What is mobile photography ?
Anyone can pick up a Phone and take a photo, but it need more skill for a photographer to create a truly great image. Now a days people are getting a smart phone which can take photo in portrait mode. In today's world any one can taking incredible photos with smart Phone, if actual they follow some important guidelines like focus, exposure, composition and photo editing.
Important Technique to follow in Mobile Photography
We can say the Technique can be divided two way
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After Capturing Photo
Before Capturing Photo
Things to be keep on mind before capturing photos are
Lens
There’s no use of taking photos if the lens glass is dirty. The light gets blocked from entering the camera’s sensor and will leave smudges, blurs or dust sports on images. So always have a cloth with you, so that you can clean your lens before you capture.
Focus
The most important thing to look out for when you Capture a photo is to make sure that your subject is in sharp focus. To set the focus on the Phone camera you simply tap the screen where your subject is in the frame.
If your subject is moving around, make sure you tap the screen just before you take the shot to ensure that they are in focus.
Exposure
In photography, exposure is the amount of light which reaches your camera sensor or film. A lot of modern Android smartphones now have manual controls built into their camera apps. Tap the subject on the screen to focus on them, the camera will also use the focus point to set the exposure in the screen.
When you set the focus by tapping the screen, a small round icon appears on the side of the focus square. When you see the round icon, simply swipe up or down on the screen to adjust the exposure slider.
Swiping up will brighten the overall image, and swiping down will darken it. When you’re happy with the exposure/brightness of the image, release your finger from the screen. This manual exposure slider allows for much greater control over the look of the final image. But doing this can lead to lot of grains in the photo.
Zoom
The Phone has a zoom function which you can access by stretching two fingers on the screen. This brings up a zoom slider which you can slide with your finger to zoom in and zoom out and get a closer view of your subject until you satisfied with it. Unfortunately this is a digital zoom and not an optical zoom, what happens with a digital zoom is that the image is cropped as you zoom in. Which can cause image quality degradation. If you want to take a photo of a faraway subject, don’t use the zoom. Walk closer instead and use the camera as normal without any zoom. You’ll end up with a far better quality shot. Alternatively you can crop the image yourself in the editing process to bring the viewer closer to your subject. Cropping afterwards gives you more control over how much of the image you want to remove.
Camera Steady
Keeping the Phone steady is even more important when you are shooting a video. Let’s start by looking at my two favorite ways of holding the Phone.
• DSLR Way
• Smartphone Way
DSLR Way
This is the most intuitive way to hold your Phone, and convenient in most cases. Since you can use the volume buttons for taking a photo, it really feels like you’re holding a real DSLR camera. However, there are also problems with holding the Phone like this. Even though it feels very stable, in fact your hands will probably be shaking as you’re holding Phone in front of you. And as you press the button, which is the most important moment of all, your phone will also move along with it. Keeping your elbows close to your body will reduce shake. I often choose to hold my Phone like a regular DSLR way, you can try to reduce hand shaking by twisting the Phone in opposite directions from each end, but that isn’t comfortable for long periods of time.
Smartphone Way
One of the best ways to hold your iPhone is with one hand, as shown in the photo below.
In order to do this, you want to keep your index finger along the top of your iPhone, your pinky along the bottom, and the other two fingers on the back of your iPhone. This leaves your thumb free for pressing the shutter and adjusting the focus and exposure. Keeping your elbows close to your body will reduce shake. If you are right handed, the volume buttons are naturally facing down this way, so you don’t have to worry about your photos and videos being upside down when you copy them to a computer.