Camera - definition GLOSSARY Today’s smartphones come equipped with a very comprehensive set of camera related specifications. Our smartphone, for many of us, has become our primary camera due to it being the one we always have with us. In its purest form, smartphone photography is all about collecting photons (light) and converting them into electrons (image). The capabilities of the supporting hardware and software are paramount to producing high-quality images of your chosen subject. Image Signal Processor (ISP) An equally important part of the smartphone camera experience is the Image Signal Processor (ISP), this is part of the silicon within a smartphones chip-set/CPU and in conjunction with the phone's software and OS provides additional enhancements and special effects when both capturing images and to the pictures once captured. These include face detection, filters, panoramic scene capturing and object identification. Images are also geo-tagged with the G...
TAKING MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY TO THE NEXT LEVEL BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY-COMPOSITION Photography follows many art and design rules Think about the arrangement of objects and/or people Generally, the closes item to the camera (viewer) will appear bigger Models known how to position their bodies to change how they appear- you can learn these trick, too Color often hides bad photography BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY- LIGHTING “ Soft” lighting (but not flat light) is the typically best for photographing people – this can mean using a fill flash to even out differences between people and the background, shooting in shade or on a semi-cloudy day Natural light shifts in color over the seasons and at the time of the day Flat lighting is when there is little distinguishing contrast between objects and background – often characterized by a lack of shadows and highlights BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY- PLANNING Scop out/plan the photograph – review lighting and backgrounds p...