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Sunday, July 24, 2016

8 Tricks to Take Better Photos With Your Phone

fieldguide.gizmodo.com: In the never-ending quest for great mobile photos, it can be tempting to ditch the camera app that comes with your phone for something far more advanced and exotic. However, if you know what you’re doing, you can get some high-quality results from the default camera app on your iPhone or Android device—and here’s how.

3 comments:

Coco Huang said...

The tricks introduced in this article are quite basic, and I suppose any teenager using smart phones can understand these basic facts. I personally love photography and traveling, so before I got a really lightweight and easy-to-go Canon Rebel SL1, most of the photos I took on vacation were on my camera. More and more people are changing from digital cameras to smartphone cameras these days, which makes Photography not an expensive, but more down-to-earth hobby; plus the lenses on smartphone are really improving greatly—I can print out a photo taken on iPhone 5s on 11”x17” paper clearly. In fact, stretching beyond these basic tricks mentioned in the article, there are more and more mobile app for camera/photo-addicting, and many smartphone photographers on Instagram/twitter/Tumblr posting incredible photos that are equally (sometimes even more) creative and artistic compared to professional digital camera’s work. And the easy-to-go feature of smartphone camera are better to capture candid moments in life. Also, there are enhanced iPhone camera lenses and smartphone insta printers for sale, and all of these just make smartphone photo-taking more and more interesting.

Sarah Linquest said...

Every time I open Instagram, I am amazed by how many smartphone photography accounts I come across. For the most part, it is hard to tell iPhone photographers from photographers with expensive cameras. While I am sure these amazing iPhone photographers are using tricks more complex than the ones given in this article, it is still a great example of how far technology has come. Not too long ago phones did not even come with cameras; now they are taking better pictures than some real cameras. Especially with some of the new smartphone camera lenses, the same effects photographers use with cameras are being created with phones. There are printers that can print pictures from your phone that look like a Polaroid, and others that print in high resolution.

Lawren Gregory said...

Personally, I have a camera that takes horrible photos. They are always blurry and overall difficult to figure out what the photo is of. I agree with the suggestions made, however, I do feel as though a simpler solution would be to just get a regular digital camera. I know that this is unpractical for most people, however it takes away the need for phones to have all the special features that make them so much more expensive and take up more power. All of the suggestions given are honestly things that one would do with a normal digital camera. I have always felt that if you want to take a good, memorable photo, then you use a camera, do not use your phone. If it is the only thing on you, then I think that you just have to except the fact that the photo will not be as good as you want it to be.