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Night iPhone Photography

That brings us to kind of like not only the IPhone Ah, graffiti or mobile photography, but I thought I would add a couple other point and shoots because this when we were shooting night scenes and I think I've even got a little video clip here of Ah, I was shooting again the the San Diego Harbor. And I think I had the the video of that would have it in Quran, Poland. Thought while you're looking in the noise reduction light room five, I forget which version they really there's a significant jump in the noise reduction capabilities. So, you know, if you have star shots from a while ago or you have star shots now, they aren't happy with the noise. Maybe they'll have improved him or in two years. So having the raw file still around you go back and reprocess them with new or better software technologies as well as shooting with newer, better centers. Technology increases on both friends. Yeah, So I purposely did it. An experiment in here. We've got this is the scene. So this is how much li...

ght was in this particular scene? Um, this night at the harbor, down in San Diego. So you can see there was really no light available on my friend. Dwight Jones took the shot, and I'm using both some pocket cameras as well as the IPhone. We're using average Cam Pro here, which are shown in a second, but that so you can see up here what we're dealing with. And first I thought I would show you what the image looked like in, uh, on using a point and shoot that I'm really having a lot of fun with its point shoot that it's kind of their call, all in one or super zooms. It's the Panasonic Lou mix. It's the FC 70. But the thing is, I mentioned before This has a really unique set up. It's a raw shooter, all manual controls, all in one with a I believe, 23 that zoom lens on it, which is just kind of ridiculous. Um, and of course, it's not going to give you the quality of an SLR, but this is a 32nd exposure is you can see here it f five. I s a 100. I purposely want it would to see what I could do with the least amount of noise built up because of a very low is so, as we were just talking about, gave it a 32nd exposure. I knew that that would be the most that I could do before that build up of static would come into play. But here is the shot. And you could see how far away this is the IPhone shot. So this is the distance of the downtown San Diego. But this using its 1000 millimeter lens, it could actually get this close into downtown San Diego. And with the 32nd exposure, of course, all the water was completely missed it and then taking that into a C. R. This is the tweaked version of that shot. So here we've got a raw shooter. Manual controls, ridiculous assume should be in illegal zoom and very fun. Is it the tax sharp that might have gotten with, um, SLR off course? It's nowhere near what could have been done with a really nice tripod. This was actually again just resting it on that concrete pillar that you saw. But can you play around with your night scenes and cityscapes? Yes, but this is not a star field. This is a brightly lit, you know, major Metropolitan City. But that this fun The other thing that I mentioned before is if you've got raw capabilities on even your point and shoot, this is that Sony, uh, the Rx 100 is a great camera does not have the telephoto, But again, it could be that you can experiment with your night shots with that the other one is playing around with, in addition to your mobile phones to say and again I mentioned the Samsung. I'm really impressed with this camera. 16 megapixel. It does have. It starts at a 23 millimeter goes out. Teoh, I think. What? 423 to 400. So it's got a really nice zoom ring, John. It optically stabilized high def video. But of course it has, you know, a supercomputer inside of it, just like our mobile phones has. So it has a ton of APS, and it has built in settings for light trails, night machines and 20 android. That's right. It does not make well. It makes Skype calls, does not have cell service. That's a nice thing. This is the galaxy to camera the galaxy. One came with cell service, and I think you even needed to contract. To do It is a really cool camera, but you need a contract and everybody said, Yeah, and this is a stand alone. Like I said, I got this at Costco and I'm sure Adirama has it in other places as well. But it's really great and has a bunch of night settings on it. But those air some settings on it. Here is what was done with the IPhone using on average. Cam Pro, on average, can pro like a lot of the time lapse and slow motion APS, basically, because it cannot leave the shutter open for 30 seconds. There's no such thing as a shutter speed priority on a mobile phone. For the most part, your Windows phone has that right has an actual you actually are changing the true shutter speed. What it does is shooting, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot. Remember, the the IPhone can shoot 10 frames a second, so it's got no problems, just taking a zillion shots back to back at full resolution eight megapixels so it can just do a ton of shots and then what it does is the same sort of thing that you'll be seeing Brenda do with star trails. It stacks them all together inside the AB and creates the imitation of either motion blur or, in