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Mobile Photography Taking photos: Hold the Phone/Camera still
Updates for
Photographers
by Jerry Hug Member of DesPlaines CC
Mobile Photography in the hands of a profes-
sional or highly skilled amateur photographer
is now raking in accolades around the globe.
Dr Russell Brown from Adobe recently used
only an iPhone on a trip to the Antarctica. His
images were published and exhibited by a
major photographic supplier of printers and
supplies. Fine Art Photographer Tony Sweet
sells is iPhone images at the same price as
those taken with his big boy Nikons. The list
goes on.
What is Mobile Photography? The use of
iPhones and other Smart cell phones, elec-
tronic pads like the iPad where you can: 1.
Take the photo, 2. edit the images, 3. save the
stored the image and 4. immediately share
with the world via the internet.
How to get started? 1. Learn how to use both
the given automatic and all of the manual con-
trols of the camera on the mobile devices.
(Just like any other camera.) There are tech-
nical skills and creativity needed as in any
photographic venture. 2. Find out what are the
best photo applications (apps) to use for
shooting and editing the images. 3. Use the
cell phone camera by always having it with
you and ready to use. More great images
were lost except for that image in our mind
because we never had a camera ready to
shoot. Use our editing skills in Photoshop and
other editing software and use the same tech-
niques with apps in the mobile devices.
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for good sharp photos. 2. Quick Access Using
the Left Swipe. 3. Manual focus by touching
the screen on the most important spot to focus
in the image. 4. AE/AF Lock. 5. Use the HOR
feature in high contrast situations. (iPhone us-
ers - I recommend VividHDR app as a better
solution then the built in HOR. 6. Shoot Using
Burst Mode to catch moving subjects. 7. Use
the Volume Buttons and your Apple Head-
phones for another shutter button. Follow the
light for the best images and less editing.
(Professional Photographers can now shoot
RAW files on the iPhone and edit the RAW
images in Lightroom Mobile and then send
these images to their computer via Adobe's
service.)
Taking a photo of a small child or pet that
keep moving? No problem! Shoot a 10 second
video of the moving (child or pet) for iPhones
or iPads use the Vhoto app and harvest of the
best single image(s) that you want. The exam-
ple of the petdog was only edited by cropping.
Editing images in your mobile devices has
been made simple, fast and with quality tools
like Photoshop and Lightroom by using the
free app "Snapseed". If you have a workflow
that works on your computer, do not change
your procedure for Snapseed. If you are new
to photo editing, try the very basic editing tools
already in Photos on your devices.
Snapseed will give you more powerful tools
with no cost and large learning curve associat-
ed with Photos hop and Lightroom. Getting
started with Snapseed - there are built in tuto-
rials in the app. You need WiFi for the tutori-
als. There also are many free tutorial in
YouTube. (I have extensive notes and sug-
gestions on my Speaker Notes 2017. Email
me for a free copy at jerryhug@comcast. net)
Masking in Snapseed? Yes, checkout the
YouTube Snapseed masking demo by Rad
Drew.
Jerry Hug, APSA