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From a video taken on a smartphone:
1- A cold spotlight shines on faces and it is better to adjust the white balance to match it so that people do not have blue skin.
2- remove the interruptions. The notes, the first middle performers, the illuminators that shine on them, the long shot, across the cafe hall, etc. It would be more voluminous and interesting.
Creative photography is very different from commercial photography. In creativity you are not limited by anything, you can safely experiment and not think about whether something will work out or not. And if the experiment fails, no one will be upset about it.
Creative photography happens when there is inspiration. When you see something interesting and have a desire to photograph it.
Good plot, cool lighting, interesting combination of things and objects.
In commercial photography, the “product” comes first: a photo or video, which must comply with the Technical Specifications (TOR)
It doesn't matter here:
Whether you want to shoot or not.
Whether you have inspiration or not, you don’t want to shoot anything at all.
Good weather and lighting or difficult
As a rule, there is a very limited time during which you need to quickly produce high-quality footage in any conditions.
Whether you like what you shoot or not, you need to delve into the topic and produce the result.
Such smartphone projects are also very interesting. After all, commercial photography in this segment is actively gaining momentum.
And in this regard, the level of commercial photography, prices, technical solutions that work in conjunction with a smartphone and software are interesting.
We share our CASES on commercial photography.
Photos that catch your eye.
IPHONE 12 PRO MAX l LIGHTROOM
Photo by Elena Popova.
TopContent: The photo with the flower turned out to be interesting. But very hard HDR. If this effect were 2-3 times smaller, the photo would be even better.
There is a function. It's called HDR
In the photo with the flower, pay attention to the trees outside the window and the sky behind them. You see, the trees have been cut down. Looks like a rough collage. And the naturalness of the photo is lost.
This is how crude HDR works.
Under similar shooting conditions, take two versions of the photo.
With HDR turned on and then exactly the same, but with HDR turned off
In turn, when digital cameras appeared, I was wildly delighted with this technology.
It was necessary to take three frames on a tripod with an exposure step of -2, then 0, and then +2 ev
Next, in Photoshop, carefully combine and erase the shadows, placing a +2ev image under the erased holes and taking the light areas from the -2ev image
In short, take a steam bath.
But it turned out to be a very unusual photo. Just like yours.
I got so carried away that when I had already achieved complete elaboration of all the details, even at night. I realized that I had simply exposed the composition. Showed everything. The volume has disappeared, the contrast has disappeared, the magic of the light and shadow pattern has disappeared.
Then I was thrilled that no one could take a photo like that, but I could.
Then, when I got used to it, I began to reduce this effect. To leave artistic content.
Try taking two pictures. Compare. Expand your view of the same scene.
I know from myself that when someone tells you, it has little impact on your soul and influences your experience. To understand and feel it, you need to film your story technically in different ways. Only then will true understanding come at the level of feeling, perception and nuance.
Then a choice will appear in the palette to display one event from the side from which you feel.
The photos are wonderful!
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REDMI NOTE 10PО.
BIG DISAPPOINTMENT...
Strange stripes appear in the photo.
After updating everything to the latest, they became less pronounced, but they are there.
In the photo, between the window and the balcony on a plain wall, stripes are visible that are not there in reality.
And video in professional mode in the LOG profile does not work. It is recorded with motion layering.
I asked to check with a friend who has the same phone and there are the same problems in LOG.
The device is simply super for the money, but the camera is defective.
Redmi note 10 PRO is a big disappointment.
I shot several test frames on Redmi Note 10Pro Video in LOG it turned out to be defective. Where it was impossible to watch, I threw out the footage. I left two where the defect is not so visible.
Video test on Redmi Note 10 Pro.
I took a short test. To see if there are any “jambs” when shooting in normal mode in a standard application in the PROS tab.
Everything seems to be without any complaints. It works as it should.
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Xiaomi Redmi 4x.
Photo by Kritin Krylov.
TopContent: The main object should be the main one. That is, highlighted.
In terms of brightness, it is the main one.
According to the composition, there is no main object. Everything (branches, water, sky, tower) conflicts with each other and the picture falls apart.
If you cropped it from this photo, it would look something like this.
Take a tower in the frame, placing it anywhere in the thirds and find a place where you will create a frame of branches in the foreground.
This is one of the options.
There can be a lot of them.
Birches.
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Huawei mate 20 / snapseed.
Photo by Rodion Proshkin.
TopContent: I don’t see what can be criticized here.
I think how I would have shot these birches... Most likely, I would not have pressed the trigger.
Or I was waiting for volumetric lighting.
The idea is good and the birches are interesting.
It is a fact. But there is no volume.
