Long exposures on cell phones
Man-made waterfalls photographed on Kona in Hawaii The way the world takes photos has evolved over the last two centuries, but it has never been so easy for someone to take a picture as it is today. Cell phones, with their convenient size and respectable shooting abilities, have changed the way the average person snaps an image. The statistics don't lie. World-wide, there are some five billion images taken each day, 94% of them are taken with smart phones. It is estimated that we will be capturing two trillion photos annually in the next coming years. Yet, for all the advantages, there are certain significant limitations. One of them has to do with a fixed aperture set at a very low value. Apertures control the amount of light coming into the camera and depth of field as well. Traditional cameras have a variable aperture in the lens that allow you to control both these attributes. Most cell phones have apertures that cannot be changed, and they typically are set to an f/val