Top 10 Smartphone Photography Beginner Mistakes

Here are my top 10 smartphone photography beginner mistakes and some tips to improve your smartphone photos. Most of my photos were shot on the iPhone 12, some of them on an older iPhone. Have fun with my video!
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[@poladelarosa8399]

Thank you for: 1.For not having background filler sounds, music, or gimmicky animations. 2.For no grimacing or distorted gesticulation in video thumbnail. 3.For speaking in an adult, calm tone of voice, eschewing the 'breathless emergency' vociferation recently popular on tutorial videos. Great video, best luck.

[@AntNr511]

Dont forget to subscribe, it'll make your algorithm grow up :^

[@junaidahmadkhan9084]

Very well explained and to the point. Love the simplicity of your explanation. Much needed video. Great work! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@matomekgatle4023]

Really great tips. Thanks dude

[@arbabraiyan8200]

explained easily with that soothing voice, thank you!

[@mischa8786]

Great tips, thank you

[@talenthousephotography]

These are great tips, thank you!

[@brauncowski]

These are very useful tips. Thank you!

[@rohanlekamge]

Nice, Good ideas for my photos ❤️🔥

[@55Ramius]

Sound advice. thanks

[@Uriel554]

I’m a kid and I always do the picture duty in my family, this vid helps me a lot with my iPhone 8+

[@hamannshaikh7398]

Thank you so much for your Beautiful Explanation 😊 Will add Snapseed for editing...

[@johnboxxy3432]

Thanks for interesting video. A trick I like to use if a group of people are looking wooden in a pose is to slowly lift one leg up. This causes a reaction of amusement or shock and often makes for more interesting faces .

[@Maxaccola]

Amazing video

[@devinyasas]

Love your tutorials

[@MountMediaChannel]

Thx Devin!

[@david-markthomlinson7928]

So for the times when using a smartphone in landscape mode. How do you go about editing to fit with Instagram ratio.

[@mahmoudabdelfattah9019]

Thank you

[@shinertom142]

Another intuitive video .. 🙏🙏✌️

[@MountMediaChannel]

Thx Thomas!

[@madmozJT]

Wow che professionalità, non mi aspettavo un video cosi ben fatto da merano ahah

[@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118]

I love this video and have added it to my photography playlist. I'm a total beginner and want to take full body pictures indoors (usually in the evening after the sun has set) to document alternative fashion and historical fashion outfits. I recently bought a new smartphone (samsung galaxy A52s) to replace my older one from 2014 (motorola moto G2). I learned about the features in my new smartphone camera. But after two practice sessions I couldn't get clear photos so I've given myself photography homework. Probably my lighting situation still isn't good enough (I've got 2 lamps and a white bed sheet as a backdrop). The people in my community make it look easy, and they say "just experiment". I didn't expect it to be very easy, photography takes time and effort and studying and years of getting better after all, but it is turning out harder than I thought.

[@TheChameleon2008]

are you using a tripod?

[@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118]

@@TheChameleon2008 I bought a tripod in december and led lamps as well which have solved my most immediate lighting issues. The photos I took after that were much much better.

[@TheChameleon2008]

@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 thats good to hear! if the lighting still isn't optimal then you could buy one of those fold able reflective discs to get some nice bounce lights.

[@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118]

@@TheChameleon2008 I've looked at those and will definitely consider buying them in the future.

[@mirfanw5898]

Cann I have ur playlist?

[@cbss_unofficial-mlbb]

My Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro camera app allows me to manually change all the settings in pro mode,like EV and Shutterspeed. Is it a good idea to change them? I can also change the ISO.

[@MountMediaChannel]

It depends - for example in low light you could get better results with the right settings

[@Life_In_Mountains]

Dear Sir I watched all videos of yours and big fan of your elaboration technique Would request you to make video on Basics of Videography like FPS / Shutter Speed / ISO / EV and all

[@MountMediaChannel]

Thx mate - I will put it on my list...

[@CureRadio]

I currently have a 12 pro and want to upgrade soon. I have tmobile. I want a good astrophotography phone. What would you get? I'm looking at s23 ultra and 14 pro, 15 pro and pixel 7's although i am confused if they're all bad with overheating caused by g2 chip or only certain one gets hot easily.

[@_0_Deleted_0_]

Iso _max Time_max 16or 32 seconds Focus the stars a bit or by a place far away with lights and set the focus Boom you get astrophotography pics with stars S23 can get you hyperlapse pics where you keep it for 3 4 hours and a video of stars can be made where you can also see some satellites Or get like a cool stars in motion pic .

[@rohanlekamge]

Hi, Can you do a video on Milky way photography and videography with GoPro Hero 9 🔥

[@danielks2281]

👌

[@kings7man]

an updated video for the iphone 14 pro raw mode

[@groeneveldlos]

Nowadays the editing possibilities in Goonle Photos are great! I use them all the time now.

[@ryan_liao83]

Is Goonle Photos a new app or something???

[@jamalvinily575]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@kerryfoster1]

Smartphones are NOT made to be held so get a holder with a tripod socket and a hand pod or small tripod. ( these are cheap) You will find it much easier to take both photos and smooth video. And use the vocal commands 'smile' and 'record video' (if available') so you don't need to touch the phone at all - you can set it up, stand back and give the command. How I wish my CAMERAS had this feature! Great Video Mountmedia!

[@jeb123]

What are you on? They are mainly designed to be held, that's literally the purpose of OIS in phones. A tripod is needed when really long exposures but THEY ARE DESINGED TO BE HELD.

[@andrewtoddmedia]

Dead on with the pro tools on your cellphone not getting enough attention! The #1 question I answer after people are shocked that I take all of my pics with my cellphone is "Why don't my cellphone shots look like this?" It's normally because they are not reducing the exposure on their shots and just taking pics with the auto feature. Cellphones are designed to intentionally bring in too much light because the cellphone companies are anticipating non-photographers taking pics of friends and objects in the foreground, so the aperture on the phone camera brings in too much light as compensation. Just tapping the screen and lowering the exposure helps so much! Thanks for the video, learned a lot.

[@aserioussalamander9475]

Can you make another video for "complete beginners"? I don't know what "composition" or "shortening" means

[@EdwinCreatives]

Hi MountMedia! I've been creating videos just like that! I came by to ask if you could review my video about Smartphone Photography! If you could drop a comment on how to improve it, it would really help me in a long run! I will be uploading another video tonight (8pm UTC +8)

[@user-ms8fp1kg5v]

Is me

[@MJ-uk6lu]

Pro tip: Use Open Camera with Android and turn off processing of camera

[@icael.m]

I disagree with the concept of mistakes here, HDR photos are not in anyway superior to blown out highlights and crushed shadows. The intent of the artist and whether they achieved it and the influence of those works on the viewers are the once we should be focusing on

[@tyleriron-bear177]

Don't compare yourself to more seasoned photographers. They've had a lot more time to mess up than you have.

[@pangoytalala4886]

Low end phones be like : 😢

[@UnconventionalReasoning]

Smartphone photograph mistake #1: Thinking that the pictures taken by the handheld computer with an imaging component qualifies as "photography". It is more like "computational art". When photographers do as much as possible to "own" the photo and pretend they are the most important component of the effort, the smartphone ignores them.

[@Audimann]

IMO taking pics with your phone is the same as making a telephone call with a DSLR or else. Makes no sense.