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Smartphone Portraits and People

Learn to make natural portraits with careful focus, light and consent.

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What you will learn

1. Explain the purpose of smartphone portraits and people

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2. Apply a practical method to make natural portraits with careful focus, light and consent

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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 portraits and people matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to make natural portraits with careful focus, light and consent.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Create a three-image portrait set with the person's permission.
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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Create a three-image portrait set with the person's permission.

Good-practice checklist

The lens is clean
Focus, exposure and privacy were checked
Complete the practical activity for smartphone portraits and people
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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