For everything in this life you have to have skill, or enough knowledge so that things work out minimally well. One of those things is taking a simple photo. If you have a iPhone 12 ProYou already have a lot of cattle, but you have to know how to use it.
Apple has just published a few tricks to apply with an iPhone 12 Pro. They are used by a professional photographer who is dedicated to floral photography. If you have a mobile phone, and you read the advice, you will only need the flowers….
In a post from the Press Room Apple, the company explains some tricks to take full advantage of the photographic capabilities of the iPhone 12 Pro when capturing floral images.
The tips are explained Nathan underwood, a professional photographer from Tulipina, one of the world's leading floral design studios. He is delighted with the photographic possibilities that the iPhone 12 Pro offers, and tells us how to use it. Let's see what it explains.
Puesta in escena
La lighting of the scene is essential. Look for diffuse natural light, preferably from the side. If you are indoors, it can be about 0,5 to 1 meter from a window. If you are outdoors, find a space with even light, avoiding sunny spots and shadows. Look for an even shade.
The next component is the fondo, which is as simple as finding a neutral background (grays and blues work great) with a minimal pattern. Avoid bricks, stripes, dots, and other patterns that distract from the main object.
Framing
For still lifes, frame the shot It's very important. While you can crop later, getting a properly framed shot from the correct angle and perspective is paramount to making sure you have the best photo to work with. With the iPhone, I almost always choose the lens with the closest focal length. On iPhone 12 Pro models, this is the Telephoto camera.
When framing a flower arrangement, place the object in the center and make sure the frame is evenly filled. I tend to hold cameras, including the iPhone, and use a slight downward angle (just a few degrees) facing my subject. This ensures that you can see the vase, but also get great depth and dimensionality from the flowers, which are the stars of the scene.
La telephoto camera provides a 2x optical zoom range on the iPhone 12 Pro and 2.5x on the iPhone 12 Pro Max, to take into account when framing the scene well.
Portrait Mode
Kiana Underwood flower arrangements captured by Nathan Underwood on an iPhone 12 Pro.
For shots that will be edited later, I love the portrait mode, as seen in the photo above, and which is available on all iPhone 12 models. Portrait mode captures an incredible sense of depth that can be manipulated when editing in the Photos app, allowing for an incredible variety of creativity. This is especially useful when shooting flower arrangements, given their complexity and dimensionality. If you are new to still life photography, Portrait mode is your best friend.
Editing with the Photos app
There are some edits that I apply to 99 percent of the images I take, all of which are done in the native application Photos. For example, I like to focus on crop or aspect ratio, exposure, saturation, and color.
To find these tools in the Edit in Photos workflow, touch a photo to view it in full screen and then touch the check mark icon at the bottom and swipe through all the various options to transform the image.
Crop the photo as needed so that the flowers fill the whole frame, make it really a close-up. Small increases in exposure brighten the frame and allow the arrangement to pop, especially on a mobile screen.
For flower arrangements and other colorful still lifes, lower the saturation slightly (less than 10) to further enhance the colors of the flowers. Finally, adjust the color temperature of the photo. This generally means "cooling" the image slightly for an elegant calming effect that is also very true to the actual image.
While all of these edits are simple, they are very significant in producing a fantastic final image that is ready to share and publish. For more information on how to access and use each tool, visit «Edit photos and videos on iPhone«.
Apple ProRAW
Two more samples of the work done by the Underwoods.
Something that has me fascinated is the introduction of the mode ProRAW on iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, as it offers the absolute maximum amount of image information to apply more professional edits.
This means that you can now natively capture and export RAW images with iPhone, allowing for new creative possibilities, and personally, I can now easily incorporate iPhone photos into my normal post-production professional workflow alongside my DSLR. Only remember enable Apple ProRAW on your iPhone 12 Pro model to enjoy this possibility.
To get the most out of Apple ProRAW, I like to edit the image in Adobe Lightroom. In Lightroom, I generally do the same edits that I would in the Photos app (crop or aspect ratio, exposure, saturation, and warmth), but for floral still lifes, in particular, I like having the ability to enhance particular flowers by using the Radial Filter tool, which allows me to select a small area in which to make specific edits.
