How to take beautiful landscape photos with your mobile phone?

Taking beautiful landscape photos can bring beautiful natural scenery and visual enjoyment to viewers. Here are some detailed tips to help you take satisfying landscape photos with your phone:

1. Find interesting spots: Choose scenic spots that are attractive and unique. This could be stunning mountains, lakes, beaches, forests, city skylines, or other eye-catching locations. When I travel and take photos, I like to use a panoramic lens to record the beauty I see. The picture below is a beach I took in Arcachon, France. The panoramic lens can record more of the beautiful scenery at the moment!

Seine Lakeside

When shooting on the beach, you can use people and things to your advantage. Combining the blue sky, plants, beaches, and people to find a good angle is really great!

Bali

2. Take advantage of light and weather conditions:

- Golden hour: Golden hour is a period of time before and after sunrise and sunset, when the light is soft and warmth. Shooting during this time can add beautiful colors and soft shadows to your photos.

This is a photo taken at dusk in Sanya. The lazy sunshine shining through the towering man on the beach is really beautiful!

- Cloudy weather: Although clear skies can provide bright light, cloudy weather has its own unique features. Clouds can add texture, layering and atmosphere to a picture. I was taking a walk in the evening and saw that the clouds in the sky were really beautiful. I am really a cloud photographer!

3. Use foreground elements: You can add depth and depth to your photo by adding interesting elements such as trees, flowers, rocks, or buildings to the foreground. Foreground elements can also be used to guide the viewer's eye into the photo.

4. Adjust the composition:

- Rule of Thirds: Divide the picture into three parts horizontally and vertically, and place the main elements at the intersections to create symmetry and balance composition.

- Use diagonals and lines: Use line elements such as roads, rivers, and mountains to guide the viewer’s eye, or use diagonals to add a sense of movement.

- Near and Far: Use the depth of field effect to create a sense of depth and three-dimensionality by placing foreground, midground, and background elements at different distances.

This is the He Art Museum in Foshan. Based on its architectural features, you can take very unique photos. It will look good and eye-catching no matter what you take.

5. Consider Use your phone app’s Pro mode: Many phone camera apps offer a Pro mode that allows you to manually adjust parameters such as focus, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance. This allows for more precise control over the exposure and detail of your photos.

6. Use HDR mode: If your phone has HDR (high dynamic range) mode, you can try using it to capture a wider range of brightness to show detailed landscape photos.

7. Post-processing: Use a photo editing app on your phone for post-processing. Adjust parameters such as brightness, contrast, and saturation, as well as apply filters and modifications to enhance the expressiveness and artistry of your photos. Let me share the parameters of an Apple phone that I personally like to use. Open the iPhone’s original camera album, select a photo, and select the filter: Contrast Color. Click "Edit" in the upper right corner and set the parameters to:

Exposure: -5

Vibrance: -8

Highlight: +15

Shadow: -10

Vibrance: -6

Color Temperature: -10

Hue: +6

Halo Shadow: +10

The important thing is to stay creative and practice. By constantly experimenting with different angles, lighting, and compositions, you'll gradually develop your skills and perception for taking landscape photos.