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Complete Guide to Smartphone Photography

Series: Complete Guide to Smartphone Photography
4.6
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Episodes
20
Rating
NR
Year
2021
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

Join Jared Platt, a working professional photographer, for The Ultimate Guide to Smartphone Photography, a comprehensive course focused on exploring the ins and outs of taking, tweaking, organizing, storing, and sharing photos exclusively on your smartphone. These 20 lessons are designed for photographers of all levels who want to produce slicker, more technically proficient photographs. All you need is some motivation and a smartphone.

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Episodes

1. Smartphone Camera Basics

14m

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Kick off the course by exploring the overarching goals of the lessons. Get an overview of the camera features your smartphone has to offer, with a focus on the iPhone, in particular. Discover the lens options available to you depending on what kind of phone you have.

2. Smartphone Camera Settings

17m

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How does being familiar with your phone's settings help you take higher-quality photographs? In this lesson, get to know the settings on your phone. Explore image file types like JPEG and HEIF. Learn about frame rates, creative controls, exposure levels, and lens corrections, on both iPhone and Android smartphones.

3. Taking Smartphone Photos

34m

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All smartphones have a built-in resident camera app with a host of important features. Spend the first half of this lesson delving into the particularities of resident camera applications on the iPhone and Android and devote the second half to exploring digital terminology you will use throughout the course.

4. Native Camera App: iPhone

19m

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Join expert guide Jared for a detailed demonstration of the iPhone's photo-taking capabilities. Take note of how he maximizes his smartphone and the functions built into its native camera application-flash, exposure, zoom, and more-to photograph tulips.

5. Native Camera App: Android

16m

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Now turn your attention to the Android smartphone and its resident camera app, as Jared demonstrates how to take quality photos using the Samsung S20 Ultra model. Watch him manipulate the Android camera's distinct zoom capabilities and adjust its shutter speeds. Then apply what you have learned so far with your first-ever assignment.

6. Photography Principles: Composition

54m

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How can you combine photography fundamentals with what you have learned so far about the use of your smartphone? In this lesson, delve into the basic principles of photography, starting with compositional strategy. Explore how even small changes in perspective, framing, contrast, and focus can affect the look and feel of any photograph.

7. Photography Principles: Exposure

36m

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Continue to learn about the fundamental principles of photography, this time with an in-depth look at exposure. Here, see how you can use histograms to check on and refine a photograph's exposure levels, and discover the importance of accounting for black, gray, and white space in your pictures.

8. Photography Principles: Light

22m

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Experienced photographers hunt tirelessly for scenes that capture and use light creatively. In this lesson, shed some light on light. Understand how photos can be dramatically altered based on the quality, direction, or source of their light, and explore simple methods to redirect and manipulate light in time for your next photograph.

9. Photography Principles: Subject

23m

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Every good photo has a principal subject, which plays a key role in how the photo is received and interpreted by onlookers. Work closely with Jared to understand the narrative, artistic, and practical considerations you must make before snapping a photo of anyone or any moment.

10. Equipment and Accessories

9m

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While your smartphone is certainly all you need to take quality photographs, there are a range of accessories available to alter and enhance your images. But what are they and how do they work? Explore the use of photograph accessories like moment and wide lenses, hoods, tripods, flashlights, gears, and bags.

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  • SeriesComplete Guide to Smartphone Photography
  • Closed CaptionsEnglish

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The Great CoursesDirector
The Great CoursesProducer
Jared PlattActor