Table of contents:
- The best portraits are not taken with portrait mode
- Photograph the moon
- High resolution, best mode
- Blurred video in the youtuber style
- Goodbye to reflections
If the Huawei P40 Pro has made its way to the top of the popular DxOMark list, it is not for nothing. Your main camera can do it all and with quality. It may be due to the size of its main sensor or the versatility of having a wide-angle lens. Issues that allow us to photograph from a beautiful and wide mountain, to the distant detail of the fur of the cow that grazes on it. Ah, but I forgot we were confined! Now what we have to do is take advantage of these cameras inside the home. Or, at most, from the window. So here we are going to teach you 5 ways, uses and tricks so that you can make the most of the lenses and sensors of this Huawei mobile indoors.And don't worry if you are not a photography expert. Just follow these explanations and test your skills as a photographer with the cameras of this mobile.
The best portraits are not taken with portrait mode
Surely you have already tried the portrait mode of your P40 Pro. And it is quite good at getting the bokeh or blur effect naturally. And also definition in details such as eyes and hair. With or without beauty mode. However, if what you are looking for is something more similar to the result of a reflex camera, you are making the wrong photographic mode on your mobile. To get quality product photos or portraits you must jump to Aperture mode.
It's all the way to the left of the photo mode carousel. And it's great for taking detail photos and achieving natural blur. You will have to learn how to measure distances, as this mode uses some zoom to achieve a more accurate focal length. That is, you will have to move a little more than normal from the face or the object you want to photograph. The interesting thing is that you can photograph everything with this portrait effect, which gives an air of reflex photography to the results. Try taking portraits of friends and family to surprise yourself with the results. Set a scene with good lighting, seat your people, and start hitting the trigger.
Of course, if you want to take a selfie, this mode does not work. And it is that it uses the rear cameras of the terminal. But you have the option of turning the phone over and shooting with the volume down button. Or activate the timer to give yourself time to pose for the camera.
Photograph the moon
Is using the telephoto lens with 50x only good for spying? Well yes, since the definition of the photograph that we get does not usually offer great details. But it is very useful to see what the neighbors are doing, of course. However, there is a most striking photographic option in this of using a telephoto lens capable of adding 50 increases, although they are mostly digital. Do you know astrophotography? Well, you know that with your Huawei P40 Pro you can portray the moon. Yes, as you read it. And you won't just see a bright spot in a dark sky. The sensor and lens of this camera is capable of showing you the craters and some details of the lunar relief.
Of course, it is best that you use a tripod to achieve the maximum possible stability. Something that will help your P40 Pro to focus more quickly since you do not despair trying to frame and focus that white point that is the moon at the same time. Of course, it is also important that the night is dark and that there are no clouds. But nobody prevents you from trying your luck from the window of the house to see the lunar star better than with your own eyes. And leave the neighbors alone.
“For night photography, the P40 Pro and a good stand or tripod can do wonders. Ensuring that the mobile is stable will allow the terminal to work in the night mode ensuring that it collects all the light possible and makes everything clear so that its software gives the final touch to the captures ”recommended Fabio Arena, Product Manager of Huawei CBG Spain in his presentation.
High resolution, best mode
It is the photographic mode that will give you the best resolution, quality and detail in this P40 Pro. So much so that some of its photographs may well make you doubt whether they have been taken with a mobile phone or with a typical camera. The thing is that, in this mode, a greater number of pixels are used to take information from the scene. The downside is that this prevents the use of zoom or other normal photo mode options, but the results are worth it.
You can get really good and sharp detail photography. You will see it when you enlarge the photo itself and see textures on the skin, the definition of eyelashes or other details that would escape your own eyes if it were not for the photo. And the best thing, you can take advantage of the photograph to edit it on the computer without losing too much definition. We invite you to use it to portray your iris, capture clothing texture, details of a beard or hair where you can see each well-defined hair… In the absence of a macro camera, this mode can make you feel things with photography without having a camera reflex in hands.
Blurred video in the youtuber style
Surely you have noticed the image of your favorite youtubers. They manage to focus on his face and blur the rest of the image thanks to special lenses in SLR cameras. However, Huawei has a more interesting, comfortable and affordable option. And is that the P40 Pro allows you to use its aperture mode also in video. That is, capturing your face in a defined way and blurring the background. Even if you move. And in fact it does it in a fluid and more or less decisive way. Well, if you are going to start your career as a youtuber during this confinement you have all the equipment you need on your mobile.
We advise you to increase the aperture value to achieve a more natural result and not so out of focus. And also use a tripod to make things easy for the Artificial Intelligence of the mobile, although it solves really well and fast if you keep your face in the frame. Remember that, in addition, you have several aspects to change the tone of the image, in case you want something more realistic or more saturated colors.
Goodbye to reflections
In these days of confinement you may have found yourself sharing photos of your most common chores as the only content on social networks. We do not criticize you for it, but if you have a Huawei P40 Pro you can take advantage of it even more. And it is that, again, the Artificial Intelligence that processes all the photographs taken by its lenses can work wonders. And we say it for its ability to eliminate reflections from photographs when there is some glass in the way. Something that looks like magic but is actually a clever treatment of the image.
If you take pictures on the television, for example, to share what series or video game you are testing. Or if you are eager to share how the cake you are cooking grows in the oven. For these and many other situations this retouch improves the photograph enormously. But you have to know how to apply it, of course.
You just have to take the photo in a normal and ordinary way, using any of the objectives of the mobile. Keep in mind that the main camera will always be better due to its better sensor. Then go to the gallery and select the photo in question. Now click on the image and choose the Edit option to display all the available functions. And once here you will see, as the third option, that of Remove reflection. Click on it and wait a couple of seconds for it to do its magic. You will instantly see the retouched photo. And if you do not believe everything that has improved, click on the upper right corner, where it says Compare. You will see that even the reflections of plastic materials, not just the glass, disappear.
