How to teach yourself mobile phone photography

No matter what you learn, you start with the basics. After all, "you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry."

Therefore, our mobile phone photography also starts from the basic operation, and we must have a certain grasp of equipment, focusing, exposure, shooting mode and common shooting methods.

1, familiar with the equipment

You need to know the basic shooting interface, function, lens focal length and performance under backlight. There may be some subtle differences in the performance of mobile phones of various brands.

In addition, you should also use mobile phone photography accessories, such as tripods, external lenses and other equipment.

2. Focus and exposure

Accurate focusing is the basis of taking any photo. It is the most basic and necessary to know how to use the metering point to control the exposure and exposure compensation of the picture and shoot the photo effects such as focus chasing and virtual focus.

3. Shooting mode

Nowadays, the shooting function of mobile phones is becoming more and more powerful, and there are more and more modes, such as super night scene, streamer shutter, slow door and so on.

Most notably, most mobile phones have a professional mode, which can adjust the sensitivity (iso), shutter speed, white balance and focus mode.

You need to know these parameters, and you also need to know if the professional mode is switched to use.

4. Shooting skills

Shooting skills commonly used in the basic shooting operation of mobile phones, such as panoramic mode, macro photography, slow door photography, time-lapse photography, slow motion and so on.

These shooting techniques need more shooting attempts to understand the operational essentials of shooting.

Second, framing and composition.

The second aspect of mobile phone photography needs to learn the skills of framing and composition. Why don't our photos have beauty and artistic conception? It is likely that the framing angle is not good, the photographic light is not understood, and the composition method is wrong.

1, framework

Before taking pictures, you must first determine the subject and scene. Many photographers have already conceived the shooting scene in their minds before they start shooting. Finally, everything is ready, just press the shutter.

In addition to conceiving the scene, you also need to consider the angle, light and so on. After all, a good angle can be refreshing, and the right light can ensure that the picture is properly exposed and colorful.

This is why many photographers always look at it before shooting, only looking at the angle of view and the direction of light.

Step 2 write a composition

There are many methods of photographic composition, such as: trisection, nine squares, symmetry, contrast between light and shade, blank space, composition, line use, color matching and so on.

The application of these composition methods is nothing more than making the theme of the picture more prominent, the picture more concise and the artistic conception more abundant.

Novices may be confused about photographic composition, and there may be many dogmatic composition methods in their minds, but they don't need them when shooting. The fundamental reason is that there are too few shots and the understanding of composition is not deep enough. They only know how to copy mechanically, without their own thoughts and ideas.

At the beginning, you should learn composition methods, even imitate others' composition methods, but you should know how to think and summarize by analogy.