Ask The Expert: Artu Nepomuceno shares his insights on how to best capture stellar images through your smart phone. Here are his tips:
Fashion and portrait photographer Artu Nepomuceno has been a professional photographer for eight years now and is no stranger to glossies, having photographed celebrities and big editorials for some of the country’s top magazines. He transitioned to more advertisement work, dabbing in shooting for fashion labels as well as food brands. On top of that, Artu began to work with New York-based non-profit, Waves for Water, which has allowed him to travel to some of the world’s unique destinations, capturing portraits and slice of life images to help build a compelling narrative.
Do you really need all this equipment to take the best photos? Can you take good photos with a smart phone?
There's a famous saying in the photography universe: The best camera is the one in your hands. For people who start out in photography, there's a "sickness" known as G.A.S., which stands for gear acquisition syndrome. As self-explanatory as it is, it's the need to have more and more photography gear in order to achieve "better" photos. As much as there is a semblance of truth in that, in the end the quality of a photograph should be based on one basic element: how does the photograph make you feel? On a personal scale, the emotions a photograph provokes out of a person is valued the most.
