101 to quality cell phone photos

<p>i wrote this up for my watch forum last year, i think that this may be the perfect place to share what i came up with.. it is a bit goofy but fun is always good! please feel free to share your thoughts and thank you for looking!</p>

<p><strong>101 to quality cell phone pics</strong></p>

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Say geeks, have you ever taken a pic with your cell phone and felt like the photo had to be accompanied by "sorry for the bad cell pic"? well guess what, now days the cell phone camera is a very powerful tool right in your pocket!!!<br /> <br /> My goal here is to hopefully help anybody with a cell phone who wants to take better photos with it. unfortunately we don't all have smart phones, but i hope whether you carry a older phone with a very iffy camera or the top camera phone most have never heard of.. the LG C900 Viewity! this thing is actually a camera with a phone built in.. even including Nikkor lenses!<br /> <br /> Alright on to it. to fallow I will give you all some tips and pointers that you may or may not be able to use with your camera phone..<br /> <br /> The biggest advice i could ever possibly give anybody taking a pic with a phone....CLEAN YOUR LENS!! whether with your shirt or a micro fiber cloth (yeah i know you carry one in your pocket to keep that watch clean.) After all the lens is one of if not thee most important part of any camera, just before you take that pic, even a quick wrist shot, give that little buddy a rub down with something soft!!<br /> <br /> SETTINGS, dont be scared, get to know them. you may find something very useful hiding in there, for instance some of you may have a "anti-shake" feature.. if you do, turn it on and leave it on!<br /> within almost all camera phone settings there are two that are very important QUALITY and SIZE, turn these both up as far as they go!! (But RDM, why do i want to make the size bigger?) well simply enough said.. the bigger the photo, the more pixels and more pixels means the photo will be more clear when blown up from your tiny cell phone screen to a computer screen.. also some photo editing apps/software or 3rd party hosting sites will compress your photos, sometimes even by more than half! so once again bigger is better!<br /> <br /> PHOTO EDITING APPS/SOFTWARE and your 3rd PARTY SHARING SITE<br /> another one of these don't be scared places to be.. though not needed for taking good photos, they can be very helpful to make your good photos better (but not in all cases)<br /> depending on your marketplace you may have an extremely large selection of photo editing apps some for free some you have to pay for.. i personally use "thumba photo editor 3" play around and find one you like! within your selected photo editor or your photo sharing site there are many helpful tools, like CROP for that "Oh i didnt notice that ugly car driving past" or since many phones do not have the ability to capture what i will call "true color" or the colors you see with your eyes, there are COLOR, CONTRAST, HUE, SATURATION, and BRIGHTNESS edits/adjustments you can make to get your pic back to those great colors you saw! not all photos are great in color though, why not try out a GREY SCALE/ B&W or SEPIA to get that right dimension you want..<br /> <br /> Okay, so now you actually want to take a picture. GOOD!<br /> You cleaned your lens right?<br /> You've got all your setting set how you want?<br /> "Well RMD, i'm all set up, but i don't have a anti-shake option and i drank too much coffee this morning and im all shaky!"<br /> Alright, ive got some tips for that also. 3 tips as a matter of fact..<br /> 1.) though it may require a change in location, find something to rest against, or to rest your hands on.. this will act kind of like a tripod and help stable your jittery coffee hands.<br /> 2. well 2 and 3 kinda work on the same concept.. does your phone have an actual camera button you use for taking the pic? YES<br /> is it a smart phone with a touch screen? YES<br /> alright, tap the screen... did it take a pic? YES<br /> well alright then, since reaching for and putting the pressure down to push the button can make you wibble wobble all over, use the option to just touch the screen instead. it will keep more control in your hands of holding your camera in place.<br /> If your answers were NO to all that about touch screens and taping and all that, here is one more option.. go to your settings, go to timer (of you have a smart phone that you for whatever reason cant take a pic by touching the screen and dont have a timer in your settings, go to your app store and get a photo timer.)<br /> alright, is everybody set? alright. choose a timer setting that is long enough for you to get into place but not so long that your not standing there like a fool waiting for your phone to take a pic! 5 seconds should be a good time.. now you dont have to worry about pushing any buttons and can put all you attention to not shaking your phone around like you're at a rave..<br /> <br /> that concludes my tips, if i missed something please feel free to add a post with your tip that i forgot <img title="Head slapper" src="http://watchgeeks.net/images/smilies/EMOEMEmbarrassed05HL2.gif" alt="" border="0" /><br /> if you would just like to add something in general, well this is a forum so go right ahead!<br /> <br /> thank you for reading, and i very hope somebody finds this helpful!<br /> <br /> <br /> Jon aka RussianDiveMaster

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<p>I just take photos I do not feel the need to say sorry about the gear I use.</p>

<p>Why would a Photographer have to justify the gear they use ? Sort of a sad thought.</p>

<p>Anyway to my mind Photography is about photos...so, my contribution to the real world of Photography.</p>

<p>A Photograph.</p>

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<p>Why would anyone feel the need to justify.. anything... to anyone about their Photography.</p>

<p>Especially to gearheads who's only concern is to have the latest gear. </p>

 

<p>Allen,<br>

thank you for your response. please keep in mind this was a thread for a different forum and for people who are not per-say "photographers" but what collectors, a lot of which don't realize cleaning the lens on there phones will immediately improve there photos. to some people the best they "think" they can do is a shaky blurry smeared photo and this thread above i wrote up so they could get better and not have the need to justify a bad photo.. </p>

I found this extremely helpful! My only equipment right now is my

phone LG Vortex Android. The slow shutter kills me sometimes,

especially if I'm trying to capture a moving target. Will a photo timing

app help resolve that issue? Picture quality is another problem. I will

see if my phone camera has a setting for higher quality and size. If not,

do you know of any camera apps with those settings? Thanks for all your

great advice! I've only got a few images up in my portfolio but I'd love a

critique!<div></div>

<p>Liane,<br>

i used to love my LGs for there camera! you should have a butt load of settings in an Android.<br>

a photo timing app will just give you a countdown to when the photo will snap the photo at like 3, 5, 10 second timer. as far as i have seen no app with give you settings if you dont have them things like that are normally up to the maker. </p>

<p>Liane, i have gone through your photos, some of them are excellent but others are just blurry, one think i can say is if you're using your phones zoom, dont that is a very good place for noise and blurriness to come from with cell phones.. with the photo you included above, you got very nice colors out of that flower but the focus seems to be on the tip of the lower petal instead of the pestal, in my OP i was using a not so new fancy touch screen and on that phone if you tapped the screen it would just take the photo, while on my lumia 920 it will focus where ever i tape the screen. this is not something i knew about until recently but if your Vortex does this also be sure to tap where you want to focus though this may be difficult to hold the phone where you want it and reach in and tap the screen in just the right spot</p>

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