Tablet and Mobile

I can’t tell you how many photos I’ve seen taken on mobile phones that are WAY below their potential – purely and simply because people are not thinking. CLEAN THE LENS. Mobile phone camera lenses are TINY – the working area is extremely small – and so it doesn’t take much of a smudge or spec of dirt to ruin the image – especially in high-contrast shots. If your pictures look “hazy” there’s a good chance there’s a fingerprint or a load of dust in the back of the phone where the lens is.

Clean the lens before you take any photo. This simple, even trivial trick could dramatically improve your mobile photos.

Other tricks:

Another failing with mobile phones is bad lighting – they just are not that sensitive partly because of the lens size – small lens – not much light – it’s not rocket science. Get the best light you can for your photo. The lower the light level, the more grain and blurring you’ll see – it’s that simple.  It takes a very expensive camera to match our eyes for light sensitivity.

Avoid pointing into sunlight – the glare is likely to make even the slightest mark on the lens result  in bad pictures – and the cameras generally can’t handle the wide range of light levels anyway.

Enjoy taking your photos.