

It gives you manual controls over shutter speed, ISO, white balance, focus, and exposure compensation but they’re not super intuitive to use. VSCO is an incredible editing app-it’s one of my favorite photography apps-but, the problem is, the camera part is merely okay.

It’s just that it’s the best free option available. Okay, so even though I’m “recommending” VSCO, I’m not actually recommending it unless you only need to use manual controls occasionally and don’t want to pay for that. You will also be able to take RAW photos, which gives you more options when you edit your images.
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My iPhone’s camera doing its thing.Įven if you mainly let your iPhone do its thing-like me, to be honest-it’s still important to know how to control things manually to capture great pictures when you need to. Similarly, you’ll probably want to manually control your camera at least some of the time when you’re shooting at night or when there’s a lot of contrast. For example, if you want to take photos out the window of a moving vehicle you need to set your shutter speed manually your iPhone’s camera will almost always set it too slow to avoid motion blur. These are great, but they don’t replace manual controls. Unfortunately, iOS doesn’t offer manual controls in the default Camera app so we’ll need to go with a third-party app.Īpple (chasing Google) has continued to innovate and add software features to the Camera app-things like Smart HDR and Portrait Mode. One point we often return to at How-To Geek is that to take better pictures, you need to understand how to manually control your camera-even if you don’t do it for every setting or shot.