the case of the long exposure for low light, it combines them to either do the light trails of the low light. So all things considered, this is probably again a 32nd exposure. That's pretty, you know, noise free for a nighttime scene. Remember that from that video it was a black night. There was really no like to speak of in that scene whatsoever in terms of the apse themselves, some of the favorite ones. I know this is what you guys will Haftar this sort of graphic and these are some of my favorite ones. I'll just kind of come up here and share some of them with you. One of the ones that I love working is not an app. The dozen, the shooting. It's a photo pills, and what it does is it allows you to track all sorts of things, win sunrises, sets moonrise, moon set all these different things. But it also will tell you by since it has a gyroscope in a GPS, you point to an area, and it's going to show you where the sun's gonna be at any time of day. So in this case, this nice little shot here is showing it. The graph would show you the sun's going to come right here and you're looking through this hole in a cliff and you go I know right where the sun is gonna be on this day in this situation. So it's pretty amazing again, that's that's like five replaces, five different. It really does. And it has your your field of view on it. It has your hyper focal, you know, calculations on it as a ton of geeky things. This is what you pulled out at the cocktail party when you get yeah, just so you trying to impress the women by telling him sunrises 6 23 Tomorrow way, Moonrise baby is gonna Yeah, okay, Another great app. And again, the folks that adobe have been working overtime to extend their mobile apse, which are just fantastic now, and light room for the IPhone like light room for the IPad came out a while ago. Just recently a few weeks ago, like room for the IPhone came out, and I'll just do this. Just mention it cause still, so many photographers, even light from users, are not. Don't know what's going on, but this. There's a smart preview technology now built into light room where you have this catalog ridiculously large catalogue, potentially with these ridiculously large you know, what's a typical frame coming off your top in Canada? What's the file size for one image? Comprende? Frame one frame. The rods are like 22 2020 plus megabytes for one shot. How do you use that in a mobile environment where you can't well, Dobie came up with the concept. What we'll do is either an import or when you know you want to use them offline. It will take that full raw information, compress it down to a very manageable one megabyte file, but keeps all the raw data. It's not a J peg. It's not a tiff. It's a it's the true raw data, and it keeps all the parameters within that. So even if you've done retouching on this very large file, you've come in here with a brush and getting rid of noise or you've done dodging burning. You make a soft pre a, uh, a smart preview. It, um, can maintains all that integration of all these different parameters who put into it and uploads it and allows you to instantly have access to it on your IPhone or IPad. Now on the IPad. That's useful because you could actually do it to it and do your ranking and rotating and now actually, do your optimizing enhancing. Um, but also when you then get to your phone and muck about with it. That is also instamatic instantly and automatically sent back to your light room catalogue on your desktop and automatically sync back so you can work on both places seamlessly automatically, and you can set it up so that if you're shooting with your IPhone, it automatically ends up in your catalogue at home without doing anything. It will automatically upload as you shoot your camera, and that's what a lot of people are doing where obviously we're shooting with this lot, and one it's an automatic backup of all that you're doing, but too, it's also giving you access to manipulate the images, and that includes your clarity and all our wonderful jiggery pokery that we like love doing tour images so light room is fantastic. It Presupposes that you have a creative cloud membership because it uses the cloud in order to do all this sinking one that doesn't use the Cloud Photo Shop expresses a great app from photo shop because it has all the wonderful noise reduction that we were just talking about. Uses amazing algorithms that will same ones that Aaron Photo Shop and light room and the sharpening and clarity and vibrance and all these other things it's free doesn't use the cloud. And it's a great app. That's one of the nicest ones out there because again, with that shadow slider that we've been talking about is worth a $1,000,000 that's built into their pre app. Speaking about noise and these nighttime shots, I'm noise. Where from? Imagine Ah, Mick, that does great. Software also has a dedicated standalone noise reduction app. Because when we're working with sensors that size the smaller than your fingernail, you are going to get noise inherently. So how can you deal with that? Even if you're just sharing your images, you know, online they can make a big difference to do that little tweak to the files I mentioned earlier. When it comes to working with noisy files or the potential blur that comes with a long exposures, one of the things that