What have you learned from improving your mobile phone photography?

With the development of science and technology, the camera function of smart phones is more and more advanced, which can meet the daily shooting needs. When using mobile phones to take pictures, we should pay attention to the characteristics and advantages of mobile phone photography, and there is no need to blindly compare with cameras. Here are my four little experiences for your reference.

1, getting started quickly

One of the characteristics of mobile phone photography is that it is convenient to capture. When you see children playing happily, when you see wonderful moments in the street, the mobile phone can quickly capture this picture. The trick is to use quick start. In the lock screen interface, most smartphones can open the camera with one button, some slide up, some slide to the left, and there will be a prompt for the camera logo. If you are familiar with the mobile phone, you can turn on the camera when you take it out of your pocket, which can be said to be a wonderful moment.

2, the correct setting

It is necessary to set the camera function correctly in advance to avoid accidental hitting when sharpening the knife. Time watermark can mark the shooting time on the photo. If it is not opened, the photo itself will also have recording time information, which you can choose according to your own preferences. The reference line is a cross-shaped grid line. It is recommended to open it, which can assist composition, such as the commonly used golden section method and the three-point line method. The photo frame can be 4:3, 16:9 or 1: 1, and the common ratio is 4:3, leaving room for later cutting; If you want to exercise your composition ability in early shooting, you can choose the ratio of 1: 1. Of course, photo quality is the highest choice. Contrast, saturation, sharpness, etc., it is recommended to use the default standards, because it is not recommended to process the photos too much in the early stage of shooting, but to process them after shooting to keep more information of the photos.

3. Manual exposure

By default, mobile phone photography is automatic exposure, but in some special lighting environments, automatic exposure can't produce ideal results, so manual exposure can be used at this time. Take the iPhone as an example. When shooting, click on different positions between light and dark (the clicking positions are focusing and metering), and the automatic exposure of the picture will also change. After clicking a position, you can also slide the small sun to manually adjust the exposure (some Android phones are rotating), which can get the most ideal effect.

As shown in the figure: The picture on the left is to click the brightest position in the picture for photometric shooting, but the picture is still not ideal; The picture on the right shows that after clicking, the sun is manually exposed and the brightness is reduced, and the perfect silhouette effect is taken.

4, manual focus

Sometimes when I see the blurred lighting effect, I wonder how to shoot with my mobile phone. In fact, it is also very simple, just focus manually. There is no such function on the mobile phone, and it needs "curve to save the country". First focus on the close range and press the lock, then move the lens to the far range to shoot, and then manually adjust the exposure appropriately. As shown in the picture, it is the effect of focusing on the nearby window frame first, and then moving the lens to shoot the distant city.

If you take clear and blurred photos at close range, you can use similar techniques. However, sometimes there is no place to focus nearby, or the nearby objects are too small to focus successfully. What should I do? It's also very simple. You can put your hand where you want to focus, then focus on your palm and lock it. Finally, take your hands off and shoot. This is the operation as shown in the figure.

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