Introduction
Cell phone cameras are being used to create outstanding
images by the likes of National Geographic photographers.
This course concentrates the strengths to help you be a
better cell phone photographer.
You should always strive to do your best -- and show your
best. Great photography is not necessarily about equipment,
but how you approach capturing an image.
Advice from ChatGPT
The most basic tools (with any camera) are:
1. Choosing Where to Focus (Tap)
2. Locking Focus (Tap & Hold)
3. Exposure (Slide Finger to lighten or darken)
4. Locking Exposure
Demo on an iPhone
Use iPhone camera tools to set up your shot
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-your-shot-iph3dc593597/ios
Use the Camera Control on iPhone 16 models
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-the-camera-control-iph0c397b154/ios
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/iphone-16-using-new-camera-control-button/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6yXDlDi_U (2+ min)
iPhone Camera basics
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/camera-basics-iph263472f78/ios
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210571
https://iphonephotographyschool.com
iPhone Camera Features For Perfect Focus (9 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBdH-bttN-c
https://iphonephotographyschool.com/
How To Set The Correct Exposure For Stunning iPhone Photos (19 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h1qFnsCTzE
https://iphonephotographyschool.com/iphone-photography-tips/
https://iphonephotographyschool.com/iphoneography/
https://secure.iphonephotographyschool.com/iphone-photo-academy
iPhone EXIF Data
How to Use the Camera on an Android Phone
https://www.techsolutions.support.com/how-to/how-to-use-the-camera-on-an-android-phone-10194
https://www.androidcentral.com/ultimate-guide-android-photography
Moment Pro Camera App (control Shutter Speed and more)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pro-camera-by-moment/id927098908
Pro Camera by Moment is the manual camera app that gives you
full creative control and professional-level performance,
all at an affordable price. It brings us closer to what we
love about our DSLR and mirrorless cameras - exposure
controls, precise focus, rich colors, smooth video, crisp
audio - without being complicated.
Moment Lenses (and cases) for smart phones
https://www.shopmoment.com/mobile-lenses
Photo Assignment - Master Manual Focus and Focus Lock
In addition to creating compelling images of fall colors,
winter bareness, new spring growth, or anything else you
choose, create images with intentional focus. For
example:
1. subject in sharp focus with background blurred, and
2. the same subject blurred with background in sharp focus.
By mastering selective focus you can create artistic images
and/or draw the viewer to what you want to emphasize.
Basic Photography: A Set of Exercises
http://teeksaphoto.org/Writing/BasicPhotoExercises.html
Digital Photography Tutorials
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm
Book Recommendation
John Berger
About Looking
Pantheon (1980)
ISBN: 0679736557
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John
Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting
insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of
the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores
our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in
what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us
of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the
twentieth century? What is it about looking at war
photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How
do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority
and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude
inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these and other
questions, Berger quietly -- but fundamentally -- alters the
vision of anyone who reads his work.
sam.wormley@icloud.com