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A selfie stick is a must-have if you want to be able to take photos of yourself that can include a lot of the background or fit all of your friends and family in the shot. However, there are so many selfie sticks out there, it’s hard to tell which ones are good and which ones will become useless trash …

Gone are the days of single-camera smartphones. Today, if you buy a decent phone that can take good photos, chances are it will have more than one camera at the back. Some have two cameras while other smartphones have four or even five cameras at the back. All in all, there are seven different types of cameras you can find …

One of the best accessories for mobile photography is an attachable smartphone camera lens. These lenses sit in front of a phone’s camera and change its angle-of-view to either allow you to capture more of the scene or to magnify your subject, depending on the lens attached. One of the many types of external smartphone lenses you can find is the fisheye lens. …

A smartphone telephoto lens narrows the field-of-view of the camera and magnifies the subject. By how much the subject is magnified depends on the lens’s focal length. The longer the focal length, the narrower the field-of-view becomes, and the more magnified the image gets. If the telephoto lens’s focal length is double that of the camera’s wide-angle lens, it’s regarded as …

Title image source: weeattogether.comFood photography is one of many types of photography you can do with a smartphone. However, in order to get the best results possible, you need to use the right tools. A good tripod will go a long way in helping you capture awesome food shots with your phone. Below are some tripods that are ideal for mobile …

In most cases, the primary camera of a smartphone has a wide-angle lens. This allows it to capture as much of the scene as its focal length allows it to. However, sometimes it’s just not enough. If ever you’ve had to take a photo of a large group of people, a landscape, or building exterior, you may have had to step …

Macro photography is known as extreme close-up photography because it’s concerned with capturing shots of small objects and creatures as well as details the eye normally misses. To do macro photography with a smartphone well is not possible unless you have a multiple camera smartphone with a macro lens. And even then, the quality of a lot of smartphone macro …

Using a tripod is very important in photography, and even so in mobile photography. It can help you stabilize your shots, so your photos don’t come out looking blurry. It also allows you to do long exposure photography. It’s easy to think that smartphone tripods are expensive but that’s not always the case. There are some tripods that are affordable and …

If you’re thinking of getting into mobile photography a bit more seriously, then one of the accessories that you need to invest in is a good smartphone camera lens kit. Using the right lens will help you capture more of a scene when you need a wide shot or limit your field-of-view for capturing beautiful portraits. You can even attach a lens …

The days of flipping through a photo album are long gone. They have been replaced by digital versions on social media. However, there’s something special about holding a printed photograph. It’s like you’re physically holding onto a cherished memory. And since we capture a lot of our favourite moments on our smartphones, it only makes sense that there be a way …