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Take Quality Camera Phone Pics‎

Taking great photos with your mobile phone
By Nnaemeka Meribe

A camera is not one of the gadgets a non-professional photographer will always carry about. But it is not unlikely that most people will always be with their mobile phones. And if it is a phone with a built-in camera, chances are that that phone will be useful someday when a situation that needs to be captured for posterity presents itself.

Unfortunately, many of the pictures taken with camera phones are poor in quality. This might partially be a result of lower quality cameras – but it is also often a result of poor photographic technique.

Follow the link above to take interesting and high quality photos with your mobile phone.

Sunset

McAllister Lake.

Escondido, New Mexico.

Wasted Space

Polvadera, New Mexico.

Personally, I think billboard operators should commission local artists to do work on these blank canvases, rather than just leaving them white when they're empty of advertising.

I didn't notice it when I shot this pic, but there's a rather large bird flying through the scene in the distance, just above the right corner of the billboard.

Droid Incredible Raises Camera Phone Bar

Other camera phone makers are now hoping to keep pace. Which could very well lead to a ...

Camera-driven arms race in the smartphone sector.

The step up in quality of the Verizon Incredible camera has raised the bar for the rest of the underpowered camera phone makers, and, more than before, it threatens to pull in would-be camera buyers who no longer need separate devices.

On paper, the Verizon Incredible camera is far superior to the current 3.2-megapixel Apple iPhone 3GS and its upcoming 5-megapixel successor. And the shots, especially in daylight conditions, rival those of many compact cameras.

The Verizon Incredible, while huge, is one of the first in a growing selection of big camera superphones coming this year.

Next month -- May 12 to put a date on it -- Sprint(S) will launch the HTC EVO, a WiMax 4G phone that has the same 8-megapixel camera as the Incredible. Later this summer, the delayed debut of the Sony(SNE) Ericsson(ERIC) Xperia X10 is expected. The X10 features Sony's 8.1-megapixel camera. Later this fall, Nokia(NOK) promises to up the ante significantly with a 12-megapixel camera on its N8 touchscreen phone. And, as TheStreet first reported, Apple will upgrade to the Sony 8-megapixel camera on its 2011 iPhone -- potentially the Verizon iPhone.

San Miguel Mission

Socorro, New Mexico

Oldest church in America.

Cloudy Reflections

Escondido, New Mexico.

McAllister Lake with Socorro Peak (M Mountain) and Strawberry Peak in the distance.

Windmill

Polvadera, New Mexico.

Light Lines

Socorro, New Mexico.

Mountain Sunset

Socorro, New Mexico.

Droid hTC Cameraphone

Here's pretty much everything you need to know about the brand new 8 megapixel cameraphone from hTC Droid. The Incredible.

I'm really loving my new Droid hTC. I'm giving it two thumbs up and making it the "Official Cameraphone" of the Cell Phone Photog.

Yes, I'm very smitten.

Apparently... others are too.

This is one camera phone that might be good enough to make you leave your point-and-shoot digital camera at home. And it has the added advantage of letting you transmit images using Bluetooth to a computer or another phone, or over the network to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa or other sharing services.