1. Explain the purpose of smartphone focus and exposure
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Smartphone Focus and Exposure
Learn to place focus and adjust exposure before pressing the shutter.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to place focus and adjust exposure before pressing the shutter
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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 focus and exposure matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to place focus and adjust exposure before pressing the shutter.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Photograph a bright and dark subject using focus lock and exposure adjustment.
Safe and responsible practice: Protect location data and personal information, obtain consent and back up before editing or deleting.
Practical activity
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Photograph a bright and dark subject using focus lock and exposure adjustment.
Good-practice checklist
The lens is clean
Focus, exposure and privacy were checked
Complete the practical activity for smartphone focus and exposure
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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