Street Photography with Your Phone: Color and Composition
What Makes a Good Phone Photograph?
A course by Josh Edgoose , Photographer
About the video: What Makes a Good Phone Photograph?
Overview
“In this lesson, we will discuss what makes a photograph entertaining or visually interesting, what will stop you from scrolling on Instagram and looking at a picture for a couple more seconds than normal. ”
In this video lesson Josh Edgoose addresses the topic: What Makes a Good Phone Photograph?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Street Photography with Your Phone: Color and Composition. Discover how to take candid shots of city streets using your mobile phone and edit them in Lightroom Mobile.
Partial transcription of the video
“What Makes a Good Phone Photograph? Now, I'll talk about what makes a visually interesting photograph, what stops someone scrolling in their tracks, what makes them look at a photograph for a bit longer and what makes a visually interesting photograph. I spend much time walking around with my camera, looking at YouTube, at photo books. While I'm out, I spend time thinking about what makes me want to look at a picture, what draws me into a frame. One thing I love about photography the most these days is that everybody is a photographer, has a smartphone with them and can take photographs, wh...”
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Course summary for: Street Photography with Your Phone: Color and Composition
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom -
Areas
Documentary Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Mobile Photography, Outdoor Photography, Photography, Social Media

Josh Edgoose
A course by Josh Edgoose
Josh Edgoose is a London-based freelance photographer with over 15 years of experience. He first started studying photography after leaving school before going on to launch his own clothing brand, where he put his skills into practice by photographing his products. After years of honing his skills and experimenting with photography on a daily basis, he was approached by a publisher to work on a book of his work, Brilliant Parade, which captures his street photography from around London during a five-year period.
Since then, he’s become a full-time freelance photographer, started his own YouTube channel and hosted workshops on photography. His photographs have been featured in publications such as It’s Nice That, i-D, Creative Boom, The Guardian, and more. He also shares his works with over 100K followers on Instagram.
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