How to Take Long Exposure Photos on iPhone & iPad with Live Photos

How to Take Long Exposure Photos on iPhone & iPad with Live Photos

Youre probably aware of by now, the interesting iPhone and iPad feature that transforms a regular image capture into a brief movie clip. But the latest versions of iOS support an assortment of exciting Live Photo effects, including an ability to easilyy create beautiful long exposure images. Long Exposure photography is typically left to the realm of more advanced digital cameras and a tripod, and by leaving the shutter open longer you get a nice blur effect of any motion. Thanks to the Live Photo effects features in modern iOS however, you can get this Long Exposure capability almost instantly on any Live Photo you have taken with the iPhone or iPad camera. This tutorial will show you how to take and create long exposure images on an iPhone or iPad by using the Live Photos feature. To have access to the Live Photo Long Exposure feature, you will need an iPhone or iPad running iOS 11 or newer, earlier versions of iOS may support the Live Photos feature but they do not have the Long Exposure capability. Capturing Long Exposures with Live Photo in iOS may seem a little counterintuitive at first, you take a regular Live Photo, and then add an effect that Live Photo after the fact. It sounds more complicated than it is however, and once you get the hang of it youll see just how easy this process is: The image will magically transform into a long exposure image, using the data from the Live Photo to determine what is moving and blur that, while keeping the unmoving image data as normal as possible. In the example pictures here, we took a regular Live Photo image of a river and turned it into a Long Exposure image, which blurs out the rapids to give that classic long exposure motion look. Heres the Long Exposure effects version of the original Live Photo image of a river: And here is the original Live Photo image, which looks like a regular picture of a river: You can share the long exposure images just like any other photo, through messages, posting to social media, Facebook, Instagram, or , or you can edit them further in other image editing apps or by too. * For best results with shooting Long Exposure photographs using Live Photos, try the following tips on an iPhone or iPad: This is one of the more interesting uses of Live Photos yet (aside from making animated gifs, of course), and if youre a fan of long exposure photography then its certainly worth checking out. Before this capability was bundled into iOS Photos apps, you had to use third party apps to mimic the long exposure effects. Try it out, its pretty cool. If you liked this tip you might want to .