Phone photographyExample course · read-only

Better photos with the phone in your pocket

Mission

Take photos of my family and our trips that look like what I actually saw, with the phone I already have.

success looks like

constraints

10 minutes per sitting
Uses the phone they already own; no extra lenses, tripods or lights
Practises at home and on family outings, often with children who won't sit still

out of scope

3 Lessons finished

00048 SeptSets focus and brightness with a tapKnew a tap sets focus and exposure and slid darker to save a white window in Lesson 2, and answered the same idea again in Lesson 3's review question.
00035 SeptTurns the subject to face the lightSpotted backlight and chose to find the light first in Lesson 1, then turned the subject to face the window in Lesson 2's review question.
00022 SeptThought the flash gives the most flattering lightPicked the phone's own flash as the softest light in Lesson 1. Corrected: the flash fires straight from the front and flattens faces; a window or a cloudy sky gives softer light.
00012 SeptShoots on the default settingsSaid in the Interview they point and press the shutter on an Android phone, have never changed a camera setting, and mostly photograph their children and holidays.