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Best Phone Photography Hacks (that you need to know)

Need some updated smartphone photography hacks and tips and you’ve already conquered the 5 days to better smartphone photography? Let’s face it. It’s no longer good enough to take a good photo to impress those hanging out on Instagram, because everyone learning how to do it.

SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY 101 Vs BEST PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY HACKS

Learning how to set your shutter speed or using the grid for the rule of thirds are not strictly photography tricks as much as useful photography tips if you’re a photography beginner. After all you don’t know what you don’t know.

The Best Phone Photography Hacks and Tricks

Every phone camera is going to have a grid and a flash, but as technology advances every year, different phones have unique features to lure you to them, so make sure you do your homework for the best phone for photography out there. Here’s some help in choosing the best camera phones;

Use the panoramic mode to create multiple copies of a subject, is one of favourites to use with kids

Panorama Photography Tricks

PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TIP #1 – FIND THE RIGHT LIGHT VERSUS MANUFACTURING YOUR OWN

Photography is the art of painting with light so figuring out what light you have and what you can do with it is a great place to start. You’ll need to consider the direction and intensity of the light. Don’t be afraid to use what you have to make the light better.

Pro phone photography hack: shoot through your sunglasses to get proper exposure in harsh light, or through a water dropped glasses to create your own filter.

Sunglasses phone photography hack

Pro phone photography hack: Use white card to reflect light and black to absorb it, check out other Light essentials you need

PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TIP # 2 – DON’T ZOOM – JUST GET CLOSE AND FOCUS!

Digital zoom became quite a taboo word is photography early on because it dramatically effects the quality of your image. So logically the next step was zoom with your feet, simply move closer but what happens when you can’t?

Pro phone photography hack: Use binoculars or telephoto lens to zoom in on a subject, allows you to get closer without moving.

PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TIP #3 – MANUAL MODE IS A MUST

Learning how to control any tool is really step 1, most people are happy to throw the manual in a draw and forget about it and yet very few master manual mode before they moan about wanting better photos. Learn how to control your settings, it makes capturing what you want so much easier!

Pro phone photography hack: Use the best photography apps.

PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TIP #4 – GET YOURSELF SOME OF 2021’S BEST SMARTPHONE ACCESSORIES

There are three main types of accessories that you’ll want to shop for; stability, lens, and triggers. However, the pro photography accessories must have you probably already have:

  • Place your phone in an airtight plastic bag to be to shoot underwater to create a natural haze.
  • Use what you have to stabilise your phone
  • Phone photography is advancing every year, and more and more phones are coming with multiple built in lens.

Pro phone photography hack: plug in your earphone and press its button to use it like a trigger, great for selfies without an arm sticking up. If you really want something special then grab yourself a small printer.

Wanna know which ones I recommend?

PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TIP #5 – SHOOT IN RAW

This ones fairly self explanatory. If you want to edit your photos and everyone should, then the more data you have the better your edit will be. Learning the different format types is incredibly useful. But for now know you want a DNG file.

PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TIP #6 – EDIT PHOTOS WELL (BUT BE UNIQUE!)

Leave the presets and filters alone, and learn how to edit yourself. No one wants to a replica of someone else’s work so learn how to edit yourself and find a style that suits you.

PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TIP #7 – SHARE YOUR WORK (OR, NO ONE WILL KNOW YOUR TALENTS)

Art is suppose to be shared, so here are my favourite ways to share photos with friends and family other than facebook: 

Instagram is an obvious starting point as it’s whole focus is sharing photos and you can have private account if you want to keep the photos just for you and your family. 

Google photos has the advantage of unlimited storage, and can be used as a method of gathering photos from an event or celebration as multiple people can upload to them. 

Amazon Photos is a personal favourite of mine and best for those who have far too many photos on the mobiles, as you can set it to auto back up (making one less thing for you to do!)If you have any phone photography hacks or smartphone photography tips you want to share, I’d love to hear from you.

With these tips, you should be able to take more beautiful pictures with your smartphone. However, the easiest way to improve your photography is not what we’ve talked about today – it’s practice! Practice taking photos and get feedback from others on which are successes and which need work. You can also check out our blog for other useful posts on how to make better social media content or marketing campaigns.

Have any of these methods been helpful in improving your own phone photography?

We want to know so please tag us @robynsacademy whenever you post a photo that you would like some feedback on, we can help give constructive criticism!!

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