If you have a high quality smartphone with a good camera on it, taking good photos is easy. Smartphone cameras are simple to use with their auto settings selecting the options to take what the device thinks is the best photo for you.
Why learn to use the camera on your smartphone to its full potential when you all you need to do is press a button to get a great photo?
What if you want more than just good photos? What if you want more control over the settings on the camera so you can take great photos? Most of the latest smartphone cameras have a 'pro mode' setting. Learn to use the camera app in 'pro mode' and you can take your smartphone photography to a new level.
But, where can you learn to take great smartphone photos?
Here are some recommended online photography courses, books, tools and apps to help you become a better, more confident photographer.
One of the best books available to learn how to use your smartphone's camera to take great shots is Jo Bradford's 'Smart Phone Smart Photography' title.
Jo's no-nonsense approach to taking professional photos on your smartphone is both easy to follow and put into practice. Jo shows you the basics of composition and then takes you through how to use the settings in the 'pro mode' on your camera.
What you can achieve is amazing if you learn to adjust the settings!
If you want a book which covers iPhone photography, specifically, this is the book for you.
'The Enthusiast's Guide to iPhone Photography: 63 Photographic Principles You Need to Know' will take you from understanding the basics of your iPhone's camera to learning to take your knowledge to a new level.
Reviewers rave about the book, and it's straightforward approach. It's available in Kindle (£13.29) or paperback (£18.99).
You may have heard of Moment lenses. They are the high quality lenses which you fit to your smartphone to enhance the shots you take. The lenses include fish eye, Tele, wide and macro lenses. You attach the lenses to your phone using a special case.
The company also runs online and face-to-face courses to teach you how to take better photographs (and videos) with your smartphone. The lessons include how to take better car photos, high fashion and drone photography.
Lessons start from $47 (about £35).
The choice of photography courses on Udemy is, well, overwhelming. But, if you want a more interactive course on smartphone photography than a book, consider taking this course on the learning platform - 'Smartphone Photography: Take the BEST photos with your phone.'
It's a short course (1.5 hours of video lessons) with downloadable resources. the course covers basic composition, advanced techniques, and editing photos on your smartphone.
The course costs £19.99.
The title of this course is modest, to say the least!
However, over 500,000 million people have taken the course which teaches you how to make the most of your smartphone's camera.
The course covers all the basics, as well as taking better selfies, creative enhancement, motion & depth, and more.
The course includes eight interactive lessons and weekly assignments.
Learning to use your smartphone's camera to its full potential in a weekend the promise of this course by Smartphone Photography Training.
The course is for enthusiasts looking to take better photos with their smartphone for pleasure or business. It's a five-part video course which includes photo editing, making your photos tell a story, composition and spotting photo opportunities.
The course was $67 but it is now free.
Specialising in shooting with the iPhone, as its name states, the iPhone Photography School brings out the specific functions available in Apple's smartphone camera.
The school provides courses for both shooting and editing iPhone photos. If you want to go a stage further with your iPhone photography, the school runs a course showing you how to make art using your iPhone.
The photography course costs £99.