Today’s top phones, such as the iPhone 15 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, have incredible cameras that can snag the sort of stunning photographs you’d normally expect to see coming from pro-level DSLRs. Even older or more affordable phones like 2021’s iPhone 13 Pro or the new Google Pixel 8 can take beautiful images that you might want to print and display on your wall.
In this guide, I’ll show you how to take landscape photos with your phone, whether you’re heading into the countryside or deep into the heart of the mountains. While some of the tips apply to recent phones with multiple lens options, many are relevant whether your device is 3 months or 3 years old, Apple or Android.
Read more: Best Camera Phone to Buy Right Now
Sort your phone camera settings
Your phone is probably capable of taking a cracking landscape photo in its default auto mode, but let’s take things a bit further.
If your phone has a “pro” mode that gives you manual control of settings, switch into that. If it doesn’t, an app like Moment, Lightroom or MuseCam lets you take control of settings like ISO, shutter speed and white balance.
Crucially, these apps also let you shoot in raw format. Raw images don’t save many of the automatic camera settings that your phone would normally apply to a JPEG image, such as white balance or sharpening. The result is an image that lets you change the white balance, alter color tones and rescue detail from the highlights and shadows much more easily — and with less image degradation — than you can with a simple JPEG. I’ll come back to this more in the editing section below.
Apple’s last few generations of Pro iPhone can use the company’s ProRaw format, which uses some computational photography techniques like HDR blending but still generates an easily editable DNG file. Tapping the Raw button on…
Read the full article here