Photographer and writer Jo Bradford has become something of a sensation in the smartphone photography world. Her first book on the subject, Smart Phone, Smart Photography, was published four years ago and remains popular. She followed it up with Smart Phone, Smart Photo Editing, which explores image editing using Snapseed software, and now a third book on the subject: Smart Photos: 52 Ideas to Take Your Smartphone Photography to the Next Level.
But Bradford’s third book has a different approach from the first two: Smart Photos takes a series of popular photographic techniques associated with ‘real’ cameras, and sees the best-selling author reveal how to achieve the same results on a phone. The gap between what you can produce on a DSLR or mirrorless compared to a smartphone narrows every year as technology improves, but photography shouldn’t just be the preserve of people who practise their craft with an interchangeable-lens camera. Thanks to authors like Jo, and the ubiquity of camera phones, photography has never been so democratised.
