Mobile Lifestyle Photography: Food

1. What is this class about : Hello, My name is Alina, and in this class we will talk about mobile photography, but not only basic mobile photography, but specifically for lifestyle and for food photography. In this class, I will show you how I do it. I will show you all my tips about mobile photography that I have that I use. I will show you examples of our shootings. You will see how it looks like from a side. And also we'll have a homework like task that we will do during the week. And it will help us to improve our skills, our practice, to practice more, to have more fun. And let's get started. 2. All settings you need : In this video, we will talk about settings, all settings that we need for mobile photography, and it will show my tips. So let's go to settings inside the camera. So I open the camera and first of all, I want to talk about exposure. Exposure is when we have like zero like that. Why don't we have darker or brighter photo? And usually in my camera here, when we tap on at all. In camera, I have exposure inside. So usually I put it minus three. So all my photos by default are underexposure. Just slightly, slightly, slightly. Because sometimes I feel like iPhone or all cameras trying to bright your photos by default. And it's not necessarily all the time. So I usually put it minus spring and when I'm opening my photos next time, It's always will be here. -0.3. So I don't need to do it every time. But even if I need it, I can tap on an object that I want to focus and slide down. But usually I don't do it. Usually I just I just open my camera point on the object and taken photos. And exposure. Like when we have minus exposure helps us to brain on, keep all colors that we have on picture. And sometimes I feel like iPhone when we have underexposure picture, I found not sharp pictures that much that we do it on a default, defaults basic settings and also some settings here. I don't have HDR. I never use it. Sometimes. It's interesting when you are filming sunset, when you are filming some buildings, but I don't like HR effect. Also, my life is turn it off all the time because life photos always like a small video, a few frames in a small stocks, so it waits more and I don't use it. I don't use it for stories, so it's always turn it off. Also flesh, usually turn it off. Also. I use Zoom a lot. Too buoyant Zoom. I always all the time, like I feel like I love more for us when it's zoomed, because it also depends on which lens do you use on your camera, because this lens is in iPhone is equivalent for 24 meal on your camera. And when we have Zoom is usually like 50 meal. And I'm big fan of 50 meal. I always feel like Zoom is brains. More interesting composition to my frame. So like here we see the full sin. Yeah, but when I'm turning into Zoom, I can crop it more interesting like that. And I feel like it's looks more interesting than on a normal camera. Let's point it to another. So here we have normal white, but when we're using to x, we can boil it or somehow crop it. More interesting in, in, in, in our frame like two point on the object or crop it like that. So here is my basic settings. And when I'm taking for all, I'm trying to combine like normal or normal camera and tweaks camera because it helps me to tell the story. Because when we're doing any form of bile, we camera photo doesn't matter. We always need to think about not the object itself. The store is that we want to tell and I try to show wide angle. So like what's going on on my table, e.g. yeah. And then I can zoom and show weight in a crop like that. So it's already more interesting then I'm doing the same for us, right? So I'm trying always to combine and do 5050 with normal camera and with Zoom camera. And I'm usually not overwhelmed or not think aloud or not overthink about my settings. Because in mobile photography I think it doesn't matter because it's more interesting. Anyway, on camera you will get a better picture. So what's the point to think about settings on your phone? So I'm more thinking about objects or more thinking about the composition. So I'm not thinking about technical part. Thinking more about art side of photography when I'm doing photos on mobile. 3. Taking photos in the cafe : So we came to our local cafe in our neighborhood and we decided to take a few photos because it's always, always beautiful. And the light here was beautiful because in the evening it's quite dark, but in the morning tours amazing towards the best blight I've ever seen is this cafe. And before even point my camera to the object, I always try to see the scene before trying to capture with my eyes and then press the button. So I'm not a big fan of taking hundred brand on photos and then trying to figure out what autos He's good and what I need to delete because it takes a lot of time and I'm trying to do like to for us isn't decide between two photos, but not in 24 h. And that's why I'm trying to seize a picture first and then press the button. Usually in cafe, I'm trying to not to feel people. I can do it like white photos that you can see people but not at closely. I'm not a big fan of taking portraits, portraits of strangers. So if I'm doing flat lays, doing crop photos, details to show how it looks like in sight. So you do understand what, why displays hairs and also aid in autos of small objects, of small details that bring you the feeling. What I see, how I see it, and what do we have on the table? Here I have a bunch of photos that are already ready to pause to violinist. But in the next video, we will talk about how to edit them a little bit if we needed. I'm not a big fan of editing photos at all, but I will show you what I do if I need like small touches. 