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so you know photography right, doing it in your phone is easy but it pales in comparison to professional quality, and it's mostly not because of the device, for your photo-taking machine to bring meaningful difference you need a certain skill level.

Here's a few tips how to improve dramatically even with just your phone! Manual is great and all but whatever algorithm your phone uses will always give you an ok photo, and you want to take both good and shit photos! Variety is the spice of life after all

• turn on the 3x3 grid on your camera screen. Then try to allign people's eyes, faces etc with the top line horizontal in whatever orientation you use. Objects of interest go along them as well, or even in the bits where they cross. Landscapes look best when you get the horizion running the bottom horizontal line. For more information check out rules of composition

now photography is all about light, without it there would be no photo after all. Here's the 3 key setting that are fun to mess with:

• go to "more modes" or similarly named menu in your camera. Select pro, here a few fun setting will appear

• ISO controls brightness and grain, the bigger ISO the brighter the photo but the more grainy too

• shutter speed control the lenght of exposure to light your photo gets, the longer shutter speed the brighter the photo but the steadier your hands need to be to compensate (with a very long shutter speed you can also take those fun light drawing photos, but that often needs a tripod or some sort of steady spot for your phone)

• f stop, in phones you get maybe one or two options for that but this controls the depth of field and, you guessed it, brightness. The lower the number the more open your lens is and the more light flows in, but your depth of field gets smaller (blurry background)

most of photography is learning how to balance those 3 settings! All of them have their use, a sports photographer will use much different settings than a studio portait photographer.

though perhaps the most important rule of photography (and all of art) is that there are no rules, just guidelines, when hearing about a "rule" your first thought should be to see what happens when you break it, so then you can understand why it's a "rule" and perhaps even think of ways to break it with intent so the critics of the world can go "ahhh how clever" at your work :D

I'm not a girl nor autistic (though adhd) but I hope this brings you some fun :3