I like is a program called Clear Camp. Clear Camp. As a default setting takes multiple shots and only saves the sharp one instantly analyzes it. I also mentioned that that's now built into the IPhone. Every time you press the shutter, a regular shudder press it. It automatically takes three shots and only saves the sharpest one. You can't turn it off. It's built into it. Brilliant does a great job, so the IPhone images since then are much, much sharper. But now, what's unique about clear cams? It still has what they call an expert mode where it will, and you can kind of see here in this image where it will take, I believe, six images, and then you process it afterward. It makes what they call a raw file out of these six shots that are taken instantaneously, one after another, and then when you say process and enhance it aligns them all up, just like Photoshopped does and then uses that additional information to interpolated up without pixelated it. And it also used that to get rid of noise. Brilliant little piece of technology gives you a larger file size, so then you can kind of crop in and zoom on it or just get less noise and more sharpness. So it really is a neat app, even though, uh, but most people use it for is now built into the IPhone course. It's available for the android and again, depending upon what particular. There's a lot more flavors of android based phones. It may be a dramatically better camera than what you may have in an older IPhone or an android from some of the ones that I use for imitating slow shutter Slow shutter is Call that, and it does the light trails and things like that average cam pro I love. That's the one that I shot. The city with allows you to again. You can set up the number of pictures up to 128 so it can just like what brands been showing it. Think of the interval Ometer is going to shoot 100 28 frames use that to create one frame, and that's where we get our light trails going through things like city slow Shutter Cam is another great app. It uses a more traditional shutter speed. So you say I want to imitate 1/4 of a second half a 2nd 5 seconds Bogue mode. You can even do a bold moat in here and again. It is a great one for doing the light trails, slow shutter cameras, a free one. It doesn't have the greatest settings on it. It's cuter, but it actually does. You know some pretty nice stuff. So if you wanted to play and you don't want to waste that 99 cents, Uh, average night cam is a nice one. It's one of the newer ones, and it has a lot of features as well. Very good, nicely reviewed, and, ah, then another new ones. Slow shutter. It's also using the analogy of a more traditional shutter speed scenario, and I haven't used this one in any significant way. But, um, it's gotten again great reviews. 4.5 stars, Long exposure Pro. Another one here again got very good reviews, and here for both nighttime and daytime long exposures. So all of these have the benefit. Any time that you are stacking images, your potential of not only blurring it but getting it a noise reduction is part of the process. It's good other ones for doing the night sky and just figuring out times and things like that. This is another free one star and Planet Finder. You used the gyroscope. So yes, that is the son. In case you didn't know, when you point your camera the sun that that's called the Sun But it would in this case, it also you probably done that. Is that is that Venus? Is that you know Mars. What's going on? It actually shows you the big freaking planet up in this guy. I think kids enjoy that. Um, Skyguide and star walk star Walk has been around for a long time. It's probably the the the most known one, and again it's using the gyroscope. So either one of these you just hold it up to the sky and it and overlays the constellations on top of it. And it's there just wonderful. And these are excellent for things like the IPad, because literally you're going out there. And if you're not shooting and worried about your own eyesight, you can just again. It's It's a wonderful way to see the night skies. And they also have a whole basically astronomy introduction to astronomy built into them. So those used in the Southern Hemisphere to find the Southern Star there's actually a star that's pretty close to the axis of rotation, that that's pretty damn compared to the North Star. But it is there. You can't really see it very easily with the naked eye, but you can use that to find it, because when you're doing those sky trackers, yes, you have to align that sky tracker precisely on that South Pole rather than just vaguely getting the tree in front of us out. Those are good guides for doing that sort of thing. Actually, I mean this This is star track technology. The fact that this has got a six dimensional gyroscope with GPS satellite link, you think about it. I mean, all our cameras right now, your DSL, ours don't have the technology that these have. They don't need a supercomputer in them, and they certainly don't need all these other things they will in the future because we're gonna just take it for granted that your camera knows where it is in three D space. It knows where it is on the planet. And it can use that to do mind bendingly cool stuff. So anyway, it may not be in every camera now, but that certainly is where things are headed in that situation.