Smartphone Photography Tips and Apps

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Smartphones are everywhere. Our students have them. We have them. Teachers are starting to use smartphones for photography, video and art. Meri Walker, the iPhone Art Girl, gives us the essential smartphone photography tips and smartphone photography apps that we need.

Mobile artist communities are growing. (Meri has displayed her mobile art in some of the most prestigious art museums in the world.) As we listened to the show, Sylvia Duckworth and I made a list of the best smartphone photography apps for this graphic. If you want to get your teachers started, this is a great graphic to print for your teacher’s lounge.

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Essential Questions: Smartphone Photography Tips and Apps

How are teachers using smartphones to teach art?
What are mobile artists?
What are commonly used terms by mobile artists?
What types of materials can you print on now?
Essential smartphone photography apps
Two important photography concepts and how to teach them on the smartphone

Meri Walker, the iPhone art girl, shares her smartphone photography tips in this Every Classroom Matters episode sponsored by Snowflake Multiteach.

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Smartphone Photography Apps

Apps to turn your smartphone into a DSLR camera:

Camera Awesome [iOS – Free] [Google Play – $2.99]
Camera+ [iOS – $2.99]
ProCamera+ [iOS – $4.99]

Remember to learn about the principle of thirds that we discussed on the show and learn to use the grids on these apps. Listen to Meri’s suggestions for holding your smartphone still.

Basic Editing:

Snapseed [iOS – Free] [Google Play – Free]
Leonardo [iOS – $4.99]

Learn how to make shots tack-sharp using apps.
To Make Photo Art:

Oggl [iOS – Free] [Windows Phone – Free]
iColorama [iOS – $2.99]

Resources for More Smartphone Photography Tips:

Listen to the smartphone photography tips show to hear how mobile artist Meri Walker uses these apps. Thank you to Snowflake Multiteach for making this show possible. [/callout]

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

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