There are so many interesting sights to snap when you visit a new destination that it’s hard to resist the “rapid–fire” approach to photography. Before you tap that shutter button, take time to consider your creative options while you compose a shot. Here we’ll look at ways to capture photos that show off both the highlights of your vacation and your skills as a photographer.
1 Shoot in Raw
JPEG and HEIF files are compressed, so they lack information about a scene’s colors andCompressed files are also more prone to artefacts such as banding, where a gradient in a sky appears as jagged bands rather than a smooth blend of light to dark blues. On a Pro model iPhone, Raw files are stored as DNG (Digital Negative) files, and they are packed full of extra information that you can use in an editing app such as Photos to recover more detail in blown–out highlights or underexposed shadows for example. To shoot in Raw, go to Settings > Camera > Photo Capture and toggle on the Apple ProRAW option. On an iPhone 14 Pro Max you also have the option to shoot 12MP (megapixel) files or enormous 48MP files, though the latter will take up a massive 75MB of storage space per photo compared to the 25MB of a 12MP Raw file. If you shoot in Raw then you can’t use Portrait mode or apply Photographic Styles to each shot, but most Raw users will prefer to adjust a shot’s colors and tones when they develop their digital negative in the Photos app (see p58).
