What are the tips for mobile phone photography?

How to take good-looking photos with mobile phones? What are the tips for mobile phone photography? Let's have a look!

1. The beauty of recording simplicity

Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple, once said, "Simplicity is the highest level of complexity." Simplicity is the ultimate in photography. This sentence also applies to photography known as the art of subtraction.

A photo with a complicated background is easy to usurp the role of the owner and drown the subject in the background. At the same time, the complicated background will distract the audience and make people wonder what you are trying to say in this photo.

Maybe you will worry about whether the simple picture will affect the final viewing effect of the photo, giving people a feeling of being too empty. In fact, worry is unnecessary. Simple pictures are easier to highlight the theme and express the content. For social platforms, such as WeChat circle of friends, simple and clear photos are more eye-catching, and friends will prefer these photos.

For mobile phone photography, simple composition and picture expression can not only highlight the shooting theme, but also enhance your observation and develop good shooting habits.

Shoot from different angles

If you brush your circle of friends, you can see that most of the photos taken by mobile phones are from the head-up angle, which is also the saying that the hand is taken up. Unless there is a specific theme, it is difficult to make unforgettable works, so it is the easiest way to take a different mobile phone photo.

How to change the shooting angle? The easiest way is to shoot at a low angle.

There are three reasons for choosing low-angle shooting. First, the low angle is easy to operate when shooting, and the shooting angle is better controlled, which will make the shooting theme in the photo more interesting. Secondly, low-angle shooting can better highlight the shooting theme, while the background usually only keeps the ground and sky, so low-angle shooting is also one of the good ways to eliminate background noise. Third, the low angle can also help the audience to focus on the final subject through the change of color and light and shade, creating a sense of depth in the picture.

3. Create a sense of depth in the picture

In addition to choosing a suitable shooting angle, we should also make rational use of the lines in the scene when taking photos with mobile phones to create a sense of depth in the picture, thus enhancing the sense of depth in the picture of mobile phone photography works, which is particularly important when taking scenery photos.

Then, how to establish a visual guide line in the shooting picture to enhance the visual depth of the photo? When shooting at ordinary times, you can use streets, railways, paths, ripples on the beach, rivers, fences, etc. To ensure that the objects in the picture extend from the foreground to the far side of the picture and disappear on the horizon. This can attract the attention of the audience and make the photos more layered and deep.

Another way to create a sense of depth in the picture is to use the difference between the foreground, the foreground and the subject, or the distance between the foreground and the background environment to create a sense of space in the picture. In addition, the subject can also be integrated into the foreground, middle and distant view of the picture to create a three-dimensional picture and make the final photo more three-dimensional.

4. Balance the visual beauty of the picture

When taking photos with a mobile phone, multiple objects often appear in a scene. How to place these objects reasonably can not only highlight the subject of shooting, but also make the picture look chaotic, which tests your composition method.

As we all know, photography should follow the law of three-part composition if it wants to highlight the main body. If there are many objects in the scene and the shooting still follows the standard three-part composition rule, then all the objects may be piled up on one side of the picture, leaving a large blank on the other side, resulting in a serious imbalance of the picture.

Therefore, we can simply adjust the position of objects before shooting and prioritize them, so that the picture will not be unbalanced because of multiple objects when shooting composition. But when shooting at ordinary times, such as landscapes and urban buildings, these are immovable subjects, so you need to observe the environment, choose the right angle, and balance the picture through perspective, so that the final shot works can meet the audience's expectations in visual expression.

5. Create visual beauty with details

Bresson once said, "You didn't pitch well enough because you weren't close enough." Mobile phone photography also applies to this truth. After all, some subjects, such as plants and flowers, are too far away to capture the details of flowers, nor can they show the color levels of flowers, so they can only get an ordinary photo. I don't think this is the effect you want.

For some subjects, such as flowers, water droplets and textured surfaces, the audience can be greatly shocked by the shooting details. When capturing these details, you can use an external lens of your mobile phone, such as a macro lens, which can better help you complete the shooting of details.

