7 Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

Are you surfing for best Smartphone Photography Tips? Then you have landed at the right place. The smartphone has changed the notion of traditional photography, mostly because it is easier to carry around a camera phone that fits in your pocket rather than bulkier DSLR cameras.

Most of us underestimate the capabilities of our smartphone cameras. For taking pictures with smartphone, you need not to be a professional photographer. There are some best tips for smartphone photography with which we can capture photos with amazing quality.

Here we are providing best 7 Photography Tips and Tricks for Smartphone users. By following these photography tips for smartphone you can improve your smartphone photography very well.

7 Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

1. MULTIPLE YOU PANORAMA

Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

Most software allows you to take a panorama shot, the trick here is to have a model run couter-panorama wise and post at various stages of the panorama. This will crate the appearance of them being present at multiple places at once. If you do end up making one, tag it #panodash. Here is a short clip that explains it:

Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

2. THE DRIVE BY PANORAMA

Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

Instead of moving the camera around to create a 360 degrees panorama, you can do a parallel panorama by keeping the camera at a steady position while driving. This creates a different panorama altogether.

3. THE BINOCULAR ZOOM LENS

Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

While you can probably get a zoom lens off of amazon for less than Rs.1000, you may already have such a lens at home if you own a pair of field binoculars. Or even a pair of kids binoculars. Jsut attach them to the lens and you got instant lomo-like zoom lens.

4. DROPLET MACRO

Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

If you don’t have a DVD available for sacrificing a macro lens, you can simply apply a small drop of water on the smarphone lens to get it to shoot macro. The curved drop will act as a macro filter. Be careful not to get water anywhere else in your phone.

5. USE A CAR SHADE AS A REFLECTOR

Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

This is a hack we talked about a lot when DIYP was younger, but we never discussed applying it to smartphonography. The idea is to get some cool reflections on the cheap by using a car sun reflective sun shade. The idea is that a little bit of reflected light can either open up the shadows or provide a hard light look, depending on how oyu use it.

6. USE HEADPHONES AS SHUTTER RELEASE

Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

If you need to get some distance from your phone for a self portrait, you can actually use your headphone as a shutter release. And if you are looking for a small tripod you can try this credit card tripod design here, or any of those nifty, albeit more complex, designs.

7. UNDERWATER CUP CASE

Smartphone Photography Tips and Tricks

This one is a bit risky for my taste, but you can snap an shallow under water photo by placing a phone in a cup and using the cup for water protection.

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