Chapter 9
iPad Photography
IN THIS CHAPTER
Taking photos with your iPad
Viewing and sharing your photos
Editing photos to make them look their best
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 current generation of the iPad, the iPad Pro (both the 11-inch and 12.9-inch models), and the iPad Air come with a 12-megapixel camera with backside illumination, an impressive ƒ/1.8 aperture, and ...