So let's have a look at camera. Some things we need to understand about a camera is number one, it's got what is the equivalent of a 30 millimeter lens in the camera. Now, for those who are not used to photography terms what that means is this is a wide lens. This is actually not a good portrait lens. What this is going to do is it's going to create some issues. Now the main issue you're going to get is if you have the camera too close to your face.

It's going to make your nose and your lips really big and it's going to draw your face back. So a 30 millimeter lens which is this this is the equivalent of is always going to give you some problems. So what we want to do to compensate for that is we're going to take the camera a little bit further away when we take our shots. And because it's a little bit further away, it's going to reduce the fishbowl effect, which is, it's like a when you look a goldfish in around fishbowl if the goldfish swims forward and close and looks at you, is you're going to get this gold fishbowl effect and you're going to see a big lips and everything. But if they go back into the middle of the bowl, you won't see it so much because of the curvature of the lens. So, in this scenario, we have to just make sure that we're not the goldfish right up close, because that's gonna give you a bad selfie.

We need to make sure we've got a little bit of space because we're using a 30 millimeter lens, and then what we'll do afterwards, that's going to bring a lot more background in than we want, and we'll show you this later. But we can crop that out. So that's the first thing we have to understand about a camera is it has a 30 millimeter lens, and it creates some issues that we have to work around. Now the other thing about iPhones and smartphone cameras, they've got very small sensors. What they essentially means is when you take a picture of a DSLR, you see there's really nice pictures and you see the face and focus and F analysis out of focus. And it looks really nice because it's got what is called a shallow depth of field.

Now, a smartphone cameras got small sense, I'm not going to bore you with a scientific, technical explanation, but basically what's going to happen is, everything is going to be in focus. So your focus your background, his vote, you're not going to get that look. What we're going to do is we're going to create that look in our software. So Snapseed will help us to imitate that but we have to understand that when the image comes out of the camera, we're not going to get that portrayed look, we need to do some editing to get it looking the way we want it. Now the advantage of this camera is if you want everything in focus, you might find a better camera. If you want to do a landscape picture or anything like that absolutely brilliant because everything's going to be in focus but for portraiture, when again, we're going to need to do some work in the software.

The other saying as well is that the front facing camera on smartphones is a lower quality camera. So what I would recommend you do is take the selfie you might be completely happy and you might be not need to change around to the back camera, which is where the better camera is. So you've got two cameras on most modern smartphones in the back camera, and you've got the front facing camera which is on the same side of the screen. When we do selfies we're using the front facing camera, but that is magnitudes lower in quality. On the one on the back, now we can still get really good results, it's going to be good enough for the social media profiles. With this front facing camera.

Once you've been through the course, you'll grab someone to help, especially when it comes to the composition and everything. And you can set the camera up. And then when you happy you can spin around, get someone to check, it's all set up correctly, that you've composed any image correctly, and we'll explain that later. And then they can take the picture that you learn with the front and then you'll know how to take a good portrait. And then when you flip it over and get someone else to help you frame up you just say to them, Look, this is where it is. I want you to look around.

Does it look the same that way? Yes, it does. Let's take the picture, because you'll know then how to pose you'll know where to stand in terms of light. You'll know how the camera works, how far away to have it. Everything will work, but you may well be happy with the image you get from the selfie cam. If you're not we need to switch Over, under this here, let's just learn on the selfie camp is absolutely brilliant for learning because we can see everything we're doing on the screen while we're shooting.

Now the other tip is when you're looking what people tend to do when they're taking a selfie, you look at the screen well let's the camera is actually over here. You're gonna see the cameras find that on your phone. And then what you do is you're going to compose the image, you're going to look at the screen, and then when you take your picture, you have to then move your eyes and look at the camera, not the screen because otherwise your eyes will be slightly off. So a little tip there. When you're ready to do that image and take that snap. Always make sure you're looking at the lens and not the screen.