Keep Still and Light Your Subject Properly

Here I am going to start tips and tricks to make you phone-o-graphy skill better

First of all, you must need to be calm and static…keep yourself, still and don’t vibrate with camera, otherwise you will get a blurry image. As with all digital photography, the steady your camera phone is when taking your shot the clearer your image will be. This is especially important in low light situations where the camera will select longer shutter speeds to compensate for the lack of light. One trick is to lean your camera phone (or the hand holding it) against a solid object (like a tree, wall, ledge) when taking shots. Keep in mind that many camera phones also suffer from ’shutter lag’ (ie the time between when you press the shutter and when the camera takes the shot can be a second or so). This means you need to hold the camera still a little longer to ensure it doesn’t take a shot as you’re lowering it away from the subject. The better lit your subject is the clearer your image is likely to be. If possible shoot outside or turn on lights when shooting inside. If you’re turning on lights in a room to add extra light to your shot be aware that artificial light impacts the color cast in your shots and you might want to experiment with white balance to fix it. Some cameras come with a built in flash or light – this can really lift a shot and add clarity to it, even if you’re shooting outside. If your camera doesn’t have a flash or light you should avoid shooting into bright lights as you’ll end up with subjects that are silhouetted.


Here are some pics showing my Phone-o-graphy illustration.

This pic is taken in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, in the boarder area, it is the control line region Goee near Tatta Pani. In the rainy season of 2010.

This pic is taken at the same location.

Water flowing in Kashmir in raining season.

Sunset in Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashnmir. The pic is also showing the flow of River Punch.

Sunset in Head Qadarabad, District Hafizabad and the pic is showing off River Chinab.

This is an old rest house at Head Qadarabad and is not in use these days.

This pic is taken at a Motarway stop Chuntara near Hafizabad. I visit this spot most frequently with my friends Shahid and Wasim.

  

What is phone-o-graphy?

Photography is not only a very powerful medium of communication but also a way of expression and everyone knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. We use cameras to take pictures but now cameras come in phone/cell devices that allow us to shoot with ease and comfort. Here comes the concept of phone-o-graphy instead of traditional term photography.

We are passing through the digital era and we are living in a time where ‘change’ is everywhere. Gone are the days when we were used to mono-functional devices and a camera was a camera, a MP3 player was an MP3 player, a phone was merely a phone…but the innovation has changed the way we live as well as the meaning of our life and how we interact with the external world. These days market is full of mutli-functional devices and digital cameras are found in a variety of other gadgets – including cell phones (mobiles). 

In fact camera phones are one of the fastest growing segments of the digital camera market and with the improvements in the quality of what is being offered in some phones (higher mega-pixels, better lenses, high capacity storage etc.) some believe that they are beginning to win market share away from the low end offerings of many digital camera manufacturers. This is also a big truth that many of us are using camera phones regularly to capture life, events and interesting moments. 

Unfortunately many of the pictures being taken with Camera Phones are poor in quality. This might partially be a result of lower quality cameras – but it is also often a result of poor photographic technique. I will not only share my phone-o-graphy (pictures) through this blog but also guide you towards better phone-o-graphy techniques and gadgets available in the market. With the development of Information technology, electronic media, blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, people are recording information at an extremely rapid pace, and the cell phone is the primary tool for approaching life with such immediacy and ease. It is the cheapest way to make people see…with…me. So, the photography is now changed to phone-o-graphy. I will try to capture the different aspect of Pakistani life, culture, architecture, portrait, landscape, nature, macro etc. etc. etc. 

{ so stay tuned and see...with...me...!!! }


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Inauguration of my blog.

In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, the most merciful.