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Getting Up Nice And Close With Nature For Free Visual Content
Being creative with an iPad or iPhone
The photographs in this article probably won't win any photography awards, but they are more than good enough to be published in article like this.
For Medium writers it's really important to try to get some good visual content. That can be a problem in terms of first of all finding a suitable photograph and then making sure it is copyright free. So it is much easier to simply create your own visual content, and it really isn't that difficult.
Stand out in a crowd
The photographs you see here were all taken with an iPhone 7 on a relaxing three kilometre walk around my neighbourhood at six in the morning. The composition was all done with the human eye in taking the shots. So no need for cropping or adding any special effects later. You just need to develop a good eye for composition, a steady hand and then point and shoot. I chose the field of golden wheat with a flash of green for the contrast and did a simple zoom.
The photograph below was at a local cemetery. I loved the splash of colour in an otherwise monochromatic setting. It's like I have mixed black and white film with colour, without using any film at all. For this no zoom was needed, I just got up nice and close physically.
