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We all love to take photos with our smartphones. However, most of us limit ourselves to a simple auto mode without digging deeper to learn some of the other cool things our phone's camera can do.

Check out these 14 phone photography tips and hacks below and try to implement some of them the next time you pull up your camera app.

White Balance (WB) may sound intimidating if you are a true beginner, we get that. But it is one photography basic that you should learn about to understand how light works on your photos. Ever wonder why some photos look blue while others look yellow and want to know how to fix it? Your phone is probably set to automatic white balance (AWB) and that’s probably fine for most of your shots. But what if you could better control the tint in your photos and get exactly what you aim for. Sometimes the photo you take will be bluer or...

  Either you’re shooting a kid’s birthday party, vlogging on your YouTube channel, or filming a short documentary, make sure you have the right tools and the basic knowledge to capture the best possible images. We all have a great tool to create excellent movies and video content right in our pockets. Smartphones are now equipped with high-quality photo and video features that can provide us with some pretty close-to-professional level images. Actually, even professional videographers are shooting entire movies on smartphones now. Simply learn a few tips and tricks and you too can be taking amazing videos. Let’s take...

Do you have the travel bug? Many of us who love to travel or enjoy our vacations in exotic places are feeling the travel bans at the moment pretty badly. We will be traveling again soon, but for the moment we remain with limited travel options. Do you have a ton of travel photos that you have accumulated over the years? Are they sitting in your phone or in a computer file? You probably occasionally like to look at them and remember your travel experiences.  What if you could use your best travel photos to create fun projects and get...

More and more of us are ditching our bulky traditional cameras since smartphones keep improving and the cameras they feature are becoming pretty impressive. Professional photographers are now going out into the field with nothing more than their convenient smartphone plus a few accessories.  One of the most indispensable pieces of camera gear to have is a sturdy tripod. Ask anyone who is truly invested in producing great photos if they own a tripod. The answer will most probably be yes. Owning a full-size tripod that you can use with your traditional camera and also with your smartphone is vital...