4. Editing with no apps : So here is our photos, and usually I'm not using any apps for editing arrow edit. If I need some touches, if I need to add contrast or like different type of color, usually I'm doing it inside, inside the f. So e.g. we can find some dark photo, e.g. x1. So here is this one and it's more lighten. This one is more dark, so I go to Edit and just edit it here. Sometimes I can add exposures, so bring it Mikey tomorrow, bright. Or sometimes I can add contrast to this picture. This picture is already, has a lot of contrast, but e.g. we can add it and sometimes I can change the warms so I can add it more yellow color to this picture. So it was before and after, before and after. So we just added some color, add some details to this folder. I could say. Yeah, I can post it like that. I like I like the original photo, but with editing looks also good. So I can do that and see what else I can edit. E.g. we can slightly touch that photo sometimes even I use after so we can press after and I do every things that we need. But here I can add exposure just a little bit and also warms here to bring this photo more warm. But if I want to add more dramatic effect, I want, I can add blue light. I'm not a big fan of blue light. So usually I'm adding warms. A hubris of a photo is ready and you can see is a difference. So you can see that four is not, that contrast is not saturated, but this photo, e.g. is more contrasty, so it depends on your style, it depends on your taste. And you can choose Euclid, you can experiment. And I don't use any apps. I don't use any other tools. I'm not editing on computer, roll, editing my photos from camera at all. But sometimes when I do it on iPhone, I'm, I'm, I liked to play and pause this border, e.g. they are all good. I don't even know what to add, but sometimes I want to add a situation to the photo, e.g. we can go to add alto. Do I like outta here? Yeah, I love it. But we can add it by hands like exposure. And in new iPhone, in your iOS you can find brilliance. So it's really nice tool if you want. If we go minus, we add more. We separate objects. But if we go opposite way in this picture is not, it looks perfectly but we bright all parts. Because when we go to exposure and bright all picture see it become so wide. It's not right, but when we are going to brilliance, it helps us to bright all parts like dark parts and bright parts as well. So we can add just a little bit exposure. We can add just a little bit contrast. Or sometimes I can add even vibrance. Vibrance helps you to, at saturation to your colors, or sometimes is enough to add warm. So see, I like the original one. I just wanted to show you on this picture to be honest, is really good, works with outer. And then you can adjust out as well. So you see what settings after edit a lot and you get adjusted if you don't like any parts. But here I love the original one. When your poster need to stories, you really can't see the difference, the big difference between all four rows, because you have usually you have dark frame in your form. And if the picture is darker is okay for you. If you're looking at it, looking at it on iPhone or any other form. But if you're posting on a white background, you see that picture. It can be slightly, slightly dark and we can touch it. Also, if you want to experiment with other apps in a description to this class, I will add names of apps that help. We will help you to add more film colors or more warm colors. And you could check all apps and all of them are the same. But you could see the difference between films, between prices as well. But I really, really recommend you not overthink, naught, edit your photos. Not think about editing because when you are starting to edit or agents some color, you become overwhelmed with all information. It was all colors or do I need to do it more warm or slightly bright or not bright? Oh no, no, no. Let's start from the beginning and you spent a lot of time on it. If you like it, It's okay. If you like it to play busy, it is totally okay. But if you don't, just don't think about just take photos like you are doing. And it will be more than enough to your practice, to your style and even if you are doing for us also on camera, mobile photography will help you to understand different angles and even to find your own style. 5. Everyday inspiration: And about inspirations, most interesting part. Because if you want to take more interesting for us, if you want to be surrounded by this beauty, it's really necessary to follow ideas, to watch our tourist on YouTube, e.g. or on Instagram about that topic that you like, about that style that you like. And on Instagram, I have and I will post in the description also my favorite people who post and take photos with mobile. But I usually searching for interesting ideas in my feed so I can just scroll and see what people are posting. And if I see is a person is more about fashion or about lifestyle, I can come to stories and you just, just to check what's going on in stories. If we don't have actual stories, we can go to two highlights. And I'm just checking hundreds and hundreds of people who are creating content. And I'm interested in is this picture. And I liked this picture and usually I'm finding interesting creators through my feed. So e.g. I see is that photo was made with iPhone, but like with a phone in general. And usually I'm into a DIY, DIY peaks. And usually it's interesting insights. So we can find people who are creating all their content with a phone. You don't need a fancy camera to tell the story. You just need to capture it in a right moment with the right light and see all these photos are made. Now forms. So I like to watch different styles because I'm not a big fan of following people or just I don't like it all. So AD over edited pictures, I'm not following photographers who is doing. There are four rows, like a picture in all. When you create in Photoshop, like it looks like an art. I like when photography is more simple, when photography is more basic, is more about lifestyle. And in my feed, I can find a lot, a lot like that. Any, uh, when I see when it's about style, it's usually about lifestyle as well. So I can find inspiring stories inside and check the account and maybe follow even qualify like the lifestyle if Blake photos, if I like the style of, of, of, of the person. Here also nice example of lifestyle. Home photography. And when people go out to show about trails, about their life above some interesting stuff. And yes, it's all photos and videos played with bone and it helps me not to even sometimes I think, Oh, I need camera everyday because I can't do any good photos without my camera. But when I'm watching lucky and other profiles, it helps me to understand that I'm wrong and I could do and I could tell the story, I could shut, I can show the beauty with my phone as well. So I don't need a fancy camera with me all the time. Because to be honest, we can't fake our lifestyle. I mean, some people can fake their lifestyle was paints the Gemara when you're doing fancy photo shooting or if you're going somewhere, especially to take photos in this place, but you're not go into this place occasionally. But I always feel it, especially now, especially now when we not in trend already. So all of this picture, like Posey into