The document provides tips for improving smartphone photography, emphasizing the importance of proximity to subjects, optimal lighting, and compositional techniques like the rule of thirds. It suggests using manual focus and exposure settings, avoiding digital zoom, and making use of various camera apps and accessories to enhance image quality. Additionally, it encourages exploring different angles and perspectives while capturing images to maximize creativity and outcome.

1. 10 tips to make your smartphone photography better

2. PhoneOgraphy can be referred as the future of photography. It can’t be compared as the
technique or images from DSLR or Photography, however, the evolution of camera phone
and its optical features with growing numbers of alternative apps and accessories,
PhoneOgraphy could be justifiable and trusted trend in our normal photo taking life.
The following is a few tips to make a as good photo as digital photography.
PhoneOgraphy: Future of Photography

3. Go Closer
Getting close, you can have more control over the lighting of your subject.
Y1. Camera Phone Lens : 28~30mm wide angle lens [digital zoom is not desirable]
Y3. Depth of Field [피사계 심도]: the range of distance that appears sharp.
Y2. You can make a photo with background out of focus.

4. Smartphone Photography : SDoF (Shallow Depth of Field)
Macro Photography
Full length telephoto
Object in distance to background
unlike DSLR lenses wit shallow depth of field , smartphone camera lens with wide depth of
field, causing all object “In-Focus”, In order to make a photo with autfocusing, you need to
know the following can make it out of focus from your subject
Wide Open Aperture (Low F-Value)
Tip: You can also set up “Spot Metering” when the light contrast between background and target scene is smaller.

5. Crop, Don’t Zoom
Digital Zoom will degrade the images
Zoom your body : go closer to the object or use a gallery app to crop.
Tip : Use 2x or 3x Smart phone tele-lens will help low resolution camera phone image crop better.
Y : Digital Zoom will cause much noise that reduce image quality

7. Set the Right Focus

8. Smart PhoneOgrapher : Exposure and Focus
Set the right focus and exposure with a tap
If you feel like your photo isn't exposed right or if it is out of focus, tap on your subject.
The camera software on many phones is configured to set both its focus and exposure based on
what area of the frame you tap on.
Tip: To prevent your image OoF,
Keep your finger tapped on
shutter and release .
Optimal exposure Too bright Too dark

9. Use of Light
Photography is art of composing light and shade, even more important with phone cameras
Tip: Avoid using built-in LED flash or shoot far away.
+ phone's biggest weakness
inability to take good pictures in low light

10. How to be a Smart PhoneOgrapher
Use light and shade
As Phone camera, mainly activated in electric and digital processing, is limited in optical design for
exposure control so that it is more important to apply efficient use of light and shade.
+ Work in good light :
the most essence of the photography
+ Work the Golden Light :
good angle of the light for every photo.
+ Use your built-in flash judiciously :
Avoid using it, but if must, use any mat’l to diffuse the flash. ;
+ Shading is another good source : with best light source.
:+ Adjust your White Balance Control :
light source will directly affect color and temperature.
Light PhoneOgraphy

11. Rule of Thirds
a simple and easy trick you can use when composing your photos.

12. Imagine that the frame is split into three equal sections vertically and horizontally
,as pictured. Place your subject along one of the vertical lines, or where a horizontal and
a vertical lines intersect. Then place the horizon along one of the horizontal lines.
Rules of Thirds: Compositional Basics of Photography

13. When taking a photograph with the rule of
thirds in mind, it’s always best to compose
the photograph in the camera so that you
can avoid cropping later to retain as much of
the image as possible and avoid reducing
the quality of your photographs.
Try going back to some of your old photo
and see if you can improve them by cropping
in a way to make them use the rule of thirds
technique.
Rule of Thirds: Compositional Basics of Photography

14. the focus of your image is on land the focus is the sky
Rules of Thirds: a Picture of a Landscape
Horizon on the upper or lower horizontal dividing line for focus of objects
* Tip : the landscape of horizon on goldtime may require HDR effects.
* Make sure the angle of the object should be aligned on the horizontal lines.
the focus of your image is on land (i.e. mountains, buildings), the horizon should fall
near the upper third and if the focus is the sky (i.e. sunsets, sunrises), the horizon
should fall near the lower third.

15. his body is lined up
primarily in the left 1/3
section of the frame.
Rules of Thirds: a Portrait and Action
notice how the eyes of this Indian
lady line up evenly with the top 1/3
line.
* Portrait : eyes lined up with the upper horizontal line intersected with vertical line
* Make sure the angle of the object should be aligned on the horizontal lines.

16. Capture Everywhere
Take an advantage that camera phone can capture at any angle.
+ you can capture more creative image than DSLRs.

17. Capture the Phone Everywhere at any angle.
Low Angle Shot
Action Shot
Use the fact that smart phone is a handy little tool
Through the fence

18. detacheable lens
Use the lens system that will make different angle of view
+ less expensive than the system camera, portable
+ Capture larger image in the limited distance, make fun of different photography

19. How to be a Smart PhoneOgrapher
Experience different perspective
+ Available : Wide Angle Lens (광각)
Fisheye (어안)
Macro Lens (접사)
Tele Lens (2~10x)
Microscope
360˚ Lens
+ Wide Angle Lens = Architecture;
Landscape,
+ Fisheye = Wefie, Animal, Landscape
+ Macro = Micro-animals, Flower,
Vegetables, Texture

20. How to be a Smart PhoneOgrapher
@ Danshui, Taiwan @ Euljiro1ga, Seoul, Korea@ Gapyeong, Seoul
iPhone4, WideAngle Lens GalaxyS4, Macro Lens iPhone4, Fisheye Lens
Masaki Utsumiya @ Instagram Jasmine Fyfe@ Instagram unknown @tumblrs

21. Get Alternative Camera App
There are over 5,000 photography apps
+ You can add feeling or texture to photo simply by pushing a button and applying it. .
+ To be a talented phoneographer, You also need to know what it needs to look like in
order to put preset on it .

22. ISO Control
Exposure Control
shutter & Programming
Metering Mode [측광]
White Balance
Toolbox:
Flashmode
Smart PhoneOgrapher must know about photography tool.
brightness
Focus control
Programming
+ Tool box
The most recommended app Camera FV-5

23. How to be a Smart PhoneOgrapher
Get a good alternative camera apps
Photo apps : VSCOcam, Instagram, Puding, Cymera,
Android : Camera FV-5, ProCapture/ Google Camera, HDR
Apple : Apple Camera, Photo Cam HDR, Camera+, Facetune.
Special Effects : Slow Camera (LongExposure), SlowshutterCam (iOS), HDR+, DOF
PhoneOgraphy is driven by the excellent camera apps and post processing photo apps that
makes your phone-taking-photo easily cropped, filtered, and beautified.
Here’re a few recommended camera+ photo aps.

24. Try Special Technique
The evolution of camera apps alter hi-tech feature of DSLR or other hi-end imaging
products. It allows phoneographer experience diverse photography and videography that
needs from Digital Photography. The technique is not yet as good as the DSLRs but
It features various types of experience for PhoneOgraphers.

25. Panning Shot Long Exposure
Burst Shot Time Lapse

26. Make your own Perspective

27. How to be a Smart PhoneOgrapher
Architecture
Lifestyle
YES
It’s Mine
Create your best perspective

28. Summary: How to be a Smart PhoneOgrapher
Capture & Define your photo.
+ Create your perspective
Try Alternative Camera Apps
+ apply different types of effects
Expect more than the normal phone
lenses+ accessories
Make a best use of light and
shadow, and colors

29. Enjoy and Make a Passion to PhoneOgraphy

30. To make your phone photo like this