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Book Synopsis
Most of us have a smartphone camera but very few of us know how to really make the most of it. Here are 50 projects and ideas that maximise the incredible capabilities of your smartphone camera, teaching you how to take better photos and indulge your creative spark at the same time.

Table of Contents
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

Smart Photos

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A Paperback / softback by Jo Bradford

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    Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 23/08/2022
    ISBN13: 9780711265462, 978-0711265462
    ISBN10: 0711265461

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Most of us have a smartphone camera but very few of us know how to really make the most of it. Here are 50 projects and ideas that maximise the incredible capabilities of your smartphone camera, teaching you how to take better photos and indulge your creative spark at the same time.

    Table of Contents
    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

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