the camera is already not that interesting to watch. Some people still do it. I'm totally okay because it's form of art is a form of photography and I'm not against it. I just not a big fan of it. I like more basic photography, lifestyle photography. When you see something and you capture it right here and right now you capture that moment that you feel you don't, you don't try to create that moment. You just leaving it and you just capture it and show it to your audience or two other people that you love. And yeah, I'm in photography in general and especially in mobile photography. I'm trying not to overthink, not to over held, to be ever held to as settings with light or was posing with the composition. I just practicing a lot and it helps me to see the frame or two, sees a composition in the moment and capture that moment. So it's not, it doesn't feel like we've I will bring my camera. I will be not in the moment because I always go think about composition of stuff. Now it's like my camera is like an extension to my eyes. So it's not overwhelming because I'm not overthinking. And some inspiration when you see it every day, see some pictures every day. It helps you to train your tastes, to train your style and selling when you're going out, you feel easier to picture, to take photos, to capture some moments. So it's always a circle, yeah, when he sees inspiration go and practice, then you see inspiration go in practice since production don't practice when you are sharing your practice. It's also an inspiration for other people. So as I go to practice and shows us inspiration to another pupil. So it's like a circle of inspiration between photographers, creators, just people. Usually I'm following people, not creators because I love to watch and to see other people's lifestyle. How do they leave? How where do they go? What's going on in their home, in their house, and inspires me to do something in my life, in my own life as well. And I like to shoot, I like to. So I like to show it as well. So it helps other people to also go out with and to suit and again, again and again. And yeah, it's like to have an inspiration in front of your eyes. Every day is really, really important. So I really recommend to follow people on Instagram and on YouTube with beautiful picture with true and sustainable lifestyles that will help you to gain your own lifestyle even better or even more interesting, more beautiful. 6. Your homework : The last video about our homework, what should we do? We talked about settings, we talked about the process. We talked about inspiration and how to tell the story. And it's our task to start today and to do seven days in a row to tell the story. If you're shy, you can not share these two stories, but I highly recommend you to post it, to show it to audience, to have feedback, or to post it without feedback, it doesn't matter, does mean you don't need the feedback to be honest. It just, you need to post it to release it to the world. So I recommend it to do it every day. At least three photos that you will post or will have on your phone. And it was three at least three photos. You need to tell the story. So if I go in somewhere in a cafe, in a bakery, in a bookstore, I talk about food in general. But still, if you are going to cafe, bakery, restaurant, try to combine three formats to show wide angle when you're showing the restaurant or a cafe itself, how it looks like from a street, how it looks like Terrier. Then you can do a middle photo so you can crop some seeds or you just found a nice mirror, or maybe it's an interesting storage with a bread. You take photos of it. So it's the second one. And the third one when you do detail like a macro, macro photography. When you show details of cup or maybe some close-up of bread, or maybe it's a cross on a table. Or maybe you have interesting dish, or maybe this, I don't know, like play just so beautiful. So you combine all three formats of three angles to show the story. And for people who will watch it, how will see these photos? It will be easier and more interesting to understand what's going on. So you will not post only all close-ups with food, the air because you don't understand where you would place looks like. But if you combine it all together in a row when you posting like stories and you show it in row, it will help you. For your followers are people who watch it to understand and to feel it. And next time is I will come back to your stories because it was interesting to see it because it was a story. It was not a random photos of your life. It was a storytelling with photography and we need to practice it. We don't have a habit to do so, we need to practice it. So I suggest you to do it from today in seven days to do it every day for at least three photos to tell the story and to post it, and to practice it. And on seventh day, you will see the difference. You will see the difference of feeling. If you will see the difference of understanding and you will have already a habit to do so. You will not do only white photos are only close-up photos here, you will do a range of formats, of angles. And even for your memories, It's also important because where if we don't need to pause everything right, we are we don't need to post all photos that are being made, but we keep it for us. We keep it more of a family to center our parents, to people who we love. And in one year, memories will bring you. Joy, will bring you back to that moment. And it will help you to document your life, to help to practice more with photography and to the commodity life, to have lovely library. I hoped you enjoyed the small class. I just showed you how I do it in really, really simple, simple way. And if you have a feedback, you can write me on instagram or you can write me somewhere that you like. Watch my YouTube. On YouTube also posting and showing a lot of POB videos, how I'm doing photography, how my process of street style photography, lifestyle photography. And also I have another class on Skillshare about lifestyle photography in general is also interesting. But I did, I did it with the cameras. So it's more for camera users. And I will have more about mobile photography here on Skillshare. So you can subscribe and see notification about my new classes. And hopefully you enjoy it. And thank you so much. Practice more documentary Alive. Not overthink about photography in general. Just be in a moment, captures a moment and you will have lovely, lovely memories that thank you so much. Thank you. See you next class.