Have smartphone, click pictures!
Since 1839 when the first proper photograph was clicked by a mechanized camera, a lot of water has flown under the bridge. Since then the camerahas captured candid pictures in its different avatars, and has appropriated many memorable moments for the posterity. Once a huge device, almost impossible to handle, the camera with every technological innovationgrew smaller and smaller, so much so that it now comes into a pocket-size smartphone. The ubiquity of smartphones revolutionizes the trade of photography.Now anyone who is having a smartphones is a photographer, clicking some important and some not so important moments. However, one must be wondering why he or she cannot click a picture that may attract attention of people. Well, it is not that he or she has a poor quality smartphone camera that cannot catch minute details of a subject, as with a little adjustment anyone can click a quality photograph for himself or for professional use.
The most important thing is the desire to not let go any great moment from being captured. The technical or compositional nuance comes into play only when you take a picture. Another important thing is to decide whether one wishes to click a random, spur-of-the-moment photograph or a well-thought-out one.Being a constant companion a smartphoneis an excellent fit device for spur-of-the-moment photographs, whereasfor a well-thought-out picture one can use both a smartphone and an SLR camera. Now let’s come to the main point. How to click a better picture using smartphone? The following may help optimum utilization of smartphone camera:
- Make lens clean. Dirt on camera lens can affect quality of picture.
- Put the camera on highest picture resolution, for a high resolution picture is needed for print quality pictures.
- Turn any extra features such as picture frame, emoji, black-and-white, sepia tones, inverted colours, etc. A frame or an emojior any other extra feature may ruin great click. You may certainly apply these features after clicking the picture.
- If the phone supports, white balance setting is desirable.
- Avoid low light for the sake consistently of the output as sensors in camera phones do not support high ISO speeds.
- Don’t click a picture against light.
- Indoor shooting require artificial light with exception of fluorescent one, which cast a green tinge on your subjects.
- To keep the camera stable in low light, slow the shutter speed and open up the aperture in low light, and this can capture any movement you make and blur your photo.
- Review first few pictures for quality and then click further.
- Last but not the least understand your subject before venture into real clicking photographs.