Seems like winners captured these photos with professional cameras, do people with smartphone photography win this competition? 🤔
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Seems like winners captured these photos with professional cameras, do people with smartphone photography win this competition? 🤔
Your smartphone can produce better results then you would expect. Try using the lightroom app, a lot of phones these days are able to shoot in RAW format using that app. Also you get manual controls with that app so you can keep your ISO low and control exposure speed and even shoot long exposures if you put the phone on a tripod or something else to stabilize it. A modern smart phone doesn't really hold you back, the other half of the equation is post processing and the trick to that is to shoot in RAW instead of JPG. Watch youtube videos about how to do proper post processing. The ligthroom phone app is everything you need. The camera in my DJI Mavic Air 2 that I used to take the photo included in this post is very far from a professional camera and is actually a lot more like what you would have on your phone. It's not a large sensor, doesn't have the ability to swap lenses or anything like that. I would argue that a lot of flagship phones these days have better cameras then my drone does. It really is not the camera that makes a photo look "professional". I have never owned a professional camera in my life, im not a professional photographer, but people assume my work is professional all the time. A lot of my feedback is people floored by the results I get with cheap/old camera gear that is far from professional. The biggest difference maker is light, how the scene is lit will make a bigger difference to your result then anything else. 2nd biggest difference is shooting in RAW format (never shoot JPG) and then using proper post processing. If you master those two things the camera your using will be almost irrelevant.
Those are great tips! Thanks for sharing your photography here in the community and sharing the tricks of the trade for others! I too have always had non-professional cameras and it's amazing that most people's phones have better pixel rates than the old point-and-shoot digital cameras i use. It's a testament to the fact that while great gear can be awesome... it's more about the art and quality of the techniques implemented.
Great contribution to this week's curation! Keep up the awesome work.
Sure! Not all are professionals. Better say it is aboit half-half. Key is effort, consistency and engagement!
I am sure you will make it into our selection in the future!
I'll give it a try in the future for sure but only with my smartphone 😂
Give it a shot for sure ;) I only shoot with my phone too and have made it here a few times already...
@fivealive55 nailed it. There is no reason you can't capture incredible images with your cellphone. Composition is king, but the icing on the cake is being able to pull from your image the feel you had while taking it. jpegs right out of your camera rarely represent what you saw in real life. I shoot with a 10+ year old non-pro DLSR and my cell phone. Depending on conditions, you can't tell which is which. The DSLR just allows a wider range of lenses and it does have better low light sensitivity, but only so far with the older tech. It's a little more forgiving. I edit my photos with exclusively open source editing software as well. Most of the time using Darktable or LuminanceHDR(if you have RAW files). I think we should have more gear reviews in the Photography Lovers community, it would help with some of the perceptions.