Taking professional photos with Iphone

By Ramy, 24 April, 2023

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello:
I love taking photos for me, and i do not have sited people all the time, so, am using just the default camera settings, and when Voice over told me that am on center, i capture the photo, but many people told me that it is not good.
SO, are there some issues or things that i should do in the camera settings or something to help me taking better photos? and is there a podcast or something about a capturing as a blind person?
Thanks in advance

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By Dominic on Sunday, April 23, 2023 - 23:21

Maybe, put your face near the camera, then, once the photo was taken, go to the photo Zak, go to the photo, use image descriptions, it should describe the image to you, your face should be near the camera, to an angle where the camera lens can see you, and take a full-fledged photo.
Then keep on trying until you get it right?
Sorry I can’t really help, I mostly just video recording, not photos.

By Paul on Sunday, April 23, 2023 - 23:21

I don’t know if this is something that could reasonably be done without at least some usable vision, because a lot goes into a good photo, framing is the easiest part and really the only one where VO might be able to offer guidance. You might start by asking people why your photos don’t look good and see if they can offer suggestions to improve that aspect. I’ll see if I can offer some suggestions for now though.

You didn’t mention the kind of photo you were trying to take, but it sounded like a selfie or a photo of a person, since I’ve never heard VO tell me something was centered but a face, so I may be able to offer some advice with that in mind. First, don’t use the Face Time camera, because it honestly isn’t the best camera available on the iPhone, and probably disable the auto macro feature if your iPhone has it to stop the ultrawide lens being used unintentionally. Second, use room or natural lighting whenever possible instead of the flash. Third, consider a tripod with an iPhone holder and a remote (you can use Apple Watch for this) so you can keep the camera still while capturing the photo and keep your reaching arm from ruining an otherwise good shot. Finally, for a profile picture, I’d suggest using a blank wall as the background, since you’d likely want your face to be the focus in that situation and blank walls are hard to take a bad photo of.
It might be possible to take a photo without usable vision, but it’ll be much harder. I know the pleasure of taking a good photo, but I also have the usable vision to do it well with relative ease.

By Ramy on Sunday, April 23, 2023 - 23:21

Thanks so much for that, really a great advice

By LaBoheme on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 23:21

there is a movie called "hollywood ending" (2002), it chronicals how a blind director directs and edit a movie. granted, this is about making films and not taking pictures, i think maybe one can at least learn something useful from it.

By OldBear on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 23:21

Kind of an old thread and I don't take professional photos, but when you take a photo of a person who is intentionally looking at the camera, you want to have their face near the top center if it is a full body shot or an upper body shot. If the camera is saying there is a face in the center, you're way off, unless it's a closeup of a face, or there's some object of interest above the person, like a very tall top hat with a bird perched on it.
I have taken pictures of myself in costumes, and I had to go through quite a bit of asking sighted people if my tripod was too high or low. Once I did get the best tripod height for the distance to a spot where I stood in front of a backdrop, I noted the measurements, and now I can get a fairly good idea of where to put the camera and so on. It helps to learn how to pace strait and consistently backward from the camera to where you want the subject. I've also noted the measurements of a Scanner Bin box to estimate closeups of my art pieces and other items.
As a side note, I usually use a bank of LED shop lights, some angled up at the ceiling, and turn off my flash for the selfies, or reflector lamps at 45 degrees without flash for smaller closeups.
I still miss sometimes, but use that to get a better shot. Same goes for videos.