The World’s Most Popular Camera and How To Take Better Photos With Your Smartphone
The world’s most popular camera, revealed (including one unexpected “camera”)! The 2020 iPhone Photography Awards, plus how YOU can take better photos with your smartphone.
This Episode’s Highlights:
- What’s the world’s most popular camera?
- What’s unique about some of the best photos taken in 2020
- How to take better photos with your smartphone camera
- … and a few other interesting bits here and there!
Show Notes
- 00:00 … Here Goes Nothing
- 00:02 … Episode preview
- 00:37 … Welcome to the show
- 01:23 … The most useful thing we can own
- 02:03 … On the rise of smartphone photography and smartphone cameras
- 02:59 … The fall of compact cameras
- 03:26 … What’s the most popular camera in the world?
- 04:01 … Pro Photographers starting to pay more attention to smartphone cameras
- 04:18 … John Bozinov, Arctic Photography, and the iPhone
- 05:04 … The iPhone Photography Awards (plus 2020 winners)
- 06:33 … Equipment used by the top 4 winners of the IPPAwards
- 07:52 … How to take better photos with your smartphone
- 11:21 … Basic photo composition tips
- 14:47 … Basic photo editing tips
- 17:05 … Tips & tricks recap
- 17:53 … Photographers to follow if you want to learn more
- 18:18 … This episode’s Featured Track
- 18:43 … This episode’s secret link and episode wrap-up
Key Features from the Episode: The IPPAwards and John Bozinov
Episode Spotlight: Two Videos on Photography From Peter McKinnon That You Should Watch
Peter McKinnon is a Canadian Photographer, Filmmaker, and YouTuber with a knack for making not just genuinely useful / helpful content designed to help improve your skills, but he also has a knack for motivating you and mostly being just plain interesting to watch.
Check out 👉 Peter’s YouTube channel 👈 for more good stuff.
Episode Spotlight: Two Videos on Photo Composition From Mango Street That You Should Watch
Mango Street is a husband-and-wife team of photography pros and videographers Daniel and Rachel. They tackle a wide smorgasbord of image-and-moving-picture-related tips and tricks that cut straight to the heart of the matter with rapid-fire aplomb.
Check out 👉 Mango Street’s YouTube channel 👈 for more useful tips.
Secret Link 🕵️♂️
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Featured Track 🎶
Smart, pop-hook-laden classic rock-ish with a hint of prog, this episode’s featured track is from New-York-based band Crying, with their 2016 track “Wool in the Wash”.
🎧 Listen on Apple Music / Listen on Spotify
🌐 Crying | Official Website | Twitter
Selected Links, Places, and People from the episode [A]:
- Digital Camera Sales Dropped 87% Since 2010
- Flickr | Official Website | Flickr Camera Data
- John Bozinov | Official Website | Instagram | Meet the Kiwi Photographer Who Caught the Eye of Apple CEO Tim Cook | Shooting With The iPhone in Antarctica
- Chase Jarvis | Official Website | Instagram
- The iPhone Photography Awards | Official Website
- Huawei P30 Pro (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- Huawei P40 Pro (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro (Amazon UK)
- Basic Lens Cleaning Kit (Amazon US / Amazon UK)
- Digital Camera World’s Free portrait photography cropping guide
- Digital Photography School: Rule of Thirds
- Snapseed | Download for iOS | Download for Android
- Lightroom Mobile | Download for iOS | Download for Android
- Mango Street | Official Website | Instagram | YouTube
- Peter McKinnon | Official Website | Instagram | YouTube
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