1. Explain the purpose of smartphone camera controls
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Smartphone Camera Controls
Learn to use the shutter, camera switching, grid, timer, aspect ratio and resolution controls.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to use the shutter, camera switching, grid, timer, aspect ratio and resolution controls
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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk
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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement
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Step-by-step practice
Step 1. Identify why smartphone camera controls matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to use the shutter, camera switching, grid, timer, aspect ratio and resolution controls.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Create a labelled screenshot or note showing where five key controls are located.
Safe and responsible practice: Protect location data and personal information, obtain consent and back up before editing or deleting.
Practical activity
Complete and record this task
Create a labelled screenshot or note showing where five key controls are located.
Good-practice checklist
The lens is clean
Focus, exposure and privacy were checked
Complete the practical activity for smartphone camera controls
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant
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