I'm Bill Snodgrass, and in this episode we're gonna do something a little different.
It's gonna be a little different in… in several ways. I'm gonna do this
photography tutorial slash equipment check, but we're going to kind of do it in the in the
style of my daily episodes, my daily motivational life lesson episodes, so
let's see how this works out. I think that this will be enjoyable to to
everyone. So the question is— I have my photography club— I'll tell you what the
question is in a second… So I have this photography club, and a lot of kids… like… the only
thing they have is there's their camera phones, and we talked a lot about it's
not about the equipment it's how you use the equipment, so in this video what I
want to do is I'm gonna compare pictures I take on my my iPhone—it's an 8 plus—
and on my DSLR, which is a Canon 77D, so we're gonna… I'm going to take the same
picture on both cameras and try to make them match up as much as I can, and what
we want to do is we want to see—can can't we get quality pictures off of a
camera that we carry around in our pocket, and my prediction is yes we can.
I've been telling my photography kids from the very beginning you don't have
to go out and buy a six thousand dollar camera or a six hundred dollar camera to
take good pictures. You have to know how to compose a picture to take a good
picture, and you need to know how to use your equipment whatever equipment you
have, but you can take good pictures without a huge investment. In order to
kind of make it a fair… a fair comparison I'm going to put the camera on program
mode and I want to set the ISO to automatic and now that's what sort of
the… uh… the iPhone will be doing is …is the automatic. I'm going to using the
native camera app on the iPhone and most of the time I'm probably going to use
the 2x lens probably, unless I'm doing some like super close-up stuff, in which case
I'll you know use the appropriate lens. On the DSLR I'm going to use my video
lens. I have an 18-55 IS. It's an EF-S 18 to 55 and it has the STM focus on it so
it's it's a good lens. I don't want the comparison to be…you know… Can I…
can I roll the aperture down to 1.8… 1.4… 2.2 and
get you know… That's not a fair comparison so… so I'm going to use
basically the kit lens that came with the camera and obviously the lens that came with the
phone. We're trying to do some so comparisons. Alright, ready for picture
one! Here we go! I was walking up to the building a little bit before 7:00 like
6:45 so like that and it's all the lighting on the wall and low light low
light so it's kind of a low light architecture picture and here are the
two pictures. First this one and in this one composition wise can't really say
have a lot about the composition on these pictures I try to make the
composition to be the same I liked the way the the light fell off of the lamp
onto the wall you know the window I think I would crop this as a square and
not have that run off to the to the side I just like the way the the shadows in
the light flight so and I thought it was a good low-light test so which is which
this is here we go there's your answer so yeah I feel like
I feel like the DSLR did a little bit better in that extremely low light and
like I said it was real it was you know before sunrise before anything else
all right next picture gonna do I'm gonna we're gonna do we're gonna do a
still of the coffee up those of you who come to the channel I you see the coffee
cup a lot lately this is you can get even get your own those longer has
YouTube channel coffee cup from my cafe press store if if that was on your on
your mind to do so alright let's set this picture up and
let's let's get a picture alright flight I've got this one it's a
household LED light I'm gonna try to bring it in overhead I'll see what else
we need to make this more interesting
get in there I think lens because you know every everyone keeps a everyone
keeps up 50 millimeter lens by their laptop that's my white pole alright big
part of a good composition is dealing with the things that you don't want in
the picture so there's your there's your first photography tip make sure you
don't take pictures of things that you don't want to take pictures of and I
don't want to take a picture of that pole so I'm gonna get something and
alright I I've rigged up so I have this all my camera gear is over here and
where this what this looks like so I also had a mic stand and add these
curtain panels so so I grabbed a mic stand and grabbed a curtain panel and so
what I've done is I have put the mic stand behind the scene so
that when I get down this is kind of the shot I'm going to take and it'll just
have the curtain panel in it and caught use what you've got to do what you need
to do there's there's another that's a life lesson
if if you need something I don't have a backdrop or a macro studio but I did
have this mic stand which don't ask and the curtain panel I have the the
backdrop set I have a lot of different curtain panels so I just grab one
curtain panels threw it up now let's go back to let's go ahead and take the
picture all right there was the iPhone picture I'm gonna break this down and
take the DSLR picture see how that looks alright let's have a look at these two
pictures we took this is first up here's one and here is the other one I think
they're both pretty good pictures and there's subtle differences between the
two so I'm not gonna be the judge I'll let you be the judge which one you like
best I tend to be kind of like art is in the
eye of the beholder and art is also a form of expression of the photographer
so the photographer may be trying to say something with art and just because I
don't understand what they're saying doesn't make it a bad picture it's made
me it may be a picture that I don't understand alright so here we go this
one this is the iPhone boom that's the iPhone picture and this is
the there you go boom DSLR picture obviously all right there you have it
there you have it alright let's move on let's move on all right that that
segment is done I know what a couple of you are thinking I got a hair on my
microphone I know what a couple your thinking is what's Bill eating today
oatmeal let's oatmeal day and coffee of course you may I thought
you saw me my company trying something different I'm trying something different
with the oatmeal today instead of going instead of going the microwave which
