HOW TO CAPTURE BEAUTIFULL PICTURE FROM YOUR MOBILE PHONE
Most of the phones nowadays come with fairly cool cameras. Even the
relatively affordable smartphones like the Moto G4 Plus and the Xiaomi
Redmi Note 3 pack in stellar cameras. Then there is the usage. Most of
the photos clicked with smartphones are used on sites like Facebook,
Instagram and Twitter, sites that mostly host low-resolution photos.
Hence, even if your phone's camera can't match the performance of the
DSLR camera, that is fine. You anyway don't need that kind of
performance. However, what you do need is a little bit of extra care
while clicking your photos.
Now, there are a number of things you can do to ensure that the photos
that you take out of your phone are nice enough to get some cool likes
on Instagram or Twitter. But here are five tips that are easy to follow
and easier to apply. Just use them and you will see that the photos you
are clicking with your phone are better and sharper.
Touch to focus
Phone cameras nowadays come with auto focus feature. This means as soon
as a phone sees a face in the photo or an object that has enough
contrast to standout in the frame, it will focus on that. this will
ensure that your subject is right in the focus. But just like every
other thing auto, the auto focus too may miss out the big picture. So,
it is always prudent to tap on the area of the frame that you want
sharpest in the photo. As soon as you touch an area in the frame, the
camera will refocus. This trick works particularly great for macro
photos.
Keep it steady
Holding the phone steady is the single biggest method to get better photos from your phone. Although the phone companies make big claims about how fast the cameras are in their phones, in reality it is different. The phone cameras, even those in the high-end phones are slow compared to regular cameras. Some are slow to focus while others have slower shutter speed. Also depending on how much light is in the scene, the phone camera may automatically reduce the shutter speed significantly to capture more light. So, it is a good idea to keep the phone steady and aimed at the scene for an extra second or two while clicking photos. Even after the phone shows that the photo has been clicked, keep it steady for 2 more seconds, particularly while shooting low-light scenes. This will increase your chances of getting sharply-focussed photos.
Holding the phone steady is the single biggest method to get better photos from your phone. Although the phone companies make big claims about how fast the cameras are in their phones, in reality it is different. The phone cameras, even those in the high-end phones are slow compared to regular cameras. Some are slow to focus while others have slower shutter speed. Also depending on how much light is in the scene, the phone camera may automatically reduce the shutter speed significantly to capture more light. So, it is a good idea to keep the phone steady and aimed at the scene for an extra second or two while clicking photos. Even after the phone shows that the photo has been clicked, keep it steady for 2 more seconds, particularly while shooting low-light scenes. This will increase your chances of getting sharply-focussed photos.
One of the coolest things about smartphones cameras -- something that
you don't get even with DSLR cameras -- is the ability to set exposure
in a very easy way. Exposure means how much light the camera is going to
capture and for good photos it has to be optimal, which means neither
more, nor less. Usually, phones set the exposure automatically. But this
they do after calculating the light in the entire scene. What if you
are clicking a lit signboard on a Friday evening in your favourite pub
or a chocolate cake, which is dark brown, on a white table? In these
cases, tap on the part of the screen where the subject is located. This
will tell the phone to recalculate exposure on the basis of the main
subject. See the image above for example. In this scene, the Nexus 6P
originally calculated exposure for the whole scene. It saw there was
very little light in the scene so it bumped exposure and in the process
overexposed the signboard. Tapping on the signboard, however, told it
only that particular area of the scene mattered. So, it then re-exposed.
The whole image got darker but then the signboard was exposed
perfectly.
Good photos have a sort of symmetry to them, some cohesiveness. So, take
a look at the scene you are clicking and frame it in a way that makes
it look good before you click the image. Now, composing is something
that every photographer is going to do differently. This is the creative
part in photography. But there are some simple rules that you can use.
One of these rules is that you should get up-close, specially for macro
photos or portraits. The idea is to fill the frame with subject. Second
is avoid capturing too many elements. No clutter in images. Try to
ensure that the subject or subjects in your photo stand out. Third is
some degree of wholeness, symmetry. The image should feel complete, with
no element cut abruptly, although, if you are following some
geometrical lines, you can use them to fit in parts of the elements that
are otherwise too big to come in the image (see the example above).
Use HDR
Although phone makers are still figuring out how to implement HDR mode
properly, if you have a phone like the Nexus, which has an excellent HDR
mode, you should use that. HDR mode often gives better contrast in
images as well as may help you click usable photos in low light. Most of
the high-end phones come with auto-HDR mode. Usually, you should leave
it at default. But in case, the auto HDR mode is not there in your
phone, toggle it manually every time you are shooting low light or
high-contrast scenes (sunset for example).
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