For portraits, shooting close to people can also better show the skin texture details of people, highlight the emotions of people, inject more readability into photos, and even shock the hearts of the audience.

For landscape photography, in addition to recording big scenes, you can increase the depth of the picture by shooting the details of the environment and make your landscape photos more popular with the audience.

6. The contrast between light and shade creates the beauty of the atmosphere.

If you pay attention to photography, you will find an interesting rule. Photographers like to shoot scenes with strong contrast between light and shadow. Through the contrast of light and shadow and the change of light and shadow, the photos not only have more visual impact, but also add a little mystery.

Photography is the art of recording light and shadow. It's a big challenge for a mobile phone to shoot a scene with large light, so remember to adjust the exposure compensation at any time when shooting, so that the final image can be accurately exposed.

In the post-processing of photos, the light and shadow of photos can be further processed by Snapseed, and even the photos can be directly changed into black and white tones, which can not only eliminate unnecessary color influence, but also highlight the visual atmosphere created by light and shadow.

7. Take a silhouette photo

Backlight shooting has always been a difficult problem for mobile phones. After all, the size of mobile phone lens is limited, and it is difficult to keep rich light and dark details when backlighting, so taking silhouette has become one of the most common topics in mobile phone photography.

Using a mobile phone to take a backlit silhouette photo is the same as taking a contrast between light and dark. It is necessary to control the exposure by adjusting the exposure compensation, so that the final photo can be accurately exposed. When shooting, you can turn on the HDR mode of the mobile phone (some mobile phones automatically turn on HDR), so that you can better get the details of the two parts and the dark parts and reduce the loss of details in the exposure.

The best time for silhouette shooting, before sunset, fits the horizon very well. At this time, you can not only record the level of the blue sky, but also make the picture warm through the warm sunshine, so mastering the skills of silhouette shooting can help you expand your shooting ideas and shoot different mobile phone photography works.

8. Use reflection to add interest to photos.

How to make your photos more interesting? In addition to some of the methods described above, making good use of specular reflection can also take interesting mobile phone photos.

Specular reflection, which sounds "tall", is actually not complicated to realize when shooting. For example, the reflection of window glass, the reflection of water on the road after a day's rain, and choosing a suitable shooting angle can all take interesting photos with the help of these reflections. It can be said that the reflection of glass or water is the real way to see the world from another angle.

Shooting a reflection scene is not complicated. First find a reasonable angle, observe the scene reflected by the water surface, and find the most reasonable angle of view. Secondly, try to lower the phone to shoot, so as to create an exaggerated perspective of the picture as much as possible, highlight the tension of the picture and make the picture more visually impactful.

9. The beauty of symmetrical composition

In photography, the picture is symmetrical, which can not only increase the depth of the picture, but also make the picture more harmonious visually.

Making use of the reflection of water for composition shooting is a common way of symmetrical composition. In addition, symmetrical composition is generally used in architectural photography, such as the gate of a building. By using symmetrical composition, the gate is placed in the middle of the picture to create a balanced picture, and the depth of the picture is created through the still life in the gate.

10. Reasonable aftertreatment

The biggest advantage of taking photos with a mobile phone is that you can directly process photos with the photography App in your mobile phone. For example, with the help of Snapseed, VSCO, Instagram and many other apps, you can quickly and simply complete the post-processing of photos.

Remember, the post-processing of photos should be moderate, not excessive. Too much post-processing may not get twice the result with half the effort, but it will have a huge impact on contrast. On the contrary, it will make the photo dirty, which will neither damage the aesthetic feeling of the photo nor affect the visual impression of the photo.

In addition, HDR can effectively preserve the light and dark details of photos, but it must be moderate when using HDR. Too much HDR will affect the details of photos and have an irreversible impact on the quality of photos.

Here, this novice mobile phone shooting guide has come to an end. Taking pictures with a mobile phone is in my heart, which makes everyone moved. In an instant, everyone can take amazing mobile phone photos.