My Complete iPhone RAW Shooting and Editing Workflow // Nail Your Exposure Every Time!

Struggling with your exposure when shooting in RAW on iPhone? In this video I take you through my full iPhone RAW shooting and editing workflow where you'll see the techniques I use to nail my exposure every time and bring the most out of the files when editing.
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[@joseluisalvarado7572]

Thank u so much man! Some cool presets

[@VivekTodi1988]

Thanks for sharing this information. Like I mentioned on your Hallide Mark II app video, I was intimated by the app when I saw it the first time. I now understand it’s mostly because I never understood why there were so many things on the app! Now that I have seen this video, I know at least something about it and accordingly I will give it a try on some photos! Thank you for sharing this wonderful walkthrough!

[@Neuri]

watching all the vids today dude! thanks for all the great content David

[@michaelwittig4433]

Thx, you’re a great teacher!

[@MikelManitius]

You definitely nailed the exposure and color in this video.

[@alenaalexandrova72]

Great tutorial!!

[@edwardkaranja5336]

I needed this. Thank you

[@David_Addison]

My pleasure, Edward!

[@augustorey9389]

U're my new hero! Love your videos, greetings from Uruguay.

[@David_Addison]

Welcome aboard!

[@wassonii]

spot on informations. Thank you!

[@David_Addison]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cekuhnen]

I really enjoy your videos a lot - they are very informative. Thank you for sharing.

[@David_Addison]

Thanks for watching! More coming.

[@pymacbit]

This was really informative. I'm gonna use it next time while taking RAW photos. :) keep up the good work.

[@David_Addison]

Great to hear; let me know how you get on!

[@a-n-d-r-e-a-s]

Love those bloopers 😀

[@David_Addison]

Me too! I want the entire video to be as natural as the bloopers one day

[@kcajay]

Very nice video 👍

[@saduce09]

Excellent tutorial!

[@David_Addison]

Thank you!

[@ArminHirmer]

great as usual and expected ;)

[@David_Addison]

Thanks Armin! It’s great to film outside in nature

[@FILIP98R]

Amazing video! Thank you for listening the community :)

[@David_Addison]

Of course!

[@thegroove2000]

Very helpful.Thanks. So a conmpromise has to be met sometimes.

[@thegroove2000]

Post processing is where that fairy dust is sprinkled.

[@lambdaplus440]

Just what I needed!! Can you also please do a RAW Power vs others?

[@David_Addison]

I've have RAW Power downloaded but haven't used it much yet. I definitely want to look into it though

[@gametimetrevor]

I died with the shot of him standing in the water 🤣

[@simoncullinan5369]

Always good - always informative! Using my iPhone for photos has been fantastic since watching your tutorials. Cheers David😄👍

[@David_Addison]

Love reading comments like this!

[@simoncullinan5369]

@@David_Addison glad to hear that David😄👍 but...’I love watching tutorials like this’, concise, straight to the point and entertaining. Really appreciate it👍

[@David_Addison]

@@simoncullinan5369 Even though it's concise, it's still just shy of 1 hour lol

[@oliv200]

There are people who are beginning to report that photos taken with the tele x5 of the 15 pro max taken in raw format have an overexposed vertical stripe on the right side. It looks quite clear in shots with a part of the sky. It only happens in the raw format and not in Proraw

[@Sgt_Snacks]

Why you don’t have 10x the subscribers I’m not sure. Your videos are so helpful and professional. Thanks for everything!

[@David_Addison]

Glad you like them!

[@thomaskr.6026]

Thanks for this video! Do you prefer Halide or Momentum?

[@raduman007]

Nice tutorial

[@David_Addison]

Thank you!

[@Ollierastall]

David! Superb as ever. Can you link the video on bracketing please? Appreciate the tuition. Immediately helps improve my understand of photography and the quality of my images. ✌🏼

[@David_Addison]

Thank you very much! I'm working on the bracketing video right now. I'm curious, do you know what a 'stop' is in photography?

[@georgerabbitearl]

Thanks for the video. Till now I shoot in jpg/heic, but RAW seems very interessting which I know from digital cameras very good (I complete transfer from digital camers to making images with iPhone 12 Pro) Another question: How do you deal with transfering/archiving images from iphone to the lokal PC? In the past I made a folder per year and location (holliday, event, etc.) But if I make a trip with many locations the manuel transfer to many subfolder is very time consuming. On iPhone I like the map view where I can see where the images are taken and can zoom in. I am working with windows 11 PC. With the folder structure year/location I had also the idea to be independ of the application.... Thanks 🙂

[@MochitoMaker]

1:17 lol... randomly standing in a trench.😂

[@David_Addison]

For my own amusement 😆

[@Pixeditor07]

David-Outstanding short course in defining the Histogram. For your new subscribers; it would be of benefit to know what Camera App you're using. The iPhone default camera (to my knowledge) doesn't have any histogram views. Thanks!

