Five tricks to take the photos of your Xiaomi phone to another level thanks to MIUI 14

One of the tasks that is done the most with a mobile (besides communicating) is taking pictures. The camera has become one of the most important elements when buying and selling a smartphone. And given its evolution, today you carry a Pro camera in your pocket on your Xiaomi, POCO or Redmi

For this reason, we wanted to compile five tricks with which you can take the captures you take with your Xiaomi phone with MIUI to another level, achieving incredible effects just by taking advantage of the software provided by the Chinese firm in its native camera application, full of of features such as** Xiaomi’s pro camera mode** and others that give you the opportunity to even take a good photo of the moon when it is fullwithout leaving a seedy overexposed circle on the screen.

The light and exposure meter, the best to activate the Pro mode in the camera of your Xiaomi

One of the tools that will help us considerably improve the capture of our photographs is the light and exposure meter provided by the native MIUI camera application. With it, we will be able to know at all times if the exposure of the different parts of our photography is correct to avoid loss of information in the light and shadow areas.

This function will act like the well-known “zebra pattern” that we find in professional cameras, represented with different lines when there are areas in our photographs with loss of informationsomething very useful in order to be able to use the professional mode of our phone without fear of exposing the capture badly.

In order to activate this function, we must follow the following steps:

1. Access the camera app of your Xiaomi device
2. Access the **** “Pro” mode ** of the Xiaomi camera ** that you will find in the mode dial of your application
3. At the top right, open the menu and select “Exposure Verification“

And that’s it, once activated, if we manually change the parameters of our capture such as shutter speed, aperture or ISO, we can see how the function it starts up allowing us to easily see the areas with loss of information.

Activate and use the “Focus Peaking” of the Xiaomi camera

The next trick that we want to show you is the well-known function “Focus Peaking” that we can find in the same way in professional cameras and that we will also be able to activate and enjoy on our Xiaomi device.

This function It will help us to correctly focus the subject or area of ​​the photograph that we want to highlight, being represented with a striking red color so that its visualization is easier. Thanks to this, we can manually select the focus from the professional mode to focus on what we want without making mistakes.

To activate this function:

1. Access the camera app of your Xiaomi device
2. Access the “Pro” mode that you will find on the mode dial of your application
3. At the top right, open the menu and select “Focus Peak“

Activate and use the Supermoon mode of the Xiaomi camera

Along with early devices that included a telephoto lens and high-resolution sensors, Xiaomi introduced a function called “Supermoon” in MIUI with which we can get striking photographs of the moon, adding to these different filters to achieve striking effects.

By simply activating this mode, the camera application of our mobile phone, based on artificial intelligence, it will automatically adjust itself to the ideal settings in order to capture the sharpest photo possible.

Of course, we recommend that, when taking these types of photographs, you use a tripod or a support so that the phone does not move during the capture, in order to achieve the best possible result.

In order to activate this mode, we will have to access the following settings:

1. Access the camera app of your Xiaomi device
2. Select the “More” section of the mode selector and click on “Super moon”

Once inside the mode, We can select different effects as silhouettes that we can add to our capture of the moonin addition to being able to even add text, a curious function that will undoubtedly help us achieve an attractive result of our shots of the moon.

Activate and use the long exposure mode of the Xiaomi camera

Another of the functions that Xiaomi includes in its camera interface and that draws directly from the world of professional photography is the long exposure mode.

This way it will help us to achieve different predefined effects related to long exposuresuch as getting the well-known “silk effect” in the water of a river or getting a starry sky at night.

As was the case with Supermoon mode, here it will also be essential to use a tripod to achieve an optimal result and avoid shaky photos. It will also be advisable to use this mode in low light conditions to achieve a more attractive result that gives an artistic touch to our photography.

In order to activate it:

1.Access the camera app of your Xiaomi device

2.Select the “More” section of the mode selector and click on “long exposure”

Once inside the mode, we can select between different effects that the application offers us, which are:

• moving crowd
• neon trails
• Oil painting
• light painting
• Starry sky
• star trails

Activate and use the clone mode of the Xiaomi camera

And to finish with this compilation of tricks we are going to close with one that we found especially fun and that opens up a world of possibilities at the level of creativity with our photographs. We are talking about the cloning mode with which, simply by leaving our phone in a fixed position, We can clone people so that they appear in different parts of a photo.

We have to tell you that this mode can only be used in landscape format and that, like the previous tricks, the use of a tripod is essential so that the shot has the best possible result.

In order to activate this mode:

1. Access the camera application of your Xiaomi device
2. Select the “More” section of the mode selector and click on “Clone”
3. Once in this mode, you must select the “Photo” section to be able to use it in photographs