Cellular Phone Camera TipsDon't be shocked that after learning a few basic cellular phone camera tips, you will be able take better pictures. Yes, even by using a simple camera phone. The five most important cellular phone camera tips are: Get in Close The biggest limitation of cellular phone cameras is with the lens. Although we are on the brink of designing tiny zoom lenses for cellular phones, current camera phones don't allow you to zoom in. You can crop later when you do your photo editing, but you'll get better pictures by coming in close to your subject when you are taking your photographs. Try to fill your frame with your subject. This will eliminate distracting backgrounds.New cellular phone cameras are coming out with bigger and bigger sensors which means better digital photos for you. Bigger camera sensors and more camera memory will give you the opportunity to take great photos once you have learned many of the digital photo tips on this web site. Look for Good Lighting The biggest challenge for camera phones is not having enough light. Most cell phones don't come with a flash for lighting. When it's dark the camera phone has to use a slow shutter speed and that can lead to blurry or un-sharp photos.
I took this camera phone picture with my old cheapo Motorola cell phone during a morning jog underneath a highway underpass. There was a nice large, soft light source and brought out the colors in the graffiti as well as the textures of the concrete wall. In Adobe Photoshop, I used the sample tool to match one of the colors in the artwork and created a border around the photo. Most of the light was coming from the open sky to the left. If you are indoors, you can move your subject closer to a window or at least have them face toward the window. If it's possible turn a light on in the room. Cellular phone cameras do a bad job with photo exposure if the main light source is behind your subject. A good photo tip is to have the light coming behind you, the photographer. There are more photo lighting tips if you scroll down in the article called take better digital pictures. Hold it Steady This will prevent blurry photos. There is no viewfinder to look through, so you can't hold a cell phone camera against your face to keep it steady Find something sturdy to lean your hands or elbows against.If that's not practical, take a relaxing breathe in. Exhale halfway and squeeze your shutter button gently. Then wait until after you here the "click" of the camera to begin moving your hands again. This is one of those cellular phone camera tips that applies to all cameras. Keeping your digital photos sharp is very important if you want to do any photo printing. When you are viewing your photos on your computer you have a resolution of only 72 or 96 dots per inch. Photo printing is done at a much higher resolution, usually 250 dpi (dots per inch); so you see a lot more details. You may be satisfied with lower quality photos if they are for your online photo album or your myspace photo or facebook profile. Time it Right There is this annoying thing we call shutter lag. It's the delay from when you push the shutter button to when the photo is actually taken. More expensive point and shoot cameras and dSLR cameras have almost no shutter delay.With cellular phone cameras the exposure is made after a small but irritating delay after you push the button. So, the tip is to anticipate your photographic moment and squeeze the camera shutter button early. Avoid this common photo mistake and you'll be more pleased with your photographs in the end. Use the Right Photo Editing Software Do your photo editing later when you have a few moments of quiet time. Although as cellular phones become more sophisticated, many users are finding the use of apps(software applications) on their cellular phones very easy and very helpful.There are thousands and thousands of apps, many of them are free and many of these apps for your cellular phone cameras are free for download. Another option to do your photo editing are the hundreds of more sophisticated photo editing programs that you can tinker with on your computer. Develop a child like curiosity in finding ways to improve and expand your creativity. Take advantage of all of the camera tips on this website and always make sure you have fun with your digital camera, whether it's a cellular phone camera, a point and shoot her a digital SLR camera. Many of these cellular phone camera tips can be used when you are using a more expensive digital camera too. It's just that you need to be aware of the limitations of a cellular phone camera. Happy Shooting, p.s. You've gotten this far reading this article. Here are 5 Bonus Cellular Phone Camera Tips for you: Camera Phone PicturesBack from Cellular Phone Camera Tips to Digital Camera Instructions
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Look to see where the existing light is coming from.