7 Tips to get better pictures from your phone's camera!

#1 Avoid back light or use HDR 

   Avoid shooting your subject with a light source from behind as the light will get all the focus making your subject look almost black. If you can't switch the position use the HDR mode in your phone camera mode, it would help you to bring a lot of details from the subject.

#2 Use burst or continuous shot for moving objects

         You probably don't want your pictures to be blurred out. Fast moving objects such as vehicles or an every time jumping kid could bring you some trouble, use the burst or continuous mode that may help you to seize the perfect moment.

#3 Dont use the flash too near to face or subject

    The most common mistake people do while clicking in low light is using the camera with flash too close to the face or subject that brings an ugly yellow or blue shade to it. Don't do that, after all you might not want your friend to jump over you with ghost face in the pic.               

#4 Focus before you click!

Before clicking the picture click on your object to lock the focus to it. A simple tap on the screen will do that and it will look sharp and focused.

#5 Clean your lens 

Your camera lens is one the most crucial part of the camera which protects everything inside it. It easily attracts fingerprints and accumulates a lot of dirt. Remember to clean it next with a cloth or soft tissue.

 #6 Place the camera app on lock screen and home screen

 Sometimes it takes a while for you to search the camera app in the app drawer and the shot vanishes. Let not that happen any more by placing the app on the lock and home screen. So its as fast as pressing the lock key and start shooting.

                 

#7 Edit wisely
Last but not the least everyone loves to edit but put a limit to it. Too much of editing can give you bad results and will allow the noise to pop in.

                     

The MegaPixel War! Does it matter?

The Megapixel war !

Can we really count on megapixels to output a better set of photos?
Is there any need of those so-called higher megapixel stuff to really get the most out of our photography skills?

It wont to be wrong to state that the quote ' more megapixel, better the quality' is the most common myth we come across!
 

Megapixels do have their part in the photography sphere but it is not what is responsible for the harsh quality of the photos one may get. A majority of people take megapixel in account to determine the quality of pictures. To make things clear lets start with what they are-

            Megapixel??

Megapixel is the resolution at which your camera clicks the photo and save it to the memory. A greater megapixel count helps in retaining the overall sharpness of the image when zoomed in or cropped. In simple words if your camera is marked with more megapixels than your friend's camera, you can crop the same image more than your friends without loosing much of its data. But keep in mind you cannot always show him off with the picture quality you get from your camera.
Yes, he may get better shots!

Then, what actually decides the quality?

Sensor size, pixel size,image processor, post processing and camera algorithms are some of the elements that account for the same. We cannot discuss all of these in a single blog but will take them in detail in the near future.

Do higher megapixels have any merits?

# You can get a large image with a lot  of details in the pictures.

# If you like to get your pictures printed, you can get them as big as size of a wall preserving all the quality.

# It may be a great deal for wildlife photographers as they can crop a lot after the shoot to get the subject as desired.

# People who need to get even the minute of details in the photos need to have a larger MP.

Is greater always better?

# Large photos usually sum up into large file size. Your photos may carry a size of 30mb each (if you shoot at raw).

# It becomes quite a non-sense process to manage those huge files after you come back shooting and storing them isn't a cake walk.

# For people who love to stick to their old stuff would certainly not love the high MP philosophy as it takes a lot of processing power for a computer to edit large images especially if you have something old.

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What is Aperture?

WHAT IS APERTURE ?

Hey! You must have heard about Aperture, especially if you are a newbie to the photography world. A lot of people find it head scratching but there isn't any rocket science in it.

In simple words it is a opening or hole in your camera through which light enters into the camera. So, what it actually does is it controls the amount of light for your images or videos thus making the images bright or dark. It is represented by ' F/x ' where f and x stands for focal length and diameter of lens respectively.
Smaller the diameter larger or wider will be the aperture.
for an instance f/1.8 is much wider than f/3.5 and will gather much more light.

Look at the images below shot at - f/3.5 & f/6.3 (all other settings were kept same)

From the images above, the one shot at f/3.5 tends to be more brighter and properly exposed than the one shot at f/6.3 which looks slightly under exposed  and dull.

Another thing in which aperture comes in play is bringing the bokeh effect or depth of field or background blur whatever you may like to call it. As the size of aperture widens or increase , it will show a deeper depth of field to the non-focused elements of picture.

(other settings have been adjusted for proper lighting)

As you can see in the pictures above, the depth of field is most dominating in the pic with f/3.6, while it is still fine with f/8 but is shallower in the one with f/16.

Hope you got an idea of what aperture. Thanks for your time!