If you love taking photos then you’ll love the Lumia Camera app for the ease of control and additional experiences it opens up to the Lumia owner. Here we take a look at the top tips for using Brightness on your Windows Phone smartphone.The Lumia Camera interface has been refined so in Automatic mode you’ll no longer see the full array of options running across the top of the screen. Instead, you’ll find just two options, Flash, which offers On, Off and Auto, and Mode, which offers up Night, Sports, Auto settings.
In Manual mode you’ll find the full array including, Brightness, Shutter Speed, Sensitivity, Focus, White Balance and Flash. |
What we love about the Lumia Camera app is that you can make changes to your photos before you’ve even taken them, so you get the best possible image. This is especially true when it comes to taking photos in difficult settings, such as at night or in dark spaces. At these times you need to tap into the Brightness settings on your Lumia.
Adjusting Brightness is a great way to take control of how light affects your photos. This is especially useful when you have one very strong source of light, like a window in a dark room.
Increasing the brightness will allow you to see a subject inside the room, but you won’t be able to see what’s outside the window. Decreasing the brightness has the opposite effect by making what’s inside the room darker while emphasising what’s going on outside in the bright light source.
When it comes to taking photos with the Lumia Camera app on your Lumia smartphone you’ll find the Brightness controls as part of the full array of manual controls.
By default it is set at 0.0 giving you an even balance between light and dark. If you want to make images brighter, so making emphasising what is happening in the darker potion of your image then push up, moving the controller into the plus settings between 0 and 3.
If you want to make images darker then you can move the slider down with settings between 0 and -3. It pays to experiment with Brightness so you can instinctively start to feel what your image needs.
If you want to make images darker then you can move the slider down with settings between 0 and -3. It pays to experiment with Brightness so you can instinctively start to feel what your image needs.