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Understand your phone camera's dynamic range

Understand your phone camera's dynamic range

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Understand your phone camera's dynamic range

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- One of the most important things to know about your phone camera is the particular way that it's very different from your eye and the best way for me to explain this to you is just to show it. So I've got Dom here and I'm going to take a portrait of him. And, you know, I'm not going to take it from here because as long as I'm going to take a portrait of him, let's do it right. What's all this extra space here for? What purpose is it serving? He's just kind of there in the middle of the frame. An immediate way to improve the quality of your photos is make sure that you're using as much of the frame as you can, fill the frame. Let's get in close here. It may make you feel a little uncomfortable getting more close to your subject, but it's healthy for your relations. Now, this is more interesting. I know for certain that he's the subject of the image. I can still see background, so there's a sense of place. And I'm…

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