Always keep the camera lens clean
We use our phones every day, almost all the time, so it’s normal for the phone’s lens to get dusty. However, that will affect the quality of our photos. Make sure the camera lens is clean at all times, at least when taking pictures. Use a soft cloth to wipe, do not use paper towels, the lens may be scratched.
In addition, if you are a virtual believer who often uses the front camera, it is essential to properly clean the selfie camera periodically. This is done to ensure the quality of use and life of the phone camera. Some effective ways to clean the front camera are:
- Use the corner of the microfiber cloth to clean the lens
- Clean the outer glass with a lens cleaning pen
- Do not touch the lens with your hands
- Use a phone case with a camera cover
- Place the phone face up, on a clean surface.
Do not use the zoom feature
Many smartphone camera users have the habit of using 2 fingers, swiping to enlarge the subject when they find it too small. When you digitally zoom into a subject, your phone uses only a small portion of the pixel sensor to take the picture. It zooms in, resulting in a low-resolution, compressed image. Worse yet, it loses the rest of the image making it impossible to recover.
Currently, most phone cameras have a zoom feature. However, those are all digital zooms, not optical zooms, ie it will enlarge the image, not close to the object, thereby reducing the image quality. Therefore, if you want to capture a certain detail clearly, you should get close to the subject and adjust the distance accordingly.
Choose the direction of light, focus on the subject
Light is an important factor in photography. You should practice observing and identifying the light source if you want to have a good photo. However, it is also not recommended to use the phone’s flash because it is not very effective, sometimes even damaging the photo, it is best to have a natural light source is the best.
Once we have chosen the right light direction and the shooting angle can capture the desired moment, we need to focus on the subject. This is also an important operation to make the image clearer if you do not want to see it blurred, blurred or unable to identify where the subject is. Most cameras on smartphones today have Auto-Focus (auto-focus) function. A photo that wants to be clear must of course have “sharpness”. The process of taking a photo includes: opening the camera, focusing and pressing capture, press the shutter when your phone notices that the image has been focused, usually on the smartphone, it will notify you with a blue icon and continue. “beep”.
Know your phone, choose the right photo mode in each case
If you love photography, you should spend some time researching the features on your phone. Understanding them will help us quickly handle situations when shooting. Depending on the situation you want to record, select an appropriate shooting mode. For example, night mode will lower the ISO speed while reducing the shutter speed to make the image brighter. As such, understanding your phone is very important.
You will find it very simple to choose the mode you want and from there easily capture many moments. The default modes usually produce good image quality. But it’s not always pretty. So you need to switch to manual mode to create the best photo.
Use photo editing software
A photo will be much better if you know how to “Photoshop” it accordingly. Smartphones often come with photo editing software directly on the machine with modes, effects, filters, adjust brightness, saturation, … or with the free app store on Android, iOS and Windows Phone, …byou can absolutely find extremely good photo editing software.
Although your phone is “smart” and has all the necessary features to take a good photo. But, you have to accept one thing, you don’t always get a perfect photo right away. Just take a picture, go home and review it, use some photo editing software, with just a few small steps, your photos will become sparkling and more professional than ever.
See the object with real eyes
Before shooting, we should look at the subject and the scene with our real eyes, to feel the beauty and choose a unique angle, then let the subject enter our frame. Note, the camera should be at the level of the subject’s line of sight, if shooting for children, should also stoop down, the photo will look more natural. It is not necessary to make the subject stare at the camera, observe and capture the most emotional moment of the subject.
Plus, look at familiar things from a different perspective to find your own unique beauty. When you’re out on the street, visiting an exhibition, museum or backpacking or traveling by bus, at these times, looking at your surroundings from a different perspective will be a good opportunity for you to improve your skills. Cultivate the ability to take a good photo.
Hold the phone firmly, hold it firmly
It can be said that this factor is quite important to produce a good photo. When the camera is shaken causing the photo to become blurry due to poor focusing ability, remember in any case you should try to use two hands to hold the phone to limit hand shake, especially in the field. In case the smartphone you are using does not have optical image stabilization.
Standing still and holding the camera steady is an obvious thing you must do when taking pictures if you want a good picture without blur. If possible, hold the camera with two hands, one hand on the body, the other around the lens so you can keep the phone steady. In addition, it is best to use a tripod when taking photos so that the best quality can be obtained, you also reduce the strain of having to hold a fixed position for too long.
Choose the right location and natural moment
Angle is a very important factor in photography. To avoid boredom with traditional beautiful photography, you can try at different angles in the same situation, with the same subject to create variety and interesting effects for the set of photos. Besides, there are many different shooting angles for you to choose from such as: shooting from the side, shooting at a lower or higher angle, shooting without the rule of thirds, or just focusing on a single detail. on the subject’s body to highlight the story you want to tell.
The scenery is poetic, the subject is beautiful, but the photo will not show that beauty because your shooting angle is not unique. Sometimes you just need to move a little, focus on observing and you can get the perfect picture. In particular, there is no need for the subject to look directly into the lens to be beautiful, natural moments always produce the most soulful photos.
Rule of thirds
The Rule of Thirds (1/3 or Rule of Thirds) is one of the most basic and well-known rules in photography. This rule applies to cameras and phones as well. The rule of thirds helps capture the subject of a photograph in a way that is pleasing to look at. It involves breaking any image you want to capture into three parts, horizontally and vertically, so that you have nine equal parts.
You should follow this simple but basic and most important principle. Currently, there are quite a few phones that support you to implement this principle easily, especially Samsung and Iphone. In the photography part, the frame will be divided into 9 equal parts by grid lines, 2 horizontal 2 vertical. And you just need place the subject or point to be emphasized on one of the 4 intersections of these lines, the photo will look more detailed and artistic.
Get close to the subject
We all know that digital zoom helps to reach distant things more clearly. But with mobile phones it is better to go for a close-up instead of using this mode because the resolution of the photo taken with a mobile phone is not as high as that of a regular camera. Especially when shooting portraits, get as close as possible so that the most unique personal details are clearly shown. However, do not get too close, you will not get the background of the subject.
No matter how modern our phones are, the resolution of a photo cannot be as high as that taken with a digital camera. Therefore, if you want good photo quality, get close to the subject and keep the right distance, don’t stand too far, don’t stand too close, you won’t get the background of the subject. Moving closer to the subject is considered to be the best option so you can get great photo quality instead of standing far away and zooming in.