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Smartphone Photography: How To Capture The Perfect Photo Using Your Mobile Phone
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Smartphone Photography: How To Capture The Perfect Photo Using Your Mobile Phone

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Wilko van de Kamp
Aug 20, 2021
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Backpacker taking photo with smartphone

Photography is more than pointing a camera in the direction of the subject and taking the photo. The same goes for smartphone photography. Your phone just becomes the camera, and some fulfill that role pretty well. In smartphone photography, we still use composition, focal point, foreground, background, slants, frames, thirds, lines, perspective, scale, and so forth to create an image that tells a story worth sharing. Good photographs aren’t captured, they’re created with a specific intent.

You can use your DSLR, compact, point-and-shoot, or even smartphone camera: It doesn’t matter what kind of camera you use. It’s not about technical skills as much as it is about developing an “eye” for photography and recognizing that perfect photo opportunity when it presents itself. These tips will help you do that.

Be clear on your intention

Good photographs aren’t captured, they’re created with a specific intent. A story the photographer wants to tell through the image. What will you be doing with…

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