Six principles to be mastered in mobile phone photography

1, develop your posture and habit of holding your mobile phone.

Why should we put this in the first place, because we often take out our mobile phones and shoot them hastily; After filming, I found that the film was burnt or turned into a ghostly photo. These reasons may be related to your posture and habit of holding the machine.

So pay attention to control your gestures and shooting time; The stability of gestures will affect the quality of photos just like a professional photographer holding a SLR camera. This difference is really big. There is still a big gap between people who have a good habit of taking pictures with their mobile phones and those who like to take pictures at will. Just like we write with a pen, whether you write well or not depends entirely on the control of posture and method when you first learn to write. Therefore, once good hand posture becomes a habit, we will naturally take pictures with the correct posture when taking pictures. This will not cause us to be in a hurry when we meet a good shooting opportunity. You can take the photos you want calmly, stably and in the best condition.

According to the experience of holding mobile phones compiled by several teachers, it can be roughly divided into three types. If you are interested, you can try to practice and develop a good habit of holding a mobile phone.

When the phone is swiped sideways, we hold the phone with both hands and turn on the photo function. The left hand can refer to the posture in the picture below, freeing the thumb of the right hand to control the focus, exposure and various more professional functions of the mobile phone screen.

With the horizontal racket, and of course the vertical racket. At this time, the left hand can hold the mobile phone tightly, and the right hand can gently lean on the palm of your hand, so that the thumb of the right hand can operate the function of the mobile phone camera.

There is also a third technique about snapping pictures. Sometimes we have no time to hesitate and think when we meet a good shooting opportunity. Such an emergency requires you to quickly start the camera function of your mobile phone. Therefore, when our mobile phones are put in our pockets or on the table, under normal circumstances, the mobile phones will be locked. Therefore, when you find an opportunity and need to take it out in the shortest time, you need a correct posture to take out your mobile phone.

At the same time, you need to master the skills of how to turn on the camera function after setting the password. For example, some mobile phones slide to the left on the edge of the screen, and some mobile phones, such as VIVO mobile phones, can directly turn on the camera function of the mobile phone by sliding on the right edge of the screen. Take out your mobile phone and see how to quickly turn on the camera function. This function can generally turn on the camera function of the mobile phone in less than 2 seconds after getting into the habit. It can fully meet your needs for capturing photos.

The way to take pictures is different according to the settings of mobile phone manufacturers, and the way to open them is also different. You can try one-handed operation or two-handed quick cooperation.

2. Ensure the stability and level of the mobile phone.

This is the same as the requirements of professional photographic equipment. At any time, we should get into the habit of keeping our mobile phone level and fairly stable. Only in this way can we ensure the premise of taking good photos; When we begin to learn photography, don't think about those inexplicable skewed "innovations"; Because you are not a "master"; Without a star aura, you can't write a word like a calligraphy master and become a bag. Instead, you should put the phone straight and keep it in a horizontal and vertical state. And take the necessary scenes down-to-earth. This point has been mentioned many times in my professional photography course. Of course, the posture of holding the mobile phone is not static, and it can be done according to your own habits, but you must ensure the stability and effect of shooting.

Remember that you should always check and clean the lens of your mobile phone.

I had this problem at the beginning; In a mobile phone photo shoot, I saw a beautiful sunset and wanted to pick up my mobile phone and take it. It turns out that the photo is weird like a fuzzy mask. At that time, I didn't think it was caused by the dirty lens. I thought the function of the mobile phone was not working, or something was wrong. As a result, when I got home, I tried my mobile phone again, and I accidentally found that the lens of the mobile phone was covered with dust.

After cleaning, I found that everything was clear. But unfortunately, I lost a chance to take a good photo. You can wipe the dust off the palm lens with a paper towel or eraser. This is very important. When you can't make a good work, this problem will often become an invisible killer. Even if there are fingerprints, wipe them off. Because there is a high probability of lens halo when taking a mobile phone lens with fingerprints. If there are lights in the photo scene, this glare will be infinitely magnified, even across the whole composition, which will be devastating to the photo effect.

You need to know the lens characteristics of your mobile phone camera.

When I communicate with my offline classmates, I always tell them that whether taking pictures with a mobile phone or a camera, we should understand the characteristics of the lens. What are the characteristics of a lens? It is the focal length and aperture.

Mobile phones are no exception, and we also need to know the lens characteristics on mobile phones. When I was talking to some teachers, I talked about a word called "use zoom carefully". Fortunately, because of the development of mobile phones, many mobile phone manufacturers have developed their lenses to the point where mobile phones can have two or three lenses or more lenses. What we need to recognize is that the division of labor of these shots is different. Some lenses only care about color and pixels, some lenses only care about focal length, and some lenses only deal with the blurring algorithm of target background.

5. Use the flash carefully

Statistics show that the flash of the mobile phone camera is the weakness of the photography function of various brands of mobile phones. In most cases, the photos of the built-in flash of mobile phones are mostly blunt, which only plays the role of "the most violent fill light", far from "lighting". In professional photography technology, the use of flash, spotlight and natural light complement each other, which is very skillful and not suitable for the positioning of mobile phone photography. So in most cases, I suggest my friends turn off the automatic flash button for taking pictures on their mobile phones. Enjoy the world created by natural light and scene light.

At the same time, remember to turn off the flash when taking pictures, or others will know that you are taking pictures and you will look dirty.

6. Mobile photography, like professional photography, should be as simple as possible at the beginning of learning.

This will make it easier for you to start and get affirmation. You can express your shooting theme through simple shooting style. This is more specific and prominent. Therefore, I have always advised many novices to follow the principle of "less is more" when starting shooting.