Maybe I could take a picture of them at night. By installing 4 led panels. Possibly with cold filters for backgrounds and warm ones for birch trees. And I made a little smoke in the backdrops.
But this is no longer about this work.
In the current conditions, like the author and just with a phone in my hands, I couldn’t do anything better
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iPhone 12 Pro Max Lightroom
Photo Elena Popova
TopContent: In the first one, the background strongly resembles the leaves and distracts from the main subject.
Second photo, quality is poor. Probably a strong crop and no volume. Lanterns, bushes, the house is all a mess. It would have been better without the lights.
The third one is good
The fourth one is also ok.
The fifth one is also without obvious problems. Tree in the center, road diagonally, 1/3 sky. Everything is good.
The sixth is either larger, or general so that the entire umbrella fits.
I'm waiting for criticism of my photographs.
iPhone se.
Photo by Alla Voronchikhina.
TopContent: The first is atmospheric, but in terms of meaning the ducks are the main object. And they are circumcised.
Here it made sense to shoot so that part of the ice was in the foreground, and the ice hole with ducks was visible from shore to shore.
The second photo is hard to tell. Both the pattern and the glass merge...
The third one is better, since the subject of shooting appeared there, this is a person.
The only thing is that I want it not to merge with other silhouettes and to appear more clearly.
Overall the atmosphere is great. Tighten up the composition and there will be masterpieces.
Mobilography waiting for criticism.
iPhone.
Photo by Alla Voronchikhina.
TopContent:
First frame, the task is unclear. And the meaning of the photo.
Show the beauty of a flower? It's already wrinkled, apparently fading. Cut off on all sides. Unless the meaning of the photo is the eye...
The background behind is like water or a road, grass and snow.
Apparently outside the window... It's unclear. Why is he there then? In general, nothing is clear, the flower is cut off, it’s a pity..
The second photo is nice.
Contrast, diagonal.
The only thing is that I would move it a little away from the wall to remove the shadow.
Otherwise a good photo
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Dynamics in the frame. Dutch corner.
iPhone 12 Pro Max l Lightroom.
Photo by Elena Popova.
TopContent: The Dutch angle is applicable, of course, also for dynamics.
Dynamics. Sometimes the Dutch angle is used because it adds dynamics to the frame and makes what is captured more active and alive. Dziga Vertov worked with this feature of the technique. And perhaps this is why the technique is often used in action films and when creating action scenes.
It is used in different contexts to reveal different creative tasks. And for dynamics as well. But mostly at a small angle...
Nature at different times 2022.
Phone 13 Pro.
Photo by Denis Zadorozhny (Denis Mobilograph).
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1 photo. The horizon is in the center of the frame. This is bad. Feel free to sprinkle half of the sky and get a more or less compositionally stable frame.
2 photos
Everything's OK
We just level the horizon and remove the person.
The person has merged and is not highlighted either optically, or by contrast, or by anything.
Only his head was cut off by the horizon in silhouette.
Like a landscape without a person.
3 photos
It is very unique. I like.
Again Grant's composition just falls out a little.
It was necessary to reduce it in scale and area in the frame. Shoot on TV. And cover the bottom from the light with cardboard, a backpack, whatever, so that there is a red beam.
Well, if you remove the optics on the body and move away from the grants. That amount of light will decrease as a multiple of the distance squared.
And the matrix simply won’t be drawn so clearly for Grant. It will become darker and grey-red. And it will still remain the main one, but will be linked compositionally with the horizon, sky and moon.
The Moon should dominate in brightness. This is the light source. Visible and basic.
In general terms, this is true.
4th photo has the same problem as the first one.
Plus there is a semantic error: we have a landscape, and below there is a story about a fire.
Two stories in one.
Since the fire pit is cut off, feel free to sprinkle it and get a landscape laid out with the sky in thirds
5 photos
The grass pulls to the right side of the frame, and on the left there is a large area of water with a weak texture.
To make this shot compositionally complete, it was necessary to take the line of grass as the foreground and so that it did not break off in the center but went straight to the lower left corner. And already make this strip of grass.
In short, move to the right and sit down. But so that the river does not collapse on the right side of the frame, but simply becomes narrower.
Then the frame will play
The 6-frame has already taken into account what I talked about in the fifth. Level the horizon and it's fine. Well, there’s less black on the left.
7 - normal Beautiful sky. The cars stuck together. It was necessary to leave the one in front or wait for the oncoming traffic to come closer with headlights. Well, this is nitpicking. It’s clear that you steer with one hand, look at the road and take pictures.
I do this too
8-frame
Cool. Try to avoid the horizon in the center of the frame and when the person is standing, so that the horizon does not cut into his neck and joints.
