Tips to Take Better Photos from mobile

 

Tips to Take Better Photos from mobile

1. Clean your lens

your mobile spends its day with whatever is in your pocket or handbag. You will never take great pictures with pocket lint or greasy thumbprints on the lens…this is a really easy issue to fix, but if you ignore it, it will handicap you before you even start. Also, try not to keep your phone in your pocket or bag with things that might scratch the lens like coins, keys and the like.

2. Rule of Thirds 


This is one of the most common tips that pop up when it comes to improving your photos. To break it down, you cut your frame into thirds by using both horizontal and vertical lines. You then place your point of interest over the cross sections of the grid.

3.Don’t use zoom!

I think this is the first step towards taking a bad smartphone picture. If you want to zoom in on something, use your legs and move! Don’t forget that this is just a phone, and its opportunities are not those of a DSLR lens.

4. How to Get More Stable Shots

Although the iPhone 6 Plus has optical image stabilization built in, I find I get a better, sharper image by holding the phone with both hands, much like I would hold a traditional camera. The key for me here is then NOT to use the “software” shutter button but instead use the physical volume buttons which act as your shutter, eliminating camera shake and giving you sharper images. The added bonus is that if you use your headphones that came with the phone, you can also use the buttons on that as a cable release and not have to touch the camera at all. One more thing, hold down the shutter button and you get 10 fps burst mode so you don’t miss the action.

5. Download a Better Camera App

It’s true that the iPhone built in camera app has been improved over time, and is great for your average user, but us photographers who require a little more control over the settings should turn to the App Store.

6. Perspective

Get down on your knees, lay down on the ground, climb a ladder, climb a tree: there are hundreds of possibilities for capturing another point of view of the same subject… try as many of them as possible.

7. Reflections

Mirrors are everywhere: glasses, puddles, smooth and shining surfaces. Use these to your advantage and discover other, more unique views.

8. Black and White

Focus on forms, structure, textures, surfaces. Light models things, try to capture that!

9. Simplicity

Less really is more. Use empty spaces, the sky, uncolored surfaces, and focus on details.

10. Take lots of pictures

As a professional photographer, I almost never take one picture. The final image that the client sees is almost always the result of an iterative process. Take a shot, critique it, then take another shot…. Change your angle, change your distance to the subject, change your exposure… Almost ALWAYS the end result will be better than the first image you took.