If you are in need of stock photo alternatives for your website or you are at an event that you want to recap on your website, post to Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. You’ve probably heard of how great iPhone’s are for taking pictures, but maybe you can’t seem to get it right. The pictures are maybe just slightly out of focus, a little blurry or maybe they just don’t have as much pop as you want. Here are a few tips to help you improve your iPhone photography skills and take better pictures from your Apple phone.
Press the volume button to take a picture. This way you can hold the camera as you naturally would with a “regular” digital camera and your finger on top of the shutter button.
Photoshop Express: In addition to the simple editing tasks like the default camera app has like autocorrect, crop and rotate, the Photoshop Express iPhone app gives you more tools at your fingertips. You can adjust your photo’s exposure, brightness/contrast, hue/saturation and tint/temperature. This app also provides you with some different effects like black and white, sharpening and noise reduction. You can also add effect filters and stylized borders to your photos.
PhotoPad: PhotoPad delivers similar features to the Photoshop Express app, but with a different interface and a few difference. The PhotoPad app gives you a different slider control over your color levels, brightness and contrast and tint. I ended up downloading and using the app on my iPad before downloading it to my phone, which is why I now have that as well as the Photoshop Express app.
TiltShift: The TiltShift iPhone app is meant to create a miniature looking scene from life-sized photos. Really it allows you to create a shallow depth of field, blur out backgrounds easily and highlight your photo subjects with stand out focus.
EasyMeme: Memes can be funny, but when an app makes it this easy to create a meme, that’s how you end up with an Internet filled with stupid memes that no one laughs at. Either way, this is your opportunity to take a pic that goes viral by adding some context in class meme style.
Everydaysource Premium Tripod Phone Holder: This little iPhone accessory is awesome. It clips right onto your phone and then you can screw it in to any tripod mount that you have. It comes with a short, rather cheap tabletop tripod, but you can use it with any. 
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January 16, 2013
[…] The pictures don’t need to be taken by a professional photographer. Most smart phones now have great cameras that you can use yourself and have a friend or colleague take the picture (also see my article on iPhone photography for beginners). […]
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