!

[@wildernessphotographic]

Thanks Stan 👍

[@XxmattitudexX]

how do i get it set to 3 seconds mine seems to wander around sometimes showing 1 or 2

[@wildernessphotographic]

I haven’t come across that before to be honest. My understanding is that it’s not adjustable. Apple have it set to 1.5 secs before and after the shutter release to give that 3 second piece of video to work with.