PhotoPractice: Manual Camera

LEARN TO USE A PROFESSIONAL CAMERA IN MANUAL MODE. WITHOUT BUYING ONE.

PhotoPractice turns your iPhone into a realistic DSLR simulator. You practice with the real controls — M/A/S modes, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, focus, ND filters, long exposure and histogram — and see the result in the viewfinder in real time. You touch a control and the image changes. That's how it clicks.

NEW · REAL APERTURE ON IPHONE 18 PRO AND 18 PRO MAX
iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max bring, for the first time on an iPhone, a variable aperture: real blades in the main camera. PhotoPractice uses them. With the 24 mm lens, turning the aperture moves the blades from ƒ/1.48 to ƒ/4: the light and the depth of field you see are optical, not simulated.
• Turn on real DoF and focus peaking (PEAK) marks in green the zone that is truly sharp, measured with LiDAR
• Close the aperture and watch that zone grow in your own scene
• What could only be explained before, you can now see
On other iPhones, the aperture is simulated as always.

YOU LEARN BY DOING
Every lesson starts from the photo you want to take — «why do photos come out blurred?», «the blurry background of portraits», «snow comes out grey» — and the technical name comes last, once you've already done it with your own fingers. One or two sentences, one action in the viewfinder and a challenge. Read, apply, understand.

YOU DECIDE, NOT THE AUTO MODE
Auto mode chooses for you. Manual gives you the freedom to define your own style. PhotoPractice never judges your photo's pixels: it hands you the tool, and the decision is yours. Because photography is an art that can't be automated.

WHAT YOU'LL MASTER
• Exposure: ISO, aperture and shutter speed, and how they compensate each other
• Shutter speed: freeze motion or paint light trails
• Aperture and depth of field: from a blurred background to everything sharp
• M / A / S modes and exposure compensation
• Focus, composition and hyperfocal distance
• White balance, color and the quality of light
• Focal length and sensor size
• Backlight, histogram and light metering
• Long exposure, ND filter and night photography
• The genres: portrait, landscape, street, sports and events — each with its own challenge

TOOLS OF A REAL CAMERA
• Focus peaking (PEAK), loupe and manual focus
• Histogram, highlight zebras and ±EV compensation
• 3 and 10 second self-timer, and shooting with the volume buttons
• Compare your last two photos side by side, with the settings you changed highlighted
• Your photos are saved with the aperture, shutter speed, ISO and focal length you used
• A pocket guide for every lesson, a glossary and a depth-of-field calculator

IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese.

FREE TO START
Learn the fundamentals for free: meet your camera and master exposure. When you're ready for more, unlock every level, the genres and the advanced tools with a single one-time purchase. No subscriptions.

Perfect whether you've never owned a camera or you own one and always shoot on auto. Understanding your camera is what sets your creativity free. Start today.