What I have today for you all is a small and simple guide with the help of which you can click better pictures. I have been using Nokia cameraphones to click some pictures worth displaying on my Phontography Blog and thus this month I will be doing a series of posts for the same. These are simple tricks, hacks or guides that will help you click exceptionally amazing pictures.

We all have been using our cell phone cameras and many a times we end up clicking pictures which go blur or which could have been clicked better. With the new wave of Nseries and Eseries devices we have now been provided with a lot of functions which we hardly use. A part of this series is the Black & White pictures on which I did a post over at my blog.

Grid Lines

This post will reintroduce you guys to the use of GRID LINES in your device. While you turn on your camera, enable the grid lines from the right options bar. Now why do we need these lines? Well, let me tell you something first;

Focal points are the areas of interest in a photograph. If you are taking a portrait, the obvious area of interest is the eyes of the person. If you are taking a landscape it could be a house in the foreground.

So don’t put the areas of interest in the middle of the photograph. Most people do. Phontographs work better when the area (or areas) of interest are placed off center. And this is where the Grid Lines come in.

Picture taken with Nokia N96

With the above picture in as an example, just use the points of interest to lie on the corners on the center square formed by the crossing lines of the grid. In this case I made the vegetables to lie on the left corner of the center square. Also note that the building on the right is parallel to the right vertical grid line and the tomatoes below are parallel to the horizontal grid line. Finally the cycle at the bottom right. Thus with this in mind you can click amazing pictures by keeping your points of interest at proper location.

Helpful?

Do let me know if this tip was helpful. I would be posting more on how to use your device camera to the full. If you too have a trick please do share it with me. Looking forward to your feedback