This article shows slides from The Pink Place, Basingstoke, presentation held on 14th August 2020.
- All the photographs in this presentation have been taking using a mobile phone, except the original in slide 5.
- This is a photograph of a photograph which I used to add filters using the AR lens mode. (The next slide shows the original photo)
- The special effects were added using the mobile phone filters and not added to the original photo.
This is the original photo taken with a Nikon D200 and off camera flashes.
The photo on the left was taken on Night Mode through my window showing the moon and the houses.
The photo on the right shows a moving lorry, this has created a trailing light effect.
Photograph taken on Night Mode and under exposed by half a stop.
The colours have been slightly enhance using the Snapseed App.
- On the phone Portrait Mode, there are two options ‘Beauty’ and ‘Effects’.
- Beauty: This is useful to soften skin tones to make the image appear glamorous. There is a slider to adjust the softening effect.
- Effects: There are several sub-filters under this option, such as, halo, circles, hearts, etc. These add soft shapes to the background of the photo. There are also lighting filters available under this option to mimic studio lighting, four are shown on the presentation slide.
Top left photo of the bird was taken at the Living Rain Forest. The phone was placed really close to the cage and focusing points were used to focus on the bird’s eye.
By moving the camera/phone closer to the cage allows you to include less of the cage wires in the photo.
Moving the phone/camera closer to the cage also makes the wires become out of focus as the camera cannot focus on them.
Any wires that are captured around the outline of the photo can be cropped using a software or app.
The photo of the fudge shop was taken in Hay-on-Wye, which is also knows as the town of books.
The photo showing a man with a drum was taken in Burges, Belgium.
Photograph of the garage door. I quite liked the colours of the garage which make it look animated. It's got some 3D shapes at the top of the door where it says ‘cinema nova’. I love street photography and I often use my mobile phone as its easily accessible and captures some amazing shots. The quality may not be to the standard of larger sensor camera, but its is good for general use.
- Photo taken at Lyminton Harbour using photo mode.
The photo of the trees on the right was taken using Pro Mode.
The photo is under exposed by half a stop to enhance the colours and capture the clouds in the sky.
Under exposure lets less light into the camera.
Pro Mode allows the flexibility to adjust the exposure by moving a slider to make the image darker or brighter.
Photo taken at Kew Gardens – Palm House
This image has also been under exposed just to capture the mist and the rays of the sun shining through the gaps.
Church in France – again under exposed to add detail in the window.
When taking photographs, always run your eyes on your screen to spot any unwanted objects, i.e. bins, lamp posts, and to see if there are any hot spots in an image.
Photo on the left is of a bumble bee on the flower. I focused on the bee’s eye and body, the rest of the image is out of focus.
Water-droplet on the leaf – by using the aperture mode, I have isolated the droplet from the background, drawing the eye straight to the droplet.
Far right photo – rain drops on the washing line. The droplets would naturally face downwards, but I rotated the image by 180 degrees to make the droplets appear facing upwards.
- This photograph was taken around Newbury Canal, using Aperture Mode for both images.
- The focus point on the left photo is on the flower, which has blurred the background.
- The focus point on the right photo is on the bridge, making the flower out of focus.
- By using aperture mode gives you the flexibility to decide which part of the image to blur or keep in focus.
- Using aperture, adds dimension and creativity to your photography.
- This mode is very useful for portrait, landscape, closeup, and street photography.
- Fairy lights – photograph taken on Light Graffiti Mode.
- Camera was moved up, down and across to capture the designs.
- Photo on right was lit using a battery-operated candle.
- On the Light Graffiti Mode – the camera is on live view – which means you can see the image being formed.
- A detailed article on ‘Light Painting with Mobile Phones’ can be found on my Blog – Ghatahora Photography – choose link below.
- http://ghatahoraphotography.blogspot.com/2020/07/light-painting-with-mobile-phone.html
- Perfume bottle also photographed using Light Graffiti Mode and has been lit using a battery operated candle.
- The photo on the right is of the stare and was taken using the Star Trails Mode for 45 minutes.
- The phone was mounted on a selfie stick used as a mini tripod.
- If your phone does not support any of the modes mentioned in the slides, most phone cameras will have Night, Photo and Video Mode.
- Most of the photography can be achieved using Photo Mode, i.e. portrait, closeup, landscape photography.
- Nigh Mode can be used for low light photography, e.g. festival lights, street lights, sunrise, sunset.
- Most phone camera setting should have an assistive grid. This grid can be used to keep your horizon straight on the horizontal lines and vertical to keep vertical lines straight (e.g. lampposts, doors, windows).
- Assistive grid can be found in your phone camera settings.
