cell phone photography
It can give you a sense of purpose, a mode of storytelling, and a different perspective on things. It can even take you to new places and help you meet new people.
Smartphone photography is different from digital photography using a camera because it is so instant and accessible.
Smartphone photography is taking pictures with your phone. It could be an iPhone or Android, old or new
Instagram, a photo and video sharing app, has over 95 million photos uploaded to it every day!
The Basics of Smart Phone Photography
Three Photography Basics
1. Clean your phone's lens.
Make sure your camera lenses are clear! Ensuring they are dust and smudge free will result in a clear picture. You can do this by using a microfiber cloth and/or a lens wipe before taking a photo.
2. Turn on the Grid.
3. Set your camera's focus.
Today's phone cameras automatically focus on the foreground of your frame. To adjust where you want your camera lens to focus, open your camera app and tap the screen where you want to sharpen the view. A square or circular icon should then appear on your camera screen, shifting the focus of your shot to all of the content inside that icon.
4. HDR.
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. High dynamic range or HDR, is a camera app feature that helps balance the light and dark elements in a high-contrast photo. It can be used to give photos a more creative, or artsy vibe, but it is commonly used to produce an image that looks similar to how you see it with your eyes. It is a setting you can turn on or off. When turned on, the camera takes 3 photos at different exposures and combines them into 1 photo.
This could be used for photographing landscapes, sunlight portraits, and lowlight/backlit scenes. It should be avoided for movement shots, high-contrast scenes, and vivid colors.
SHOT COMPOSITION:
Rule of Thirds, Rule of Thirds Using the grid breaks up the frame into thirds horizontally or vertically.
Leading Lines,
Perspective
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Use leading lines.
When we look at a photo, our eyes can wander all around the frame. When there are leading lines, our eyes are drawn to the lines and what they lead to. Leading lines can be found in the city through streets and buildings, and in nature with mountains, reflections, pathways, etc. as seen in the photos below.
Leading lines are great for creating a sense of depth in an image, and can make your photo look purposefully designed — even if you just happened to come upon a really cool shape by accident.
3. Perspective
To create a sense of depth, you can use a few techniques:
Find different perspectives.
Taking photos from a unique, unexpected angle can make them more memorable — it tends to create an illusion of depth or height with the subjects. It also makes the image stand
Try taking a photo directly upward and playing with the sky as negative space, like in the first photo below. Or, you can try taking it at a slight down.
- • Low angle shot - the camera is placed lower to the ground than the subject, and you are shooting up at it.
- • High angle shot - the subject looks smaller because you are shooting above it, looking down.
- • Lateral movement - you move to the left or right of a subject to get a better angle.
- • First-person point of view - as if you were peeking out of the tree. Those few leaves would be blurry, and your landscape would be in focus.
- Zoom – This refers to making a subject looker closer or farther away in an image.
- Optical zoom involves the use of a lens that physically extends from the camera to magnify a subject, achieving the same effect as if you moved closer. There is no loss of quality using this.
• Digital zoom increases the size of the image, cropping the edges. This results in a poor image quality. If the zoom-in is small, the image quality may not really be affected. It is when a subject is far away and the more you zoom in, the more image quality drops.
Golden Hour – Use natural light.
It's hard to find a great smartphone photo that was taken with a flash. Most of the time, they make a photo look overexposed, negatively altering colors and making human subjects look washed out.
Take advantage of the sources of natural light you can find, even after dark. This gives you a chance to play with shadows, like in the second image below, or create a silhouette with other ambient sources of light, like traffic and surrounding buildings. Considered a great time to shoot photos, golden hour is the first hour of light after sunrise, and the last hour of light before sunset. The natural light is softer and redder, and there are no sharp shadows as there would be with overhead sunlight.
This light is popular for selfies and silhouette photos.
Focus on one subject.
Many of the best photos include just one, interesting subject. So when taking a picture of one, spend some extra time setting up the shot. Some professional photographers say that the subject shouldn't fill the entire frame, and that two-thirds of the photo should be negative space — that helps the subject stand out even more.
But be sure you tap the screen of your smartphone to focus the camera on your subject — that'll help to ensure that it's focused and the lighting is oMacro Photography – This is extreme, close up photography. It is great for photographing the details of nature (bugs, plants, small animals), and capturing the texture of larger objects. You can buy separate lenses for your phone for this, or you can just get really close (a few inches away) and focus on your subject.
Hold your phone still.
While smartphones have given us the benefit of taking photos on the go, the cameras on our phones are still sensitive to movement. To help avoid blurry or warped photos, steady your camera first.
You can lean on a friend or wall to prevent your arms or hands from wobbling, or prop your phone up using books or similar objects to steady your phone
Photo editing apps let you shoot, edit, organize, and share your photos. There are hundreds out there.
There are websites where you can post your pictures online for yourself or to share. You can make albums, send out links, and store photos all on a photo hosting site.
Jamie Spencer at Make a Website Hub reviewed 13 free image hosting sites5 if you want to share a photo or gallery with friends, family, the Internet, etc.
Accessories – If you want to spend the money, you can purchase extras to enhance your photography experience. Some things include a tripod to keep the camera steady, lenses that clip onto the phone for better zoom shots,
a remote shutter control that lets you take a picture when you are standing away from the phone, microfiber cloths to keep your lens clean, and LED lights for better lighting.
Consider buying a mobile tripod.
Although mobile devices make it easy to snap any photo on the go, there's never been an easy way to ensure the shot stays level and balanced when you shoot — especially if you want to be in the picture and not just take a typical selfie with your extended arm.
Embrace negative space.
"Negative space" simply refers to the areas around and between the subjects of an image — and it can take a photo from "good" to "great."
When you include a lot of empty space in a photo, your subject will stand out more and evoke a stronger reaction from your viewer. And w
Activity •
- Focus on something using the exposure settings to adjust how much light is allowed in.
- Play with the zoom feature! Walk up to something and take a picture. Then walk away and zoom in and take another picture of the same thing.
- Compare the two for image quality.
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- Get up close and personal with a macro shot! Photography is an art that is learned. Get some inspiration by using a Google image search, look up photography styles, or search for the concepts learned in this program and look to the images.
- Get to know your phone camera and the built-in photo editor! You will learn what your phone is capable of and will understand how external editing apps may help.
- Start your journey at home! Move things around and set up your shot to practice the concepts we covered.
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