10 professional secrets for amazing smartphone photos

These tips and tricks will help you improve your smartphone photos. They are so simple that it is simply hard to believe that we did not know about them.

Pictolic has collected some secrets from mobile photography professionals that will take your smartphone photos to the next level.

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1. Headset as a shutter release.

One of the advantages of your headset is that it can be used as a shutter release, like a tether on professional cameras. Simply connect your mobile headset to your smartphone, launch the camera and press the "+" button on the headset, which will increase the volume. In the camera app, she will take a picture.

2. DIY tripod.

Sometimes a tripod is not enough for shooting. To solve this problem, create your own tripod. Take an unnecessary plastic card and bend it as shown in the photo. And you don't need a selfie stick.

3. Panoramic twins.

Use the panorama feature to create twins in one shot without Photoshop.

Select the panoramic shooting function and ask the model to stand in the desired place and start moving the phone in any direction. Once your model is out of bounds, stop. While you are doing this, the model should walk around you and move to another position. Continue shooting.

4. Small planet.

There are dozens of applications to create a similar effect. One of them is RollWorld. Just download it and upload the picture.

5. Underwater shooting.

To shoot underwater with a camera, you need expensive equipment, and cheap cases are extremely inconvenient. But it is much more convenient to shoot underwater with your phone. How to do this so that you do not need to repair Meizu M1 Note or your favorite iPhone, you need to protect the phone from moisture. To do this, put the phone in an empty glass and lower it into the water, then take a picture.

For deeper underwater shooting, put your phone in a condom and it will become waterproof.

6. Use a reflector.

To get rid of shadows on the face when shooting on a sunny day, you need lighting equipment, a flash, or a reflector. The latter is simpler, cheaper, and the result is excellent. If you don't want to buy a professional reflector, foil or a sheet of paper will do.

7. Use HDR.

The HDR function creates three frames with different exposures and sticks them together. The photo is more contrasted and brighter.

8. Balloon instead of a quadcopter.

You don't need a drone to shoot from above your height. And no one needs to get on the neck. Just attach your phone to a helium balloon. Just fasten carefully and hold tight.

9. Macro photography.

Macro photography isn't a smartphone's forte, but you can fix that with a small lens you can take out of a laser pointer. Attach it to your smartphone as in the photo and make beautiful macro shots.

10. Sunglasses as a polarizing filter.

Sunglasses are a great filter. If they are polarized, then you can get a photo of water without glare, and the water will be transparent. Just shoot through glasses. Nothing complicated.