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An Introduction to Using
Your Phone’s Camera Text and Photos by Chris Goforth
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By Chris Goforth, thedragonflywoman.com
1. Introduction to Photography
2. Limitations of Cell Phone Cameras
3. Tips for Taking Great Cell Phone Photos
4. Cell Phone Photography Attachments
5. Photography Apps
6. Sharing Your Photos
7. Practice Shooting
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• Photography is essentially painting with light
• Cameras consist of a lens, a piece of glass or plastic, that focuses the light in an area onto the back of the camera, and a sensor or film that captures the light to make the image
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• By adjusting the amount of light that enters the camera, you can control what the final image looks like. With a point and shoot camera or an SLR/DSLR, you can usually adjust the aperture (controls how much of the frame is in focus), the shutter speed (controls how long the film or sensor absorbs light), and the ISO (controls the crispness of the image). You have a lot of control over what the final image looks like.
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• Cell phone cameras rarely give you much control over your settings and simply choose the settings that best suit the light levels when you click the shutter release/button.
• You need to explore the limitations of your camera to take best advantage of what it can do!
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• Itty bitty sensors!
• Need lots of light
• Shaky hands or moving
subjects are a problem
The shark is blurry because
there was low light and it was
swimming
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• Itty bitty sensors!
• Need lots of light
• Shaky hands or moving
subjects are a problem
• No optical zoom (aka,
zooming in by moving
the lens)…
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Holly Tree Zoomed in with
camera (dark!)
Zoomed in by
walking closer
(better!)
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• Itty bitty sensors!
• Need lots of light
• Shaky hands or moving
subjects are a problem
• No optical zoom
• Shutter lag (time
between pushing the
shutter release and when
the photo is actually
taken) can be terrible
This was supposed to be a
photo of a bee on a flower…
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• Itty bitty sensors!
• Need lots of light
• Shaky hands or moving
subjects are a problem
• No optical zoom
• Shutter lag can be
terrible
• Flashes on smart phones
are generally
atrocious…
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No flash Flash
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• Very little depth of field
Cell phone photo – notice that the legs
pointing toward the back are blurry
due to the low depth of field.
DSLR photo – notice that the legs
pointing toward the back are in
focus. The depth of field is greater.
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• Very little depth of field
• Very little control over
the settings of your
camera
• Expect some motion blur,
grainy photos in low light,
and other less than
desirable conditions
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• Very little depth of field
• Very little control over
the settings of your
camera
• Expect some motion blur,
grainy photos in low light,
and other less than
desirable conditions
• Details may be lost in
less than perfect lighting
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The light from the sun is so bright that all the details of the landscape are lost.
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• Can’t get very close to
your subject
• However… (We’ll talk
about how to take phone
macro photos in a bit!)
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• Zoom with your feet, not
your camera
• Maximize the light on the
subject
• Hold your phone VERY
still
• Brace your arms
• Use a tripod
• Fill the frame and isolate
the subject (applies to all
photography!)
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• Remember your depth of
field!
• Make sure the parts you
want to have in focus are
actually in focus
• Add attachments (more
about this in a moment)
• Use photo editing apps
to improve imperfect
photos
• Practice makes perfect!
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• Macro Lenses
• Photojojo (works with all
phone brands), Olloclip,
Squidcam, Easy Macro,
Others!
• Fisheye lenses
• Telephoto lenses
• Polarizers
• Lens filters Taken with a Photojojo macro lens
Adding attachment lenses can expand what you can do with
a cell phone camera!
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Taking Photos
• Your phone’s camera
app
• Camera+
• Hisptamatic
• Camera Aweoms
• MANY others!
Editing Photos
• Camera+ (recently new
and improved!)
• Snapseed
• Photogene2
• Many others!
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• Online:
• Flickr
• Picasa
• Google+
• Deviant Art
• Apps:
• Hipstamatic
• All of the products in the “Online” category
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• Citizen Science Projects
• iNaturalist
• Project Noah
• Leafsnap
• Rephoto
• eBird
• Lost Ladybug Project
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The best way for you to learn the limitations of your cell phone
camera and improve your cell phone photography is to practice!
Take photos in lots of different lighting conditions. Play around
with apps and attachments. See just how close you can get to
something before it becomes blurry and try out different methods
for keeping your camera as still as possible. There is a lot of
variation in cell phone cameras, and while the tips I’ve provided
here apply to most phone cameras, the more you practice, the
better you’ll become. So get out there and practice! It’s the only
sure fire way you’ll see improvement in your photography.
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• Many cell phone camera attachments are available at
photojojo.com, endless others at Amazon.com. Olloclips are
available at Apple stores.
• Search for apps in your phone’s app store area
• Some are free, others have a small fee
• Read reviews before you buy! The people who write reviews have often
played around with the app enough to know what they’re talking about.
Also, be wary of any paid app that has no reviews. It doesn’t necessarily
mean it’s a bad photo app, but there are a lot of scams out there too!
• Contact Chris for links to any of the things you’ve seen here!
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