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13 Tips for Improving Camera Phone Photos

We are living in a time where convergence is everywhere. Gone are the days when a camera

was a camera, a MP3 player was an MP3 player, a phone was a phone.

These daysdigital camerasare fond in a variety of other gadgets ! inclding cell phones "a

prime e#ample is the range of $ony %ricsson Wal&man Phonescomplete with MP3 player and

' megapi#el camera(. )n fact *amera Phones are one of the fastest growing segments of the

digital camera mar&et and with the improvements in the +ality of what is eing offered in

some phones "higher megapi#els, etter lenses, high capacity storage( many elieve that they

are eginning to win mar&et share away from the low end offerings of many digital camera

manfactrers.

-nfortnately many of the pictres eing ta&en with *amera Phones are poor in +ality. This

might partially e a reslt of lower +ality cameras ! t it is also often a reslt of poorphotographic techni+e.

Following are 13 tips for Camera Phone owners to help them get the most from their

cameras:

. Well lit subjects! The etter lit yor s/ect is the clearer yor image is li&ely to e.

)f possile shoot otside or trn on lights when shooting inside. 0e aware that

different lights impact the color in yor images differently. %#periment with White

0alance to rectify this "see elow(. $ome cameras come with a ilt in flash or light !

this can really lift a shot and add clarity to it, even if yore shooting otside. )f yor

camera doesnt have a flash or light yo shold avoid shooting into right lights asyoll end p with s/ects that are silhoetted.

'. Get Close! 1ne of the most common mista&es with camera phone images is that their

s/ect ends p eing a tiny, nrecogni2ale o/ect in the distance. *amera phone

images tend to e smallish de to low resoltion ! so fill p yor view finder with yor

s/ect to save having to 2oom in on the s/ect in editing it later "which decreases

+ality even more(. aving said this, getting too close on some model camera phones

creates distorition of either fisheye effect or lac& of focs de to poor macro aility.

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3. eep it !till! 4s with all digital photography, the

more steady yor phone is when ta&ing yor shot the

clearer yor image will e. This is especiallyimportant in low light sitations where the camera

will se longer shtter speeds. ) always try to lean

my camera phone5hand against a solid o/ect "li&e a tree, wall, ledge( when ta&ing

shots. 6eep in mind that many camera phones also sffer from shtter lag "ie the

time etween when yo press the shtter and when the camera ta&es the shot can e a

second or so(. This means yo need to hold the camera still a little longer to ensre it

doesnt ta&e a shot as yore lowering it away from the s/ect.

7. "#it images later! Whilst it can e fn to se yor camera phones inilt editing

and effects, editing pictres later on yor compter prodces mch etter +ality

images. Ta&e yor shotsin color at high resoltion to &eep yor options open on how

to treat it later. 8o can always ma&e it lac& and white on yor compter, t yocant ma&e it color if yo ta&e it in 0lac& and White mode.

9. $on%t Throw &wa' (mista)es%! :ememer that on many phones the +ality of the

screen will not e as good as yor compters. $o if possile hang onto yor shots

ntil yo can get them on yor P*. 8o might /st find that they come alive on a

+ality monitor. 8oll also find that even mista&es and lrred shots can actally e

+ite seale "in an astract &ind of way(

;. &voi# *sing the $igital +oom! 4s tempting as it might e to 2oom in on yor

s/ect when ta&ing yor pictre "if yo have a 2oom featre on yor camera phone(,

it actally will decrease the +ality of yor shot to se yor digital 2oom. Pls yo can

always edit yor shot later sing photo editing software on yor compter. $ome

camera phonesare eginning to hit the mar&et with optical 2ooms ! these are fine tose as they dont enlarge yor s/ect y enlarging pi#els.

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?. eep /our 0ens Clean ! 1ne of the challenges with many camera phones is &eeping

them maintained and clean. Phones spend a lot of time in poc&ets, in ags and eing

sed in all manner of weather and conditions. 4s a reslt they get dirty and can easily

ecome damaged ! fingerprints are a common prolem on camera lenses ! especially if

yor phone doesnt have a lens cover. @rom time to time clean the lens of yor camera

sing a soft cloth "snglasses cleaning cloths are great(.

A bserve Camera Phone "ti2uette! While there is no formal set of rles for sing

camera phones ! it is worth considering how yo se it and what impact it might have pon

others. There are many cases of camera phones eing ased to ta&e snea&y or voyeristic

photos. 4s& permission to photograph strangers, consider restrictions on the se of cameras in

places li&e theaters and concerts etc.

A .ename 'our Images ! a common prolem with digital camera and camera phone owners

is that with increasingly large storage cards that yo can easily end p with a phone fll ofhndreds of images which can ma&e it difficlt to find the ones that yo want. 4dding names

and5or descriptions to yor shots as yo ta&e them "or at the end of the day( can help in

managing yor shots later.

A *se the highest resolution possible on 'our camera phone ! $ome phones allow yo to

choose what resoltion yo want to ta&e photos at. )t almost goes withot saying "t we li&e

to state the leeding ovios( that the higher yor resoltion the clearer yor shot will e.

This is especially tre for camera phones which often have sensors of nder megapi#el in

them. 6eep in mind however that the higher the resoltion the larger the file si2e of the

images yo ta&e ! this means if yo want to send images they can end p ta&ing a long time to

send.

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