Huawei p40 photo settings

The quality of mobile phone photos is far from the level of professional SLR, and there is no difference between professional and amateur mobile phone photography!

We like mobile phone photography because it is convenient for us to record our lives anytime and anywhere, but from many past learning experiences, I know that learning anything must be systematic.

I divide the knowledge of learning mobile phone photography into three categories: understanding the function of mobile phone, mastering photography theory and forming aesthetic consciousness, which is a step-by-step process.

Most people learn mobile phone photography piecemeal, composition and later study, but few people will patiently study the role of "mobile phone camera function" in actual shooting, which leads many people to think that they have bought a "fake mobile phone".

Therefore, it is particularly important to set up the camera function to turn fake mobile phones into real mobile phones!

1. Photo scale

Huawei mobile phones have different default camera proportions at different focal lengths!

By default, the super wide angle is 3: 2, and the main camera and telephoto are 4: 3, which is determined by the area ratio of the lens photosensitive element. Theoretically, the photos taken at the default scale are the widest and clearest.

Huawei P40 Pro/ Super Wide Angle/Amon

Besides the default scale, there are two scales to choose from:1:1/full screen.

These two proportions are obtained by cropping the photos at 3: 2 or 4:3, so is it practical to choose 1: 1 composition or full-screen composition when taking photos?

1: 1

Before answering this question, we must first answer: Why do most beginners' photos look ordinary?

Usually, friends send pictures to me for communication, and the problems in many photos are similar: I want more, I shoot widely, and there are many elements irrelevant to the theme in the photos, and sesame seeds have lost watermelons!

Photography is the art of subtraction, but many beginners do photographic addition, which leads to the lack of concise photos and prominent themes.

The best way to solve "greed" is to control the proportion of photos.

The framing of 1: 1 is limited, which will limit your framing range to a certain extent, make you more focused on the subject, and the photos will look more concise and comfortable. Just try it.

Huawei P40 Pro/ Amon

Full screen ratio

Full-screen scale is divided into horizontal composition and vertical composition. For most people, mobile phone photography works are published in a circle of friends. If it is a horizontal screen composition, it looks very small.

So if you choose full-screen proportional shooting, my suggestion is vertical screen composition. The higher the proportion of photos in the screen, the more details can be displayed.

Usually the full-screen scale is suitable for shooting portraits and towering buildings.

Huawei P40 Pro/ Super Wide Angle/Amon

2. Voice-activated photos/smiling face snapshots

These two functions are the way to start the shutter, which is closed by default.

Under what circumstances should it be used?

Use it when it is inconvenient for you to touch the virtual buttons on the screen of your mobile phone, such as taking a selfie from a distance, controlling the camera shutter with gestures, or using the voice control function to start shutter shooting in starry sky photography.

3. Video Settings

The video scale is 16: 9, 2 1: 9 and full screen.

16: 9 is suitable for the screen ratio of most mobile phones, and the ratio of 2 1: 9 is close to the ratio of 2.35: 1 in classic movies, which will make the audience feel a broader vision.

We should pay attention to the difference between frame rate and resolution.

1080p and 4K represent the resolution of the video, which is the size of the video.

The higher the resolution, the finer the video picture, and the larger the processing space for post-editing. However, playing 4K video requires the support of your playback terminal. If you just want to make friends, 1080p is actually enough.

Gif images are compressed.

Resolution represents the size of the video, and the number of frames can be understood as the number of slides in PPT. 60 frames can be understood as playing 60 slides per second. The more frames, the smoother the look and feel of the video.

However, it should be noted that the beauty and some filters of the 60-frame mobile phone cannot be used, so ladies and gentlemen who like to shoot vlog should pay attention to this!

Therefore, if you shoot a video with high resolution and high frame rate, you need to have a certain understanding of post-editing, and you will share more knowledge about video editing after playing mobile phone photography.

Gif images are compressed.

4. General Settings

reference line

The grid reference line has been said countless times. It is the reference line of composition. Intersections, horizontal lines and vertical lines can help you make a better composition.

Composition is the basic skill of learning photography. If your aesthetics have not reached a certain level, my suggestion is to open a reference line honestly.

Huawei P40 Pro/ Super Wide Angle/Amon

Level bottle

The level meter is the same as the grid line, but it has human gravity sensing, and it has intuitive sensing for up, down, left and right.

When taking photos in uneven places on the ground, we often unconsciously take the photos askew, which will be more troublesome to handle later. The level can keep the mobile phone level with the horizon and help us determine the shooting angle of the camera.

Take pictures regularly.

Timing photography is an extension of traditional cameras, but with the development of smart phones, intelligent shutter start modes such as voice control and AI recognition have emerged.

