In days of old, when E-Types were youthful, few of us left home with camera in hand, except for a specific purpose. But in modern times nearly everyone carries a mobile phone, with the quality of its inbuilt camera being a major selling point of the product. We have become a new breed of amateur photographer and everywhere you go you encounter people taking selfies, holiday snaps or pictures of your treasured classic Jaguar at a car show. The rise of social media has catapulted photography into most of our daily lives, putting our picture-taking into public scrutiny. So, if you crave more ‘likes’ on your social media page or simply a new admiration from your family and friends, coming up are some pointers to help with the basics, leaving you to raid the internet to gain more in-depth knowledge of the subjects covered.
The first thing to understand is that the photographer is more important than the camera, no matter how all-singing and dancing it may be. Ultimately the digital camera, especially the DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) with interchangeable lenses, will produce the finest images but the convenience of the camera phone, armed with technique and a few useful accessories, has impressive capabilities. There are not many dedicated books about how to take photographs of cars and the one in my library devotes just one paragraph in the whole book to smartphone photography, so I think it’s high time we expanded on that. And just to prove it can
