Long exposure photography may be an excellent method to improve your photographic skills. It’s much simpler to use your iPhone to make some incredibly beautiful photographs than you may imagine. This post will walk you through the process of how to take long exposure on iPhone 13.
What is Long Exposure on iPhone?
Long exposure photography is perfect for capturing the effects of passing time on a moving subject. When you take a long exposure photo, moving water appears soft and silky, clouds and fog are blurred and dreamy, and lights on the night sky look like shining trails. While your iPhone’s camera doesn’t have a long exposure capture feature, you can easily recreate a long exposure look by capturing a Live Photo and applying the Long Exposure effect.
How does Long Exposure feature work?
Long exposure photography works best with moving subjects on a still background. If you’re not sure where to begin, here are a few ideas to get you started:
- A bustling road, a lit-up Ferris wheel, dramatic lightning, or someone ‘writing’ in the air with a torch or glow stick are examples of moving lights at night.
- Running water: To give moving water a hazy, dreamy appearance, capture roaring rivers and falling waterfalls.
- Dancers in bright lights on a stage that is dark.
- Images of nature with strong contrasts, such as waves breaking against a rocky shoreline during the golden hour or a lighthouse at night covered in swirling clouds and fog.
- colourful fireworks show.
How to take a long exposure on iPhone 13?
First things first, you’ll need to make sure you have the right equipment. While you can take long exposures without any additional gear, having a tripod is highly recommended. This will help ensure that your iPhone stays steady during the exposure, preventing any unwanted blur. You can also use a remote shutter release if you have one, which will further reduce the risk of camera shake.
Once you have your equipment ready, it’s time to get started. Here’s how to take a long exposure on your iPhone:
- By default, Live Photo is enabled, but if it is disabled then you need to enable it for the long exposure feature to work.
- Click the photo of anything you like.
- Since the live photo is enabled you will get a 3-sec long photo.
- Don’t take the picture until your iPhone is totally still. Live Photos record the 1.5 seconds before you press the shutter, so you don’t want to squander that time fiddling with your phone.
- To look for and open the photo, use the Photos app, or just press the preview in the bottomleft corner.
- Click on the menu from the top left corner.
- Select the long exposure option from the listed menu.
- Your Live Photo will change into a Long Exposure picture after a short while, which artfully stretches and blurs the action of any moving objects.
- Your modifications automatically save.
Until next time, with another topic. Till then, Toodles.