In this article, we will be talking about my photography tips. Now In this article, we will be focusing more on the latest smartphones, because the cameras in smartphones have changed not in the past couple of years. But even if you don't have the latest smartphone. This article will help you. I'm sure you will enjoy this article, without wasting any time. Let's get started.
1. Good camera application
The first tip is to use a good camera application. Now depending on the phone you're using the phone comes with the stock camera application that is inverted. Now, certain companies are very good with the stock camera application like one plus, Samsung Apple pictures with other cameras, even though the hardware is good. The software is not that good enough. So using a good camera application will give you better images. For example, you can use the Lightroom application. that's an editing application when the camera went in, is good. There are some advanced features as well. If you want to see the video dedicated to it. It's right here. I have also used the G cam application that's actually the stock camera of the pixel devices on my eastern plus and shockingly the G camp, actually gives me better, images, the hardware is the same, the cameras lenses settings are the same, but you get better images because you're using better software, which has better image processing.
2. Use the other lenses
The next step is to use other lenses. Now, these smartphones come with usually two or three cameras. If it is three, that is mainly the normal telephoto and wide-angle camera now people get confused exactly when to use, which kind of lens. It's very simple. If you want to capture a landscape, or a wider perspective than the normal lens, use a wide-angle lens. My personal favorite is a wide-angle lens. So I use it for street photography for landscape photography, and I just love it. For normal photos, you can use a normal lens, but when to use the telephoto lens. Now the thing is when you're capturing portraits, you might have noticed there is slight distortion. And that is because the normal lens is also a slightly wider focal length. That is where the telephoto focal length comes into play. It gives you that compression, and this lens distortion and gives you a much pleasing image, other scenarios where you can use the telephoto lens is macro photography. So if you're very close to the subject, and the lens is not able to focus. What you can do is move back. Zoom in and printing the image, you're essentially getting the same image, but with using the different lens, because the lens is not able to focus. So this is how you can use different lenses to make most of your smartphone cameras,
3. Aspect ratio
The third tip is the aspect ratio. Now the default aspect ratio in most of the smartphones is for this to date. Now if you want to take images for your Instagram stories or Instagram post, you might want to use 16 by nine or one is to one. But the thing is, don't change it in the camera, even if the application allows you to, because what you're essentially doing is you're essentially groping and not using the full sensor. And then when you want to recreate the image, you have less flexibility because you've already lost resolution. So when you're shooting in the original default aspect ratio, you're shooting at the highest resolution possible, and you're using the whole sensor. Then when you want to post it on the other websites or the other platform, you can always re-crop the image, but the advantage here is you're getting more flexibility, so use the default aspect ratio and later you can re-crop when your post-processing.
4. Grid-lines
The fourth tip is using the grid lines. Now I've talked about grid lines before. And again, I'm talking because it is very important gridlines are very important in smartphone photography. after all, you have a bigger display than a traditional camera, so it becomes easier to visualize your composition, and it becomes even easier if you're using grid lines. Most of the times, I use a three by three grid lines, because I will be focusing on the rule of thirds where I want the subject to be at the intersection of the three lines, or maybe I want one-third of the full ground, two-thirds of the background or vice versa. Then I use the three by three grid lines, the grid lines will also help you to know whether the mobile phone is great, or not when you're shooting cemetery images. You can also use different grid lines, these grid lines are very helpful because it helps to visualize your composition better so that you don't have to mess up later when your post-processing, not talking about post-processing. That brings me to
5. Post-processing
The last tip is post-processing. Now post-processing is not related to photography I agree, but it is very important when it comes to mobile photography, especially if you're shooting in DNG or raw format, post-processing will help you to bring a lot of details, especially the colors and sharpness, it will help you to transform your images. Now the question I get asked a lot of times is what application to use the two applications that I use is Snapseed, and Lightroom, which one should you use it depends on your expertise level, and what do you need from the software. If you're a beginner, I would prefer to go for Snapseed if you're an amateur and you have a bit of hands-on experience, then go for Lightroom, it's a slightly more advanced software. Let me know in the comments below if you want to see a one by one site comparison of considering Lightroom, but talking about these applications. These are enough for editing. If you edit the photos nicely, you will see a lot of difference in your images, but make sure you don't rely on editing, editing, images, taking good photos editing them will give you better images.
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