iPad and iPad Pro For Dummies, 2022nd Edition

Chapter 9

Photography on a Larger Scale

IN THIS CHAPTER

Shooting pictures

Viewing, admiring, and editing pictures

Hamming it up in Photo Booth

Everywhere you go these days, somebody — or, most likely, a whole bunch of somebodies — has a smartphone a foot or so in front of their face. What are they doing? Why, taking photos, of course. So many photos. This citizen photography (some have called it smartphoneography, a term that doesn't exactly trip lightly off the tongue) is a hallmark of the age, but it's almost entirely a smartphone phenomenon. Why? Because the size and weight of even the largest smartphone make it easy to snap a photo at will.

Alas, you can't say that about your iPad. Sure, the iPad mini is reasonably wieldy, but your average iPad or iPad Pro makes an awfully awkward camera. An awkward camera, yes, but not a bad camera. After all, the 11-inch iPad Pro and third-generation (and later) 12.9-inch iPad Pro have a 12-megapixel camera with backside illumination, an impressive ƒ/1.8 aperture, and a multi-element lens. The iPad mini 4, iPad mini 5, iPad 9.7 inch, and iPad 10.2 inch have an 8-megapixel camera with an f/2.4 aperture; the sixth-generation iPad mini and iPad ...