What’s everyone’s secret to getting clear & quality shots that aren’t so damn noisy on subjects who are wearing black? I’ve tried all kinds of different settings on my phone camera and everyone of them come out noisy & somewhat blurry. The only solution I’ve found is capping them in direct sunlight.
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With a phone not being obvious and using a flash i believe its impossible to shoot black leggings and it show up clearly. Only thing thays helped me is editing and adjusting the exposure setting brighter
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Shooting black leggings is difficult with a camera phone because there isn’t enough control over exposure.
You can try downloading an app that lets you set manual photography controls, like allowing you to have slower shutter speeds. There isn’t much you can do in low or dim lighting. Try sticking to public places that are well lit. My best black leggings photos come from shooting outdoors with the sun behind the subject.
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Shooting outdoors seems like a good idea too because it’s less likely to draw suspicion, you’re less likely to be on camera and have staff watching you and so on but I can’t really think of any places besides the beach (it’s a bit strange if you walk around with your phone though) or maybe amusement parks (which cost money to enter) or I guess the occasional park festival or fair that comes to town
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I’ve posted about this before. Basically there is no way around it. Try to cap girls in lighter colored leggings is the only way. Or like you said, if the sun shines directly onto their ass.
Tourist spots, monuments, parks, etc. Places where people will naturally have cameras.
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Lighting is the most important factor. Results are way different shooting outside vs inside with dim lighting. Lowering contrast and raising shadows for the photo can help out, but sometimes the shots don’t come out as good no matter what you do. You win some you lose some
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Getting good shots of girls in black leggings is tough. You gotta cap them outside and hope the sun is positioned right.
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Unfortunately there’s no easy fix to this issue aside having a more modern phone, I had this problem for years and years, iPhone 5c, to 9 to 11, then android with OnePlus, then the S20. They all just fell apart when it came to recording dark clothing in literally any environment that wasn’t sunshine rays and flashlights lol.
Then came along the S23 a few years later, the issue was seemingly gone in most environments for me now. I thought to myself maybe the clothing that girls wear aren’t as dark anymore or maybe the store lights became more forgiving but of course not.
Clearly whatever tech jump from those phones to the cameras in the more recent generations have managed to mostly eliminate this issue, I know this isn’t me being crazy since if you try recording in the 0.5x zoom mode for the S23 then the issue suddenly appears again with darker clothing, it’ll stop capturing it properly and everything goes to shit again.
It’s an expensive issue to fix and all the advice I can give you if you don’t intend to buy a new phone is to frequently clean the camera lens with a microfiber cloth (you can get them really cheap, you’d be surprised how many times I thought the lighting issue came back with my new phone but nope, the lens was just smudged…
Just accept it is what it is. Even to the human eye it’s difficult to grasp black fabric details if there is not enough light to help you see them, same applies to cemeras. Your environment, i.e. how much light is around the subject, the type of light and how it gets to her plays big part into making the black clothes show the details and not just a black silhouette. That said, still in every favorable scenario you’ll see different results. From my experience sunlight is the best as long as it is not coming against the camera or casting a shadow on the target.