10 Tips to Improve Mobile Phone Photos | Mobile Photography Tips

 

We are living in a period where 'intermingling' is all over. Days are gone when a camera was a camera, a MP3 player was a MP3 player, and a telephone was a telephone.

Nowadays, computerized cameras are found in an assortment of different devices – including cell phones. And Mobile Photography is spreading day by day. Truth be told Camera Phones are one of the quickest developing portions of the computerized camera market and with the upgrades in the nature of what is being offered in certain mobile phones (higher megapixels, better focal points, high capacity of storage) some accept that they are starting to win piece of the pie away from the low end contributions of numerous advanced camera producers. Our present survey on 'take anyplace cameras' uncovers that a large number of you are utilizing camera telephones consistently.

 

Shockingly a large number of the photos being taken with Camera Phones are poor in quality. This may in part be an aftereffect of lower quality cameras – yet it is additionally normal a consequence of poor photographic technique.

 

1.   Take Your Subject into Light

The better lit your subject is the clearer your picture is probably going to be. try to shoot outside or turn on lights when shooting inside. In case you're turning on lights in a space to add additional light to your shot, know that artificial light effects the shading and colors in your shots and you might play with white balance while editing the shots later.
 
A few cameras come with a built in flash or light – this can truly lift a shot and add clarity to it, regardless of whether you're shooting outside (it could be said it turns into a fill flash). On the off chance that your camera doesn't have a flash light you should try not to shoot into super lights as you'll end up with subjects that are silhouetted.

2.   Try Get Closer to The Subject

Perhaps the most well-known mistakes with mobile camera pictures is that their subject seems to be a tiny, unrecognizable object it looks. Camera phone pictures will in general be little because of low resolution lenses and pixels (and this is changing) – so always try to avoid using the zoom onto subject because it ruins the pixels and quality of the image.

 

Having said this, getting excessively close on some models of mobile cameras make distortion and focus issues. (while some mobile cameras have micro lenses to shot closer).

3.   Keep The Camera Still

Likewise, with all digital photography, the more consistent your camera phone is when making your effort the clearer your picture will be.

 This is particularly significant in low light conditions where the camera will choose longer shutter speed to make up for the absence of light. One way is to lean your mobile phone (or the hand holding it) against a strong item (like a tree, any wall, or edge) when making efforts.

 Remember that numerous camera phones experience the ill effects of 'screen slack' or shutter lag'' (ie the time between when you press the shutter and when the camera took a shot). This implies you need to keep the camera still to make sure that the shot has been taken completely and fall into gallery.

4.   Edit Your Photos

Taking shots using the mobile camera is fun, but the great fun is to edit your images later on a device like mobile itself or a laptop using any photo editing software.

You can use your mobile phone’s built in photo editor applying effects and adjusting colors, but many mind blowing and professional 3^rd party apps are out there that prominent Photographers use to edit their shots you can also them use to edit your images professionally.

Tip: Always use photo editors to make small edits and little adjustments to colors that are required (over affects and color adjustments such as brightness and vibrance may result in quality loss and high grains).

Best Editing Apps: Best Mobile Photo Editing Apps

5.   Try not to use the Digital Zoom

Most of the people like to take photos using the Digital Zoom on their mobile phones that ends up with a pixelated shot and low quality image. The best way is to get closer to the subject as we discussed above, but in some cases it’s hard to get closer but necessary to shot closer also, you the solution is external optical lenses you can buy and take your shots to the next level.

And some latest mobile phones have built in Optical Lenses” that is a great thing, you can take closer shots without getting much closer to the subject or using the Digital lens. For example, iPhone have Optical lenses in a range after iPhone 7Plus.

 6. Try the White Balance

Almost all the camera phones come with the white balance presets to adjust the indoor and outdoor white balance of the image on ambient conditions. You must try the white balance in settings of your mobile camera surely it will help you to improve the way of Digital Photography.

The White Balance presets are:

• Auto
• Incandescent (Light Bulb)
• Fluorescent (Glowing Tube)
• Direct Sunlight (Sun)
• Flash (Lightning Bolt)
• Cloudy
• Shade
• Choose Color Temperature
• Preset 

7. Take multiple shots to choose best

Here’s a best ever tip in Mobile Photography is to improve your photography skills or enhance the shots you have taken is to never forget to take multiple shots, means take more than one or two shots of the same object/scene because different angles and movements of the subject matters. When you take multiple shots you may be able to choose the best one among them and there’ll be no chance to regret that you haven’t captured the best moment.

Shots are better when you try different angles like down low, up high and close etc.

 8. Follow the Composition Rules

There’re few rules regarding composition like Rule of Thirds” like Keeping the subject in the center, position the eyes in portraits, position the Horizons in the Landscapes etc.

It will help you to take best shots and improving the angles.

9. Keep The Lens Clean

One of the most challenging thing is to keep the mobile and mobile camera lens cleaner, our mobile phones are mostly in the pockets or in hands or sometimes on tables so the lens of the mobile camera is usually stained and there’re fingerprints on the lens. So the first and most important thing is to keep the lens clean because cleaner lens can shoot the clear pictures and maintains the colors of the image.

You can use the lens covers to keep the lens clean or the easy way is to keep a piece of soft cloth like the sunglass cleaner to wipe the lens every time you want to take a picture.

10. Choose the highest resolution on your camera phone

Most of the mobile phones allows the users to select from the different resolutions from the camera app. Always remember that higher you choose the resolution clearer the image will be, so you must use the higher resolution. But keep in mind the higher resolution (Recommended) means the higher image size that may take a bit longer to send the images to someone.

Tip: To Choose between the resolutions on iPhone Go To Setting > Camera ( At the end) then select the resolution for your Video.

In Android you can change the resolution from the top right corner (mostly) in Camera App.