How to Get a better Photo using iPhone
1. Clean your lens
Camera lens is very important for photographer. You can get a good picture without any blur if your camera lens is clean.
Normally you put your smartphone in your pocket or in your bag, it becomes dirty and the result will be blurry image.
So, the first place to start taking photo is to clean your smartphone's camera lens. Every-time you start taking photo, give a
quick wipe on your camera lens with your T-shirt but it's better if you can find glasses cleaning cloth to avoid scratching on your lens.
2. When to shoot in landscape or Portrait Mode
Landscape or Portrait modes is your choice. It is a choice to do with to make things difference. Some kind of picture are just suited
for landscape mode while others are fitted with portrait mode. Generally, before you decide to take photo you need to know what objects
do you want to visible in your picture. You can defined what to include and what to exclude. After all, you can make choice.
Once you decided if a certain kind of object is best with portrait or landscape, you can see the difference.
Landscape mode (Kampi resort, Kratie Province, Cambodia)
To conclude this, Portrait or Landscape mode doesn't matter if you know how to choose a best mode that suited to what you want. But you must be sure
to make decision. It doesn't mean all photos are suited to landscape or portrait mode all the time and it doesn't mean it bad at all but just not a great
image.
3. Avoid using flash
flashlight of smartphone is located very close to the lens, it can be a very nasty reflecting. if you turn flash mode on while your are taking picture,
you will get a very bad picture. You want your picture look natural but when you use flash mode, you will get a bad reflect to your lens that produce a image that
doesn't look natural. The best way to take the best pictures is in daylight. The gold hour to take the best pictures is in the morning between 6 to 9 o'clock and before sunset 1 hour.
The exception to this rule, if you really cannot avoid this, try to use flashlight to replace your smartphone flashlight.
4. Don't use zoom -EVER!
Digital zoom can destroy your smartphone photo. Your smartphone is not digital camera. it doesn't come with optical zoom like digital camera. So all zooming just
enlarge the picture and crop. So the quality of picture will be destroyed after you take a zoom picture.
The best way to take a long distance object without loss all the quality picture, just take it and go to edit function in your smart phone and crop it. You will see the difference.
But remember, smartphone camera doesn't come with optical zoom so don't expect too much on crop function unless your are using Samsung Galaxy k zoom, S4 zoom or other smartphone devices
that come with digital zoom.
5. The rule of Third
To get a great look composition of image, you must enable Grid in your smartphone device. The rule of third is a simplest rule for photography and also the most important rule for photographer to know.
The idea is our eyes is attracted to the image that divided into third and the subject is not in the center. it slightly off-center to the left or right. Normally, your object should be at the intersection of
horizontal and vertical line. it should not in the middle unless you are taking a symmetry picture.
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