I know I'll forget these details so I've made a note of them in OneNote so I'll always have them with me on the phone when I eventually get a clear sky and can start shooting. Thanks a bunch!

Fantastic video, and so easy to follow. I’ve been trying to accomplish this and didn’t know to shut those settings off. Thank You!

Bro awesome amazing tips 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Simple, short video with everything you need, taking photos and editing from the same device, this kind of video I really love. Keep it up mate, love from Saudi Arabia.

Awesome knowledge ! Thanks so muchhhh ❤

Congratulations on hitting 20k subscribers and i have been here since it was 2k subs so proud of you keep up

Very well done Shayne. Very well done. Learned alot from you 🙏🏻 been doing the astro photography since my 11 pro and now with these settings that I learned from you, I think I’m gonna do a great job. Thank you mate. See you on the top soon.

Excellent. Thanks !

Cant wait to try this out. Awesome!!

This is helpful. Thanks for creating a post on this

Happy to see you growing so fast. From 1.18k in october to 20k in march. Keep growing 💯

Finally!!!! You explained it so we could understand, everyone else had me lost. Thank you

Very helpful! Can hardly wait for nighttime!

Thank you sir, your videos been helping me a lot with my photography on the iphone.

Top notch. Those iPhone settings will make all the difference. I’m off to a star party this coming weekend (bound to rain) and cannot wait to try all this out. 👍👍👍👍

Great video that explains the solutions instead of complaining about the problems.

Wow this is nice thanks

Wow, that turned out amazing!

wow! thank you for this instructions!

Nice 👍🏻 thanks

wow thank u sir! i use to just take a pictures and thats is but now u showed me this. wowww

Big astrophotography nut here and I just got the iPhone 13 pro as a work phone upgrade. I didn’t even know this was possible until I watched this video and the one you just did on the iPhone 13 pro. Thanks 👍

Thank you, Shayne! I’m excited to take pictures of the northern lights! 😊 Greetings from Alaska!

Love your videos man, do you think you can attempt a star trail time lapse on iPhone again much love man

That’s cool, differently going to try this

Got heaps out of this mate. Great stuff!!

You are brilliant and well spoken in explaining the iPhone 12 Pro series photography tips. I learned something I was not aware of from turning off scene detection and HDR mode as well as some other features you highlighted. I enjoy taking photos of the night sky’s stars and visible planets in my area of the US in North Carolina. There fortunately is not too much urban light pollution but still some here in outside near Greensboro. I am excited to start trying the new settings but need to find my tripod buried in the garage somewhere. In the meantime I’ll stabilize on my wooden fence tonight and see what difference in quality I get. I’ve subscribed to you months ago but had not activated my notifications button until now. I watched your video on photographing the moon at night. Not certain if that was addressing the older phones before this 12 Pro. Hoping on better results here now. But I think daytime moon photos will still produce the best outcome as the contrast issues you mentioned before. Thanks again. You’re awesome! I’ll keep watching for more of your tips and express my improvements ahead as well. Gday Mate!

Thanks buddy it helps a lot! Problem solved love this tutorial video worth watching 😁

Congrats on 20 K. You deserve it.👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺

Nice video

Nice to see you haven’t stopped evolving in iPhone photography :-)

Your videos are really good. I’ve started Astro photography with my 12 pro max

This was awesome! I had actually taken a photo of the Milky Way while camping this last summer but hadn’t turned off the scene detection or the HDR and it was handheld. It isn’t perfect, but using your editing tools, it looks much better! I which I could upload it and get your opinion.

Thanks

Looking forward to trying this this summer out at the lake. Way too much light polution in the city to get great shots

Thank you for the tip! I’m going to apply these on my 12 Pro Max. Thank you so much!

i love this channel so much! thank u for all of your content! if there is any way i can support to help keep this alive do let us know! Fellow strayan!

