1. A mobile device comprising: a camera; a display; one or more processors; one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors; and an image acquisition application executing on the mobile device, wherein the image acquisition application is configured to: receive an identification of a reference image of one or more objects, retrieve, for the reference image, metadata that specifies a distance at which the reference image of the one or more objects was acquired, determine a current distance between the camera of the mobile device and the one or more objects, determine a difference between the distance at which the reference image of the one or more objects was acquired and the current distance between the camera of the mobile device and the one or more objects, and automatically adjust one or more camera settings for the camera of the mobile device based upon the difference between the distance at which the reference image of the one or more objects was acquired and the current distance between the camera of the mobile device and the one or more objects, wherein the one or more camera settings after the adjustment are different than the one or more settings prior to the adjustment.