Connect with us

Popular Science

How to Take the Best Photos with Your Smartphone

In many ways, your smartphone camera is better than that DSLR your parents insist on bringing on vacation. In fact, that black rectangle in your pocket can shoot photos that are good enough to be on a billboard or magazine cover, but only if you have the skills to go with the tech. Here are…

Published

on

In many ways, your smartphone camera is better than that DSLR your parents insist on bringing on vacation. In fact, that black rectangle in your pocket can shoot photos that are good enough to be on a billboard or magazine cover, but only if you have the skills to go with the tech. Here are some tips to get professional quality photos—or at least some artsy ones for your Instagram—using just the native camera app on your iOS or Android device.

Producer/Video by: Jason Lederman
Narrator: Sophie Bushwick
Researcher: Stan Horaczek
Music: APM Music
Special Thanks: Billy Cadden, Ben Lederman
Media: Pixabay, Pexels, Prelinger Archive, Wikimedia Commons, Deposit Photos ()

FOLLOW POPULAR SCIENCE

Continue Reading
Advertisement
12 Comments

12 Comments

  1. BaşıBoş Tv

    January 10, 2019 at 7:06 pm

    first ?

  2. Ryan Perry

    January 10, 2019 at 7:50 pm

    Did not know about the exposure drag feature. Thanks PopSci!

  3. Amy Schellenbaum

    January 10, 2019 at 7:54 pm

    Honestly I had no idea that you could fiddle with the exposure time on an iPhone??

    Also wow you filmed this on the bridge in January. That is COLD.

  4. Popular Science

    January 10, 2019 at 7:55 pm

    We love making these videos with quick tips to improve your everyday tech habits. Have a tech question? Leave it below ?

    • Ryan Perry

      January 10, 2019 at 8:12 pm

      Same video, but for… video. You could even shoot it on a phone!

    • Oscar Cerro Quiles

      January 14, 2019 at 6:55 am

      I love you! <3

    • Captain Peter R. Miller

      March 24, 2019 at 11:09 pm

      +Ryan Perry True Ryan, but hopefully in horizontal format !!.

  5. jlederman2

    January 10, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    My dad ALWAYS insists on bringing a 6 year old digital camera on vacation. I keep trying to tell him his iPhone has a better camera but he won’t listen!

  6. TheCelticGoldsmith Bellchamber

    January 12, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    Thanks! Learned some new things!

    • Popular Science

      January 12, 2019 at 11:42 pm

      ?

  7. Oscar Cerro Quiles

    January 14, 2019 at 7:00 am

    I feel like I knew nothing of my camera’s smartphone. Ironically enough I new how to do much of that on my old cellphone.

    How about an estabilizer instead of a tripod?

  8. A3Kr0n

    February 9, 2019 at 4:53 pm

    Clean your lens!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Popular Science

The $2,000 FaceTime Box From 1987 (VisiTel)

Do you know about VisiTel? Video calling technology is such a mundane feature of smartphones now that it would be weird if a device *didn’t* have it. But the idea for the first FaceTime is buried deep in vintage tech history, all the way back in the 70’s… the 1870’s. And most people hated the…

Published

on

Do you know about VisiTel? Video calling technology is such a mundane feature of smartphones now that it would be weird if a device *didn’t* have it. But the idea for the first FaceTime is buried deep in vintage tech history, all the way back in the 70’s… the 1870’s. And most people hated the idea of it.

By the time Mitsubishi’s VisiTel videophone graced the cover of Popular Science in 1988, video calling had already gone through generations of inventions, advances, and serious setbacks. When we finally acquired a pair of brand new VisiTel phones to make one single video phone call, humanity had already been through billions of dollars of failures, misguided promises, and losing gambles — including by Bell Labs, likely the most innovative company of the 20th century.

It’s been 150 years since we started thinking about and criticizing live video communication. And we still haven’t fully answered the technology’s most basic question: does anyone really want to be seen?

#technology #science #innovation #retro #Visitel

Continue Reading

Popular Science

The Day We Made Frankenstein’s Monster

When Everett Knowles hitched a ride on a Boston train, he expected to make it home in a few minutes. But the result was the final leg of a medical history journey more than 30,000 years in the making when Eddy Knowles’ doctors turned tragedy into a medical miracle. The path from accident to surgery…

Published

on

When Everett Knowles hitched a ride on a Boston train, he expected to make it home in a few minutes. But the result was the final leg of a medical history journey more than 30,000 years in the making when Eddy Knowles’ doctors turned tragedy into a medical miracle.

The path from accident to surgery required an almost impossible set of conditions to line up perfectly, and then it actually had to work. On the day of the accident, the wild scramble to harness expertise and to weigh calculated risks make for an engaging story of science and human ingenuity — but the truth is that the same exact process of discovery and daring is what forged the centuries of scientific knowledge that Eddy’s doctors used to save his arm.

Scientific triumphs and medical miracles happen every day. They just take thousands of generations to be born.

#medical #history #science #popularscience

Continue Reading

Popular Science

The Astronaut Who Crashed In The Bathroom

When a 40-year old Ohio man named John fell in the bathroom and hit his head on the tub, no one expected it to change how the entire world approached space exploration. But John Glenn wasn’t just a business traveler in a hotel room, and the medical mystery that followed changed NASA and the space…

Published

on

When a 40-year old Ohio man named John fell in the bathroom and hit his head on the tub, no one expected it to change how the entire world approached space exploration. But John Glenn wasn’t just a business traveler in a hotel room, and the medical mystery that followed changed NASA and the space program of the USSR.

Was John Glenn’s vertigo the result of his orbit of the Earth during his Mercury Atlas 6 mission? Was it all just an accident, or did it come from his intense World War II and Korean War pilot service? And could the balance, dizziness, and nausea be prevented for future astronauts?

The resulting research into what went wrong with John Glenn, Alan Shepard, and other astronauts and cosmonauts who experienced debilitating illnesses after spaceflight pioneered the spaceflight to the Moon and beyond — and it all started when a man slipped on a rug.

#space #spaceexploration #nasa #science

Continue Reading

Trending