In this video on shoot like a pro, our series on helping you to improve your mobile phone photography, we're going to see how understanding light can improve your mobile phone photography.

In the previous video we saw how by understanding the light and how by introducing a diffusion you can improve a portrait.

In this video we're going to see something similar again by understanding the light, how to improve texture in the video.

Yes of course the weapon of choice is the same is the Oppo F11 Pro powered by the MediaTek Helio P70.

Come with me.

Now look at the light falling on this side of the pillar.

The pillar has some structure on the surface and the light is exactly like how the light was falling in the first instance on Vishnu's face.

Let me take this shot.

Okay now on this side of the pillar the structure is exactly the same but the Now see the difference between this and this.

Both sides have similar structure but just the way the sunlight is falling on them making it look very different.

This one looks flat, this one feels like it's got a lot of texture.

This will happen exactly the same way when you shoot people with costumes or dress with If you add texture purposely okay on layer them with clothes with some texture on it you will be able to enhance the look and feel of that image.

Let's see how we can do it.

Okay so I think I will require Aditya and Mitt.

Let me try with couple of our colleagues.

Okay let's get to the shot.

Hi Aditya, Hi Mitt.

Can you come in front of this pillar?

Okay ready and you too.

Yeah come there, stand there.

Yeah nice, very nice.

Okay now let me look at this image.

Okay so this is interesting but we can make it a little more interesting by one adding a layer, second taking the light from you know from extremely you know fine angle.

Okay ready so can you stand there?

Can we have the jackets please?

Aditya can you wear that and you wear this?

Okay now you come back on the wall, one feet down.

Okay now look at this one.

It's got so much of texture in it and it's got a different feel completely.

Let me try and do the portrait mode here.

Let me get the focus on your faces, very nice.

See take a look at this image.

So let's go to the first one.

This is how we shot.

Okay like a picnic shot.

We added a layer and we moved to the portrait mode and see the kind of textures adding character.

Okay it will look even better if we convert this into black and white.

So see that black and white.

Now the black and white looks even better.

Hey thanks.

Now we will see how we can operate in the expert or the pro mode in low-light conditions because brightly lit conditions by and large is very safe but in low-light conditions mobile phone cameras behave a little differently.

And there the pro mode or the expert mode will help you to get better images.

Let's go and see that.

For the demonstration of low-light photography I have identified a location inside our building reception.

It's the mailbox room.

So this is the mailbox room which I want to shoot and demonstrate the low-light ability of this mobile phone.

And this is not exactly the light we have in this room.

It's much darker.

For you know filming purpose we are using an LED light bounced on the ceiling which will go off.

We'll switch it off while taking the shot.

So let me explain the setup for this shot.

I'm using a selfie stick to hold the camera up and I'm using the headphones to trigger.

You can also use a Bluetooth you know trigger or you can use the self timer in the camera.

But I've decided to use a headphone to trigger the camera.

Okay so I'm going to be shooting in three modes.

First is auto mode which which is what the camera would decide for you.

Second is the night mode which is kind of an intelligent mode which is in the camera.

And third is the pro mode or the expert mode.

And we will compare these three images and see how they kind of compare and how they match up.

Okay into the shoot.

Let me set up the camera.

Okay I'm going to get set the levels right.

Okay so the camera is set.

The first shot I'm going to take is in auto mode.

Aditya can you switch off the light.

Okay now this is the kind of light that we have in this place.

Ready standing by and I'm going to take the auto.

Okay and now let me go to the night mode.

Okay night mode is decided by the camera and it will do its own thing.

So I have no control over it.

Let me take the shot.

So as you can see the camera is shooting multiple exposures and then trying to put it together using a software which is inside the camera app.

Right now we are in expert mode.

Okay can you switch on the lights please.

In expert mode you have two controls to yourself.

One is the ISO, second is the shutter speed.

Okay ISO behaves a little differently in each situations.

All ISO speeds are not a guarantee for good quality images.

Especially when you shoot low-light situations.

A higher ISO will also bring in a lot of noise.

A lower ISO is preferred.

When you lower the ISO you also have to lower the shutter speed.

Hence I'm using a stand.

Currently the 900 as the ISO and this camera can go to 100 ISO which is something which I will prefer.

Now at 100 ISO the camera is asking you to shoot at 1 by 10 of a second.

Not really.

I think I have to shoot at probably at one second.

Okay let me take that shot.

The camera is steady.

Light off.

Ready.

Nice.

Okay now we should compare two images.

Can we switch on the lights?

We're going to compare these three images now.

Now let me look at the shot that we took first which is the shadow area and try to you know enlarge it.

You will see lots and lots of grains here.

Okay let's go to the next shot.

It's nice and bright.

In fact a little brighter than what I would have preferred.

But everything is so smooth.

So artificially smooth and so basically what the camera has tried or rather the software has tried is to soften all you know not so good like grains etc.

They've really softened it.

Now to the shot that we took manually using the expert mode.

Okay it's clean if you notice.

Okay go to the darkest area where you are likely to find grains.

Even that area is clean.

Okay we shot at one second.

Okay and now let me try two and a half second.

Even at two and a half seconds you can't really.

Lights please.

You can't really find any grains in the image.

Let me show you a few more examples.

Okay lights off.

Okay virtually no light here.

Shooting in auto.

Okay the next one is the night mode.

Okay and now the expert mode.

In expert mode the idea is to get the lowest ISO and let me give a three second exposure.

Oh Two words about this camera.

Well the Oppo F11 Pro has 48 megapixels in the rear camera.

The main camera.

Imagine two bars of chocolates both of same size and weight.

One has 12 pieces in it and the other has 24 pieces in it.

Even though one of them has 24 pieces in it technically you are not getting more chocolates but you're going to spend more time trying to break 24 pieces and in almost all mobile phone cameras are the same.

But here they are packed in 48 megapixels.

Okay which means the camera must have a very powerful processor to process all that digital signal that is coming into the processor.

Quickly process it and show it to you as image which can be viewed.

Because the digital signal by itself cannot be viewed.

So it's important that the camera also have a very high quality fast processor which is exactly what the MediaTek Helio P70 does.

Very interesting feature which this phone has and we have not tried is the front-facing camera which keeps appearing while you're doing the selfie.

But we didn't try that because I'm not really fond of doing selfies.

Who knows we'll do another session entirely based on how to shoot selfies.

Bye for now.

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