11 Simple Tips to Capture Professional Photos With Your Phone

[@AlexArmitage]

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[@dorkis44]

Best concept for a beginner video that I've ever seen. Genius bringing in someone who genuinely doesn't know to allow them to ask questions while you act as a mentor to both them and your audience

[@AlexArmitage]

That was the idea! Thanks... dorkis

[@gingeoram]

Your photography information is very helpful and Sophia makes it fun. She's great.

[@polkholcomedy]

Thank you Sophie ❤ really helpful 😊

[@jamesfarabaugh6669]

Watching you help her find different compositions at the parliament really drove home my biggest struggle. I don’t have much artistic vision and tend to resort to snapshot style shooting.

[@AlexArmitage]

It's a great place to start for simple improvement!

[@lanceschill75]

Thanks, Sophie! Learning with you was a lot of fun 😊 Great post, Alex

[@AlexArmitage]

Thanks so much Lance!

[@CT-wq1je]

Useful stuff. And thanks to Sophie for sure. Being the guinea pig is always tricky.

[@SamEnglund]

Thank you Sophia!

[@Chromatomic]

Sophia did great! Some of these tips are also good to remind ourselves of too. It's easy to get comfortable with the instagram composition of a place and neglect exploring different or more creative angles and compositions. For street photography especially, I always imagine it as a diorama that you can adjust and shift around to move elements into different spaces and build a space for something to happen. Something to pay attention to as well is the angle of the phone and how that affects your vertical lines. It's much easier to accidentally create more exaggerated effects either intentionally or unintentionally just because the phone is a lot more agile than how you might use a larger camera. Also this is a really great primer for people moving into more serious photography, a lot of people are comfortable with taking photos on their phone but think you need to have an expensive camera to take better images and a lot of the basics can be improved upon just using your phone.

[@AlexArmitage]

This was the idea! Maybe it'll catch on

[@DarrenJSpoonley]

Great job Pal 💪

[@WillNewcomb]

The tutorial with the two of you was really helpful!

[@AlexArmitage]

Thanks Will!

[@manosg180]

Great video! Thank you Sofia! Hope to see you soon in a new photography adventure 👏👏👏

[@AlexArmitage]

I hope so!

[@Heidelsheim11]

Great video. Well explained. The two of you together is wonderful. Thanks Wolfgang

[@AlexArmitage]

Thanks Wolfgang

[@davidgillespie6604]

Great fun, and lots of great tips.

[@randyschwager84]

Great suggestions for any non photographers! You made it fun to watch for anyone! It was great to see Sofia again! I will be checking out the long exposure app! Thanks for taking me along!

[@AlexArmitage]

Thanks so much Randy :)

[@brianmckeever5280]

Nice job Sophia!

[@kimsegal9723]

Thanks too two. Great useful content.

[@AlexArmitage]

Our pleasure!

[@peterleibundgut2349]

Thank you, Sofia. Thank you Alex. Greetings from the foothills of Mt. Fuji

[@dwmoreair885]

Excellent video

[@Lafleurwander]

Lovely video, Love so much to be able to see Parliament hill and Ottawa :)

[@AlexArmitage]

It was a beautiful day there!

[@falcofv1x]

Your content is criminally underrated ❤

[@jacksponsler9341]

Great video!!

[@AlexArmitage]

Thanks!

[@lindaspenard7301]

Good morning Alex 🌈Good job Sophie. Alex has some competition now!

[@AlexArmitage]

Just wait!

[@lindaspenard7301]

@@AlexArmitage 😁

[@davidligon6088]

What a fun and useful video! I’m guessing Sophia takes photos with her phone when she travels with you. It would be fun to feature one of her “amateur” shots on your videos to encourage beginners. My brother’s wife and my wife take pictures on their phones when we travel for a shoot and they often come back with interesting perspectives and subjects we did not capture - even if not executed perfectly. I’m guessing it is similar with Sophia.

[@AlexArmitage]

That'll come around soon!

[@shutterhobbyist_]

Yah Very interesting videos. I'm a mobile Photography hobbyist and I am searching for videos like this. I learn a lot.

[@AlexArmitage]

Thank you!

[@alexSpunkt.]

Awesome! Landscape next time? 🙏

[@AlexArmitage]

When we get out of the city for sure

[@landseaairphotography]

You look a bit warmer than last week. Welcome back Sofia. All points go for any type of camera.

[@AlexArmitage]

a little warmer indeed!

[@Matthieu7]

Hi I you’re going to do the same test if the iPhone 15 pro but with the new iPhone 16 pro ?

[@christopherscragg7956]

Will this app become to android, thank you.

[@dougorlando1074]

Thank you Sophia... Alex, great content!

[@matthewtan1602]

Btw the lightroom app has manual camera controls too

[@knutpohl339]

Extra pro Photo apps are just fancy skins for the pro mode of your standard phone app - at least on any decent phone I have used

[@taunado]

1 star, damn that's harsh :P

[@AlexArmitage]

I did offer to make it two stars. She said no 😂

[@peteg330]

What a lovely video and great to send to some of my friends who wanna take better pics with their phone as they don't want to go all in and buy a dedicated camera.

[@MattHalpain]

Thank you, Sofia. Alex Armitage is an excellent photographer.

[@BCE-111]

Hi Alex and Sophia. :) Hope all's well. Started watching this and it seems great. But since it's 3:20 AM I'm heading off to bed and will finish watching it a little later. Thanks for sharing. 👍

[@Jmwtime]

I want to download the reflex app through your link so you get the credit, but the link in the description doesn’t work! Help?

[@AlexArmitage]

Hmm. That’s odd. I’ll let them know. Don’t worry about using the link for me! I just checked. Both are broken but I don’t control them. I’d say just grab it when you want. I’ll look into hopefully getting it fixed

[@Enoughe_]

0:24 anybody watching with a “free” suggestion for older phones please??…i use an XR and upgrading to iOS 18 will drain my battery faster

[@e.9628]

i have a pixel 8 - it has a lot of built-in features in its camera (long exposure, pro settings, ai voodoo magic, etc). I don't really ever go out of my way to take pictures. I usually just stop if I ever see sth i think is picture worthy, and photograph it (could be a sunset, bird, street, etc). I do this both IRL or in videogames (if they offer a camera mode of sorts). I think doing this generally results in a much nicer collection of photographs than me trying to force a photo where i don't see any

[@CycloneGunworks]

Does Sophia have any sisters? 😅❤