{"id":8348,"date":"2022-06-01T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=9181"},"modified":"2022-06-01T21:52:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:52:31","slug":"use-the-iphone-cameras-zoom-to-avoid-glare-reflections-and-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/use-the-iphone-cameras-zoom-to-avoid-glare-reflections-and-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Use the iPhone Camera\u2019s Zoom to Avoid Glare, Reflections, and Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We increasingly need to take photos of documents\u2014vaccination cards, driver licenses, passports, etc.\u2014to submit for online verification. That\u2019s often easier said than done, especially when taking a photo at night under lights that obscure the text with glare and shadows. Similarly, when photographing a screen to document a problem for tech support, it\u2019s often difficult to capture it without a problematic reflection. For a possible solution, back up from the thing you\u2019re photographing and use your iPhone\u2019s zoom feature to enlarge the document or screen. The extra distance often lets you adjust the angle and positioning to prevent glare, shadows, and reflection.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9182\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/use-the-iphone-cameras-zoom-to-avoid-glare-reflections-and-shadow-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"712\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by Adam Engst)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We increasingly need to take photos of documents\u2014vaccination cards, driver licenses, passports, etc.\u2014to submit for online verification. That\u2019s often easier said than done, especially when taking a photo at night under lights that obscure the text with glare and shadows. Similarly, when photographing a screen to document a problem for tech support, it\u2019s often difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,8,112,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-iphone","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}