5 tips for taking better pictures

Lights, Camera and Click! This is the new phrase out for those who love clicking all that is beautiful around them. But here one thing is important and needs attention, i.e. all that seems beautiful in real should look equally beautiful in pictures and if this reality is missing in your snaps then it is not the fault of your stars. The reason for a bad picture is not being clicked by a DSLR, but lack of camera skills. Yes, a Smartphone can be your DSLR. All you need to have is a little knowledge of using your device in a better way.

Focus

Before you click, look at the screen and ensure that the focus is correct. Most of the Smartphone are pre- loaded with autofocus system that makes clicking perfect. But some camera’s needs your assistance. So, make sure that the object you want to capture is in focus for perfection.

Don’t Zoom as Digital Zoom is Bad

Smartphone may give the option to Zoom. But by opting zoom you are not capturing the details of the object instead cropping the picture. The Zoom option is just an option because Smartphone doesn’t have no physical lens that moves in to magnify just like in shoot cameras. Perhaps, you end up cropping the picture even before you click it without capturing any details of the object.

If details of the object matters, then you must not use digital zoom. But if you quickly want to click something and details doesn’t bother you then go for Zoom. But here the point to be noted is Digital Zoom same as cropping, avoid it.

Use Environmental Lighting not Flash

Flash for the most part isn't useful, especially in the day time. Sure, this is good if you need to get detailed images of a crime scene at night. You're most likely attempting to catch a photograph that looks more like what you're seeing right now. Simply picture a photo of a light during the evening without glimmer — you'll see the sparkling flame and little else — with a photo of a candle with whatever remains of the room enlightened with a brilliant blaze.

Instead of using camera flash, enlighten the thing you're shooting with ordinary light from your surroundings. You may need to go into your Camera application's settings and debilitate the glimmer to keep it from shooting naturally. This one tip — maintaining a strategic distance from the blaze unless totally important — will help you take vastly improved looking pictures.

Use the Back Camera, Not the Front Camera

These selfie loving generation goes around clicking pictures with their front Smartphone’s front camera. The camera just above the display screen is said to be for selfie. But if you notice every Smartphone device includes a better, higher- detail cameras on the back. Surely camera with high quality can give you better picture compared to the low power front camera. Clicking with the back camera can surely be a tough job.  But you can always take help from people around.

Try Alternative Camera Apps with Manual Controls

Alternative camera apps can enhance your picture clicking experience and quality. Elective camera applications can improve your photo clicking background and quality. The most recent variants of Google's Android and Apple's iOS both incorporate a camera API. These camera applications can connect to this API to get more propelled control over the Smartphone's camera, offering propelled controls over the camera equipment that aren't offered in the default camera application.

Simply exchanging applications, presumably won't give you a superior picture. They offer more control, and that control can prompt better pictures on the off chance that you take the time to change different alternatives. Make sure to keep your cell phone's camera lens unadulterated, as well. You may need to painstakingly tidy it on the off chance that it's gotten earth and smears.

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Net Neutrality vs Free Basics: What will India choose?

Free Basics, an initiative by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been in controversy ever since it was born as internet.org. Facebook has been aggressively promoting Free Basics through which it aims at getting internet to every corner of the world. 

In India, it has tied-up with Reliance. Free Basics is nothing like its name though. It doesn’t define what is free and what the basics are. Facebook is spending almost INR 100 Crore for this dream initiative. It seems to be a not-so-well-thought-of and a flawed initiative though. It is purely against Net Neutrality and offers services which the people may or may not like. Facebook has been trying so hard to save Free Basics that it seems to be more of a marketing gimmick than a pure heartfelt initiative. Facebook wants to be ‘the’ internet. Facebook wants to brand itself as the internet. That is what Free Basics will do. It just seems to be a high profile sham. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had given 7^th as the last date for the users to approve or condemn Free Basics. Now let us see what the future has in store for the complicated and costly Free Basics.

Read More: http://www.smartcritique.com/facebook-free-basics-sham/

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5 health issues every Smartphone user should be aware of!

Technology with all its benefits can be hazardous to health if not used with care. Here are some major health issues that a Smartphone can cause with the tips to avoid. If you are a Smartphone user then you need to smart while using them. Otherwise, they can bring the following health problems.

Text Neck

This is the medical term used to describe the spinal cord disorder. This arises out of excess usage of Smartphone. While reading or texting, on the phone people tend to bend their neck up to 60 degrees. This increases the pressure on the neck causing forth neck pain.

The best way to avoid it is to bring the phone to the level of your eyes and look straight into it. Another solution is to lower your eyes instead of bending your neck.

Vision Loss

This issue happens as your eyes are strained constantly by looking at the blue light leaving the mobile phone. Examining or using mobile phones in the midst of absence of external light further helps the issue. Your vision gets the chance to be poor and you may need to go for glasses.

The most perfect way to deal with avoiding this is to move in the opposite direction of mobile phones at a standard between times. Look at something far away and focus on it for quite a while before returning to the phone screen.

Wrist Problem

The way we hold cell phones for long lengths of time, strains the wrist. Individuals more often than not hold their telephones utilizing last three fingers and the thumb while utilizing the pointer for performing activities on the cell phone screens. Holding the stance for more terms consistently has a tendency to make torment in the wrist.

It is ideal to continue changing the stance of telephone when performing assignments like perusing. You can put down the cell phone while lying on the bed or in the lap while sitting on a seat and take a gander at it rather than continually grasping it.

Numb Fingers

Fingers of smartphone users get to be numb and produce a shivering sensation. Holding the device spots stress from the elbows to the fingers. The hands above elbow encounter slower blood course and if not revised instantly, can have dependable impacts. The pointer too encounters the same and gets to be numb before long.

It has been prescribed to put the smartphone away for some time. At that point perform some development of arms and fingers so that the inclination goes away. I would suggest, one should keep the phone away, at least for a minute every fifteen minutes of usage of the device. This would help the user in avoiding permanent problems that may arise due to prolonged usage of the smartphone.

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