Mark Hemmings

Believe it or not, most of the technical and creative innovation in the photographic industry is coming not from the DSLR household name corporations, but from a mobile phone manufacturer! Your Android smartphone is a brilliant mixture of art and science, and its camera is ready and able to help you capture that next stunning photo op.

In this article, you discover a series of quick tips used by the top professional travel photographers. As you go through each tip and sample iPhone photo, keep a note of which techniques resonate with you and how you can plan to implement them on your next trip. Practice design-based photography It’s often tempting to photograph an entire beautiful building when traveling.

Organizing photos on your iPhone may seem like a pain and a waste of time, but if you get in the habit of placing every photo within a custom named album, your future self will greatly thank you for it.You can find all of your photos in the Recents folder. The Recents folder is the master folder that contains all the photos that you’ve taken with your iPhone's camera and/or have imported from external cameras or devices.

Landscape photography requires great light, a stable iPhone, and also a composition that shows off the scene the best way possible. The word composition describes how photographers and painters present their chosen scene within the boundaries of their camera frame or painter’s canvas. This article introduces and explains how the Rule of Thirds can help you compose your landscapes like a pro.

Portraiture is one of the trickiest genres of iPhone photography because you’re dealing with people who naturally want (and sometimes demand) that you make them look amazing. This desire, of course, is understandable. The following discussion explains tools at your disposal to present your family members in the best light possible!

If you have a good understanding of how to light your still life product, you are ready for a few pro tips to help you master the genre. In the following discussion, I offer still life and product iPhone photography tips for you to practice. With each day of photography, you will see yourself get better at both the technical and the creative side of still life photography.

As with all photographic genres, sports photography has its own set of best practices. The tips and techniques in the following sections specifically help you with creating better iPhone sports photos, and as quickly and easily as possible. Use the Rule of Thirds In the following two figures, you see that there are two acceptable ways to frame-up your photo or crop your photo afterward.