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How to take good photos on your smartphone: 11 useful tips👍🏻
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A cool camera in a smartphone is a means to create photos, but not a guarantee of their impeccability. Want to get the most out of her and collect a bunch of likes on social networks? No problem: everyone can shoot well, and our advice will help you with this.
📸1. Take photos from non-standard angles
It just so happened that everyone basically sees the world from the height of human growth, and that is why frames from non-standard angles look so impressive. Take a landscape through a slot in a beautiful fence, raise the camera high above your head or lower the lens to floor level. These simple actions will help you to show seemingly ordinary plots from a completely new perspective.
📸2. Master the manual settings of the smartphone camera
On many smartphones, as well as on cameras, you can also adjust the exposure, set the shutter speed, ISO and white balance. The first time such words sound scary, but in fact there is nothing complicated here. As soon as you deal with all this, you will be able to “squeeze” significantly better results from the mobile camera when shooting in the dark or in complex lighting. Where automation can not cope, you will do everything for it yourself. And much better.
📸3. Turn on the flash only when absolutely necessary.
The flash built into your smartphone is the last line of defense. It’s worth activating it only when it’s impossible to make a decent shot in a different way. Hard light "in the forehead" makes photos flat, adds ugly glare to the face, and the background is black.
📸4. Forget about digital zoom and pay attention to dual-camera smartphones
If the camera of your smartphone has one lens, then you should forget about digital zoom once and for all: this only spoils the frame. Such a zooming is absolutely artificial, since it is achieved by programmatically enlarging a fragment of a photograph. You can do exactly the same thing with less quality loss during processing - both on a computer and in mobile applications.
However, if your smartphone has a dual camera, then there are already possible options. For example, the iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone X, Huawei P10 / P10 Plus, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, Xiaomi Mi 6 and some other flagships can double the frame without significant loss of quality. For this, the second lens is just what you need.
But here it is important to understand two things. First: the worse the lighting, the worse the result of the increase. Second: two lenses are not a guarantee of optical zoom. An example is the LG G6. This phone does not know how to zoom in on objects, but it can take quite spectacular ultra-wide-angle shots.
📸5. Do not neglect portrait modes in flagships
Manufacturers of flagship smartphones have recently put a lot of emphasis on shooting people. Apple was particularly notable in this matter: the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X have a very cool Portrait Lighting mode. It allows you to add studio lighting effects to your finished photos. Here's what it looks like:
Do not forget about the function of software blurring the background, which is already not only in the iPhone, but also in Android smartphones with dual cameras. If you do not peer into the details, then finished photos with this effect look like they were made on a SLR with a portrait lens. By the way, this can be applied not only when photographing people, but also, for example, in macro photography.
📸6. Learn to improve your finished photos.
Naturalness and realism is good, but even just a good photo can be taken even better after shooting. And you won’t have to load it into the computer for this - the Google Play and the App Store are full of photo editing applications. Download them, try, leave the ones you like and mercilessly delete those that did not fit.
One of the best mobile photo editors are VSCO and Snapseed. And if you bother with programs laziness, then enough of the built-in tools in Instagram. The author of this material uses only them and is absolutely satisfied.
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