SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY

>>2890841
smartphones don't allow room for artistic choice (without producing ugly crud) due to the extremely tiny sensor and extremely tiny fixed lens.
You can't switch between wide DoF area shots and creamy blurred background portraits.
You can't change focal length between wide angles and telephoto angles to affect the geometry of lines, faces, vehicles, etc. (A phone camera is usually only like 27mm or 29mm with no way to change it)

The phone essentially eliminates photographic technique, so everyone's phone photography is essentially identical. 'pro mode' is nothing more than a marketing gimmick, as it's missing all the actual choices for pro photography.

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>>2890841
I use my S7 Edge at the moment as I am currently without a camera, it can produce some nice results, you're vertainly limited with using a small censored camera, but mainly by your own creativity.

>>2891304
Would disagree, a lot of flagship smartphones are shipping with excellent cameras considering the size of the phone, they are becoming more and more usable for some applications.

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>>2891698

Lovely composition, m8

>>2891304
digital zoom is perfectly usable from wide to long normal (1.5x)

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I have an S6Edge,and I have yet to plunge the depths of what its capable of. I suppose if you want "real" camera results,use a Real Camera,but for spur of the moment capturing of poignant scenes Life tosses at you,its good enough for refining ones Eye to the Art.

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>>2891698
Is that the Premier inn on sauchiehall street, Glasgow?, Pretty cool to see someone from here is on /p/ too

>>2892947
Aye man, I think it's a crackin looking building I'm going to photograph it again on a nicer day. Do you have anywhere in town you like to photograph?

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>>2890841
I took this a couple nights ago on my G4

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>>2893213
I commute from the Hoboken train station,and see the Freedom Tower in all sorts of weather conditions.

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Late night at work...

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>>2890841

I feel you 'cause I'm in pretty much the same situation (and I got a bit worse smartphone). You can take quite nice photos even with a phone, but it's much harder to take one that is sharp enough and even when you try to customize everything you will still get a pic with a lot of noise and stuff. The best thing to do is start saving for a camera and practice with what you've got now I guess. When I got my hands on my aunts camera and it wasn't a proffesional one but still something more than basic ones - the possibilities where endless and even just playing with focus was so much fun. Phones nowadays can be pretty good but I suppose that if you want to go "pro" there is now way to do it with a smartphone. But as I said - I'm a newbie to the subject just as you so maybe I'm wrong.

Pic is mine, shitty quality but the best I could do on my phone.

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>muh /g/

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>>2897093
that dust is fucking gross

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I took these a year ago I think

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>>2899038

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>>2899041
More vomit

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>>2899079

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>>2899082

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>>2899084
All of these were taken of an iPhone 5s

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Nexus 5X

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Does anyone know an android app where I can take before and after shots in the same place with the aid of a overlay. Every app I find just merges the 2photos which I don't want.

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If the conditions are nice, like sunny weather, or light in all the right places, you can get some nice photos.

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iphone 4s

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>>2899426

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>>2899427

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