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Published:
August 4, 2020

iPhone Photography For Dummies

Overview

Create beautiful iPhone photos with the techniques found in this book

iPhone Photography For Dummies, shares the expertise of photography workshop instructor Mark Hemmings as he shows readers how to get stunning images using their favorite iPhone. By implementing Hemmings' simple techniques, you'll get professional-looking results in a fraction of the time you’d expect. You’ll learn to:

  • Adjust camera settings
  • Create majestic landscape images
  • Capture exciting action shots
  • Shoot beautiful portraits
  • Select an editing app
  • Share and organize images
  • Shoot photos comfortably while on the go

Perfect for those who want to take breathtaking photos without investing in a top-of-the-line camera, iPhone Photography For Dummies takes the guesswork and luck out of creating beautiful imagery. It shows people without formal training in photography how to make meaningful and noticeable improvements in their shooting technique using either the latest iPhone model or older versions of the device.

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About The Author

Mark Hemmings can be found traveling the world conducting photography workshops with a big emphasis on iPhone photography. He has a great passion for teaching iPhone camera best practices, which shows in his daily Instagram photo lessons. Mark has been a professional photographer since 1997 and an iPhone travel photographer since 2012.

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CHEAT SHEET

Believe it or not, most of the technical and creative innovation in photography today is coming not from the big DSLR manufacturers but rather from mobile phone makers. Your Apple iPhone is a brilliant mixture of art and science, and its camera is ready and able to help you capture your next stunning photo.Discover how to create bold, strong compositions that hold your viewer’s attention.

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As of this writing, Apple produces iPhones that have a single lens camera, a dual lens, and a triple lens. Understanding these hardware differences straight-away can help you navigate your own iPhone better, as well as help you with future purchasing decisions. One thing to keep in mind is that it doesn’t matter if your iPhone model only has one lens.
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.
Your iPhone has a count-down timer that allows for a delay between the time that you tap the shutter release button and the time that the photo is actually taken. This delay comes in two different time options: a three-second delay and a ten-second delay. The three second timer delay is popular for landscape and product photographers as it diminishes the chance of camera shake due to the photographer touching the iPhone.
If you feel that your main subject appears too far away in your composition, you can visually bring that subject much closer to occupy more space within your picture. The term zooming in is borrowed from standard cameras that have lenses that can physically zoom in and zoom out. Simply stated, by the act of zooming out you can have a very wide looking scene where a lot is included in your photo, or you can zoom in to capture the plumage of a beautiful bird in a distant tree.
With the advent of the iPhone 11 series models, you don’t need to worry too much about when to use the flash. With intelligent software wizardry, Apple has been able to create flash-free, evenly lit photographs that were previously impossible. Apple believes in its technology so much that if you turn your flash to Auto mode, you may not even see it fire unless you’re in a very dark environment.
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.
Believe it or not, most of the technical and creative innovation in photography today is coming not from the big DSLR manufacturers but rather from mobile phone makers. Your Apple iPhone is a brilliant mixture of art and science, and its camera is ready and able to help you capture your next stunning photo.Discover how to create bold, strong compositions that hold your viewer’s attention.
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.
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!
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.
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