Since few year ago smartphone were introduced. Manufacturer start adding new features to the smartphone. One of the main feature of the smartphone is the camera department.
Since the beginning of the smartphone and the present time there's so many things that changed in the camera department . The size of image sensor changed from smaller to bigger that means the quality of the photo gets better and better. More camera( more focul length ) added to a single smartphone . More megapixel added, camera gets faster , more capable in low light and so on. Manufacturer adds new features to the smartphone every year . You will find different features in different brand .
But most of the time these features works in auto mode. Phone figure it out itself what kind of feature is to use and where. But being a photographer you want to do by yourself where to focus, what should be the ISO, what should be your shutter speed, the basic control of photography, well in smartphone the aperture is fixed so, you really can't change the aperure so that's there's no function to change the aperture.
To do those certain works which you can't do in auto mode, you have to change the mode to manual mode , sometime few manufacturer called it pro mode. So, what happen in this mode is basically your smartphone gives you more control of ISO, Shutter Speed, and Focus ( The Exposer Triangle ) . Change ISO , Shutter Speed , focus according to your prospective, according to your situation.
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| Auto Mode , Auto HDR on |
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| Manual Mode, No HDR |
Now as an example look at this two images, you definitely can see in HDR mode the photo is dark as the phone increase the contrast also same goes with the highlight. Though the colours are pretty much same in both the images. The difference is that in auto mode the photo has much more contrast, where in manual mode the photo is flat, it has less contrast. It also gives you a natural view to the eye. Well in some cases auto mode perform very well with HDR but sometimes you need to adjust the settings by yourself as the phone can't handle the situation.
You can take some amazing long exposure shot at any time you want, well technically you can't take in day light unless you have some ND filters otherwise your photos will get too much over-exposed. You can take some Nightshot without loosing details and sharpness at the same time you can control your ISO.
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| S-1/3 ISO-350 |
Look at this image, you can see the subject but they are moving so they came out blurry. But this kind of blur tells you that the subjects are moving. Now if you slower your shutter than this then you can't actually tell what are the subjects. What you will get is some blurry lines. You can't really take this kind of shot in auto mode.
You can also take Macro (closer shot of your subject ) shot. Now it's not a big deal to take Macro shot or closer shot, but during this shot the distance between your phone or subject is very close or small. Now what happen sometimes that at small distance if your subject is also small then in automode your phone really struggle to focus on the subject, so what you need to do is to switch to Manual mode and change the focus by yourself, and I am telling you that it's a real fun to manually focus on the subject.
You can also take some really high speed subject or some action shot by changing your shutter speed. In auto mode sometime the smartphone can't detect the high speed subject so you need to switch to Manual Mode to change your shutter speed by yourself so you can take those cool action shot. Cause nowadays the smartphone is capable of doing so much thing that DSLR or Mirrorless camera can do. You just have know what you are doing.
At the end, if you want to share some quick story or photo then you can use the auto mode as it gives you the quick share capability with good details and colour. But if you want to do photography with some creativity and control then you have to use the Manual mode.
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