Tips For Your IPhone Camera

When there are so many excellent reasons why individuals buy the Apple iPhone:  To streamline their portable electronic devices, to keep connected with friends, family and business contacts, to listen to music or to play games, it is easy to overlook one of the iPhone's best features. I am referring to the 2.0 Megapixel camera that is attached to the phone.

Unlike other cell phone cameras, the iPhone camera actually takes good photos that look nice on your MySpace page or other social website.

To turn those good iPhone camera photos into great pictures, here are some tips to help you get the best out of your cell phone.

The first tip is to become more aware about how your iPhone camera actually takes pictures. Have you tried snapping photos with your iPhone and noticed something was slightly off. Unlike traditional digital cameras, that have a two stage process to taking a photograph, the iPhone features a one-stage process.

Unlike traditional digital cameras that take the photo once you press the shutter button, the iPhone does things a little differently. When you press the shutter button of the iPhone, nothing happens! It is when you release the shutter button that the iPhone camera takes the photo. If you didn't know this - your photos could be suffering from being slightly "off timing," as you are capturing the image slightly after you expect to. This tip should help you to catch the picture when you want to catch it.

The next tip for taking a photograph with your iPhone camera is an extention of what you just learned. Press the iPhone's shutter button, and then set up your shot. After you are satisfied with what you are seeing, you can release the shutter button to take the photograph. This tip should lead to better composed photographs, as well as pictures that are properly timed.

Here is a fun tip for your iPhone camera when setting up your contact list. You can take photos of your contacts, then set your iPhone so that they (the contacts' photo) will appear when they call you. You can be creative with these photos when you take them, making your contact list hilarious for you and everyone around you. For example, a funny optical illusion can be created by placing your friends on one side of a glass screen, while you are on the other side.

Ask your friend to press his or her face up against the glass, while you take the photo. Make that the contact photo for your friend and when they call you, it will look as if they are trapped within your iPhone. This is just one cool way to express yourself with the photos you can take with the iPhone camera.

The iPhone has many different tips and tricks built within it waiting to be discovered and used. Don't be afraid to simply experiment with your iPhone and the iPhone camera. Perhaps the greatest aspect about the iPhone is that it gives users the ability to customize and create a phone environment that is solely their own.

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