What's up! It's Khail Anonymous and welcome to Kingston's IndieHack.
We're here to give you hack that will get you started on that create project you've been waiting to try out.
And we'll give you tips and tricks that will give you pro level results
without all that pro level equipment and expenses.
So today we're gonna tackle photography.
So you want to take amazing photos but you learn at ten thousand dollars to spend
to get expensive DSLR.
That's okay because I don't either. But we're gonna show you how to get amazing photos
from a camera you probably care at every day.
A smartphone! Yes, all these photos were taken with an iPhone.
As you can see great photography isn't about having the latest and most expensive camera equipment.
With a few simple tips and hacks you can get some pretty awesome looking photos.
And to help us out today we have professional surf photographer,
world traveler and all-around nice guy Marked Dimalanta.
I stumbled upon photography in a quite different way.
Initially I was trying to be a physician
and when I finished medical school I sustained an injury.
And while I was rehabbing photography kind of open up the door
because I didn't know if I could still have the mobility
required for for medicine.
So when photogrpahy came my way I just ran with it.
As photographers we're storytellers. We hold the tools to capture life and retell it.
We preserve the legacy of human experiences and I think that's the most important thing.
-Mark! -Khail!
Great to meet you!
So, photography! I heard that you actually left a career as a physician to be a photographer.
That's correct. I was formally physician.
I hit a crossroads and I picked photography and just ran with it.
That's incredible! Well, today you're gonna to help us address
one of the most frequently asked questions - DIY styles.
Let's go find out how we're going to do that.
I noticed you've got a lot of your professional equipment here we're not going to use that.
I wanna know how to do a photo like this without any that.
Well, you need a cell phone. Take something as simple as your picture frame,
remove the image, and we are going to use the glass.
And take something like petroleum jelly product
and smudge a circle into window leaving the center portion cleared out
where the lense will go to take the photo.
So let's take one without first. Cool! Worthy of Instagram but let's see what else we got.
This is purely a hardware technique. No software involved.
Keep the smudge portion near your lens and only let the lens peek through the cleared out hole.
-Nice! -That's it
This next hack is about using some other functions your already have in your camera?
Phones now have a burst mode simply by pressing the shutter release
puts the camera mobile fire rapidly in succession multiple bursts.
And we're gonna track the subject's movement at the same rate and fire off a burst.
And what you gonna get is a motion blur shot where the subject sharp but a blurred background.
Let's give it a shot. A few shots.
And with the model burst your bound to get at least one good photo.
Often you're gonna get several.
So we just took a a lot of burst photos so my phone is full.
Let's back up some of these photos. Let's use the MobileLite Wireless G2, save them here.
That will free some space up so we can take some more photos. What do you think?
That sounds good. You've got a protected now. Let's go outside and take some more photos.
Alright!
The first technique I wanna teach you it's called The Rule of Thirds.
Every cell phone camera has a grid option. This splits up the field of view into thirds.
Aesthetically the mind appreciates when images is off to the side.
It never really likes things that are dead center because it creates a lot of dead space.
Lets incorporate The Rule of Thirds.
Let me take you this way from a different angle, a 45 or 60 degrees.
And then you put the subject in the third.
That way you can incorporate more the background
and the subject is just a limit more pleasing.
Just change the feel view.
The take-home messages is give a view they have never seen before.
Alright, so this one is my favorite, Mark.
People around the set have been calling it the ultimate selfie. What is it?
Well, the ultimate selfie is a better way to take a selfie with a better filed of view.
Often, when your take the standard selfie, your view is too close.
You see the outraged arm sometimes there's distortion because the lens is just too close to the subjects.
The ultimate selfie incorporates features that the phone designers has been clever enough to include
by using something as simple as the earphone you can create remote trigger release.
How is it supposed to stand on it's own, so I am not reaching out?
There is a simple thing you can use like binder clips.
Provides an instant way to stand your phone up.
-Do you want to give that selfie a shot? -Yeah, let's try it out.
Using the earphones as a shutter release we can create distance
and place ourselves away from the lens
and gives it a more pleasing non distorted view.
-And it's as simple as that. -Wow!
So, now you can see we can do with a few very simple hacks.
You can't use a few dollars and improve your setup and take some amazing photos.
-Speaking of which, Mark, how did I do today? -Khail , I think you did awesome!
It just goes to show if Khail can do it, everyone can do it!
So, Mark, where can we see some more your work?
If you want to follow my go to Instagram and look for THESURFDOC. Also go to alonphilippines.com
to follow my blog and my adventures throughout the world.
That sounds very cool! So, guys get out there and try out these hacks.
It's very easy and fun! So, good luck out there!