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This is how you can take great photos with your smartphone!

Fotoshooting mit dem Smartphone

THE FINAL PHOTO

Fotoshooting

Good DSLR or DSLM cameras can be very expensive depending on the features and brand. Money that not everyone has to spare, but may still want to take photos that look high quality and appealing. How about, for example, this picture DIY in the living room at home? You don't really need much to get this result. And not a fully equipped photo studio either, just one n Smartphone and a few other items.

FINAL PHOTO SETTINGSN

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Fotoshooting

COLORFUL, AFFORDABLE, EASY TO USE

The shoot during which the photos in this article were taken was carried out by Photographer Janine Gwinner (Instagram: STUDIO PHOTOS FROM THE LIVING ROOM@lost140601) and her boyfriend Andre Düxmann (Instagram: @djamd). Two pieces of equipment were included Lumen sticks from Rollei, whose LEDs light up in RGB. The sticks are easy to use and at the same time particularly cost-effective. This means that as a photographer you are able to illuminate your subject in a truly colorful way and still not have to invest too much money for good light.

 

 






 

STUDIO PHOTOS FROM THE LIVING ROOM

The model for this shoot was Lorena Bjelic (Instagram: @loreeniya) and the photo was shot in her living room at home in Solingen. However, not much additional equipment was necessary. In the following article we explain how you can easily take such aesthetic photos with your smartphone and what else you need besides your cell phone..

CONSTRUCTION WITH V-FLAT REFLECTORS

Rollei Lumen LED
First, so-called V-flats were set up in the living room. Reflector walls where one side is light and the other is dark. Depending on the shoot, you can decide whether light should be reflected or absorbed. The two of them formed a U out of the walls so that as little unwanted light as possible affected the subject. For this reason, the dark side was also used on the inside.

LUMEN STICKS

 Then they were sticks left and right at a 45 degree angle towards model Lorena, who sat down on a bar stool. The sticks were aligned slightly offset so that you can see a difference in the dominance of the colors. When I took the photos, André was able to use the Rollei app Lumen sticks control, explains Janine. You can easily vary the lights and try out different perspectives. How the model sits, how the light comes across and whether the colors are in the middle. Even small changes make a difference. That's why it's good that someone else can control it, too, she explains. Also practical: Apart from 90 LEDs in RGB, our sticks also offer equal parts white light (87 LEDs) and warm light (87 LEDs), as well as a color temperature between 3200 and 9999 Kelvin. This means you can vary any photo idea creatively.en.

SETTINGS FOR PHOTO

In the setup described here, the Lumen sticks Not each was held in the air, but rather they stood at a 45 degree angle to the model on two lamp stands on which the lights can be easily attached. This ensures that movements do not change the entire lighting situation.

APPS FOR IMAGE EDITING

In the best case scenario, you should of course be able to edit an image directly on your smartphone if it was already taken there. And of course there are the right apps for exactly this purpose. Janine uses a handful of different apps. Lightroom for light settings, VSCO (for different color settings), Snapseed to retouch small things and Janine recommends Inshot for videos.

 

 Note: Please note that the Lumen Stick RGB shown in the photos is the previous version without an integrated and non-removable handle. The technical specifications of the new model with integrated handle are identical. You can use the new Lumen Stick RGB for a shoot in the same way as described and shown here.




Lumen App

CONTROL THE LUMEN STICKS WITH THE SMARTPHONE APP

Our Lumen sticks You can either control it directly on the device or with our Lumen app. This way you can easily adjust intensities, colors and gradients using your smartphone without having to put the camera away. In this case, either switch between the Rollei app and the smartphone camera or work with another partner who operates the app..







More from André & Janine

Andre: Instagram
Janine: Instagram
Model Lorena: Instagram

1 comment

Hii
Ich habe mir das rollei Lumen 150 set geholt und wollte die 2 lichter über mekne Handy App starten. Jedoch habe ich gesehen es änder die farbe nicht sonder nur die hellichkeit.
Mache ich etwas falsch oder auf was müsste ich achten.

Ich freue mich auf ihre Antwort
Karla Bacinic

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