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Tips for shooting stunning portraits with your iPhone

Tips for shooting stunning portraits with your iPhone

The iPhone is the most popular device for capturing pictures. It may not be as powerful as a professional camera, but most people have their smartphone handy, and use it freely to capture memories and photographs. Here are a few tips that can significantly increase the quality of pictures you capture through your smartphone:

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Use Reflectors

iPhone provide a very good picture quality indoors, but in daylight it is not as good as a digital camera. You can use a reflector for outdoor shooting. Mainly disc reflectors are use by the photographers for outdoor shooting.

If you want to shoot a portrait by yourself, then just hold the reflector on the opposite side of the sun to bounce light into your face.

Use a stand                   

If you put the camera on a stand, you can capture portraits that are more appealing. The best example of a stand is Lollipod that is easy to carry with you in your car when going for shooting.

Using a stand can also help you to eliminate the distortion of the portrait while shooting. Sometimes you want to capture more pictures through different angles then you can use the key to adjust the position. A stand keeps the camera stable, and allows better quality pictures.

You can trip the shutter with the ear buds of your iPhone. Plug them into the headphone and play when you want to shoot the portrait.

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Mirrors

Many people capture portraits in front of a mirror. Using mirror to shoot a selfie is simple and easy. Always use uncluttered background for the nice and effective portraits. Bright color background can make your portrait a disaster. Using a natural background with proper lights makes your shot beautiful and appealing. You can try different light patterns and try to portrait in different angles.

Enhance the lighting effect

Every photographer wants to adjust the light in a proper way. You can use a pocket spotlight that can be mounted on your device’s headphone jack. You can use pocket spot light in the cloudy weather to enhance the light effect of your portrait.

Final addition

Once you are over with shoot, you can modify the captured photographs with iOS, or use an app to make edits and changes. You can resize, effect, brushes, and color to modify your portrait before sharing it with the world. You can also use the zoom technique to identify the portion where modification is required. Using brushes you can highlight the portion of your face like eyes, lips etc. it would enhance the portrait presentation and your portrait will be more appealing.

Summary:

Applying above methods to shoot portraits you can capture best portraits very easily. Many picture enhancement techniques can be use to modify and to change the lightning and contrast of the portrait. These methods are simple and easy to compose. So go ahead and have fun with shooting.

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