isn't a couple rooms away I just ran water out of the coffee maker
see and it it's kind of kind of watery we'll see give us a couple more minutes
to do whatever Old Mill does when you put hot water on it rehydrate I guess is
the word to rehydrate I'm sure it was fully
cooked before they put it in the microwave bag that was fun
the next thing I wanna do I need to find someone a person that I can take a
picture of so I'll try to do that and I want to get a landscape ie I don't know
not maybe with the kit lens but I'm inclined to think that the DSLR is gonna
outperform the phone on a landscape picture and then obviously we want to
get an on an on pitchblack architectural picture as well alright a lot to do
today a lot of pictures to take a lot of things to talk about and of segments
alright so all of these other shenanigans shenanigans such a great
word shenanigans my coffee is cold it's like right on the brink of gag me cold
not quite there yet so this but you know she knows she's not shooting stills but
now have to pay the price of having almost gag me cold coffee for my
breakfast I am done here so a student just asked me if I wanted a doughnut I
told him I don't want a doughnut I want all of your doughnuts but I did not take
any of the doughnuts because you know calories alright next next
we're gonna look at a portrait we're gonna look at a portrait I took this is
one of my associate photographers from bill Snodgrass photography that went in
and this is Emma Emma is modeling for me I'm so a man I'm opposed this was there
the two pictures that that I took one was with the iPhone a put it in portrait
mode I did use the portrait mode on it because I'm just and I set it on natural
light and then the second pictures kit lens off of the EOS 77 D so you can see
the two pictures side by side and you may have formed an opinion as to which
is which so here we go time for the big reveal
so one of the one of the things about using your iPhone for portraits for
people pictures is you almost have to get uncomfortably close you you have to
you have to get to a distance where they can they can fill the frame and if you
if you leave it on the 1x a lot of people gonna be like why are you so
close to me with that camera so if you have the ability to do the 2x that the
the pluses have do that and then you know frame it up fill the frame make a
good composition I said we have come to the end of the school day I am gonna go
out now I'm gonna look for an architectural picture and a landscape
and to this camera comparison all right I'm I got this this building over here
on the house shoot what one of the things with architectural photography is
lighting lighting is so important in any kind of photography because it is you
know riding with light the photographic and and then trying to get interesting
light so it's about an an hour and a half before sunset so this is kind of
given a low angle light that's coming in it's going to be raking across the
building and I'll shoot a little bit video so you can see what what the whole
thing is and then I'm going to try to compose a couple pictures so so here's
what usually the whole scene looks like what
I'm interested in is the the texture of the old bricks on the and then the
shadows across the back of this of this looks like a newer addition
all right so I think I got a very similar composition with the two cameras
I did put the iPhone on the 2x that the Plus that the pluses have and all right
so those were your architecture pictures
here they are side by side and you can see again I worked really hard to make a
very similar composition get the angles very similar can you tell the difference
which is which let's find out this here's your R key here is your DSLR
picture and that means that the other one this one is your iPhone picture so
very similar composition very similar quality in the picture so let's go take
this landscape picture all right so we can do out here there's a very very
lovely tree I'm gonna go shoot that and we'll compare and see what tell you how
it looks remember you don't want to have to shoot
with the Sun at your back but that's that's kind of a tried-and-true if you
know if you're if you're unsure about how to do the lighting getting the that
low angle Sun coming in this time I think this Suns gonna be sort of like 45
into my into my composition something like it's gonna be quite so we'll see
how that looks maybe that'll be a little bit different
so I I'm not I don't want to just take a picture of this tree I want to tell a
story I want I want there to be something it's not just a picture it's a
story and I want to do something with that bench the bench that's over there
so that it's more of a more of a complete picture than just hey here's a
tree so that's what I'm gonna try to do with my composition is some hand I'll
include that bench and the tree which very nice tree right and so here are the
pictures here's the future I took and any answer might I ask what
what what is the story yeah I'm so I'm so adamant about call it
a story with the pictures so I don't know I'm I feel like there's a little
bit of a forewarning that winter's coming you got the empty Park Bench with
the leaves having fallen down and it's kind of foreshadowing the loneliness of
winter that's going to come the empty bitch I may be stretching but that's it
so here the there were the pictures I showed you the pictures just now now
it's reveal let us reveal which pictures were on pictures and which were DSLR
pictures so then here we go phone picture ESL our own DSLR
um very similar compositions very similar quality and so can you use your
phone can you use your phone to take quality pictures yes you just may have
to be thoughtful as you compose you may have to get closer if you don't have the
2x on the like the pluses have you certainly may have to get closer and
there may be limitations to what you can do composition wise but using good
composition techniques and good photography techniques and working with
the light that you have to work with you can still take a quality picture the the
cameras in and any kind of current technology a smartphone is going to be
better than any camera that when they first started switch over to digital
I hope this video has been has been helpful I'll enjoyed it I've enjoyed
making it a lot of funds kind of challenge to try to work but if you did
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