How to Take STUNNING Pictures Using Your Smartphone
Nowadays, mobile photography is a recognizable art form. With the right lighting or editing, pictures captured on a smartphone can easily turn into museum-worthy masterpieces.
May the blessing of Light be on you
Lighting is a key for creating a successful image. Lighting determines the tone, mood and the atmosphere. It is necessary to control and manipulate light in order to get the best texture, vibrancy of color and luminosity on your subjects. By distributing shadow and highlights accurately, you can create stylized professional looking photographs using your smartphone.
Don't Zoom, Move Closer
Smartphones don’t have fancy lenses. This means they have a digital zoom, not an optical zoom. When you use a digital zoom, the camera gives frustrated blurry pictures. Get closer for better pictures. For MACRO and Wide Angle pictures use Pixter mobile lens. Instead of zooming, crop your pictures later. You can get the exact same effect, but have more choices in how you crop.
Lens I prefer
- Pixter Wide Angle
- Pixter Macro
- Pixter Telephoto
- Pixter Super Fisheye
Perspective Matters In Mobile Photography
No matter what subject you are shooting, the perspective or the angle where you shoot from can take your photo from an ordinary photo to a masterpiece.
Seeing the Unseen with
- Vertical orientations
- Horizontal orientations
- Tilted orientations
- Field of view
Clean Your Lens
If your pictures looking blurry, you can clean the mobile lens with a microfiber cloth or other wipe, I prefer to wipe down the lens with cotton dipped in distilled water before snapping photos with my smartphone.
Photo Editing Apps
Turn your pictures into masterpieces
- VSCO
- Snapseed - Surpasses all other general photo-editing apps
- Pixlr
- Prisma
- Lightroom
- Shapical - Transform your photos into elegant designs with sharp geometric shapes.
Black and White
- Hypocam - Hypocam is the ultimate App for black and white photography with live-view controls.
Say No to Flash, Use HDR
Find any natural/artificial light or use HDR. It works by taking a bunch of photos very quickly with different exposures, then combines them into a single picture with a better dynamic range.
Compose the elements to communicate one simple and clearer message
You can win prizes and cash on mobile photography
Visit Mobile Photography Awards, 500px, Photofie