Mayday
7/22/2025, 11:53:45 PM No.4451216
How does one get the best out of his mobile device? Like what apps should I use?
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Beginner Photography - /p/ (#4451216)
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:58:00 PM No.4451219
>>4451216 (OP)
unironically your stock apps are the "best". you can take more control with other apps but all they're going to do is let you change settings that if you don't understand as itis, is going to make worse photos. and regardless of what app you use, phones have a limitation in that they need lots and lots of light. if you're shooting indoors like in your sample pic, doesn't matter which app you use desu. on iphones the usual suggestions if you still want to dick around with it are Halide and even Lightroom mobile (pretty ok camera interface). you'll have to wait for the androidcells to chime in cause i would never.
unironically your stock apps are the "best". you can take more control with other apps but all they're going to do is let you change settings that if you don't understand as itis, is going to make worse photos. and regardless of what app you use, phones have a limitation in that they need lots and lots of light. if you're shooting indoors like in your sample pic, doesn't matter which app you use desu. on iphones the usual suggestions if you still want to dick around with it are Halide and even Lightroom mobile (pretty ok camera interface). you'll have to wait for the androidcells to chime in cause i would never.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:59:29 PM No.4451220
Honestly, a phone already edits a picture to compensate for the poor sensor performance. You could use the in-built editing tool as it's not really worth it the effort to use a professional grade software to edit a nobile jpeg.
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:08:36 AM No.4451223
>>4451216 (OP)
Make sure there is enough light. That's all there is to it.
Make sure there is enough light. That's all there is to it.
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:45:09 AM No.4451233
TLDR: what they said.
>>4451219
>>4451220
>>4451223
Here's an example of a phone photo I took recently. I think it looks good after some editing. Your phone has to have raw support if you want more wiggle room for editing. Stock camera is going to be the best, most of the time. I am still a beginner so probably best to invest bare minimum in a decent beginner camera. But for android I mostly use Lightroom Mobile(better use LRC on pc), Snapseed - for editing. Stock Camera for shooting, though there're mods for GCAM but they look awful imo
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>>4451220
>>4451223
Here's an example of a phone photo I took recently. I think it looks good after some editing. Your phone has to have raw support if you want more wiggle room for editing. Stock camera is going to be the best, most of the time. I am still a beginner so probably best to invest bare minimum in a decent beginner camera. But for android I mostly use Lightroom Mobile(better use LRC on pc), Snapseed - for editing. Stock Camera for shooting, though there're mods for GCAM but they look awful imo
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:42:21 AM No.4451242
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 4:19:50 PM No.4451422
>>4451216 (OP)
Apps and gear aren't especially important until you know what you want to shoot. You won't know what you want to shoot until you've done a lot of shooting, so just shoot! Go out and shoot buildings, cool textures, plants, interesting things, work your way up to people. Shoot in all sorts of conditions to understand the effect light has. Indoors, outdoors, just shoot and ask yourself if you're enjoying it. If you are, keep on trying new things. Watch some youtube, read some blogs, ask questions and post some photos on /rpt/.
The rest will come naturally.
Apps and gear aren't especially important until you know what you want to shoot. You won't know what you want to shoot until you've done a lot of shooting, so just shoot! Go out and shoot buildings, cool textures, plants, interesting things, work your way up to people. Shoot in all sorts of conditions to understand the effect light has. Indoors, outdoors, just shoot and ask yourself if you're enjoying it. If you are, keep on trying new things. Watch some youtube, read some blogs, ask questions and post some photos on /rpt/.
The rest will come naturally.
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 4:41:15 PM No.4451425