Hmmm… that’s the second video I watch from you Shayne (the first one was on the iPhone 13 Pro). I’m gonna get an iPhone 13 Pro for xmas and I love astrophotography, unfortunately I don’t have the budget now for large scope, high end cameras, guided tripod, etc… so I was wondering if we can do it with an iPhone… and yet I found you channel, that’s an instant sub!! Thanks

🙌🏻 thank u so much for this video!!!! Full moon and moon in general obsessed here 😬so I just upgraded from a 7+ and the other day I tried to shot the full moon and I got pretty disappointed by the quality of this 12 max pro, like it looked awful .. I was so worried!! 😅

Thanks for the great video on iPhone 12 night mode settings. I’m sure that you have discovered that the night mode and smart HDR are mutually exclusive features that is made clear by your turning off the Smart HDR in the settings menu. When in Night mode clicking the HDR icon has the opposite effect on the night mode icon and visa versa. Night mode is a very powerful tool and any stray ambient light - like in my location - can easily cause bright spots and lens flares ruining any Astro shots.

I did it! Only used iPhone..no other editing app.. was able to capture the Big Dipper ..thank you!!

Hi Shayne I'm a big fan of astrophotography and i have been following you since you had about 3000 followers i have some pictures captured it would be great if you edited it. I took it from iphone 12 promax

Deciding wether to buy iphone 12 pro or not, man this video made it clear🤙🏽

The next clear night I will have a go

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Brilliant, I think I’ll give up with my iPhone 13 mini ,regards Frederick

hahaha almost to easy to get good photos :D well explained as usual

Damn… I wish I knew all this a fortnight ago! I was wild camping in the Lake District on the top of haystacks, we had a moonless clear night sky with not a breath of wind, perfect conditions for the best astrophotography! I need to get back out there!

Indeed a game changer. Who would've thought a mobile phone camera can produce such great quality astrophotography.

Hi Shayne, ure doing such a great job on this channel ! I got a big question here... Which one is more effective for astrophotography in your opinion GoPro 8 or iPhone 12 Pro ?

This was very informative! I never would have thought to make those changes on the Settings but it makes a lot of sense.

Thanks for continuing to also use the iPhone for Astro - for a moment I was worried your channel was going to become an all Android Astro Channel 😅

Would you make a video on best astrophotography settings for iPhone 12? I’ve seen many videos for the iPhone 12 PRO MAX but nothing for the plain iPhone 12.

Hey Shayne! Thanks so much for this. I’m using iPhone 13 Pro Max and noticed that HDR and Scene Detection aren’t options anymore. Upon looking up Apples documentation on this, Scene Detection is listed as an iPhone 12 exclusive. HDR is also mentioned as an iPhone 12 and earlier feature - and iPhone 13 Pro is only mentioned as video HDR. With these settings gone, do you have any other suggestions at all? I took some photos tonight and they just aren’t what I hoped for. I then used my 12 Pro Max and got better results with those settings turned off. Interested to hear your thoughts.

Would you, in some point, try out the astrophotography capabilities of the regulatr galaxy s21, I know it has a great camera setup, but would be great that a professional like you, do some tests and see its limits. Thanks for your great content !!

Another great Shayne. I live in a high light pollution area in the U.S but my in laws have a place in Northern Michigan and I figured out that my 11 Pro could make it come alive at night in photos. These tips will help even more. I never thought to turn off scene optimizer. The 12 Pro is my daily driver now (I like to shoot one handed much of the time) but I decided to pick up an S21 Ultra when I found a really good deal on Swappa online to play with based on your videos. I want to learn a bit more about manual controls and it seemed like the right tool since I don’t know how far I want to push Astro stuff. Since I have the Snapdragon version, I was able to get the GCam Astro working and I have tested it out and it has produced some remarkably clear shots in an area with heavy noise pollution. I am dying to test it out “up North” soon. Clearly GCAm wasn’t designed for this sensor, but it still stacks five minutes of shots with 16 second exposures as the longest and it should be fun.

Hey Shayne, how're you doing mate. i'd like to sugest a theme for your videos. i havent found videos about lens for iphone 12 pro (Landmarc, Ulanzi or Moment) for astrophotography. Do you think there's a good one for astrophotography?? Cheers.

