Essentials For Mobile Photography For Better Smartphone Photos

 Mobile photography game is getting stronger day by day thanks to our mobile phone industries they are pushing the boundaries of mobile cameras. Mobile cameras are improving continuously with the use of AI , latest camera sensors , latest hardware technologies. Nowadays mobile cameras are able to take good photos but having a good mobile camera doesn't means automatically you can take better photos.

Yes! Mobile camera is in the race of professional camera but for some extraordinary photos you'll definitely need some good understanding of camera techniques, good photography skills and some other useful external stuffs.

In this blog we are going to discuss some essential accessories to remove some of the limitations allowing it to take even better photos.

1. Tripod

Tripods helps you to take completely stable images you don't have to worry about shaky or blurry images.

Table top tripods are smallest in the group , table top tripods are best suited for the flat surfaces. Another one in the list is octopus tripods they have the advantage of having flexible legs. They can be adjusted and folded in many ways and also wrap around rigid surfaces.

2. Smartphone Lenses

Smartphone built-in lenses have limited capacity to overcome this add on smartphone lenses plays a better role in the game. These add on lenses provide better quality, better control over focal lengths, optical zoom capacities, macros distance.

Photo:  Wouter du Toit

Quality of mobile cameras improving and are having set on more and more pixels and setup like dual, triple and quadcore camera setup and improved hardware setup and AI based software setups and having more control over camera's shutter speed, focus and white balance settings.

But all these control over mobile camera doesn't mean that it can do everything well. These add-on lenses provide better macro photos , portraits, landscapes and wide angle photos. These smartphone lenses even provide fish eye lens which gives some interesting shots.

3. Lights

Lights plays an important role in photography even the game of photography is all depends on lights.

Smartphone comes with in-built flash light but it's not sufficient at all.

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External lite comes in many sizes like ring light , led panels etc. External lights helps in creating dramatic and clear shots and external lights also helps in low light photography or night photography.

You must have try to invest in lights for some good shots.

4. Microfiber Cloth

As we all know that mobiles are handy we carry them in pockets , bags or in our hands which results in dirty and oily camera glass that leads to blurry or smudgy photos which is not good for quality of photos.

Photo: By Jackie Dove

Cleaning with normal cotton cloth or any other cloth is not a good option because these types of cloths leaves their traces on the glass of screen or on the camera lens. That's why microfiber cloth is essential.

5. Smartphone gimbal

 Image stabilization plays an important role in photography you can use your camera handheld but with use of gimbal you can further improve your image stabilization.

Photo: Ben Sin

There are lot of smartphone gimbal brands in the market.Gimbals comes with many option which helps in your photography and videography. Surely investing in gimbals is good option.

                                                                                                                                            

All the accessories mentioned above surely helps in improving your photography. But having all the accessories doesn't mean you are going to click extraordinary photos. Don't feel low if you doesn't afford all these accessories take your time in investing in these accessories and till then keep improving your skills.

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