Useful Tips to Take Better Photos at Night with an Android Phone

Taking pictures at night with your Android smartphone can sometimes be a big challenge. You have to make sure you have enough light or that you don’t use your flash at the wrong time and while shooting at night it’s common to end up with blurred shots. This is because of the low light and shaky camera. There are certainly more features implemented for the low light photography inside the devices rather than what the users actually take advantage. We can get great night pictures is easily, but make sure to remember the following tips when you’re ready to snap a still at night on an Android phone.

Turn On HDR

Camera Menu

The high dynamic range or the HDR feature known the different light intensities inside the frame and then tries to dynamically balance the whole output.it can tell you how different the darkest parts are from the brightest parts of the scene. Turn this option on when you’re taking pictures of landscapes, backlit/low-light scenes, and portraits with direct sunlight. In low light scenes, this features competitively helps to take better clicks. You can enable HDR Mode by opening your camera app and tapping “Mode.” 

The ISO

ISO is a camera setting that sets the sensitivity level to available light. The higher you set the ISO, the brighter your image will be. For those phones that support changing the ISO settings, you can set the ISO to 400 to get a superb picture . Try to increase the value of ISO to increase the amount of light capture and details in low light conditions.

The Flash Light

Thee light from the bad camera flashes of smartphones interacts with the photo clarity. Keeping it turned off should produce better results. Try to use whatever light is at your disposal and move close to it. For example, if your friend is below a street light, choose an angle where you can use that light to your advantage.

Can use Better Camera App

Using a camera app that supports manual controls like ProCamera, can use ISO priority mode to turn down ISO and let the app chose the proper shutter speed. This works quite well for nightly cityscapes, e.g. a brightly illuminated building. However, you’ll still get some noise in darker areas of the photo.

This method also works great for low light scenes, like indoor or at dawn. ProCamera has basically two low light modes: one is simply called Low Light+ and you can add an exposure boost by enabling Lux+. This will turn night into day without sacrificing detail. Though Lowlight+ works handheld. This is only a  example.

Use Of Black and White

One of the biggest struggles in low light photography is to catch the accurate colors. Due to lack of lights, our smartphone’s camera struggles to pick the appropriate color. So, Black and white filter becomes very useful.

Shutter Speed

Shutter Speed

The speed at which the camera takes the picture is a really important factor. More the time the camera will take to capture the images the more will be the details captured and the light intensity will also be generally good.

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