Everyone loves taking photos with their mobile phones.
Here are 5 mobile photography tips to get even better shots in 2018!
My name is Zdenka Darula and I am a professional photographer.
Before we get to all the tips I assume you cleaned your lens.
When was it the last time you did that?
Especially if you have kids and you let them play with your phone, take a second and do
a quick clean up.
Tip no.1 - DITCH THE FLASH
I would suggest turning off your flash on your phone camera as it can be very harsh,
it creates crazy highlights and shadows, it does change your white balance and it can
really mess up your photo with reflections.
Try to take advantage of natural light or other lights sources, unless flash is the
only way that you are going to be able to capture anything at all.
Even then, for example shooting at night, you can tweak it lots in post processing.
Tip no.2 - DON”T RUSH & TURN ON THE GRID
There is just no excuse for hastily snapped, bad photos.
You can grab the smartphone, point and quickly shoot but you could do much better then that.
It only takes few seconds to drastically improve your photos.
Look for interesting subjects and improve your composition.
Now we are getting to turning on your grid.
Go ahead, turn on your grid.
Go to settings and choose 3x3 grid lines.
Why?
Most of the people take photos with perfectly centered subject.
Right in the middle.
It works sometimes, but the photo might feel off somehow, like it lost its sense of balance.
We are going to resolve it with the rule of thirds that is why the 3x3 grid line.
Look at the four corners of the center section.
These are the intersection points of the thirds.
One, two, three, four.
When you want to take a photo, place the subject in one of these four spots.
I work as a stock photographer so I do this all the time because it is easy way to make
photos more interesting.
The grid will also help you with your horizon level.
Your lake or sea will look perfectly straight.
Tip no.3 - DON”T ZOOM
Lots of people don’t realize that smartphones don’t work the same way as regular cameras
when it comes to zoom.
Regular cameras have optical zoom.
Smartphones’ don’t.
They have digital zoom which is very different.
When you are digitally zooming with your phone you will end up with lots of distortion and
noise in your photos.
When you print them, you are not going to be very happy.
You can crop the photo to get closer to the subject but better solution would be physically
getting closer.
Tip no.4 - GET LOW & FIND NEW ANGLES
I see many people simply standing up and taking photo from the same point of you over and
over in all their photos.
Here is an example when I took photos and video of our daughter on vacation, I went
down on my knees into her eye level.
That it is why this looked very interesting to many people as they would normally don’t
look at this point of view.
Photographers are meant to find interesting point of views.
You should be doing with your smartphone the same.
If I really want to take amazing shots, I check with I call “9 points of view” for
the best shot.
I start in the middle then I go half way lower, all the way down…
I walk to the right, start at the top, middle, low and go to the left and see how the object
looks from top, middle and low.
You would be amazed how many different views you can get.
It also depends on the light source which can completely change some of the points of
view you get.
Tip no.5 - EDIT DON”T JUST APPLY FILTER
I have seen so many great images being completely killed by instagram filters.
It can be a bit tiring to look at Instagram feed full of “Mayfair” filtered photos.
What is better to look at the photo first, think what you want to do with it.
You can play with the photo a bit in your camera editing mode or use editing app such
as Snapseed.
It would be a waste to kill really great photo you took.
You would be amazed how you can improve this to get it look like a killer shot.
Once you are done if you still want to apply filter, go for it, you can always tone it
down to get something unique and different.
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