Low light smartphone photography tips

How to use a smartphone camera in low light?

Smartphone photography is now a craze. Taking good pictures during the day is really not a simple matter to take beautiful pictures in the dim light at night with a smartphone.

In most cases, the image taken in low light causes noise, the image becomes black, in many cases, the extra light is removed or the motion blur problem occurs. So most of the time a picture was taken in low light at night cannot satisfy us very much.

But there are some things that if we keep in mind we can get nice pictures from our smartphone at night or even in relatively low light. Knowing all those crafts, you too can be a great smartphone photographer. Taking pictures at night or in low light, that is, in the language of photography, today's event is about various aspects of low light smartphone photography.

Using night mode 

Modern smartphones usually have a different camera mode in the camera app for better quality photos in low light or at night. Although these modes have different names in different brands, their functions are quite similar.

In Google Pixel smartphones, it is called 'Night Site'. In the case of Samsung smartphones, it is called 'Bright Night', in the case of Huawei it is called 'Night Mode' and in the case of One Plus smartphones, it is called 'Nightscape'.

The night mode of the phone: Android Authority

If the user's smartphone has a night mode like this, you can use this option for the best photography in low light.

The 'Night Sight' mode basically works like HDR in general in the case of images. In this case, the camera sensor takes several pictures at different exposures and then combines the details from these pictures to give a final picture.

Using artificial light for smartphone photography

When taking pictures on a smartphone at night, artificial light or the flashlight of the smartphone is largely responsible for deteriorating the quality of the picture. Flashlights damage the image detail by creating a sharp highlight when taking pictures. Therefore, it is important to be extra careful when using the flashlight of a smartphone to take pictures in low light.

In this case, in low or low light, first, the picture can be taken without a flashlight and the quality of the picture can be checked. In this case, if there is no light from the environment at all, then the flashlight should be turned on carefully to take pictures.

In this case, it is wise to use an extra flashlight for taking pictures. OLED flashlights should be used to get better results. Nowadays LED flashlights are quite affordable and these flashlights can be used to take good quality pictures at night.

The Meiki S150 is one such professional quality flashlight for low light or nighttime use on smartphones.

Maybe you can use the extra flash without turning on the phone flash.

The use of such flashlights in low light or at night can give the user extra freedom to take pictures. In this case, a relatively flexible light is obtained by reflecting the light of a flashlight on a wall or by using a diffuser attached. In this case, the continuous effort of a long time makes an interested smartphone photographer proficient in taking pictures at night.

Using a smartphone camera in manual mode

While taking pictures on a smartphone, you can get the right picture from auto mode during the day, but the disaster happens mainly at night. The auto mode of a smartphone camera is never fully effective in taking pictures in low light, as in this case, the smartphone camera sensor in auto mode cannot accurately determine the exposure. In this case, the manual mode of the camera application can give quite good results.

Nowadays the cameras of fairly good smartphones usually have a manual mode. From these settings, it is possible to set the aperture, ISO and shutter speed preferences. These three settings are collectively called the 'exposure triangle.

It is possible to get a much better quality picture from the auto mode if you choose from these settings a number of things, including increasing or decreasing the light, varying the focus.

Go to manual mode and choose the desired settings: Understand the type of photography Android Authority

Let me explain a little. One of the main conditions for good photography is to properly expose the light found in nature to the content of the photography.

This work can be done primarily with ISO control and shutter speed reduction. In this case, it is necessary to be careful about the exact level. Because if you increase the ISO more, on the one hand, digital noise can come in the picture, on the other hand, if the shutter speed is not right then motion blur can come in the desired picture.

In order to get good pictures, the smartphone photographer has to use his own feelings. Shutterspeed control depends entirely on the content of the photoshoot.

If the subject of the photoshoot is a stationary person or object, the shutter-controlled photo can be taken for a few seconds. In this case, you have to take care that the smartphone does not move at all. In this case, it is recommended to use a good quality smartphone tripod.

Using the Exposure Triangle for smartphone photography

Although the aperture of most smartphone cameras is fixed, there are exceptions in some modern smartphones in recent times. For example, a few smartphones from Samsung and Oppo brands.

If the aperture of the smartphone is changeable, one should try to capture as wide a background as possible when taking pictures. It should be noted that large apertures are expressed with relatively small numbers. F1.8 in this case wide/large aperture from F2.8.

Taking pictures in RAW mode using a smartphone camera

Flagship smartphones usually have the opportunity to take pictures in RA format. The raw image is basically a kind of uncompressed image that is not edited by the camera algorithm. All the information obtained from the camera sensor is intact.

This type of image file is much larger than a normal image. In this case, the quality of the image does not decrease, but there are many additional benefits in the case of editing or editing such images.

If you take a picture in the mode of editing, you will get a picture with a better resolution. 

This mode can be used for taking pictures in low light if the smartphone supports a camera. In this case, much more detailed images are available than normal images, and later, by editing the images in this format correctly, relatively standard images are obtained from the normal mode.

Editing smartphone photos captured in low light

Just as it is important to take a picture properly in the case of a quality picture, it is equally important to edit or edit the next picture after taking the picture. Properly edited images, especially in low light or at night, play a controlling role for good quality images.

I want a good 'editor' after taking pictures' Android Authority

There are several good quality apps for editing pictures on Android smartphones or iOS. Among them are Snapseed, Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, PixArt etc.

Exposure, lights, etc. can be adjusted while editing images in other applications including Snapsid. These are called 'tuning' when editing or editing images.

These tunings should be done properly from the editing app to get quality pictures, especially to take pictures taken at night. However, in this case, you have to be careful, because in this case, the quality of the image can be lost if there is an editing error.