iPhone Photography Tricks for Shooting Cars

Everyone knows you can take a bad photo with a great camera — we’ve all done it. But the inverse is true as well — in the right set of conditions, you can take a fantastic photo with a mobile phone camera. I’m going to show you how to find those conditions.

Working around the limitations of the iPhone camera forced me to find creative perspectives and new ways to depict a scene, and it made me a better photographer.

This guide isn’t limited to iPhones, I think this applies to all mobile photography, but ‘iPhone’ makes for a punchier title! This is definitely not an 'ad' for the iPhone — the whole point is that the camera itself isn’t that important.

Obviously, your camera does make a difference, and for print, or larger digital format, a mobile phone camera is not ideal. The point is that there’s so much you can do to better your own skills before you run into hardware limitations — and also that working around those mobile phone camera limitations can make you better at analyzing a scene and working creatively.

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Car featured is the 2021 Lexus LC 500 coupe in Infared Metallic
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For my camera app, I use Halide for iOS, which offers a little bit more fluid controls for exposure and focus than the standard iOS camera. https://halide.cam
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Special thanks to Victoria Scott for filming assistance: https://linktr.ee/vantimevictoria

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0:00 Start
0:16 Opening
1:26 Lexus LC 500
1:36 Know Your Camera
2:00 Tips for overcoming phone camera limitations
2:33 Perspective
4:00 Framing
5:07 Layers
5:44 Review
5:50 Thoughts
6:17 Outtake and Outro

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