“This Diwali don’t let a picture-perfect moment slip. Capture it with the G5s Plus”

The festival of lights, Diwali is around the corner and with that comes the fervour. All the dressing up, decorations, festivities and hide-and-seek of light make for a canvas that every photographer aspires to capture on his camera. And with everyone having a phone in their hand, smartphone photography is fast becoming the norm. Therefore, it becomes a prerequisite to have a phone that flaunts a powerful camera setup to be able to best capture the lights, and candid joyous moments, among dozen others that present themselves on the occasion of Diwali. The recently-launched Moto G5s Plus is one such handset that promises to do exactly that. If you’re wondering why we think so, then here’s a gander at all the features that make it the go-to camera this Diwali. 

Dual cameras

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Dual cameras are becoming a rage, and the G5s Plus manages to bring them in the mid-range. The smartphone comes with a pair of 13-megapixel cameras on the rear panel. The added benefit of an extra camera module definitely makes for a compelling shooter and captures some brilliant images right off the bat. Moreover, the dual camera module does come with fast focus by default, which means one can capture the fast-moving crackers or celebratory moments without blurring them out. That’s not all, it also has an Auto HDR mode, which further enhances the images to offer a pleasing output. 

RGB + monochrome setup for better colours

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The festival of Diwali is all about colours and the subtle play of shadows and contrast between light and darkness. It takes a really advanced camera to be able to capture the nuances of shadows accurately and the Moto G5s Plus might just be the perfect way to do that. That’s because, the rear 13-megapixel cameras feature an RGB and a monochrome sensor, which means that the module can capture the colours more accurately. Both sensors work in tandem to adjust the overall exposure of the scene to offer sharper, better-looking images with impressive dynamic range. But that’s not all that the Moto G5s Plus dual cameras’ can do, the phone also comes with a Depth Editor, which we’ll talk about in detail ahead. 

Stand out from the crowd

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Along with offering better colours, the advantage of having dual cameras on the Moto G5s Plus is the ability to capture bokeh images or as they are popularly called, portrait shots. The smartphone comes with a Depth-enabled mode integrated into the camera interface, which is designed to capture the images in which the subject is in the focus, and the background is being blurred. This mode will enable you to capture amazing portraits of your family and friends with the artistic blurred light effects in the background, something which will ensure that you get the most number of likes on Facebook and Instagram this Diwali. 

A swiss knife in the form of the Depth Editor 

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Another advantage of having a dual-camera array is that you can adjust the focus and depth after an image is captured. And that’s where the Depth Editor comes to the fore. You need to enable the aforesaid Depth enabled mode to capture an image, following which you can use the Depth Editor to adjust the level of blur in the background. However, that is not the extent of it. It also offers a couple of additional modes – Selective Black and White and Replace Background. As is evident from the names, the options let users switch a part of the image to monochrome and even replace the background completely, respectively. Using the Depth Editor on the Moto G5s Plus, one can give a whole new perspective to their Diwali images. 

A simple-to-use camera interface 

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Reading about all these features that come with the Moto G5s Plus, users are bound to feel intimidated as to how difficult it might be use its camera. However, the Moto G5s Plus packs a lot with an extremely simple interface. All the settings and buttons are laid out on the display and can be accessed easily. As soon as you open the camera, you get a large shutter button at the bottom, which sits alongside the video button, options menu and a toggle for the front camera. Up top, you get toggles for HDR, flash, self-timer and low-light mode. The focus ring in the middle is quite special, as it lets you tweak the exposure as well. 

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On top of that, the G5s Plus also offers a Professional mode, which lets you adjust various settings like ISO, whitebalance, shutter speed and more to shoot the picture as per the requirements of the scene. 

We are certain that by now, it’s evident that the Moto G5s Plus is a great-yet-pocket-friendly way to capture Diwali and its nuances. If you need help on tips and pointers to click amazing pictures this Diwali, this tutorial will help your further. 

The Motographs series is brought to you by in partnership with Motorola and aims to help you capture the best memories from your smartphone camera this Diwali.