Photography is a passion for many and a wonderful hobby for the creative geniuses out there. It’s a great opportunity to capture moments in the context of your own perspective. Also, who doesn’t love taking pictures in this day and age of social media?
Using a camera is more professional for sure, but a mobile phone is a cheap and convenient alternative. For a beginner mobile phone can come in handy. If you’re ready to invest in expensive gear, you can still quench your thirst for photography with a smartphone. There are a lot of smartphones with exceptional camera quality, with an emphasis on camera power mainly.
- Use Light Smartly
“Photo” roughly refers to “light”. To take a fantastic picture, you don’t have to employ any trendy techniques. The gentle, pleasant light that is illuminating your subject might enhance the appearance of your shot. Beautiful light can transform a basic portrait into something artistic and lovely. Using natural light is the first thought that comes to our mind, and it’s the best actually. The golden hour is an auspicious time if you wanna capture some mind-blowing shots no matter the subject.
- Play with Exposure:
You should manually adjust the exposure on your smartphone camera. When you tap your phone’s screen while the camera is turned on, it automatically modifies the amount of light it allows in addition to refocusing the lens on a new subject. Additionally, this won’t always appear perfect. Hand adjustment is the greatest option.
- Fix Your Object
The foreground of your frame is automatically focused by today’s phone cameras, however not all of your phone photos have a clear subject. Open your camera app, then press the screen where you wish to sharpen the view to change where your camera lens focuses.
When powerful graphic components, such as lines, geometric shapes, forms, and colors, recur repeatedly, they create visually appealing patterns.
Photographing something like a gorgeous tiled floor can be enough to produce a powerful shot because of the powerful visual effect these patterns can have. First, steady your camera to assist prevent distorted or blurry images.
- Edit to Get the Best Result
When editing photos, strive to increase depth by concentrating the majority of the contrast on your subject. Equally detailed and equally bright photos appear terribly flat. Sometimes you need to adjust the contrast and values of certain areas of your picture if you want it to be visually appealing. You must add some dynamism to your photos, particularly in gloomy and flat lighting conditions.
- Compositions for Most Eye-Catching Images
Activating the camera’s gridlines is one of the simplest and most effective methods to enhance your smartphone images. Leading lines are excellent for giving a picture depth and can give the impression that your picture was intentionally planned, even if you just happened to stumble upon a truly interesting form. Symmetry is one of the easiest and most powerful compositional elements in photography, and it can produce visually stunning images.
- Use Accessories
External lenses can be a game changer. You can really connect a variety of lenses, ranging from wide-angle to fish-eye, to the top of your smartphone’s built-in camera lens. These accessories may give your pictures a whole different look and feel.
Finally, if you have a strong desire to pursue photography, you can begin by learning the fundamentals of light, subject, and perspective with your mobile phone.
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Sayeda Jannatun Nahar
Intern, Content Writing Department
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