

Switching to the super wide view will capture even more of the surroundings. In that case, using the standard zoom will allow you to keep those items in the shot. You may need to move back a bit and then zoom in to keep it in frame, but simplifying your scene like this will help your subject stand out.īut perhaps it's those extra surrounding elements that really add to the scene and provide context for where you are.

Is there a particular subject - perhaps a statue or an impressive building - that's surrounded by lots of other elements like trees, sign posts or street lights? Using the iPhone 14 Pro's 3x telephoto zoom here is a great way of isolating your subject and eliminating all those distractions. To figure it out, you need to take an extra moment to look at what's important in the scene in front of you. It's easy to stand in front of a picturesque scene and flick between the normal, super wide and zoomed views on the phone, but it's more difficult to understand exactly why one might be better than the other for a particular composition. By switching to the ultrawide lens, I was able to capture this mooring rope as foreground interest, which ties the scene together.
