... is the one you have with you. In the quest to leave my dSLR at home more, I've been trying to see what our new set of iPhone's can do (yeah we got a his and hers). So this Tuesday's tips will be practical photography principles for phones (is that enough "p"s for ya'll).
Technical Photography Notes: 1/25 sec at f/2.8 , ISO 74. But that's pretty meaningless since the iPhone (and most phones) do everything automatically. Because of their small sensors/lens, camera phones have a near infinite depth of field which translates into everything in the photo being relatively sharp. That's great for close-ups but not much else. This "feature" means you have to be particularly mindful of what's in the background, lest it distracts from the cute, chubby, little faces that you are photographing. Here are a couple of composition tips that are generally applicable, but particularly so for these tiny cameras:
- If you are on a moving object (e.g. car, carousal, stroller) you can use the motion to blur the background (see above)
- Shoot from above and use the floor as a backdrop (unless you are in a bathroom in Chinatown)
- Ask your kids to stand near a wall (tickle them into the corner if you have to)
- ... or use the background to help tell the story (like remote control race cars racing around a track).
The following 30-second video illustrates the results of these photography tips. You'll have to excuse the post-processing as my workflow isn't really optimized for making iPhone images look their best.
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