Recently updated on January 17th, 2020 at 11:04 pm
Smart phones are probably used for lots of other things besides making phone calls these days. One of those is of course the camera function and the quality of photos you can take with the latest smart phone models are pretty high end. And if you use our smart phone photography tips, your friends and family will really be wowed when you show them your pictures of your next holiday.
#1 Get higher
Get a different angle on your subject and take your picture from a higher position than eye level. Try to see if you can hold your camera higher, climb stairs, stand on a wall or on anything that gives you a higher vantage point than the object or person you want to capture.
#2 Get lower
Pretty much the same principle as the previous tip: changing your vantage point gives you a completely different perspective of your subject and will make your picture look a little bit more interesting than when you take it standing in front of your subject and snap away.
#3 Get closer
Don’t use the zoom on your smart phone, because you’ll end up with a lot of fuzz and noise on your picture. Either get closer to what you want to photograph or just take the picture and zoom in with your preferred editing app which I will explain more in point five. If that still doesn’t give you the wanted result, you could also attach a fish eye, macro or wide angle lens to your phone camera. Check out www.photojojo.com for these.
#4 Get cleaner
Get rid of any messiness that is lingering in the background of your subject. Get rid of anything that might make your picture too busy. Just move around a little and see whether you can shoot your picture from an angle that will place your subject in front of a clean background. It will make your picture a lot less noisy.
#5 Get apps
There are loads of applications you can download on your smart phone that will make your picture look even more fabulous than it already is. Snapseed is a very easy to use phone application and you can crop, and shop your image to look a bit more pro and a bit less like a holiday snap. Google-owned Picasa is a good desktop application for editing your pictures. Of course there is always Instagram which, besides its filter function, has great editing functions.