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If you have followed me on Instagram for a while, you definitely have realized, that I’ve just been to Corsica and I had a wonderful time there. When I’m traveling, my suitcase is always full of outfits and accessories. The most important thing is my smartphone and camera. The smartphone is basically my constant companion. Without, I couldn’t upload Instagram stories and I couldn’t share the moments I am experiencing. I had always love to take pictures and now it became very important. Pictures show my emotions, impressions and are great memories to special moments. Therefore I’d like to reveal some hints and tricks, how you take even better pictures with your phone.
On Corsica I took my pictures with the new HUAWEI P10 Plus. The smartphone makes really nice shots, because it has two lenses on the backside and a selfie lense, which all got developed in collaboration with Leica.
I want to give you some good tips, how to use these functions to get some variety in your vacation pictures.
THE BOKEH EFFECT FOR PROFESSIONAL PICTURES
In the past the bokeh effect was integrated only for big system cameras. The term bokeh comes from the japanese language and means ,,blurry”. For instance, if we shoot and the focus should lie on the outfit, we like to use the bokeh effect, thereby the outfit is foregrounded and shows to advantage. So you can see me clear and the background is blurred.
This is also quite a benefit, if you don’t have a pretty nice background 🙂
With the P10 Plus, you can always move the focus even afterwards. This is really helpful, if the vvvFocus has gotten on the wrong place. But even more helpful, if you are by yourself and you have to ask strangers to take the picture and of course sometimes they are not blessed by photographic skills. I’ve been in this situation several times before :). Besides you can adjust the intensity of the bokeh effect. So if you don’t want a blurred background, you can edit the picture afterwards.
SELFIETRICKS
Group Selfies
In my opinion the group selfie is a brilliant feature. If you are on vacation with friends, you can take wonderful group selfies. The P10 Plus recognizes faces automatically and once it recognizes more than one person in a selfie, the camera is zooming out, thereby the picture detail get extended and more people can fit in the picture.
No make up and you are not in the mood of image editing?
On vacation, there are some days you don’t want to wear makeup at all. No problem, if you like you can directly activate the make-up filter. Even just a little bit of makeup, you can modulate everything.
Release when smiling or voice command
Do you know some friends, who never want to smile on pictures? If you activate the option ,,release when smiling”, the camera will only release, if it recognizes a smile. As well as the voice command ,,Cheese”, you can release the camera. Very nice features. 🙂
Streetstyle pictures by object tracking
The smartphone cannot only recognize a smile, it also can track an object. This is extremely helpful, if you want to have actively pictures in faster movements. To activate this mode, just click on object tracking in the swipe menu (open camera and swipe left). For instance, if I cross the street from the left to the right, it would still focussing me.
The golden rule when taking pictures
A picture from the same object, photographed by two different persons, can appear in a totally different way. This is due to the picture composition. The compositional rules (golden cut etc.) is tough to implement to the unaided eye. But there’s the chance to activate grids. With the help of the grids it’s much easier to take the perfect picture.
