If you’ve got picture frames you want to fill, your cell phone is a valuable tool. With recent technology, most cell phone cameras take clear photos worthy of custom frames. Below are some tips for getting photos that will look at home on your walls in picture frames.

How To Take Better Pictures With Your Cell Phone

1. Play With Angles

Whether you’re taking photos of people or objects, playing with perspective creates stunning results. Taking pictures of the same object from different angles can make interesting shapes or convey an emotion. For instance, taking a picture of a flower from the stem's base, looking up towards the petals, can communicate a sense of wonder at nature.

2. Use Editing Features On Your Phone

Your phone likely has an editing app that allows you to crop, resize and adjust your photos. You can change contrast and saturation levels and the tint, brightness, shadows and highlights.

These features can enhance visual interest or highlight unique aspects to make a photo look professional. Practice with different edits and save them as copies.

3. Practice Framing & Orientation 

The same practices that professionals use can be applied to your cell phone photos. Framing is when the focus of your picture is ‘framed’ by another object. This is useful in portraits, but the frame should also fill out the photo's edges.

Orientation refers to where the object of focus is in the photo and how much space it occupies. A good rule of thumb is to have your focus object take up 1/3 of the photo rather than be the center of the picture.

4. Get a Tripod

Shaky hands can blur a photo or make it difficult to orient it properly. Small tripods are relatively inexpensive and they create a stable base for blur-free images. Pair a tripod with the timer function on your phone or a remote shutter device that lets you take pictures without touching the phone. 

When you get photos that you want to put in picture frames, Seattle Custom Framing in King County, WA, will provide skilled custom picture framing services. With more than 20 years of experience, they create unique picture frames, mirror frames and shadowboxes for all types of projects and memorabilia. The owner is a certified frame specialist known for her design and skill. Learn about their custom picture framing online, and call (206) 838-7908 to make a request.