5 Mistakes That Kill Your Smartphone Photos

Every­one is tak­ing pic­tures with their smart­phones these days! You post them on Face­book, Insta­gram and share them with friends…but are you aware that you are more than like­ly mak­ing mis­takes when you take these pho­tos? Mis­takes, you ask, how can I make mis­takes? I point the phone and press the but­ton! Well, believe it or not, there are 5 mis­takes that kill your smart­phone pho­tos, and they are easy to avoid.

Don’t make these mistakes…

1. Forgetting to Clean Your Lens 

This may seem like a no brain­er, but how many times have you snapped a pic­ture, looked at it, and it appears hazy or blur­ry? That’s because you haven’t cleaned your lens. Unlike the lens of a cam­era, the lens on a smart­phone cam­era has no cov­er. You would­n’t use your cam­era with­out wip­ing its lens, don’t use your smart­phone cam­era with­out clean­ing its lens. 

2. Zooming In on Your Subject

Nev­er zoom! I can’t stress this one enough. Most smart­phone cam­eras do not have the abil­i­ty to zoom. All that will hap­pen if you zoom in on your smart­phone is that you will end up with a pix­e­lat­ed pho­to. If you want to zoom in, move your feet, and get clos­er to your sub­ject. If that’s not pos­si­ble, take the pic­ture and crop it later. 

3. Forgetting to Focus 

Again, you would­n’t use an expen­sive DSLR cam­era and not choose your focal point. Treat your smart­phone cam­era with the same respect. Slow down, take a minute, and make sure that every­thing in your pho­to is in focus. Touch the part of the screen that you want to be in focus to guar­an­tee sharpness. 

4. Using Your Smartphones Flash 

Don’t use a flash! Again, I can’t stress this one enough. I would actu­al­ly ask that right now, you stop read­ing this, dis­able your smart­phone flash, and then come back and join me. A flash is real­ly not going to do any­thing for your pho­tos. Use nat­ur­al light­ing as much as possible. 

5. Forgetting to Charge Your Battery

This one may sim­ple sil­ly, but how many times have you been out and about ready to take a pho­to and your phone dies? If you take pic­tures with a cam­era, you make sure it’s charged before head­ing out. Do the same with your phone!

Now, charge your bat­tery, clean your lens, and get out there, find inspi­ra­tion and begin prac­tic­ing, and remem­ber to be aware of the 5 mis­takes that can kill your smart­phone photos!

Cheers-Dena

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