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IPHONEOGRAPHY TIPS AND TRICKS

HOW TO MAKE YOUR CAPTURED-BY-IPHONE PHOTOS LOOK GREAT?

Here are some tricks and tips for you guys to have a nice, artistic online presentation 🙂

  1. First, the APPS ! Here are the name of some must-have apps on your iPhone / Android : After Light, VSCO CAM, Picsart, Mirrorgram, InstacollageFree, Instagram, etc.
  2. Don’t just use 1 app at a time, use multiple ! Always try different apps for one photo! For example this photo I made just with my iphone : 62383_10201103673188794_315575507_n
    I used After Light for retouching color such as applying Black&White filter, add more sharpness and shadow. Then I chuck it to Mirrorgram, which creates a reflection to makes it look kinda abtract. Then with Picsart, I layer another photo onto my current photo, as you can see in the photo above.
  3. After Light’s filter “Russ” is the key. Always use that. Your photos will eventually turn out good whenever you click to that filter. If you like faded film color for you photos, use VSCO CAM, my second favourite photography app !
  4. There are certain modes that affects greatly on a photo such as Brightness, Contrast, Sharpen, Saturation, Crop, Rotate, Temperature. Make sure you understand and play out with them with your photos.

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Looking back at how you capture a photo with an iPhone. Its not hard, but no easy either. Switch to HDR to get the finest quality photo. Hold still when you click capture cause it takes up to 1 or 2 seconds to render the photo you just took in the best resolution. If you wants to focus something, touch that object, or hold your finger there and the focus length will locked, which also helps you to have nice bokeh photos,just like on a DSLR camera. Then, use crop smartly to get the good composition out of every photo.

  • With food photography, try capture your meal/dish up above, 90 degree from it. Make sure you clean out all other unnecessary items on the table. 1554405_715500065148417_2041586809_n 1743710_715500191815071_1869678051_n
  • With landscape photography, always use HDR. Then throw them into After Light and increase the Clarity section. 1794510_716419445056479_1773643004_n1560444_706564016042022_803662399_n
  • With street-life photography, always try Black & White filter. It will look more abstract and soulful.1525576_706563932708697_677627241_n
  • With fashion/outfit photo, remember a good composition is a full body one, don’t take away the feet or some of the hair. Make sure your whole body is fully in the imag
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here’s some useful few techniques how to shoot with an iPhone.

#iphoneography

The hashtag and the iphoneography.

I consider myself as an internet addict. I’m on facebook most of the time, take photos and comment on instagram, watch more than 20 videos on youtube per day, etc.

So that I find the hashtag thingy  so intereting and amazing. Myself as a photographer, I want the world to see my photos. So thats when hashtags comes in usefully. Its like a tool to connect people from all around the world.

And there’s another thing that i love – iphoneography . Thesedays, bringing a 10kg weight of camera and equipments to me is to tiring. So thats when an iphone comes in handy. You will be amazed by looking up online to see how other people take photos with their iphones. Stunning. Some of them even look better than photos taken with a DSLR camera. Nowadays with all the new apps , editing color and combining photos can be done on your iphone as well.

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Here’s my photos taken with an iphone 5.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Finally I get to write something about me, not related to uni’s assesments.  Yay

Yes, I’m a freelance photographer, and an international student from Ha Noi , Viet Nam.

I take pre-wedding photos as my part-time job. Back in my country, I work for different magazines and fashion websites. Some of my works are published on Elle Vietnam.

Here are some of my shots.

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Now thanks to blogging in Networked Media, I now have a chance to express and promote myself on an online channel. It’s like having a portfolio showing my works outside of class.

I have come up with an idea, which I will post tips, tutorials about photography weekly on this blog, so that my followers and others who are interested in photography can have a look and try out , especially with retouching and blending color in photography. I will also blog about my shooting experience, tricks , ups and downs from the first day I started, 4 years ago, till now.

 

IFTTT

 

What is IFTTT?

IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections, instagram post to blog, facebook status to tweeter , soundcloud trakcs downloaded to dropbox, etc.

Amazing right? Everything on the internet nowadays are linked together, which makes it so so useful to internet users, like myself. I’d love to show what I capture on instagram on my blog , and share a track that I’ve been listening all day.

For example, there’s this super quick way to share your new post on WordPress to Facebook.

–       Go on IFTTT ( or just click that hypertext )

–       Search worldpress

–       Go on the “ All Time” bar

–       Click to New post on WordPress to Facebook

–       Active both of your channels

–       Click use recipe

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Easy right? I love sharing things from my blog to my other channels, just so that my posts are everywhere on my friends new feed ( lol ).