Tips To Take Photos With Your Smart/Mobile phone
I like photography. I have
a nokia E5 mobile.
It is the time of photography.
Many people like
to use their phone
as camera. Because many people don’t feel the need to
carry real cameras around anymore. Mobile photography is becoming increasingly
popular. Every year, mobile and Smartphone cameras get better and better, While
phone cameras still can’t replace good SLRs, they’re a very good match for the
compact cameras, and since your phone comes everywhere with you anyway, it also
becomes your go-to camera.
Just because your
phone is your default camera, however, doesn’t mean you need to be taking bad
photos. While some cameras are better than others, you can take beautiful
photos even with a 5MP, 2560pixel X 1920 pixel camera like the one that comes
with my old digital camera. Let us know
how we find the
best mobile phone
cameras to capture quality images.
The tips above, when followed, can help you create some beautiful
photos with your mobile device. Naturally, it still requires creativity
and a good eye, but following some technical pointers is always a good
start.
Important of Lighting
As with any digital camera, lighting is very important, and it’s doubly
important if you’re using a phone camera. While some modern phones come
equipped with a very good camera, most smartphone cameras still need all
the help they can get to come up with a good enough photo. This is
where lighting becomes your best friend.
It’s not always possible to control it, but there are two important points you want to keep in mind:
1) you
need light.
2) you
don’t need
direct
light. Getting your subject to stand in non-direct sunlight (best) or
non-direct artificial light (second best), can make the difference
between a bad photo and a good one.
No Zoom For You
Optical zoom is great, but when it comes to phone cameras, you’re pretty
much stuck with digital zoom. This means the optics of the camera don’t
actually change, the image doesn’t actually come any closer. Rather,
digital zoom basically takes the portion of the image you’re aiming at,
and expands it to fit the entire screen, much like you would zoom in on
your computer. When you do this, you get low-resolution images, which
are of lower quality than non-zoomed ones. So use your legs and hands
instead, and just get closer to your subject. If you must use your zoom
to get your subject in sight, you might want to give up on this photo
altogether.
Steady Does It
This goes without saying, but it’s still important to keep in mind.
When using any camera, and especially a somewhat inferior one, you want
to keep your hands as steady as possible. Try leaning your elbows or
hands on a steady surface while taking your photo, you’ll be surprised
at the difference this can make.
White Balance
Many phone cameras and apps come with the option to control white
balance. Adjusting your white balance makes sure the colors you capture
are as accurate as possible, considering the lighting you have
available. White balance controls usually include an “auto” option, and
other options such as “daylight”, “cloudy”, “fluorescent”,
“incandescent”, etc. While the “auto” option is sometimes good enough,
you can get much better results when adjusting the white balance to
match your lighting. So if you know you’re going to be taking several
pictures indoors under a yellow light bulb, it could pay off to take an
extra minute and adjust your white balance.
Avoid Flash
I recommend you to use less flash you.True, phone
cameras can’t always handle low light, but if you can’t do it without
flash, you might not want to do it at all. Since I don’t have hardware
flash on my own mobile device, I used a different one which also has a
better camera. The example above is somewhat exaggerated, but it’s a
good demonstration of how flash can ruin a photo, even when the lighting
is not the best.
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