How to take good-looking photos with your mobile phone

Lead: As a lover who has always been interested in taking pictures, I have always been a staunch supporter of professional equipment. I firmly believe that? Only release SLR? I changed my iPhone4 a few years ago, and then I used a lot of photography apps. I found that the mobile phone will replace the card camera as the first choice for everyone to take pictures, not only because we carry it with us every day, but also because the technological progress of the mobile phone camera in recent years is not comparable to that in the 5 megapixel era, plus for example? Snapseed？ This kind of App, the mobile phone is completely done? Give birth to a dragon? Even if you don't have too many advanced photography skills, you can take amazing photos, which is also the charm of taking photos with mobile phones.

How to take good-looking photos with mobile phones?

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As a lover who has always been interested in taking pictures, I have always been a staunch supporter of professional equipment. I firmly believe that? Only release SLR? I changed my iPhone4 a few years ago, and then I used a lot of photography apps. I found that the mobile phone will replace the card camera as the first choice for everyone to take pictures, not only because we carry it with us every day, but also because the technological progress of the mobile phone camera in recent years is not comparable to that in the 5 megapixel era, plus for example? Snapseed？ This kind of App, the mobile phone is completely done? Give birth to a dragon? Even if you don't have too many advanced photography skills, you can take amazing photos, which is also the charm of taking photos with mobile phones.

So, how to get started with mobile photography? Let's talk about the shooting interface of the mobile phone itself.

1, getting started

This? Getting started? Not that? Getting started? .

Here? Getting started? It means, for example, turning on the camera of the mobile phone. Don't laugh! For mobile phones, the way to turn on the camera directly is to directly click on the desktop? Camera? Icon starts the camera shooting, that's right. However, if the mobile phone is in the black screen sleep or lock screen mode, how to quickly turn on the camera to shoot?

Nowadays, many mobile phones have set up shortcut keys to quickly enter the camera shooting mode under the screen lock interface. Like one? Camera? Icon, slide the screen up directly from here and turn on the camera of iPhone to shoot, without going through the process of unlocking the phone. In addition to Apple's iPhone, many Android phones also include the functions of locking the screen and quickly turning on the camera. Even some Android phones have shutter buttons, such as Sony's Xperia series, which can wake up the phone to enter the shooting state by pressing the shutter button directly.

Quickly turn on the phone shooting function, which is very suitable for snapshots. After all, for photography, many moments are fleeting, so it is obviously more important to be able to take pictures quickly on behalf of the camera of the mobile phone.

Shortcut shooting is very convenient, but it also has an inherent disadvantage, that is, it can only preview and view the photos taken after the shortcut enters the camera. This is to prevent others from accessing mobile phone content through camera shortcuts, which is a privacy protection measure. If you want to see more photos, you still need to unlock your phone to view them.

2. Try different shooting modes.

With the improvement of the pixel of mobile phone camera, the shooting function of mobile phone is gradually improved, so it is very important to understand the function of shooting interface, try different shooting modes and find your favorite shooting mode before taking pictures with mobile phone.

Apple's iPhone shooting interface has always been simple, but since iOS8, Apple has added exposure compensation function while focusing and metering. You can increase or decrease the exposure by sliding the screen up and down while focusing. This is a very practical function that can help you take more accurate exposure photos. In addition, the shooting modes of iPhone include live shooting, HDR mode, panoramic shooting mode, filter mode, 1: 1 frame mode, etc., which can help you shoot excellent mobile phone photography works in different environments.

There are many mobile phone brands using Android, so the shooting interface has also greatly improved the camera of the native Andorid system. For example, many mobile phones have professional shooting mode, which can manually control focus, sensitivity, exposure compensation, shutter speed, white balance and so on. These functions are moving closer to the professional functions of the camera, and the control is more professional. For photographers, it can fully meet the needs. For ordinary users, the shooting mode in Andorid mobile phone includes most scenes that are usually shot, such as portraits, styles, night scenes, sports and so on. Reasonable use can also take beautiful photos of mobile phones.

3, clean the phone lens

Have you ever encountered a situation where the photos taken with your mobile phone are always unclear, look poor in quality, or have fog in the backlight? This is caused by fingerprints, grease or other dirt on the phone lens. Therefore, before taking photos with the mobile phone, you can wipe the lens surface with a soft cloth, and then clean the lens before shooting, so as to ensure that the photos taken by the mobile phone can get the best picture quality.

4. Select the focus and control the exposure.

The camera should mainly take pictures, and it is more important to take pictures with mobile phones.

See the above words, you think I'm joking, I don't know how to take pictures of the focus! What I want to say is that I really know a lot of people, and I don't know that mobile phones need to focus when taking pictures.

By default, when taking pictures, the phone will focus on the point in the center of the screen and measure the light, so if you want to focus on the subject, you need to control it manually. The control of focusing is very simple when the mobile phone takes pictures. Click on the screen when taking pictures to complete the focusing action.

It should be noted that the focus of the mobile phone and the metering point are generally linked, that is, the focus of the mobile phone only measures the metering point at the same time, which leads the mobile phone metering algorithm to think that the photographer is in a dark environment, so it will brighten the whole photo and lead to overexposure of the photo. But when you choose a brighter position for the focus, such as white, the whole photo will be underexposed. This is an unavoidable problem in mobile phone photography, which is why some third-party photography apps or some manufacturers have added focusing and exposure separation functions to their mobile phone photography functions to avoid overexposure and underexposure caused by the above situation.

So, my mobile phone doesn't focus and separate light, so it can't take accurate photos under special light?

Of course not. Now mobile phones have built-in exposure compensation function, such as Apple's iPhone, which can slide beside the focus frame when focusing? Vertical line? To control the exposure compensation. Andorid mobile phone has built-in exposure compensation control method similar to camera, which can pass the most direct? White plus black minus? Methods Using exposure compensation, the photos with accurate exposure were obtained directly.

5. Don't use digital zoom.

I often see people taking pictures with their mobile phones in the street. In order to enlarge the scene, they shot directly with digital zoom. When I saw the use of digital zoom, I knew the photo was finished.

The zoom of mobile phone lens is digital zoom, which is essentially different from optical zoom. Digital zoom usually magnifies a certain position in a photo and then cuts out the useless pixels in the photo. Therefore, when the digital zoom photo is enlarged by 100%, the detail loss is very serious, and the overall image quality is very poor, all of which are caused by digital zoom amplification.

Mobile phone lenses are all fixed-focus, and the focal length is generally between 25 mm and 30 mm (equivalent to 35mm), so taking pictures with mobile phones needs to follow the secret of fixed-focus shooting, that is? Zoom in. Going? , pass? Manual method? The work of changing the focal length.

6, keep the phone stable

It is very important to keep the phone stable, especially when shooting at night or in dark environment. Because when shooting at night or in dark environment, the mobile phone will automatically slow down in order to get normal exposure, so it is necessary to keep the mobile phone stable, and slight jitter will have a serious impact on the final shooting result (unless you have a pair of iron hands).

At present, many mobile phone lenses have anti-shake function, which can effectively reduce the impact of jitter on imaging, but this can not completely guarantee that the image impact caused by jitter can be completely eliminated when shooting at night or in dark light. Therefore, if possible, you can use a small mobile phone tripod to fix the mobile phone for shooting, and you can set a mobile phone timer when shooting, such as counting down for 3 seconds or 5 seconds to shoot, so as to avoid the influence of jitter on the picture.