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iPhone Concert Shooting Tips: Become a Photography Expert

Concerts are the best opportunity for fans to get close to their idols, in addition to enjoying the live music and atmosphere, many people will also use iPhone to record wonderful concert pictures by taking photos and videos, but due to the concert stage lights are too bright, the default iPhone camera is easy to shoot overexposed pictures.

iPhone Concert Shooting Tips: Become a Photography Expert

Precautions before taking photos of concerts on iPhone

  • Wipe the lens of your iPhone clean first to avoid flares or long strips of shine.
  • Avoid blurry images and hold your iPhone firmly with both hands while shooting.
  • Remember to fully charge your iPhone and carry a power bank before you go out.
  • Keep at least 50GB of storage space on your phone for videos, and 3GB or more for taking photos.

iPhone show mode setting tips

Before going to the concert, it is recommended to set the iPhone camera to "concert mode" through the following settings to make the concert photos or videos more bright and clear.

1. Turn on the camera to record stereo

Open the "Settings" app first, select the "Camera" app, and turn on the "Record Stereo" function first.

iPhone Concert Shooting Tips: Become a Photography Expert
  1. Set the camera shooting format

Then select "Format" on the camera settings page and adjust the settings according to the following format functions:

  • The camera shooting format has been changed to "High Efficiency": It is possible to shoot in HEIF / HEVC format with low image quality.
  • Select "24MP" for photo shooting mode.
  • Turn on ProRAW and Resolution. (Pro model only)
  • The preset professional format has been changed to ProRAW highest. (Pro model only)
iPhone Concert Shooting Tips: Become a Photography Expert

3. Set the camera recording video format

Return to the camera settings page and click "Record Video" to adjust the settings according to the following functions:

  • It is recommended to record video in 4K/30 fps or 4K/60 fps, depending on the remaining storage space on your iPhone.
  • Turn on the enhanced stabilization effect, and you can hold the iPhone to record video shooting, which can enhance the picture stability.
  • HDR video effect does not need to be turned on, mainly because after HDR (high dynamic range) is turned on, the subsequent screenshot of HDR video screen with square meters, the photo will be overexposed, and the brightness may be too high if you want to upload HDR video to social platforms.

Acting on the phone will shoot tips for iPhone tips

If you want to take photos of the concert with your phone, you can follow the following practical iPhone concert shooting tips to record:

Turn off the flash and night mode

Since there is usually ample stage lighting at a concert, the careless use of flash and night mode can overexpose or cause glare in the photo, or cause the image to be retired.

So when shooting a concert with your iPhone camera, tap the top left corner to turn off the flash and night mode.

iPhone Concert Shooting Tips: Become a Photography Expert

Reduce the exposure value

It will cause the stage characters taken by the mobile phone to be overexposed and too bright, resulting in a blurry feeling in the concert photos, mainly because the stage lights of the concert are too bright and change too quickly, resulting in the camera automatically detecting and not responding urgently, and the exposure can be directly and manually fixed to improve.

Just click on the arrow icon at the top of the iPhone camera screen, then tap the "Exposure" control in the lower right corner, slide the exposure from left to right to lower, it is recommended to change it to -0.3 or -0.7, if the picture is still too bright, continue to adjust the value to the left to calender.

iPhone Concert Shooting Tips: Become a Photography Expert

Tap the focus point before shooting

Finally, when you click on the iPhone camera screen to focus on the camera, you can focus on the singer when shooting portraits, if you are shooting a panoramic stage, choose a location where there is no strong light source, and do not directly click on the large screen behind you, emit strong light or let the phone automatically detect it.

iPhone Concert Shooting Tips: Become a Photography Expert

Shoot with different lenses

For example, iPhone Pro and Pro Max series phones already have three lenses, and remember to make good use of them, the following shares the iPhone lens is the most suitable way to shoot concerts (dual lenses are also applicable):

  • 0.5x ultra-wide-angle lens: suitable for shooting concert panoramas or full-time shots.
  • 1x, 2x shots: Take full-body photos of the stage or singers.
  • 3x, 5x telescope: suitable for shooting local close-ups, full-body shots, stages or stage screens of singers

Note: The 5x telescope lens is only available on iPhone 15 Pro Max or newer, and the results are clearer when shooting on stage or singers than other models.

It is recommended that iPhone photography should not switch the magnification lens, and then manually adjust the magnification, which will easily turn into digital zoom and cause blur, so keep the original optical zoom shooting effect is the best.

iPhone Concert Shooting Tips: Become a Photography Expert

Shoot and record with RAW

If you want to make concert photos in the future, you can also click "RAW Maximum" in the upper right corner of the shooting screen, and you can use Apple ProRAW format to record, and you can retain the data, details, and dynamic range of the original file.

Tips for recording videos on mobile phones in the studio iPhone Raiders

If you want to record the video with your iPhone to record the scene of the performance, you can directly use the "Camera App" to record the video, and you can also click the white button to take a photo during the recording process.

Basically, as long as you pay attention to not shaking the picture when recording a concert with an iPhone, shoot horizontally as much as possible, don't shoot straight, and set up 4K image quality recording according to this article, the advantage is that subsequent video clips or direct cuts can be cropped at will, even if you want to enlarge the video, you don't have to worry about the picture being distorted and blurred.

iPhone Concert Shooting Tips: Become a Photography Expert

Of course, you can also use Apple's iPhone professional camera app "Final Cut Camera" to shoot and record concert footage, which can view the remaining battery, remaining recording time and audio quality, and even customize the picture zoom, exposure, ISO, shutter speed, focal length, etc.

As for some people who will find out why there are horizontal bars or squares when shooting or recording a concert with an iPhone, to avoid this situation, do not put the focus point on the screen, you can click on the concert stage or other picture positions to focus, so as to avoid the strobes and horizontal stripes on the screen.

Vocabulary analysis

  • HEIF/HEVC: Efficient image file format/efficient video encoding, so that the file size is smaller and the quality is not compromised.
  • ProRAW: Apple's RAW format, which retains more image information for easy post-processing.
  • HDR: High dynamic range, so that the light and dark details of the picture can be displayed.
  • Optical Zoom: Enlarge an image by physically moving the lens without losing image quality.
  • Digital zoom: Enlarging an image through software may reduce image quality.

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