But that doesn't mean it's useless to take pictures regularly. Taking pictures regularly will give you 3- 10 seconds to prepare, and you can use it to take some jumping selfies.

Automatic watermarking

Turning this feature on and off has little effect on your photos.

For myself, I usually shoot with various types of mobile phones, and its function is to help me classify photos when storing them.

Huawei P40/ Acer/Amon

geographical position

By default, I am open.

In fact, it does not affect the shooting, but it can be very helpful in the storage of photos.

As I mentioned in my last article, the mobile phone will create a folder according to the location where the photos were taken, which will greatly improve our work efficiency in sorting out photos.

Silent shooting

When you turn it on, you will experience the feeling of a professional camera, especially when you are in continuous shooting, the sound of Tata Tata will bring you pleasure, but if you shoot in the street or indoors, it may bring you trouble!

Quick shot screen

This is a very useful function! Suggest opening it!

I prefer street shooting in my life, and I like to capture the pictures that happen instantly in my life with my mobile phone. As long as I walk on the road, I will habitually hold my mobile phone in my hand.

In case of a good picture, the normal operation is to unlock and turn on the camera, but if there is a snapshot function, you can skip unlocking and double-click the volume down button to start the camera shooting quickly.

Don't underestimate 1-2 seconds, many moments are fleeting.

Huawei P30 Pro/Amon

Camera interface:

The setting part is to let everyone better understand the function of each function, and the real operation function of taking pictures is here in the camera interface.

Huawei P40 Pro rear-mounted three-shot fixed-focus lens. Super wide angle, main shot, telephoto corresponds to super wide angle on the right side of the screen, 1x, 5x.

Actually, the telephoto is 4.7x. You can switch between 4.6x and 4.7x to experience the image quality.

Although the 5 times of telephoto is cut and enlarged on the basis of 4.7 times, the actual impact is not great.

1. Fax telegram

The telephoto of mobile phone has three outstanding characteristics: simplified composition, compressed space and blurred background.

Simplify composition

These three characteristics have also been mentioned to some extent in previous articles. If you are a beginner and just have a telephoto phone, my suggestion is to remember that it has the function of "simplifying composition".

What kind of photos are more attractive in the circle of friends?

In my opinion, there are two points: simple composition and strange picture.

Telephoto fits these two characteristics. It can bring distant and high objects closer, that is to say, your observation line of sight is an object dozens or even hundreds of meters away.

This invisibly cultivates your observation ability, that is, the photographic eye, which is especially important for beginners.

Huawei P40 Pro/ telephoto/Amon

Spatial compression

Learning needs to be gradual. When you know that you can simplify the composition, highlight the subject and accumulate a certain amount of shooting through observation, you will naturally break through the conventional perspective to find some different angles!

At this time, you have actually started to advance from basic theory to independent thinking.

You will think about the spatial sense of the object and look for a novel shooting angle. At this time, telephoto space compression will be used.

Huawei P40 Pro/ telephoto/Amon

You see, if you talk to beginners about space compression at first, they may not understand what you are talking about, and even if they do, they may not be able to take good photos. Learning any knowledge requires a process, from simplifying composition to compressing space is a step-by-step process.

For beginners, telephoto is the cultivation of observation and imagination!

Background blur

In addition to simplifying composition and spatial compression, telephoto also has the blurring effect of depth of field, which is usually more natural than the blurring effect of mobile phone algorithm.

Of course, to achieve this function, the lens needs to be close to the subject, and the background has a certain distance from the subject.

At this time, your first thought must be to take a portrait.

Huawei P40 Pro/ telephoto/Amon

That's true. Because the telephoto angle is small, a telephoto lens can really avoid a lot of clutter in some special scenes, such as crowded scenic spots or parks, but the focal length of 5x is too long for portrait photography.

When shooting portraits with 5x, the photographer needs to walk more than ten meters away from the model, so communication is not very convenient. Therefore, only in special scenes, telephoto is used to shoot portraits. I suggest that most bust photos should be taken in portrait mode.

2. Super wide angle

The telephoto field of view is small, and it can be easily enlarged when standing, while the ultra-wide angle is the opposite.

Ultra-wide angle has two outstanding characteristics: perspective effect and wide field of vision, so using ultra-wide angle requires us to squat down or even get down to shoot at close range.

Perspective effect

The perspective effect of ultra-wide angle is that the near is large and the far is small, and the edge is elongated. When the ultra-wide angle is close to the subject, it will shoot a sense of strangeness.

To shoot such a giant cat, you need to use a super wide angle and be close enough to the cat!