Portrait photography captures the soul of moments, bringing out personality and emotion in a shot. With Xiaomi's cutting-edge camera technology, portraits can be elevated to the professional level by any one of us.

Here are five essential tips, utilizing Xiaomi's unique features to help you create breathtaking portraits in various settings.

Harness Natural Light with Pro Mode for Dramatic Portraits

How to Capture Perfect Portrait Pictures on Your Xiaomi Phone

It transforms the portrait with natural light adding depth and warmth to it. Xiaomi's Pro Mode allows you to adjust all camera settings manually; the best way to take amazingly lit portraits.

Just think of capturing the warmth of sunset lighting up a thought-provoking expression - Pro Mode makes this very possible, and one could get that professional look at times.

How to Use Pro Mode

1. Launch the Xiaomi camera app.
2. Scroll down to the bottom menu in order to find Pro Mode, which is manual mode in most models.
3. Change ISOs, shutter speed, and focus accordingly with lighting settings.
4. Now try a whole lot of parameters till finally you achieve the shot required.

Use Gridlines And Angles for Dynamic Portraits

Composing a good-looking portrait often requires setting up the subject and the background in a thoughtful and deliberate way. Xiaomi offers a gridline feature that will help you center up your subject within the frame for a balanced, well-composed shot.

Regardless of whether you are taking a shot against a nice landscape or a dramatic cityscape, using gridlines can ensure that your composition contains depth and perspective.

Enable Gridlines

1. Launch the Xiaomi camera app.
2. Touch the three horizontal lines located in the top right-hand corner.
3. Turn on "Gridlines" for a composing aid.
4. To refine, tap the triangle icon to see other composing aids

Isolate Your Subject with Portrait Mode and Selective Blur

Portrait Mode is perfect while you are photographing your subject because it blurs the background. This feature is pretty handy when you are taking pictures in a busy café of your friend's face not distracted.

If you tweak the blur, it will draw the viewer's eye to your subject and give a clean and professional look.

How to Use Portrait Mode

1. Open Xiaomi camera app.
2. Swipe right on the menu bottom to find Portrait Mode.
3. Tap the bokeh intensity icon and choose the level of background blur you want.
4. The smaller number is the more intense blur that would put your subject into focus. Take note that you can't zoom in portrait mode on most Xiaomi devices.

Ultra-wide angle Lens and Voice Shutter for Group Shots

This feature is handy, especially when taking group selfies or dynamic scenes. With ultra-wide lenses, you have the capability to fit much more people and scenery inside the frame. You should use this when festivals come or during social gatherings with friends. Voice Shutter lets you snap the picture without touching the screen.

How to Turn On Ultra-Wide Angle and Voice Shutter

1. Open the Xiaomi camera application and click on 0.6X to turn on the ultra-wide-angle lens.
2. Tap the three horizontal lines in the top right.
3. Enable "Voice Shutter."
4. Say "cheese" and snap the moment without missing a beat.

Enhance Your Photos with Filters and Stickers

Editing brings the best out in your photo, whether this means bringing out the contrasting lines and making it a sharp eye or layering a filter to fit with the atmosphere of the shot.

Mi's built-in editing app offers many functions from light adjustments to innovative stickers; take some time experimenting so that you're telling the story of a particular photograph.

How to Edit Your Photo

1. Select your picture by style.
2. Tapping the "Edit" opens Mi's editing toolbox.
3. Let brighten, contrast, or make any adjustments to enable the subject to stand out.
4. Apply filters or stickers to bring the personal touch, and share with friends the artistic output.