There are a lot of photo enthusiasts online who dismiss a photo right away when they learn that it was clicked using a Smartphone. It is very frustrating that your photo gets rejected and on top of that you receive a comment saying “click with a real camera”. It is nice to click with a good quality camera but it is not available all the time and so use your smart phone camera. After all a good photo is a good photo, irrespective of what gear you use to click it. Camera smart phones have strengths and weaknesses and when you highlight the good and downplay the bad you can click great pictures with your smart phone camera as well and silence those who say no to camera phone clicked pictures.
Here are some things to consider while using your phone camera to snap better pictures.
Move Close
Most of the mobile phone camera especially iPhone shine well when you take the phone camera close to your subject. The small sensor in the iPhone provides wide depth of the field. This way the entire object can be brought under focus. When you get close to your subject you have more control on the lighting of the subject. You can also block all the bright patches in the background of your subject and so prevent the subject getting dark.
Crop Instead of Zoom
Most of the smart phone camera’s have a digital zoom, but is for the best if you do not use it. You can see the image degrading when you use the zoom even in the live preview. When you use the zoom it extrapolates the things already present and the image gets ugly.
If you want to make change to the image do it on your computer instead of using the zoom option on your phone. Crop the image on your PC. Good smart phones have 8MP camera so you can crop the image enough and still save enough resolution for displaying on the web. You can even mask the image with effects on your photo manager so that it does not look like clicked with a phone.
Edit the image, do not filter it
If you want your picture to be unique then do not paint it with the filters that many people do. It is not the fact that instagram is bad. Element sharing is good, but the retro washes are outdated. It is the same with all the other apps.
Go for a Full image editing app like the iPhot or Snapseed. These apps allow users to make good adjustments like sharpness, color, contrast etc. This is what you would do with images clicked using a big camera. There is no use of doing all these with a hurry if you are not immediately sharing the images.
Avoid Adding Flake Blur
The biggest challenge for a Smartphone camera is the field depth. The background blur is hard to achieve with a smart phone camera because of it s wide angled lenses and tiny sensors. However when you fake it, matters get worse.
It looks unnatural when you add a blur with a editing app because it is applied uniformly across the entire frame and it is not how a lens works so it gets an unnatural look.
On the other hand it is quite hard with the precision of object selection on which you want to focus and so you end up with sharp to blurry transitions.
If you wan t the person who views your picture to focus on a particular thing, then make it the main object in the photo frame. Let your background be simple as much as possible, even if you have to make you subject turn a little bit or move a little back. It is all worth the effort.
Pick A Good Camera App
This tip is especially for iPhone users rather than Android phone users, but n either case what is important s the goal. There many choices in this category and choosing any of them will treat the user better than the stock camera app. Use “Camera Awesome” as it allows users to shoot in bursts and there is separation between the exposure lock and the AF lock. Also it is available for free of cost. For more controlled shooting you can even use “Camera+”.
Whatever your choice is you need to spend some amount of time to get acclimatized to it. It is silly and a waste of time to simply practice clicking pictures with your mobile phone, however you will be happy if you manages to click a great picture while the other people are trying to find a good app or turn off their camera flash. So follow these simple tips to click some nice pictures with your smart phone camera and show the world that it is not just a professional camera that can click good pictures.
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