>>4261254Part 2
3.) Good light is almost always more important than an interesting subject. Shoot during golden hour if you can. If you are going to photograph a person or pet, make sure that they are lit from the front, and off-axis from the center so they are well-lit but have pleasing soft shadows. In general, just chase the light, not the subject, and then compose around good light.
4.) Think about your background, not just your subject. Photos are broken into foreground, midground, and background. They should all be pleasing to look at. If you have a good subject and good light, but a shitty background, try composing in a way that shifts something else into the background, worse comes to worse use portrait mode to get a shallow DOF look and blur it out.
Okay now let's do some iPhone-specific tips.
Settings:
Go into "settings" then "camera" and change the following
> Formats --> Photo Mode = 24MP> Grid = ON> Level = ON> photographic styles = Warm> Portraits in Photo Mode = ON> Lens Correction = ON> Macro Control = ONThings to think about when shooting with the iPhone:
> Don't shoot backlit subjects, they almost always look bad. Avoid high-contrast scenes altogether they are hard for the camera to get right and when it does it looks too "HDR" for me> If you tap on something in the camera app it will adjust the focus and exposure to suit that thing, you can then drag the little slider up or down to adjust the exposure to brighter or darker, this helps get shots the way you want them> The iPhone suffers from really bad lens flares if shooting at night or in low light, make sure you move the camera around to see if you can the little reflected orbs off the subject, they are distractingAnd lastly don't be a retard, edit your fucking photos, even if it's just throwing a film filter on with VSCO, it will make them look better. Most people like photos that are saturated and have rich contrast, so if you don't know how to edit, use a filter.
