A good time to get into long exposure snapping
If you fancied adding long exposure photography to your arsenal iPhone camera tricks, now is a good time to do just that – the best app for shooting light trails and wispy waterfalls, Spectre, has just been made free.
When using a DSLR or mirrorless camera, shooting long exposures usually involves tripods, ND filters to avoid over-exposure, and a whole lot of experimentation and patience. But Spectre naturally uses AI tricks to turn the effect into a point-and-shoot experience. As Sebastiaan de With explained to us: “Phones can’t actually take photos for five seconds, so we thought we’d ‘cheat’ a bit: we take hundreds of fast photos, which are also sharper, and then blend them together with some AI that compensates for the natural movement in your hand and arm.”
The solution was to figure out a way to help stabilize older iPhones. “We went back to work nights and weekends to find a way to add our AI stabilization to older phones, at the expense of image size,” says de With. “We now offer it on older phones too, that’s why the reviews got a lot better. Lessons were learned.”
And if that doesn’t work, then you’ll need to try the good, old-fashioned approach. “If shots keep coming out blurry, it might require you to stabilize your iPhone by putting it on something like a table or a ledge when it takes the photo.
To do this, press the 'edit' button in the top-right corner of the Photos app, then press the Live Photos symbol on the left. Scroll through the frame then choose 'Make Key Photo'.The three main long exposure effects you can create with Spectre are silky water, light trails and blurring moving people in busy scenes.
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