Lessons
Course Introduction
1Welcome to Class
00:50 2Why Are Smartphone Cameras Awesome?
02:10 3The Course Challenge: Capture Your Day in 5 Photos
09:03Camera Basics for Mobile & Smartphone Photography
4Intro to Camera Basics
01:14 5Exposure
03:56 6Focal Length
01:46Depth of Field
02:49 8Lighting
02:04 9Flash
01:15 10Resolution
01:50 11HDR Mode
02:33Mobile & iPhone Photography Basics - 3 Creative Keys to a Great Photo
12Intro to Photography Basics
00:37 13Improve Your Photos with Composition
04:29 14Improve Your Photos with Lighting
03:09 15Improve Your Photos with Story
02:40Let's Practice iPhone Photography! Real World Photography Lessons
16Intro to Our Photo Demonstrations
00:42 17Choosing the Right Lens
04:11 18Composition Practice
03:36 19Composing a Subject in Multiple Ways
05:57 20Long Exposure Practice
06:30 21Panoramic Practice
03:35 22Portrait Practice
09:14 23Getting a Blurrier Background without Portrait Mode
03:50Key Advanced Mobile & iPhone Photography Features
24Intro to Advanced Features
00:23 25Panoramic Mode
02:24 26Portrait Mode
02:16 27Selfie Mode
02:02 28Timelapse Mode
03:31Editing and Apps for Mobile & iPhone Photography
29Intro to Editing Section
00:40 30Storing Your Photos
02:23 31Our Favorite Apps
02:07 32Basic Photo Editing Method
27:52 33Editing with the Lightroom App
04:41 34Editing with the Snapseed App
03:34 35Editing with the VSCO App
04:00Sharing Your Photos
36Intro to Sharing
00:38 37Posting on Social Media
03:32 38Printing Your Photos
03:55Course Conclusion
39Thank You Video
00:49Lesson Info
Timelapse Mode
Time lapse is one of my favorite things in photography because it mixes my love of photography with video. So while ultimately, the final image is in an image, it's a video. Uh The concept is photography based, you're taking a series of photos that will then be compressed by your phone to make a video. And I think this is a really cool way to show a passage of time to show the movement of people to show the movement of nature. Uh It's just such a cool thing to sit there, be hanging out and you set your camera, it's just taking a photo every few seconds and then you get to stop it, look at it and watch this video, watching the clouds fly by watching um a take off from a airplane. I just, it's such a cool feature that uh our smartphones are capable of doing. So how do you do this though? So you go into time S mode. Um For most smartphones, you can't really adjust too many settings here. But the basic principle is you want to set up the phone to not move now by you know, placing it either...
on a tripod or using something to sort of prop it up, you click, go and then you just don't want to touch it and you leave it there for as long as you want to. Most of the times I find that at least five minutes is needed for a quality time lapse, depending on how much movement is taking place. I love doing time lapses when I'm, uh, taking off in an airplane because you see the airplanes are moving and it starts and it goes and then takes off. And that's really, you know, only several minutes long. We've also used it for watching the clouds pass by and have done it for much longer, closer to 10, even 20 minutes, which I think gives another really cool perspective of the movement of nature. Um, like I said, the only real thing to pay attention to here is that your phone doesn't move too much, but there is to contradict that a whole another way that you can use time lapse and that is hyper lapse. Now, a hyper lapse is same concept. You go to time lapse mode, you hit the shutter button and starts taking photo every so many seconds. Now, what you want to do is keep your phone at the same level at the same height and then slowly walk towards a subject. Now, what is key with this is that you have a specific thing that you're focusing on? So let's say there's a statue off in the distance and you start really far away and you, with each photo takes, you slowly walk towards that image and keeping the phone more or less in the same position when you finish that. And you, you know, you come up and at the end you're looking up at the statue, maybe you do a circle around the statue, you then hit stop and the video will do this hyper lapse. It will look like you're just flying through space and then spinning around the statue. It gives such a cool look. And ultimately, the end result isn't gonna be a photo, it's gonna be a video. And so this is more so used for videographers, but it's a cool tool to use and something that can be fun just to um you know, when watching a sunset or while hanging out somewhere to set up your phone and just practice doing these different time lapses, um getting interested compositions here or paying attention to maybe light moving um create for really dynamic time lapses. So I recommend trying it. It's a fun thing to practice and a really cool thing to share with people after the fact.
Ratings and Reviews
user-d195e3
Good course for everyone starting out and needed to have some more basic info beyond the common snap shot. I had wished for more info on using mobile in the more professional field like when switching from camera to mobile. Additional lenses and flashes and things like that. But this course was obviously not targeted at this. So overall still a nice brush up.
Joanna
Definitely geared to beginners, but the class has a lot of good information. As an advanced camera photographer still trying to get to know my phone camera better, I learned a few things I didn't know (like you can use portrait mode for selfies, what hyper lapse is and the VSCO app). Nice job!
Barbara
Great class. Well organized and clearly presented. Would be very good for beginners and mid level users. highly recommend.