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Articles & Books From Mark Hemmings
Wait—you took that amazing picture? Taking a photo is as simple as point and click. Taking a good photo takes a bit more know-how, and Android Smartphone Photography For Dummies is your quick-and-easy guide. No matter what model of Android phone you have, this book teaches you to produce high-quality images using the powerhouse camera you carry in your pocket every day.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 09-24-2021
Believe it or not, most of the technical and creative innovation in the photographic industry is coming not from the DSLR household name corporations, but from a mobile phone manufacturer! Your Android smartphone is a brilliant mixture of art and science, and its camera is ready and able to help you capture that next stunning photo op.
Create beautiful iPhone photos with the techniques found in this book iPhone Photography For Dummies, shares the expertise of photography workshop instructor Mark Hemmings as he shows readers how to get stunning images using their favorite iPhone. By implementing Hemmings' simple techniques, you'll get professional-looking results in a fraction of the time you’d expect.
Article / Updated 06-23-2020
Landscape photography requires great light, a stable iPhone, and also a composition that shows off the scene the best way possible. The word composition describes how photographers and painters present their chosen scene within the boundaries of their camera frame or painter’s canvas. This article introduces and explains how the Rule of Thirds can help you compose your landscapes like a pro.
Article / Updated 06-23-2020
In this article, you discover a series of quick tips used by the top professional travel photographers. As you go through each tip and sample iPhone photo, keep a note of which techniques resonate with you and how you can plan to implement them on your next trip.
Practice design-based photography
It’s often tempting to photograph an entire beautiful building when traveling.
Article / Updated 06-23-2020
Portraiture is one of the trickiest genres of iPhone photography because you’re dealing with people who naturally want (and sometimes demand) that you make them look amazing. This desire, of course, is understandable. The following discussion explains tools at your disposal to present your family members in the best light possible!
Article / Updated 06-23-2020
If you have a good understanding of how to light your still life product, you are ready for a few pro tips to help you master the genre. In the following discussion, I offer still life and product iPhone photography tips for you to practice. With each day of photography, you will see yourself get better at both the technical and the creative side of still life photography.
Article / Updated 06-23-2020
As with all photographic genres, sports photography has its own set of best practices. The tips and techniques in the following sections specifically help you with creating better iPhone sports photos, and as quickly and easily as possible.
Use the Rule of Thirds
In the following two figures, you see that there are two acceptable ways to frame-up your photo or crop your photo afterward.
Article / Updated 06-23-2020
Your iPhone has a count-down timer that allows for a delay between the time that you tap the shutter release button and the time that the photo is actually taken. This delay comes in two different time options: a three-second delay and a ten-second delay.
The three second timer delay is popular for landscape and product photographers as it diminishes the chance of camera shake due to the photographer touching the iPhone.
Article / Updated 06-23-2020
If you feel that your main subject appears too far away in your composition, you can visually bring that subject much closer to occupy more space within your picture. The term zooming in is borrowed from standard cameras that have lenses that can physically zoom in and zoom out. Simply stated, by the act of zooming out you can have a very wide looking scene where a lot is included in your photo, or you can zoom in to capture the plumage of a beautiful bird in a distant tree.