TechnologY
By: MC Tech desk
Date: October 22, 2025
Tap-and-hold to lock focus and exposure before reframing so brightness does not jump when you compose.
Lock AE/AF
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After AE/AF-lock, drag the sun icon down a bit to protect highlights — iPhones tend to over-lift.
Ride exposure with the slider
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On recent models the 2× crop uses the central pixels and yields cleaner portraits than 1× at the same distance.
Use 2× for cleaner faces
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Hold the shutter and scrub right to burst; pick the clean frame in Photos.
Use burst for moving subjects
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Clean the lens, enable grid and HDR to start with clear opMove your feet instead of long digital zoom; crop later rather than bake soft zoom.tics and balanced exposure.
Walk your zoom
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Wipe before every important shot; smudge veils contrast more than people realise.
Keep lens clean
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Put light behind the subject’s plane to get shape and separation.
Bias back-light not front-light
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Lower or raise the phone to subject eye level to avoid top-down “phone angle”.
Shoot at eye height
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Settings → Camera → Grid to enforce straights and horizon discipline.
Turn on grids
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