Improve mobile phone photography skills

At the beginning of the lecture, canvas prints I would like to introduce the three most important rules of mobile photography.

1. The cell phone is a prime lens

Never use the zoom feature on your phone. This is a prime lens. The law of fixed-focus lenses also applies to mobile phone photography.

2. From the idea to the practice can be controlled in 10 seconds

A good moment may be fleeting. There may be room to make up the difference between a good shot and a bad one.

3. Be creative

By the standards of traditional photography, canvas prints australia mobile photography can only follow behind the SLR. But taking a photo on your phone is not just about making a good picture. It's also about improvisation, experimentation and sharing on social media. This also means that you need to experiment with bolder compositions and more contingency. When the quality of the picture and the scene itself are limited, the creativity of mobile phone photography is even more important.

Here are a few practical tips for taking photos. This in itself is not a complicated thing. It has only three parts: composition, focus and exposure.

First, the composition of a picture

There is not much difference between a mobile phone and a SLR composition, large canvas prints such as highlighting the theme. A few practical tips include highlighting geometric or symmetrical elements in a picture. Leave large areas blank. Pay attention to the combination of foreground and background.

Second, the focus

Focusing on a phone is as simple as touching the point of the screen with your finger.

Although phones can't be manually focused, there are ways to capture out-of-focus effects. One is to press the shutter while the phone is in focus, and the other is to use an AE/AF lock: aim close, hold the screen down until the AE/AF lock appears, and then aim far away. In this way, the whole picture is out of focus.

Third, exposure

Even though exposure to the phone is much automated, that doesn't mean we don't have room for further adjustments. One of the easiest ways to do this is to adjust the exposure using focus -- if the whole picture is bright, focus on the part of the screen that is bright. If it's dark, focus on the dark. The Phone automatically adjusts the exposure of the photo based on where you focus it. Does this until you find a good exposure?

PS: it is best to take photos in good light. My phone is especially noisy at night, when the room is dark, and I generally avoid taking photos in such situations.

Fourth, shadow and environment

One of the problems with taking pictures on a phone is that it doesn't allow enough room, either overexposed light or underexposed dark. Solution: one is to open HDR; the second is the use of late. When I am exposed, I usually keep the bright details (like the sky) first, so that many parts of the picture are inevitably too dark. In the later stage, I will use some mobile apps to restore the dark details, so that I can get a picture with a relatively large exposure range, which can make up for the inherent shortcomings of mobile phone photography.

Fifth, use appropriate filters

There are so many interesting filters on IOS, like POCO cameras. However, the most important rule about filters is not to overuse them. My personal opinion is: unless you want to experiment with a particular kind of effect, at least don't damage the relationship between the colors of the original picture, and don't obscure the theme of the picture itself.

Sixth, a usually not useful but very cool trick

I believe that if you are familiar with the above several words, your mobile phone photography level has been greatly improved. This is one of those things that doesn't work very well in normal times but can be quite fun (and hard to do with a SLR camera!). . You can move your phone and press the shutter at the same time, so that the picture will leave traces of the movement of the picture. This one, for example, picture printed on aluminium is a picture of fallen leaves on the ground.