I've been drooling to get a fancy DSLR for quite the time now but haven't really done any photography. So to justify my needs I decided to do something different today. I wanted to see how much can I push my phones Camera and does that classify as Photography, or in other words, is the word " Photography" just another Limitation set on pre-defined rules ?
The Local Park
I went to the park today to see if I could take any good shots using my phone camera. All the pictures you are about to see are from there, including the one above.
This was the first picture I took. It looked too plain and boring to me, so I turned on HDR mode and slapped a filter on there to see what happens.
Ok, it only took 2 seconds and some finger movements to go from boring to looking good.
Second picture and things were still looking boring to me, at this point I found out a neat option called "Selective Focus".
I decided to try unique angles and my personal perspective on things. And here's what happened.
The soft blur that the option gives is great. Al thought it cant match up to the bookeh effect that a proper lens creates, it still tries and creates somewhat unique shots.
Some edges get eaten off.
This is a bench covered with moss.
I decided to start taking pictures at a really close angle and things started looking a bit more creative from that point on.
So much so good
So what I made off this was that You can make some good shots by using a phone. I think that some of them can actually classify as semi-professional if someone is willing to use the "Pro" mode and play with shutter speeds iso settings and balances.
I was using the Auto mode and added filters to two pictures. i will let you guys figure out which ones have filters.
But is that all we can do?
Hell no ! Lets push this and fire up photoshop!
Also, Did I forget to mention that the pictures are actually 4K and steemit can't handle that high. This means that all the pictures you saw above are actually cropped in half by steemit which was and is a pain.
So here is a CROPPED low resolution version. The quality is crap but I want to show you guys something despite that.
This was my favorite picture, so I decided to edit it a bit in photoshop to see what we can get out of it.
Take 1:
Oh neat ! 15 minutes and we have a totally new composition :D
So I wanted to say that you can go above and beyond with a small and shitty camera. Al thought the galaxy S8 im using has a somewhat descent one if I am not wrong.
We live in such an age where there aren't any limitations when it boils down to photography. So needing an super expensive DSLR is somewhat subjective.
It really depends on what one wants to make out of his photos.
Take 2:
Hope you guys enjoyed this article, I decided to do something different today <3 Peace !
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