Tips on taking good pics w phone

[sfrigon1]

Hey newbie here just curious if you guys and gals have any tips on how to take good pictures using a Google pixel and or cellphone

 

[MtRainDog]

Stop the fans to prevent motion blur. Avoid using the flash and instead go for an LED flashlight that can be positioned at an angle.

Zoom in/out to get the focal length that looks best for the image frame you're trying to capture, but avoid zooming in too much. You cell phone camera will have an "optical" zoom amount from it's widest setting to probably around 35-50mm, then it will start using "digital" zoom which means it's cropping your image, which means diminished quality. On my iphone 1-1.6x is optical, everything afterwards is digital.

 

[Gweedo]

getting all the motion out of the shot is key methinks, I take about 4 for every good one and I'm on a cheap ass Samsung j7

 

[sfrigon1]

Stop the fans to prevent motion blur. Avoid using the flash and instead go for an LED flashlight that can be positioned at an angle.

Zoom in/out to get the focal length that looks best for the image frame you're trying to capture, but avoid zooming in too much. You cell phone camera will have an "optical" zoom amount from it's widest setting to probably around 35-50mm, then it will start using "digital" zoom which means it's cropping your image, which means diminished quality. On my iphone 1-1.6x is optical, everything afterwards is digital.

Ty, ty,ty

 

[Evergreengardener]

what alot of people dont think about is to wipe off the lens of the phone its covered in finger prints most times ive taken pics wiped it clean and did it again and wow the difference

 

[Rosinallday]

Fill the frame. Good tip for any picture taking.

 

[Jewels]

Many OS's will allow target focusing.
Within the camera's view finder, tap/doubletap/tap-and-hold the part of the image that you want to be in focus.

 

[Jewels]

This image was left to its own devices. The AI recognized the cabling and the text on the cords and chose to focus on that.

On this image, I tapped the left side of the touchscreen. That forced the focus off the text, and on to the bud.