Techniques I do for capturing an instagram-perfect photo

Hey, beautiful people! I'm here again to share with you the techniques I used in taking my phone-photographed pictures. Photography is not an easy job, it is more than just taking a picture of a moment. It's more of how you take the moment the right way. You put in a lot of effort for a single photo from capturing it, to identifying the right angles, and lastly the editing. In capturing a photo, there are some guidelines you must follow, some common ones are the s-curves, rule of thirds, leading lines, and balancing elements. As for personal preference, I like using rule of thirds. Now, rule of thirds is having four lines in your picture, two horizontals and two verticals. This rule applies by aligning a subject to the guidelines and their intersection points. For example,

I also have some pictures that I took myself using the rule of thirds.

What I did in this picture was, I aligned the horizon to the bottom horizontal guideline. The same thing as I did in this photo.

How do I take the perfect picture of a fire dance? Here is a picture I took a year ago on a weekend getaway with my family in Midway Beach Resort in Initao, Misamis Oriental, Philippines.

In this photo, I changed my slow shutter to 8 seconds (phone setting). Instead of taking a picture after the performance with the performer, you can take a picture with a story that the performer actually performed the fire dance. But do remember that this technique is what I would use when there's light involved. For example taking a picture from above of cars passing by at night. it would create this effect of streaks of light.

That's all for now, until next time!

yours truly,
@gwyntheexplorer