Professional Mobile Photography

Set Up a Complete Home Studio on a Budget

Photography & Editing 5.0(51)3h 13m17 lectures1 section

What you'll learn

Understand the difference between a phone camera and a professional camera
Choose lighting and sound equipment
Apply shooting rules and body language
Use filming apps such as Cinema FV
Edit quickly after shooting
Merge audio and adjust colors
Set the white balance
Shoot products with your phone
Create stop motion footage
Make a softbox by hand

About this course

This course explains how to shoot professionally with your phone and set up a complete home studio at the lowest cost. You start with an introduction and first shooting tips, then the difference between a professional camera and a phone camera. After that you get to know the basic equipment, including lighting, sound and content, shooting rules and body language, mobile filming apps and how to use the Cinema FV app. Then you learn quick editing after shooting, merging audio and adjusting colors, and white balance. You also practice phone photography, product photography, stop motion, and making a softbox by hand, and finish with tips on common mistakes. The course suits content creators, small shop owners and anyone who wants good photos and videos from their phone. You need no previous experience and no expensive camera: a phone and a few simple tools are enough. Afterward you will be able to shoot products and videos, set up a shooting corner at home and edit what you filmed.

Expected outcomes

Ability to produce professional photos and videos using a phone.
Master the use of photography and editing software to enhance content.
Capture products professionally to enhance their marketing display.
Create creative videos using advanced techniques like Stop Motion.
Improve visual content quality to achieve effective marketing goals.

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Course content

Professional Photography Using Mobile

17 lectures

IntroductionCourse introduction explaining that good filming depends on making the best use of simple tools, chiefly the phone camera, and outlining the steps from preparing the location and lighting to equipment and editing.2:43
Initial tips for photographyGives starter tips for phone filming, including cleaning the lens, checking storage and battery, holding the phone properly with both hands, setting up light and sound, shooting at the highest resolution, and practicing continually.8:59
The difference between a professional camera and a mobile cameraExplains the differences between a phone camera and a professional camera, such as lenses, sensor size and shutter speed, and shows that manual-control camera apps bring phone results closer to professional quality.16:52
Essential equipment (lighting)Covers lighting as core filming equipment: soft versus hard light and how source size and distance affect it, the Key Light, Fill Light and Back Light setup, and choosing the color of the backlight.17:45
Essential equipment (audio)Explains the importance of sound in video, preparing the room to reduce echo, internal versus external audio, wired and wireless microphone types, and recording audio on a separate device to merge later.21:47
Essential equipment (content)Explains writing video content or a script: the planning stage of choosing a title, gathering information and ordering ideas, the detailed and key-points writing methods, and structuring the intro, body and conclusion.13:06
Photography rules and body languageExplains preparing to present on camera: setting up the space and framing with the rule of thirds, vocal elements such as pace and intonation, and body elements such as head angle and eye contact.17:13
Photography apps using mobileExplains setting up the Open Camera app for manual phone filming: video resolution, frame rate (FPS), shutter speed and its link to frame rate, ISO, and then starting to record.5:50
Quick editing after shootingExplains the basics of editing in Adobe Premiere: importing video and adjusting the frame, cutting and deleting silent parts, adding a transition effect between clips, and exporting the video.13:47
Audio Mixing and Color CorrectionShows in Adobe Premiere how to sync external audio with video using the clap marker, link the two files, set the audio level, and then adjust the video's colors and export it.10:07
White BalanceExplains why White Balance is set, what color temperature in Kelvin and warm versus cool colors mean, the preset options, manual Custom setting using a white sheet of paper, and fixing it after shooting.14:34
Using Cinema FV-5Explains setting up the Cinema FV-5 app for manual phone filming, from storage location, video resolution and audio source to ISO, White Balance, focus, the exposure meter and turning off the flash.4:51
Mobile PhotographyPresents the rules of phone photography, including controlling the shot, lighting, the rule of thirds, leading lines and framing, with tips such as cleaning the lens and using blur.11:22
Mobile Product PhotographyWalks through product photography with a phone in practice: the required gear, choosing the background color to suit the product, soft lighting, setting Pro mode ISO and White Balance, and then editing the photos.7:03
Mobile Stop Motion PhotographyExplains Stop Motion, which is taking sequential photos while moving objects and joining them into a video, and applies it in practice by preparing the set, fixing the phone, then editing on the phone with the VN app.9:32
DIY Softbox CreationExplains how to build a Softbox by hand at low cost, from the wooden frame and wiring the lights to switches, to lining it with reflective fabric and covering the front with white fabric to soften the light.9:58
Common Mistakes TipsOffers tips for avoiding common video mistakes, such as shooting in manual rather than auto, keeping decor simple, avoiding flat images and shaky footage, using an external microphone, and not comparing yourself to others.8:02