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Smartphone Close-ups and Products

Learn to control focus distance, reflections and background for small subjects.

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What you will learn

1. Explain the purpose of smartphone close-ups and products

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2. Apply a practical method to control focus distance, reflections and background for small subjects

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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 close-ups and products matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to control focus distance, reflections and background for small subjects.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Create a consistent three-photo product listing using window light.
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 consistent three-photo product listing using window light.

Good-practice checklist

The lens is clean
Focus, exposure and privacy were checked
Complete the practical activity for smartphone close-ups and products
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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