Smart Photos 52 Ideas To Take Your Smartphone Photography to the Next Level

Packed with projects and inspirational ideas you can do any time, any place, become an accomplished photographer while feeding your creativity with this guide that reveals what just what your smartphone camera is capable of.
 
A camera phone is something we always have on us and creativity is something we all have in us but often we struggle to use them properly, feeling like we don’t have the time, space or inclination to dedicate to it.

Here, photography expert and bestselling author Jo Bradford supplies a collection of practical exercises that allow you to master the features on your smartphone camera to take incredible images and also help you to easily reconnect with your creative side.
 
By encouraging you to try something different with your camera and seek out creative opportunities – from light painting to collage, image stacking to time-lapse landscapes – soon you will once again feel the satisfaction of thinking and acting creatively, with the added benefit of taking you from a snapper to an accomplished photographer with visual literacy.

Smartphone photography is addictive with a tangible feel-good factor; it’s time to embrace it and capture the moments that matter to you in all their glory.
 

Introduction
 
Understanding your phone’s camera
Phone camera apps
Accessories
Do-it-yourself equipment
Light and lighting
Editing your images
Printing
 
Inside your cameraphone
 
1. Freelensing
2. Light writing
3. Coloured light
4. Rainbow light portrait
5. Rembrandt lighting
6. Rim lighting
7. Camera inversion
8. Fireworks
9 Light painting with people
10. Vertical panoramas
11. Panning
12. Burst and stack
13. Fairground
14. Intentional camera movement
15. Misty light
16. Pinholes
17. RGB light shadows
18. Slow shutter portrait
19. Product
20. Rainbow
21. Ray of light
22. Snowy day
23. Smoke bomb
24. Night sky
 
Finding inspiration
 
25. Flat lays
26. Object repetition
27. Reuse and recycle
28. Collecting colour
29. Negative space
30. Poured puddle
31. Triangles
32. Collecting lines
33. Mirror portal
34. Architecture
35. Bird's-eye view
36. Familiar/unfamiliar
37. Through the looking glass
38. Optical abstraction
39. Shadow seflie
40. Window reflection
41. Close up details
42. Food
 
Building images
 
43. Landscape collage
44. Colour grading
45. Repeated patterns
46. Inkjet transfer
47. Multiple viewpoints
48. Painted photograph
49. Stacking art
50. Triptych
51. Woven portrait
52. Compositing
 
Further reading and resources