Jack Hollingsworth
Jack Hollingsworth is a world-renowned travel and lifestyle photographer. He has spent the last 40 years commercially shooting for some of the biggest names in the leisure, hospitality and tourism industries.
Join Jack Hollingsworth in Monahans Sandhills State Park, West Texas where he shares tips on shooting the perfect sunset and sunrise with your iPhone.
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Transcript
Jack Hollingsworth:
Hi, my name’s Jack Hollingsworth, and I’m an iPhone photographer.
I’m here at Monahans Sandhill State Park in West Texas and I’m going to show you tips on shooting the perfect sunset and sunrise with your iPhone.
When you’re shooting either late in the afternoon or in the morning, it’s important to get the phone off Auto [mode] because [its] controls are going to be fooled by the brightness of the sun itself.
That’s why we need to go to manual.
Now, you have limited controls on the iPhone for manual. As a matter of fact, the only manual control you have is the compensation slider. If you slide it up, [it] brightens the shot or slide it down if [you want] to darken the shot.
Now, this is a case where, when I’m shooting a critical sunset or sunrise and I want more full manual control, I’m going to temporarily put my native app aside and pull out my favorite third party camera app, Camera+.
[It] will give me full manual control over exposure, focus, and white balance. And that’s exactly what you need when you’re shooting sunsets and sunrises.
When you’re shooting sunsets and sunrises, you’re bound to get lens flare just like this: (shows the picture)
It’s okay. Make it work to your advantage, make it part of the photo composition. It adds a little drama in flare, so to speak.
When you’re shooting the sunrise, you have a limited window to get what you want. That’s because the dynamic range of the scene once the sun is up over the horizon exceeds the limited eight-stop dynamic range of the iPhone sensor. In other words, the scene’s dynamic range is greater than the iPhone’s dynamic range.
So that’s why I’m going to get my quick sun shot and then I’m going to point my camera to the left, to the right, and behind the sun, in the opposite direction of the sun, and show what the sunrise is having on the landscape image. And it’s just as beautiful and just as powerful as I think these pictures will show.
So, then we get about 30 more minutes from that light. It’s gorgeous, and wraps, and texturizes a shot, and let’s get after it.
We’re back here this morning at Sandhills State Park, West Texas. Beautiful morning for a sunrise photograph with your iPhone. I slept in the park last night, pretty cold this morning. And I’m ready to go to about 32-degrees, and we’re about 15 minutes away from sunrise.
Can’t wait to get at it with my beloved iPhone camera.
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