Photo Tips: How to Instantly Improve Your Phone Photos
The best camera, is the one you have with you.
So the saying goes.
And for most of us that is our phone camera. So I am going to share some of my favourite photo tips over the next few weeks, each including a really simple and easy tip to instantly improve your phone camera photos.
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Tip 1. Avoid logos and heavy patterns
These three phone photos below of my daughters in different outfits, each convey a really different feel. In the first portrait, a lightly pattered jumper brings the viewer to look at her face. The third is a complete contrast with bright colours and patterns which tells a story about the joy and colour of childhood but they also provide much more distraction and would make this a better documentary photo that a lifestyle portrait.
My children love choosing their own clothes but sometimes if we are going for a walk and I want to take photographs, I suggest playing models and photoshoots on our way to get a treat. If I can, I try and persuade them to wear ‘models clothes’, in all honesty, these are just the more classic outfits with solid, muted colours and more traditional styles.
The advantage of solid and muted colours, are they are more flattering by drawing attention to the face and away from their clothes, creating the ideal natural portrait. It also helps the photos to not look dated (like my dodgy 80s pictures!).
However, If your model will not be persuaded to wear any other outfit, and please don’t force them! It is more important they wear what they are comfortable in. Take the photos anyway and write a little note to go with it about their love of this outfit, or their sense of style - this will be a great memory to look back on, and it becomes more of a documentary photo.
Many cultures have the most amazing colours and patterns and it is great to see that reflected in photography, a little caption or a note with the photo will go along way to inform the aesthetes and historians of the future about the context behind the beautiful photo they are looking at.
