Now many young people are saying that "the taste of the New Year is light", but the Spring Festival, as the most important festival in the Chinese, we can always grasp some details in life and feel the arrival of the Lunar New Year.
Pendulum oranges
In Guangdong, during the Lunar New Year, the company, square or home will place oranges, and then hang red li yes, symbolizing the good omen of the New Year. In Cantonese, the consonant of the word "orange" is "ji", so "buy nian orange" is equivalent to "buy nian ji", which means great auspiciousness.
There are too many beautiful moments in the Lunar New Year that we can record with images, for example, my personal favorite is to walk on the street and record the "New Year's taste" at the end of the street.
Using "images" to record the little bits and pieces of excitement in life is also indispensable to the device we use most often every day - mobile phones. The orange picture above is what I took with the iPhone 13 Pro. The latest generation of the iPhone 13 Pro has a powerful three-camera system, its wide-angle camera has a larger aperture, and it is equipped with the iPhone's largest sensor to date, so it can also capture more light, making the picture appear more realistic and natural colors.
A15 Bionic
The iPhone 13 Pro has a powerful A15 bionic chip built in, and its internal neural network engine has powerful machine learning capabilities. In the process of taking photos, the Smart HDR 4 can make more targeted adjustments according to different scenes. When photographing people, the Image Signal Processor (ISP) in the iPhone will also automatically optimize contrast, light effects and skin tones for everyone, so that everyone looks radiant.
In the eyes of many photography enthusiasts, the iPhone has more space for post-optimization than other mobile phones. The quality of the images taken with the iPhone is already very high, but through the Photos app or other third-party apps, you can further enhance the look and feel of the photos. For example, in general, I will use the "Auto Color Grading" function in the Photo App, adjust the filter to be vivid, and then adjust the exposure, vividness, highlight, shadow and other parameters of the photo according to different scenes to further enhance the texture. Of course, you can also use apps like Lightroom, Snapseed, etc., to incorporate your own ideas into your photos with richer adjustments.
If you're also a passionate photographer, I would highly recommend buying the Pro Series models. Because it has a telephoto lens that the digital series doesn't have, it can help us get a more comprehensive experience. This year, the iPhone 13 Pro is equipped with a telephoto lens with a 77mm focal length, with a 3x optical zoom, which can also bring a certain sense of space compression during shooting.
iPhone 13 Pro
In addition, the ultra-wide-angle lens of the iPhone 13 Pro series has also added the ability to shoot macro. When shooting with an ultra-wide lens, you can place the lens about 2 centimeters away from the subject, place the main focus near the center point of the picture, and press the shutter to get a macro photo with a new perspective.
What's even more gratifying is that Apple has also recently invited users of the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max to participate in the Shot on iPhone Macro Photography Contest, encouraging user experience macro photography and zooming in on tiny things. The photo contest has officially opened until February 17, 2022, and the winners will be announced in April.
Macro images taken with the iPhone 13 Pro
If you already own an iPhone 13 Pro, simply post your macro photos via Weibo and use the #ShotoniPhone and #iPhone Macro Photography Challenges #topics to participate in the photo contest. A panel of industry experts and Apple will review submissions from around the world and select 10 winning titles.
As the Lunar New Year approaches, why don't we pick up our phones and record every good part of the New Year? Whether it's the interesting perspective you find while walking around the city, the reunion dinner in the Chinese New Year's Eve night family, or even some tiny things on the side of the road, you can also touch our hearts in a moment.
Shoot with the iPhone 13 Pro
Now that the best recording device is in hand, all we have to do is pick it up and press the shutter to preserve the meaning of these wonderful moments.