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Photography Foundations: Mobile Photography

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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Learn how to achieve professional-looking results with a mobile phone camera, using built-in features, optional accessories, and additional apps.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Learn to capture great photos with your smartphone
  • Who this course is for
  • What you need to know
1. The Basics
  • Exposure basics: Shutter speed
  • Exposure basics: Aperture
  • Aperture and depth of field
  • Exposure basics: ISO
  • Light meters
  • How is exposure different on a smartphone?
2. Shooting with a Smartphone
  • Basic settings
  • Understand your phone camera's dynamic range
  • Change the exposure
  • White balance troubles
  • Low-light shooting
  • Night mode
  • Focal length
  • Zooming
  • Shoot with flash
3. Common Hazards
  • Camera orientation
  • Camera position
  • Aspect ratio
4. Special Features
  • Black and white shooting
  • Portrait modes
  • Panorama modes
  • Shoot in RAW
  • Add-on lenses
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Ben Long

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