Category: iphone photography

Billboard Magazine issues a cover shot with an iPhone 7 Plus’ Portrait Mode

Dunja Djudjic

You may argue if iPhone 7 Plus’ Portrait mode is any good. Some people love it and some hate it, but apparently – it was good enough for Billboard Magazine. Photographer Miller Mobley shot the February 17 issue of Billboard magazine, featuring a rising pop star Camila Cabello on the cover. And despite the fact that […]

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Watch: How to build the ultimate selfie stick

Dunja Djudjic

Selfie sticks are so 2014. And because of this, Ted Forbes has created the ultimate selfie stick for all the super-narcissistic souls out there. He named it Stork Mach 1, and it’s made for taking photos, video and live-streaming. In light or dark, in any climate, you can point that camera towards you and click. Now […]

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A wooden stump, a cookie sheet and foamcore – and you can make great food photos with your iPhone

Dunja Djudjic

Do you take photos of food for your Instagram profile? If you do, you most likely do it with a smartphone. If you are into food photography (or just food), it’s good to know some tips and tricks how to make these food photos look their best. In this video, Peter McKinnon shares some tips […]

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A wooden stump, a cookie sheet and foamcore – and you can make great food photos with your iPhone

Dunja Djudjic

Do you take photos of food for your Instagram profile? If you do, you most likely do it with a smartphone. If you are into food photography (or just food), it’s good to know some tips and tricks how to make these food photos look their best. In this video, Peter McKinnon shares some tips […]

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30 years later: Exploring Pripyat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and shooting only with iPhone

Chris Feichtner

I originally announced my plans to visit the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on my private Facebook account. My friends know me and thus the reactions were anywhere from “you’re nuts” to “HaHa”. Maybe because I posted it on April, 1st? Anyway, before I could visit the zone, I had to agree to a number of behavioral […]

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Quick tip: repurpose an old LCD screen as a polarizer filter

Udi Tirosh

Polarizing filters are great, they enhance skies, remove reflections and reduce glare from photos. On the other hand they are usually big and not something you’d haul around for a smartphone. Here is a quick little hack courtesy of the Koldunov Brothers that builds a small and portable polarizer filter for your smart phone. It turns out that […]

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Can the new Portrait Mode on iPhone 7 Plus make you a better photographer?

Simon Ellingworth

One of the primary lessons I teach in portraiture is how to control the viewer’s eye, and how depth of field is one of the key methods to do that. This is normally the preserve of expensive fast lenses, but soon anyone will be able achieve this with some new technology I’ve been trailing on […]

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Smartphone photographers are driving DSLR sales

John Aldred

It’s no surprise that smartphone cameras haven’t become the “DSLR killers” that some suggested they might. Instead, the opposite seems to have happened. Smartphones are fuelling the sales of DSLRs, at least according to the Hindustan Times. There’s little doubt that smartphones have usurped compact cameras as the “gateway drug” to photography. Many people I know, […]

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