4 Tips to Make the Most Out of Your Smartphone Photos

Words by Utterly Printable

Professional photographers still have a place at events including weddings, but the cost can sometimes be prohibitively expensive, especially if you have 1,000,001 other things to afford. But beautiful wedding photos are the best way of remembering your big day in the years to come. They look fabulous framed on your wall, and for directly after your celebrations, they look beautiful printed on some premium, yet affordable wedding thank you cards. So, you definitely do need them!

Fortunately, most of the guests at your wedding are going to have a camera in their pocket, and modern smart phone manufacturers are currently locked in a battle for who can provide the best photographic technology. Depending on how you want to capture your special day it is entirely possible to only have photos taken by friends and family. Or you may want to combine a professional photographer with guest-driven smartphone photography. Here are some great tips to make the most out of your smartphone photos:

Don’t Give Them Time to Pose

Some of the best photos captured at weddings are those that aren’t posed. We’re talking about truly natural looking shots. For our money, these photos are the best when it comes to producing your printed thank you cards for after a wedding. However, it is human nature that as soon as we realise the camera is being pointed at us even on the phone we start to pose and look directly at it. Subtlety is the key, and you can make it look like you’re doing something else entirely on your handset while capturing some amazing shots. With some of the new iPhones, those running iOS 10 or higher, all you have to do is swipe left from the lock screen and the camera is ready for action. Making it easier to capture those unscripted natural moments.

Take Advantage of Features

Depending on the make of phone you will find that there are plenty of really excellent camera features that you can take advantage of. Most modern camera phones will enable you to take snippets of video, or something called photo bursts, where the user presses and holds down the shutter button capturing multiple images in rapid succession. Live pictures are similar, and when you press the shutter button you get a short three second snippet of video that gives the images the look and feel of moving photography.

Do Some Research

Have you ever looked at a professional photographer shot of a wedding and thought wow that’s really clever? Of course, that is their job, but some of these can be easily replicated by doing some research in advance and having a look at professional wedding images online. It’s not just about having the bride and groom standing side-by-side grinning at the camera. Some of the best images are more creative, with a couple walking away from the camera, a shot of the wedding rings on their hands, glasses, and more. This is your chance to do some David Bailey work of your own.

Printing photo cards

Classic wedding thank you card with photo

Of course, the bride and groom would love to see the results of your handiwork. There are plenty of ways to print images from your smartphone without having to leave the house. You can use one of the various photography websites and upload them at the click of a button. You can choose the size, paper quality and much more. Before you send them of course you can use your photo software to edit and crop the images and apply colour filters should you so desire. And likewise, for the bride and groom, once all the photos are in from your guest, it’s times to pick the best photo or photos to go on your thank you card. We have a great range of premium, yet cheap wedding thank you cards which look absolutely fabulous with a bold colour photo on it.