Technology & IT | Monday 31 December, 2018 1:30 am |

Walking around your home town – or the city you’ve been living in for a while – probably becomes routine as you feel you know every inch of it. This is where you’re wrong. We as humans just need to be reminded to change our perspective in order to fully appreciate what’s around us. So here are some fun activities accompanied by some cool smartphone features that will make you notice all the interesting details around you which are blurred out by familiarity and repetition.

 

It’s different from the top

Rooftops hold a secret charm that is only discovered by those who take the time to visit them. So find your way up to the roof of your home, office, or any other building where it is not restricted to do so. From up there, you will be able to see the city in a different way, you will appreciate the vast sky, roads, scenery, and the quiet as the city noise will be slightly drowned down. Use the HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro’s Leica Wide Angle Lens to capture your view, uninterrupted as it permits you to fit the entire horizon in one single shot. Choose 0.6x on the lens icon located at the mid-left of the screen or drag it down and get a capture the sun as it sets over the city – you are bound to see it with new eyes.

 

Come a little closer

Being in the city, we miss out on the goodness nature has to offer. Take a walk in the park and fill your lungs with fresh air and do some Macro photography – which is an extremely fun and eye opening activity. Macro photography is the shooting of close-up objects, and thanks to the HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro, you can shoot objects as close as 2.5cm and get crisp clear images, so grab a tree leaf and check out the details on it, or get up close and personal with ants – you will discover a whole new world that you could previously never see with the naked eye.

 

Become a tourist at home

You may think you know the history of your hometown but you would be surprised how many details are still yet to be discovered. Learning new things is one of life’s pleasures, so get your tourist mode on and walk around your city. Appreciate the beauty of monuments, landmarks, museums and point your camera at them to allow the HiVision feature in the HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro to tell you all about them. From the name of a monument and when it was built, to what a painting is called and whom it is by – a wealth of information is camera hover away. It will a fun and exciting journey to learn about your own home town and you will end up with a newfound respect for it.  

By doing very small things, you can change your perspective drastically. Sometimes all it takes is a mindset change, a push from a friend or a really cool smartphone that can act as a fresh pair of eyes when yours have been accustomed to seeing the same things over and over again.