Five Phone Camera Settings Worth Changing Before You Shoot
Defaults are tuned for landscapes and faces, not for a moving animal. Five changes take about a minute.
By Ruff & Royal
· 1 min read
Your phone is capable of a much better pet photo than it takes by default. The defaults assume a still subject and a human face, and a cat is neither.
Turn on the grid
It costs nothing and it stops you centring every shot. Eyes on the upper third line reads as a portrait; eyes in the middle reads as a passport photo.
Lock focus and exposure
Press and hold on the eye until the focus box locks. Then slide up or down to set brightness. This is the single biggest improvement available to you.
Turn off the flash
On-camera flash gives you flat lighting and reflective eyes. If it is too dark for a photo without flash, it is too dark for a good photo with one.
Use burst mode
Hold the shutter and take thirty frames. One of them will have both ears up and the tongue in.
