Best concept for a beginner video that I've ever seen. Genius bringing in someone who genuinely doesn't know to allow them to ask questions while you act as a mentor to both them and your audience
Watching you help her find different compositions at the parliament really drove home my biggest struggle. I don’t have much artistic vision and tend to resort to snapshot style shooting.
Sophia did great! Some of these tips are also good to remind ourselves of too. It's easy to get comfortable with the instagram composition of a place and neglect exploring different or more creative angles and compositions. For street photography especially, I always imagine it as a diorama that you can adjust and shift around to move elements into different spaces and build a space for something to happen. Something to pay attention to as well is the angle of the phone and how that affects your vertical lines. It's much easier to accidentally create more exaggerated effects either intentionally or unintentionally just because the phone is a lot more agile than how you might use a larger camera. Also this is a really great primer for people moving into more serious photography, a lot of people are comfortable with taking photos on their phone but think you need to have an expensive camera to take better images and a lot of the basics can be improved upon just using your phone.
Great suggestions for any non photographers! You made it fun to watch for anyone! It was great to see Sofia again! I will be checking out the long exposure app! Thanks for taking me along!
What a fun and useful video! I’m guessing Sophia takes photos with her phone when she travels with you. It would be fun to feature one of her “amateur” shots on your videos to encourage beginners. My brother’s wife and my wife take pictures on their phones when we travel for a shoot and they often come back with interesting perspectives and subjects we did not capture - even if not executed perfectly. I’m guessing it is similar with Sophia.
Hmm. That’s odd. I’ll let them know. Don’t worry about using the link for me! I just checked. Both are broken but I don’t control them. I’d say just grab it when you want. I’ll look into hopefully getting it fixed
What a lovely video and great to send to some of my friends who wanna take better pics with their phone as they don't want to go all in and buy a dedicated camera.
Hi Alex and Sophia. :) Hope all's well. Started watching this and it seems great. But since it's 3:20 AM I'm heading off to bed and will finish watching it a little later. Thanks for sharing. 👍
i have a pixel 8 - it has a lot of built-in features in its camera (long exposure, pro settings, ai voodoo magic, etc). I don't really ever go out of my way to take pictures. I usually just stop if I ever see sth i think is picture worthy, and photograph it (could be a sunset, bird, street, etc). I do this both IRL or in videogames (if they offer a camera mode of sorts). I think doing this generally results in a much nicer collection of photographs than me trying to force a photo where i don't see any
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Best concept for a beginner video that I've ever seen. Genius bringing in someone who genuinely doesn't know to allow them to ask questions while you act as a mentor to both them and your audience
That was the idea! Thanks... dorkis
Your photography information is very helpful and Sophia makes it fun. She's great.
Watching you help her find different compositions at the parliament really drove home my biggest struggle. I don’t have much artistic vision and tend to resort to snapshot style shooting.
It's a great place to start for simple improvement!
Thanks, Sophie! Learning with you was a lot of fun 😊
Great post, Alex
Thanks so much Lance!
Thank you Sophie ❤ really helpful 😊
Sophia did great! Some of these tips are also good to remind ourselves of too. It's easy to get comfortable with the instagram composition of a place and neglect exploring different or more creative angles and compositions. For street photography especially, I always imagine it as a diorama that you can adjust and shift around to move elements into different spaces and build a space for something to happen. Something to pay attention to as well is the angle of the phone and how that affects your vertical lines. It's much easier to accidentally create more exaggerated effects either intentionally or unintentionally just because the phone is a lot more agile than how you might use a larger camera.
Also this is a really great primer for people moving into more serious photography, a lot of people are comfortable with taking photos on their phone but think you need to have an expensive camera to take better images and a lot of the basics can be improved upon just using your phone.
This was the idea! Maybe it'll catch on
Thank you Sophia!
Useful stuff. And thanks to Sophie for sure. Being the guinea pig is always tricky.
The tutorial with the two of you was really helpful!
Thanks Will!
Great suggestions for any non photographers! You made it fun to watch for anyone! It was great to see Sofia again! I will be checking out the long exposure app! Thanks for taking me along!
Thanks so much Randy :)
Great video! Thank you Sofia! Hope to see you soon in a new photography adventure 👏👏👏
I hope so!
Great job Pal 💪
Great video. Well explained. The two of you together is wonderful.
Thanks Wolfgang
Thanks Wolfgang
Your content is criminally underrated ❤
What a fun and useful video! I’m guessing Sophia takes photos with her phone when she travels with you. It would be fun to feature one of her “amateur” shots on your videos to encourage beginners. My brother’s wife and my wife take pictures on their phones when we travel for a shoot and they often come back with interesting perspectives and subjects we did not capture - even if not executed perfectly. I’m guessing it is similar with Sophia.
That'll come around soon!
Excellent video
Good morning Alex 🌈Good job Sophie. Alex has some competition now!
Just wait!
@@AlexArmitage 😁
Lovely video, Love so much to be able to see Parliament hill and Ottawa :)
It was a beautiful day there!
Great fun, and lots of great tips.
Thank you, Sofia. Thank you Alex.
Greetings from the foothills of Mt. Fuji
You look a bit warmer than last week. Welcome back Sofia. All points go for any type of camera.
a little warmer indeed!
Thanks too two. Great useful content.
Our pleasure!
Nice job Sophia!
Yah Very interesting videos.
I'm a mobile Photography hobbyist and I am searching for videos like this. I learn a lot.
Thank you!
Great video!!
Thanks!
Awesome! Landscape next time? 🙏
When we get out of the city for sure
Hi I you’re going to do the same test if the iPhone 15 pro but with the new iPhone 16 pro ?
Btw the lightroom app has manual camera controls too
Will this app become to android, thank you.
Extra pro Photo apps are just fancy skins for the pro mode of your standard phone app - at least on any decent phone I have used
Thank you Sophia... Alex, great content!
I want to download the reflex app through your link so you get the credit, but the link in the description doesn’t work! Help?
Hmm. That’s odd. I’ll let them know. Don’t worry about using the link for me! I just checked. Both are broken but I don’t control them. I’d say just grab it when you want. I’ll look into hopefully getting it fixed
1 star, damn that's harsh :P
I did offer to make it two stars. She said no 😂
What a lovely video and great to send to some of my friends who wanna take better pics with their phone as they don't want to go all in and buy a dedicated camera.
Hi Alex and Sophia. :) Hope all's well. Started watching this and it seems great. But since it's 3:20 AM I'm heading off to bed and will finish watching it a little later. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Thank you, Sofia. Alex Armitage is an excellent photographer.
0:24 anybody watching with a “free” suggestion for older phones please??…i use an XR and upgrading to iOS 18 will drain my battery faster
i have a pixel 8 - it has a lot of built-in features in its camera (long exposure, pro settings, ai voodoo magic, etc).
I don't really ever go out of my way to take pictures. I usually just stop if I ever see sth i think is picture worthy, and photograph it (could be a sunset, bird, street, etc). I do this both IRL or in videogames (if they offer a camera mode of sorts). I think doing this generally results in a much nicer collection of photographs than me trying to force a photo where i don't see any
Does Sophia have any sisters? 😅❤