Quick Cell Pics

*shot on mirrorless* When it comes down to it the guide posts I made for this are not the 'be-all-end-all' for what cell phone photography is.   I really do enjoy taking pictures on so many mediums, but really at the end of the day the best camera is the one in your hands.   Just sticking to what is most easiest for you.  For me and most all of us, our cell phones are what is the easiest and most reliable.  Just remember a few of the guidelines I have pointed out for you.   1) turn your grids on, you will see better pictures happen.  This rule/ piece of advice I kind of equate to when we started learning to color.  Our coloring books became better when we started coloring inside the lines.  The same can be said for using our grids.  You can see a better image or see what you want to see when you can see your lines. 2) Finding a subject is not easy.  Although, most of us just see thing(s) that ...

*shot on Android* The last part of this quick guide to better cell phone images in my humble opinion is a lesson in zoom and candids. First part, I do not believe that a big zoom lens is ever needed.  Or even zoom on a cell phone should be used.  The reason for that is as follows: it decreases the quality of the image.  Plain and simple if you have to pinch to zoom you will lose actual pixel quality in a image.  This results in a softer picture, it will not be as sharp as you may like it to be.  This takes away a lot.  I get that for the most part you zoom because you are not close to the subject.  However, the better alternative to this is just moving your feet.  Like before, perspective adds a lot to an image.  Moving your feet to get closer to the subject also helps you creatively too. Creativity is at times able to be measured and other times not. This distance however can be seen.  Moving yourself closer makes better pict...

When it comes down to it symmetry is nice.  Our brains naturally look for patterns, and when those patterns mirror one another they add so much more.  Simple and clean but for the most part not always easy to pull off.  Reflections are another part of this that I wanted to add.  Albeit in a mirror reflection or just a puddle, I believe with a cell phone you can capture symmetrical images more often than not.   *shot on Android * *shot on Android* Or even finding a hallway, hallways are a great little place we all travel through.  Same on both sides typically, and just easy to capture.  Another big part of symmetry is to just see the sky in a puddle or just off a car.  Still, it makes a great opportunity to just play with your cell phone.  Cell phones see roughly what we see in our own field of vision & a tad bit more.   What is nice about symmetry is the ability to see the half image in another half of the ima...

*shot on iPhone* Perspective. That is how people see the image they are about to take.   A bit simple, but for us it works in this quick guide for better cell phone pictures. The whole of a picture depends on the image's perspective.  A portrait of a person should usually be take on head on and focused on the eyes. However, changing up the perspective you can add much more emotion from the image.   *shot on 35mm film * Like from downwards and up to the subject you make the person look bigger and have that much more of a presence in the image.   Something like this black and white example is good to show how the image becomes more serious when we look up at the subject. *shot on mirrorless camera * Next, in this quick tips we are gonna point out what is called leading lines.  Leading lines are vitally important because they help tell a better story for the image.  When taking pictures the can be physically there...

Now the focus on a cell phone is quicker and much easier than it was decades ago.  Before, you had to run the focus ring on  a lens or just turn a few bits here and there, but now it is as easy as touching the picture where you want to keep focus.  To begin, focus is just the sharp parts of an image.  Some parts are blurry but what you want the picture to be should be in focus and sharp: that is your subject.  Out of focus is for the most part very unappealing and distracts from your images as a whole.  The subject of so many is usually a person, animal, object, or landscape for most of us.  I know many of us take pictures of our families, and those precious moments are important.  Why ruin the moment by taking a sloppy picture that is out of focus.  Although, depending on what the subject is it can be tedious taking a picture of kids running all over the house, but not impossible.   When you know what you want to capture yo...

When it comes down to the basics, remember that even professionals still employee the fundamentals.  The biggest thing that I try to have people do when they want to take better cell phone pictures is turn on their grid lines.   *shot on iphone* Grid lines are vitally important because they help the image be just 'that much' better.  The point of using the grid is it helps to make a better composition.  The image as a whole does not have to be a masterpiece but it can be better when the right amount of a person, animal, building, or subject is inside the image. Grid lines are a nice touch to the working process when making/taking pictures. For the most part after the grids get turned on you want to make sure that at least 2/3rds of the subject matter, or what you are wanting to capture is inside those squares. The biggest thing to taking better cell phone pictures is that turning on the grid will just make this process quicker. ...

* Cellphone Selfie take on 35mm Film * Alrighty, this is going to be a quick run down to taking quick snapshots on your cell phone. >All of the images on this blog are my own<  To start I started taking pictures as a little guy.  I was roughly 5 years old when I used to play with my old man's Polaroid camera. fast forward a few years, my family got a tiny digital camera, but I was not allowed to play with it. Back then it seemed like the digital camera was quite expensive and it took a few more buttons than a Polaroid. Which is nice because now cameras are much cheaper than before. Eventually, fast forward to the rest of the cell phone centric world... I got my first iPhone. With that I took tons of pictures. Eventually, I saved enough money to take better pictures on a mirrorless camera with interchangeable lens. I felt like I made it and I started taking all sorts of pictures. Wildlife at first, then senior pictures, weddings, quinceaneras, and other events ...