Can I ask Xiaomi Mi11 to do so? I really like night photos!

with the sensor shift technology in the pro max, apple could easily bring the pixel shift function to the phone, so it would take multiple photos and the sensor would move minimal between each shot and bring high resolution photos... hardware is there, just needs the software

3:24 So I wasn't the only one hahahaha

Hey, great video - can you tell me how you make a 30 second shot? Is that in time lapse??

Will you be checking out the new Mi 11 Ultra? Its GN2 sensor in the main 24mm camera should be great for astro.

Hi Shayne. I noticed tha LR has Noise Reduction too. Do you prefer the NR Apple Setting?? Why not adjust all settings with Apple editor (or LR)??

Great video. I was wondering why you dont edit the photo in lightroom only? Is it better to do tweaks in photos first then lightroom for fine tuning?

Tnx ... You recommend Snapseed or Lightroom for editing raw photo?

Shit hot Shayne, cheers, bring on the droid stuff :)

Can i do that in iphone 11?

Hi, i really love astrophotography, which iPhone should i get? iPhone 12 or 12 pro?? Plssss help

What settings would you recommend for an indoor concert? Big stage that I’m not anywhere near. So I’ll be taking a distant pic of the artist performing

Iphone 11 could shoot like that or only raw format makes this shoot?

Great content but could you tell me when the milky way will appear in the Middle East (Syria)

Do you take multiple 30sec. exposures or just one? Do you stack them with software if you take more than one? I know I do when I use a DSLR.

Need another video for the 13pro

Smart HDR does not seem to be an option in iOS 15 for my 13 pro

Hi Shayne, Just watching this video now, i noticed in your settings Lens correction is switched off , in my phone its on, should i disable this setting too? Thanks

What setting would you recommend using for ISO? Also, is there any way to control the shutter speed or exposure time like on the Galaxy S10?

Handshake: good stuff. Enjoy them even if I don`t have an Apple.

Is there any way to stack photos using a mobile device or are we not there yet? That would be nice to be able to run an app to stack multiple photos to get an ever better image using just a phone.

My biggest question is, which app do you use for taking the 30 sec exposure?

I wish iPhone 11 have that options

Absolutely brilliant, as usual! I noticed you had lens correction turned OFF, what does that one do? Thanks a lot for churning out great videos with superb photography 😁👍

I took a few different shots of the moon last night through my telescope , a couple with and a couple without pro raw and the ones without pro raw looked better. Maybe it’s because I used a telescope, but when I went to Snapseed to edit they looked really dark from the pro raw. It may be a combination of a bright moon and using a telescope, not sure though

Do you have a similar video with the settings for iPhone 13 Pro Max? The latest iPhone has different settings for camera and I can't find Smart HDR etc...

What did you use to film this?

Hi there, I am wondering how dark the area that I need to be at to shoot such a photo 🤩!

Will turning off "Scene Detection" and "Smart HDR" help the non-Pro iPhone 12's? I take it that it'll be not as clean (to noise) as with the RAW file but will it help in general? It's sad that it doesn't have that "ProRaw" feauture :(

how do you set the focus for dark scenes?

Also make a video on realme devices please🙏

Did you use Apple camera app or camera +2?

How to stop the count down flashing. The flash icon is turned off but if the timer is set on 10, it dose 10 flashes. I don't want that.

CAN YOU MAKE A VIDEO FOR THE IPHONE 12 TOO?????????

Would the iPhone 12 pro do the same as pro max?

Would you apply these settings to shooting people at night?

Nice! Beautiful night sky. Now I was going to buy some Apple stuff but my house is full of junk. The sky here is full of light as them darn greenies support crime and strong lights to mitigate the former. Gotta get out west to pull that Milky Way apart.

202 likes without dislikes epic!

Ok one question, in the beginning you said "you'll need 30 seconds for the shot", but the max the iPhone has is 10 seconds...how 😭

10 seconds max exposure

At 6:30 your telling me Android can already do this and the iPhone is just getting closer not even there yet with the capabilities of camera!. 🤦🏽‍♂️😱

Idk I feel extremely disappointed with my pro 12 max - the fact it is plagued with a hardware issue and can’t even focus on objects is a letdown

That's very good, however the average person has neither the skill or time to edit and the tripod just defeats the object of taking in the moment 😏