9- good photo
Everything is ruined by the grass in the light.
Well, frame the horizon in thirds
Along a winter street.
A very good shot. And so everything came together into one - color, perspective, and mood. So atmospheric, like in the 60s. and it even seems that there is an image of a world map on the wall.
OPPO A1K/Snapseed.
Photo by Sergey Boldakov.
How unusual it is to photograph objects.
How to photograph objects using a mirror and a laptop.
About technology.
A few words about "technique". For those who walked, saw, clicked. And he was going in a completely different direction. Well, about the smartphone.
Of course, a decent photographer even goes to the toilet covered in decent cameras, but there are cases. And this is where the phone comes to the rescue. But not always. Phones are bad at macro. Very bad. What if you meet an ant? Problem.
And so I decided to get two attachments for my smartphone for the holiday. For macro photography. At incomprehensible 12.5x and 200x. And here is the first impression.
Made beautifully. In all senses. There is also a box and a storage bag and glass-saving lids. The attachment to the phone is reliable and does not wobble. It won't fall off if you run through the garden. See pictures.
In addition, the 12.5x also comes with a lens, which you can twist to create a fish eye. All this is threaded and twists quickly. I don’t think I need it, but what if?
Of course, on both macro and fisheye the edges are darkened and distorted. The finished footage will have to be cut anyway. But not much. The only drawback so far is the backlight problem. The phone light shines through the lens, with all that it implies.
The second one also fits well at 200x. Durable. It’s a little difficult to get on the phone’s lens and align the lens axis with the lens, but you can get the hang of it.
And most importantly, there is good, two-level lighting. This is important when shooting very close. It’s winter now and we don’t have any real insects, so for the sake of example and review, let’s use whatever came to hand. I think it’s not difficult to figure out where fisheye, macro 12.5x and 200x are in the frames.
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Artistic portrait in aperture mode.
Huawei p40 Pro.
Lightroom.
This is aperture mode.
Here light plays a key role.
The backgrounds remained with contrasting lighting.
The light stripes run slightly diagonally, which gives depth to the frame.
There are also light spots on the trees.
The girl is also standing in the sun. But the sun is covered by a diffuser (butterfly) and thus the light in the portrait becomes soft and very pleasant. And since the trees are dark in the background, a drop in illumination on the face is quite acceptable. The normal contrast between model and background is maintained.
The aperture mode allows you to select the degree of background blur.
To find a balance when there are a lot of details left, but they do not distract but make the frame more interesting.
Processing in Lightroom to taste by color.
I wanted to make it closer to vintage, but not as much as possible.
The result is a portrait like this.
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Mirages.
Photo by Antonina Dobrovolskaya.
This work is immediately captivating. The time of shooting was excellent - it was sunset. Good frame composition. Everything is in place. All the boats, mountains, the figure of a girl on the board bring the frame to life. Well, the color palette. The top and them are in yellow shades. And between them is a disk of the sun and a purple-pink gradient. Very warm pleasant work.
Chamomiles.
Photo Svistunova Olga Sergeevna.
Here the author managed to see something that not everyone will see. And it's a matter of condition. In the contrast of the environment and the state of the hero. A resilient, cheerful person against the backdrop of the surrounding atmosphere. What spoiled the picture a little was the bright inscription on the T-shirt. But the photo turned out very deep and with a good composition.
A world hidden from people.
Photo by Savostina Ekaterina Aleksevna.
The work is good in everything. She takes your breath away with her beautiful nature. Good shot composition. In the center we have a hero and, apparently, the discoverer of this wonderful world. Great lighting with those rays coming through the clouds and good processing.
The comfort of autumn.
Samsung galaxy s 9 plus.
snapseed.
Photo by Kokhanova Ekaterina Yurievna.
Cozy feeling. In the frame there is a very soft warm sweater, the pants are chosen to match the color of the leaves, it goes very harmoniously with the background, the boots are in the same warm color scheme as the background, the texture of the cozy, soft, warm sweater evokes autumn, even the manicure here is tied very well in the overall tone . The mug in the hands is the center of the composition, but it is not in the very center. Compositionally, it seems like a simple shot, but it was done correctly. Three sheets - note that there is no tea in the mug, no water, and the mug is not just dirty, it is artistically dirty - these are these mugs, geometric shapes, marks from a spoon used to stir the tea, perhaps. The leaves that remain in the mug are of three colors and combine all the background colors. It's very stylish, very cool. The cup itself - the fact that it is empty - symbolizes the past summer, and the autumn itself is warm as a result, the frame conveys the atmosphere of the warmth of autumn.
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