[@David_Addison]

Thanks Lynn! In this video I'm using Halide.

[@Vladyslav197]

How do you find Lightroom Mobile HDR capture works for these types of scenarios? It shoots 4 times in different exposures to then create 16 bit .dng file. It helps a lot when editing for HDR output in AVIF.

[@oscarabellorios]

Please: Raw or ProRaw+? in iphone 12 pro max.

[@karolkozowski6651]

Do you use some external app now for manual raw shooting? Or is the inbuilt app enough?

[@randomguy-dy3uy]

does using a 3rd party camera app on a pro 13 and proraw ,remove the computational parts of the default app?

[@ToasterDude1]

Great channel. You are helping me to rekindle my interest in photography. It’s refreshing to use my phone instead of the big and heavy Sony mirrorless system. Question about noise reduction. How do you deal with it in Darkroom workflow? I’m keen to learn something new and keep it away from my Adobe suite.

[@David_Addison]

Thanks Tom! Happy to hear I'm helping! With regards to noise, I ensure I shoot at the lowest possible ISO at all times. It's not really an issue I've come up against as I shoot a lot in nature so noise hides in the textures of grass and branches. If I was in a very low light situation where noise would be an issue, I'd avoid RAW and either not take a photo or use night mode in the native camera app.

[@ToasterDude1]

@@David_Addison Thank you David. It makes a good sense. I since found out that I could do a quick noise control as a last adjustment in Photos. It does the trick. Now I need to crack how to fix a white balance.

[@AbuAshrafMasnun]

Great tutorial. I have been following your work for a while and I really love the topics you cover. I am curious, what is the difference between exposure and brightness in darkroom? Does using them both have any benefits over just using one over the other?

[@David_Addison]

Thanks Abu! They affect the image differently but I'm not 100% why. I'm sure if I looked it up I could find out 😆

[@AbuAshrafMasnun]

@@David_Addison I don't know if it's the same for Darkroom too but I was going through RAW Power app's manual and they mentioned something along the line - exposure controls the overall brightness of the photo while the brightness slider uses a gamma function which doesn't affect the darkest and brightest areas. Yes, I am sure you could find out. I was just curious if you already knew or had any ideas. Thanks for creating these contents for us. Keep up the good work!

I like your videos, they are very useful. How come do you know Romanian? and... pisicul meu :)

[@VincentTse]

audio is superb! 01:10 how did u reocrd both the river and your voice so clearly at the same time? 😂 currently my workflow is halide/native app shooting ProRAW and edit in Lightroom mobile. I also have the Moment app installed, maybe i will try that with native Raw as well.

[@David_Addison]

Thanks Vincent! I've been actively making an effort to improve my audio quality recently so I'm really pleased you noticed. Here I'm wearing a Rode Lav mic subtly attached to my coat's collar.

[@bruno_jordani]

Anyone knows a good camera app that has histogram and sebras, but for android devices?

[@amynestor6873]

Great Info- learning a lot . But what is the app you are using while shooting the raw image where you the histagram, iso control.. etc?

[@David_Addison]

Thanks! This particular app is called Halide

[@RinJERKS]

Nice video but I missed your mention of what software you used for the tutorial. I have Lightroom Mobile but struggle with it. Thank you

[@David_Addison]

In this video I edit in Darkroom on my MacBook Pro.

[@RinJERKS]

Ahh I meant to ask what app you were using for the captures

[@David_Addison]

@@RinJERKS I use a couple but the app I'm in for the majority of the video is Halide.

[@Amaczero]

Have you tried Raw Power as an alternative to Darkroom.

[@David_Addison]

I have it downloaded and want to properly look into it!

[@aliffdanial4306]

What app is this? 🤔🤔

[@cgope]

To take pictures: Halide To edit the photos: Lightroom

[@diegoskt5]

@@cgope he is not using lightroom in the video

[@cgope]

@@diegoskt5 you’re right, is it darkroom?

[@diegoskt5]

@@cgope yes sir

[@raduman007]

Hi David , how about a tutorial comparing edited raw to jpg to edited jpg from new iPhones? I love editing raw , however the results compared to jpg ( or edited jpg) are different...but not necessarily better, this is valid only when speaking about phone photos. Edited raw from dslr is wayyyy better than jpg. Returning to iPhone: In some (rare) occasions I was lucky editing jpg. Here 2 examples from iPhone X edited jpg : 500px.com/photo/1023371085/biking-by-radu-m. 500px.com/photo/257657049/-by-radu-m.

[@cgope]

I just clicked the link due to curiosity and … WTF!! … Awesome shots