Tips for Taking Cell Phone Pictures

Everybody takes pictures with their cell phones.  I see thousands of them on Facebook alone.  Cell phone cameras have improved since the early models.  You always have them with you so it's possible to capture anything from cute shots of your kids and pets to shot for the People of Walmart.

Here's a few tips to make your cell phone pictures better:

1.)  Get down to the level of your subject. I see lots of pictures of kids and pets that have been made looking down at them.  You want a picture of their faces, not the top of their heads.  So sit down, squat down, get down.

2.)  Don't get too low.  If you sit on the couch or floor and take a picture of adult subjects standing up with a ceiling light on, the light will produce a glow at the top of the picture and you will be looking up the peoples noses, not to mention that when they look down at you, they might have double chins!

3.)  If you zoom in, you will lose light and that meets the camera will take the picture slower and the picture will be slower.  it is always better to walk closer to your subject than to zoom.

4.)  Due to the type of lens in a cell phone camera, some subjects may appear distorted.  This is especially true with horses.  The horse will appear to have a big head and a little rear.  Just plain funny looking.  Try taking the picture from a profile to avoid this distortion.

5.)  Finally, cell phones crash.  Print your pictures so years from now when your phone is totally obsolete of has been run over by your car or lost or whatever, you will still have your pictures because those precious moment cannot be replaced.

Some Beautiful Images from the Archives

Since I have traded my website for a blog, I though I'd better add some images that had been posted on the website for all of you who haven't seen them before or for those of you who have, to see again.  So, here's a few.  There's lots more on my Facebook pages, Vanna Napier Photography and Vanna Napier Equine Photography.
Here's the link to the old blog;
http://vannanapierphotography.blogspot.com/
The old blog goes way back!

Lillian

Lillian and I did a little photo shoot today.  She's such a happy baby.  She smiles and giggles and jabbers all the time.  Her bodyguard, Boomer, stays close by.

I posted on Facebook that I would start a new blog in a few days, but no time like the present.  So here it is! 
I will start this blog by telling a little about myself.  My name is Vanna and I have been a professional photographer for 9 years and a photographer for way longer than that.  I have always loved cameras and taking pictures.  I just wish digital cameras and computers were available when I was a teenager!  I would have taken millions of pictures by now and would have saved lots of money on film and developing!  I could barely wait for the picture guy to bring the developed pictures to Magic Mart.  I had his arrival down to the minute and if, for some reason, my pictures didn't return, I was beyond disappointed.  He came twice a week and if I had to wait a few extra days, it felt like an eternity.

Other than being a photographer, I am a horse woman.  I love all horses, but American Saddlebreds are my favorites.  They have great personalities and they are beautiful and graceful too.

Photography is not my only profession.  I have been a Registered Nurse for a long time, but this blog is not about nursing!!!

Since I said in the description of this blog that I photograph beautiful things, I'll post a couple of images of some beauties right now,  Lillian and Sophie in their Easter dresses: