1. Develop the posture and habit of holding your mobile phone
Why do you put this first? Because many times we take out our mobile phones and take pictures hastily; after taking the pictures, we find out The film is blurry, or like a ghost, it becomes an unreal photo. These reasons may be related to your posture and habits of holding the phone.
Therefore, we should pay attention to the control of our gestures and shooting time; the stability of gestures will affect the quality of photos just like professional photographers using SLR cameras. This difference is really big. There is still a big difference in the effect of photos taken by people who have a good habit of holding their mobile phone to take pictures and people who like to take pictures casually. Just like we write with a pen, whether you write well or not completely originates from your control of posture and method when you first learn to write. Therefore, once a good hand-held posture becomes a habit, we will naturally use the correct posture when taking pictures. This will not cause us to be in a hurry when we encounter a good shooting opportunity. You can take the photos you want calmly, stably, and in the best possible condition.
According to the experience of holding mobile phones compiled by several teachers, they can be roughly divided into three types. If you are interested, you can try to practice and develop good mobile phone holding habits.
When holding the mobile phone horizontally, we use both hands to hold the phone steady when posing horizontally, and turn on the camera function. The left hand can refer to the posture in the picture below, leaving the thumb of the right hand free to control the mobile phone screen. focus, exposure, and various more professional functions.
Of course, there are horizontal shots and vertical shots. At this time, you can hold the phone with your left hand, gently lean on the palm of your hand with your right hand, and let the thumb of your right hand operate the various functions of the phone's camera.
There is also a third technique regarding snapping photos. Sometimes when we encounter a good shooting opportunity, we have no time to hesitate and think. Such emergencies require you to quickly activate the camera function of your phone. So when our phone is placed in our pocket or on the table, the phone will be in a locked screen state under normal circumstances. Therefore, when you find an opportunity and need to take it out and shoot it in the shortest time, you need to have a correct posture when taking out your phone.
At the same time, you need to be proficient in how to activate the camera function after setting a password to open the screen. For example, on some mobile phones, you can swipe left on the edge of the screen, and on other mobile phones, such as VIVO phones, you can swipe up on the right edge of the screen. Directly turn on the camera function of your phone. Take out your phone and see how to quickly enable the camera function. This function generally takes no more than 2 seconds to turn on the camera function of the phone after forming a habit. It can completely meet your needs for snapping photos.
The snap-shot method depends on the settings of the mobile phone manufacturer, and the methods that need to be enabled are also different. You can try one-handed operation or quick coordination with both hands.
2. Keep the mobile phone stable and level
This is the same as the requirement for professional photography equipment. We must develop the habit of keeping the mobile phone level and stable at any time. . Only in this way can we ensure the prerequisite for taking good photos; when we first learn photography, don’t think about those inexplicable and skewed “innovations”; because you are not a “master”; without a star halo, it is impossible to write casually like a calligraphy master. The characters became calligraphy treasures. Instead, you should put the phone upright and keep the phone in a horizontal and vertical position. And take photos of the necessary scenes in a down-to-earth manner. This point has been mentioned many times in my professional photography tutorials. Of course, the posture of holding the mobile phone is not static and can be adjusted according to your own habits, but you must ensure the stability of shooting and the effect of photography.
3. One more thing to remember is to always check and clean your mobile phone lens
I had this problem at the beginning; when taking a photo with my mobile phone, I saw There is a beautiful sunset scenery, and I want to pick up my phone to take a photo, but no matter how I take it, I find that the photo looks weird, as if it has a layer of blurry mask. At that time, I didn't think that it was caused by the lens being dirty. I thought that the phone function was not working, or there was something wrong. As a result, after returning home, I tried my phone again and accidentally discovered that the lens of my phone had a layer of dust stuck on it.
After wiping it clean, I found that everything in the photo was clear. But it is a pity that I lost an opportunity to take pictures of beautiful scenes and works. You can use a tissue or eraser to wipe the dust off the palmistry lens. This is very important, and this problem often becomes the invisible killer that prevents you from producing good works.
Even if there is a fingerprint, it must be wiped off. Because a mobile phone lens with fingerprints will have a high probability of lens flare when shooting. If there are lights in the photo scene, this glare will be infinitely amplified and even cross the entire composition, causing devastating damage to the photo effect.
4. You need to understand the lens characteristics of your mobile phone camera.
When communicating with offline students, I always tell them this sentence. Whether you use a mobile phone or a camera to take pictures, you must understand the characteristics of its lens. What are the characteristics of a lens, it is the focal length. with aperture.
Mobile phones are no exception, and everyone needs to carefully understand the lens characteristics of their mobile phones. When I was communicating with some teachers, a word came up during the communication called "use zoom with caution." But fortunately, due to the current development of mobile phones, the lenses of many mobile phone manufacturers have developed to the point where mobile phones can have dual or triple lenses, or have more lenses to match. What we need to understand clearly is that the division of labor among these lenses is different. Some lenses only deal with color and pixels, some only deal with focal length, and some only deal with the blur algorithm of the background of the subject being photographed.
5. Use flash with caution
According to some statistical results, the flash of mobile phone cameras is the weak point of the photography function of various brands of mobile phones. In most cases, it is better to use the built-in flash of mobile phones. Most of the photos are stiff and only play the role of "the most violent fill light", far from "lighting". In professional photography technology, the use of flash, ambient light, and natural light complement each other and are highly technical. In this regard, it is not suitable for the positioning of mobile phone photography. Therefore, in most cases, I recommend that friends turn off the automatic flash button for taking pictures on their mobile phones. Enjoy a world shaped by natural light and scene light.
Also remember, when taking photos of people, remember to turn off the flash, otherwise others will know that you are taking photos secretly, and you will look dirty.
6. Mobile photography is the same as professional photography. Try to use a simple style as much as possible in the early stages of learning.
This will make it easier for you to get started and gain recognition. You can express your shooting theme through a simple shooting style. This makes it appear more focused and prominent. Therefore, I have always advised many beginners to follow the "less is more principle" in their initial shooting learning.