13 Tips for Camera Phone Use


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Phone-cams are crappy at taking photos, I agree. But I would have to admit that having a camera on your phone sure is handy, especially for those times you don’t have your real digicam on hand. You never know when you’ll have that perfect photo-worthy moment. So it’s either you bring your digicam everywhere you go (get an ultra-portable one for this purpose) or you use your trusty phone-cam. Digital Photography School gives us 13 tips on how to shoot better with a camera phone. A summary:

  1. Adequate light
  2. Get closer
  3. Keep still
  4. Post-process images
  5. Don’t delete “mistakes”
  6. Don’t use digital zoom (yes, it’s just cropping and zooming after all)
  7. Experiment with white balance
  8. Experiment and take lots of shots (in any case, even pro photographers would tell you that the “usable” shots only constitute a fraction of the total shots in a photoshoot)
  9. Follow the rules of composition (and get to break them, too)
  10. Keep the lens clean
  11. Observe cam-phone etiquette
  12. Rename the images
  13. Use the highest resolution

In short, it’s all about technique. The most important photography tool after all is having great imagination!

I’ve been using phone-cams even before I got my first real digital camera, and I can say many of the tips are pretty much intuitive, especially for one who understands photography and the technology involved in digital cameras. But these days I try to bring along my digicam almost everywhere–hey, digicams have grown smaller and smaller and I guess there’s no reason not to carry them around anymore. I usually use my phonecam in those instances that call for being discreet while taking snapshots.

July 24th, 2006 Posted by J. Angelo Racoma in Camera Phone, Tips and Tricks at 7:02 am Comment Now! »
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