Smartphone Photography - 4 Tips to Create INTERESTING Photos - Kingston indieHACK EP. 1

Опубликовано 15 января 2015, 18:00

In this episode of indieHACK, Khail is joined by photographer Mark Dimalanta to teach you some smartphone photography tips to take interesting photos on your iPhone. Mark shows Khail how to use make a blur vignette, use the burst mode, the rule of thirds, and how to take a better selfie. Subscribe to Kingston: youtube.com/subscription_cente...
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Transcript:
What's up, it's Khail Anonymous and welcome to Kingston's Indiehack. We're here to give you hacks that'll get you started on that creative project you've been waiting to try out. And we'll give you tips and tricks that'll give you pro level results without all that pro level equipment and expenses.
So today we're going to tackle photography. So you want to take amazing photos but you don't have $10,000 to spend to get an expensive DSLR. That's okay, cuz I don't either. But we're gonna show you how to get amazing photos from a camera you're probably carrying around every day, the smart phone.
Yes, all these photos were taken with an iPhone. As you can see, great photography isn't about having the latest and most expensive camera equipment. With a few simple tips and hacks, you can get some pretty awesome looking photos. And to help us out today, we have professional surf photographer, world traveler and all around nice guy, Mark Dimalanta.
I stumbled upon photography in a quite different way. Initially, I was training to be a physician and when I finished medical school, I sustained an injury. And while I was rehabbing, photography kind of opened up the door because I didn't know if I could still have the mobility required for medicine.
So when photography came my way, I just ran with it. As photographers, we're storytellers, we hold the tools to capture life and retell it. We preserve the legacy of human experiences, and I think that's the most important thing.
Mark.
Khail.
Great to meet you, yeah so photography, I heard that you actually left a career as a physician to be a photographer.
That's correct, I was formerly a physician, I hit a crossroads and I picked photography and just ran with it.
That's incredible. Well today you're going to help us address one of the most frequently asked questions, DIY style. So, let's go find out how we're gonna do that.
Okay, so, I notice you've got a lot of your professional equipment here. We're not gonna use that. I wanna know how to do the photo like this without any of that.
Well you need a cellphone to make something as simple as your picture frame. Remove the image and we're gonna use the sheet glass and take something like any type of petroleum jelly product.
And you're gonna smudge a circle into the window leaving the center portion cleared out where the lens is gonna take the photo.
So let's take one without first.
Sure.
All right, cool.
Instagram, but let's see what else we got.
This is purely a hardware technique, no software involved.
Keep the smudge portion near your lens, and only let the lens peek through the cleared out hole.
And photo, nice.
That's it.
All right so this next hack is about using some of the functions of your camera already, right?
Phones now have a burst mode simply by depressing the shutter release, it puts the camera in a mode where it'll fire rapidly in succession multiple bursts.
And we're gonna track the subject's movement at the same rate and fire off a burst. And what you're gonna get is a motion blur shot where the subject is sharp, but we can blur the background.
Let's give it a shot.
Yep, a few shots.
And with the multiple bursts you're bound to get at least one good photo, often you're gonna get several.
So we just too a lot of burst photos so my phone is full. Let's back up some of these photos. Let's use the mobile light wireless G2 save them here, free some space up here, and take some more photos, what do you think?
That sounds good, you've got them protected now.
Let's go outside and take more photos.
All right.
The first technique that I wanna teach you it's called Rule of Thirds. Every cell phone camera has a grid option where you can enable the grid. And the reason why they do that, if you notice, it splits up the field of view into thirds.
Aesthetically, the mind appreciates when an image is off to the side. It never really likes things that are dead center because it creates a lot of dead space. Let's incorporate Rule of Thirds. Let me take you this way, from a different angle, let's say 45 or 60 degrees.
And then you put the subject in the third cuz that way you incorporate more of the background and the subject is just a little more pleasing. Just change the field of view.