How to take good in-game photos on a phone

[sunjester]

Thank for the comments gentlemen, as expecting on this esteemed forum, some were more useful than others.

Any recent phone will have a good camera, many have great cameras.

I can't recall how many years ago I stopped using my DSLR for taking photos and just used my iPhone, buts is more likely 8-10 years ago, rather than 5-7 years ago.

What problems are you having taking photos? Most of the ones I have seen from your battle reports look good.

Steve and Will's tips about mixing up close-up and panoramic shots are good. I think I tend to have too many panoramic, which show the overall action, but probably don't get the detail of the figures or a specific combat.

I think my photos are acceptable most of the time, but I was wondering if anyone had any tips that might improve them.  I have been using the camera on it's default settings. Although it seems to have a host of features, I'm not sure which are of any use. Is Macro better for close-up shots? 16M or 64M? 3:4 or Full?

[fred.]

Macro might help for close up shots. I notice my iPhone auto uses macro mode some times. 

Worth noting that macro mode on phones and compact cameras is very different to macro when used for DSLR cameras. On phones it is probably useful for photos of figures. On DSLRs marco means super close up, eg the surface of a coin, or an insect, so very shallow depth of field. 

3:4 or full screen - this is the ratio of the image - doesn't affect the quality, just the shape of the picture. If you view your photos on your phone mostly then full screen is good. If you crop them for viewing elsewhere, it doesn't really matter. 

16M or 64M - I assume this is the size of the image the number of pixels in it- i.e. the number of Megabytes - more pixels is more detail. But whether it is useful detail is questionable. For printing more pixels are good, for on screen, less so. More pixels will take up more storage space, and possibly quite quickly. I'd play with this one and see what it does, unless you are zooming in to images I doubt the extra pixels will make a visible difference. 

As was said early on - light is super important, the more light the better

[Techno 3]

Taking photo's is one thing..but when your camera and your PC get all 'sniffy' with each other, that's when the fun really starts.    

I simply do not know why this is suddenly happening. Maybe because I'm still running W 8.1 and the photo editing prog is 20+ years old.  

[Last Hussar]

You could hire a professional, who know all the tricks.