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iPhone Photography & Mobile Photography: Take Better Photos (Udemy.com)

Take Amazing & Professional Photos on Your iPhone or Mobile Phone w/our Mobile Photography + iPhone Photography Course

Created by: Video School

Last updated September 2026

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What you will learn

  • Take amazing photos with your smartphone, iPhone, Android, or other mobile device
  • Improve your photos with better lighting, composition, and storytelling
  • Capture beautiful portraits, timelapses, long exposure and panoramas - all with your iPhone or other smartphone
  • Understand camera and photography basics like the exposure triangle, depth of field and focal length
  • Master iPhone photography & mobile photography to impress your family and friends with photos shot on your smartphone
  • Professionally edit and share photos on the go with the best iPhone & Android photography apps

How it compares

Against the other 275 rated Udemy courses in Photography on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 31% of them
  • Reviews586#87 of 276 by number of reviews
  • Length4.6 hourslonger than 70% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 90% of them

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Course Description

You want to take amazing photos with your iPhone or other mobile phone, right?

This is the perfect course to learn all of the steps to improving your photography using your smartphone.

You don’t need an expensive camera to master photography. You don’t even need an entry-level DSLR or any special equipment or lenses. All you need is this course and the one device you already use for everything – your smartphone.

Life’s most powerful moments can often be fleeting. Whether you’re working with an iPhone or Android, you want to capture those moments in stunning, visually engaging ways. This course takes professional, modern photography concepts and uses them to elevate mobile photography.

Enroll now, and you'll get instant access to:

  • Hours of easy-to-watch lessons taught by real world professional photographers

  • Premium support if you ever get stuck

  • Lifetime updates to the course content

Key course concepts at a glance:

  • How to capture incredible images with your mobile device

  • How to apply photography techniques to a smartphone camera

  • How to maximize your mobile device’s built-in photography functions

  • How to shoot powerful images in any lighting condition

  • How to balance your phone’s flash capabilities while making the most of natural light

  • How to use lighting, composition, and exposure to bring your images to life

  • How to tell a story with nothing but a smartphone camera

  • How to professionally edit photos with cutting edge mobile technology

  • How to get the best out of iPhone and Android photography apps

Every photographer’s style is unique to them, but you don’t have to find yours alone. With us, you’ll receive premium support directly from the pros. As for future benefits, you’ll receive lifetime updates on all course content too!

What will you learn in this mobile photography course?

  • You'll learn camera basics that will help you easily and fully understand the capabilities of your iPhone camera. These include topics like the exposure triangle, focal length, depth of field, lighting, contrast and dynamic range, flash, and photo resolution.

  • You'll learn professional photography techniques that can be applied to mobile & iPhone photography. These three skills (composition, lighting, and storytelling) will dramatically improve your photography no matter what camera you use.

  • You'll learn all of the key features of most smartphones including timer mode, panoramic mode, portrait mode, selfie mode, and timelapse mode.

  • We'll take you out in the field to demonstrate how to take stunning photos with your smartphone. You'll learn how we use composition, lighting, longe exposures, panoramas, and portraits to take amazing photos with our iPhone or other mobile phone.

  • You'll learn how to edit photos on your phones with several of the best photo editing apps available, including Lightroom, Snapseed, and VSCO. Snapseed and VSCO are completely free to use!

  • Lastly, you'll learn how to improve your photography presence with social media best practices and tips for printing your photos.

What you’ll learn

  • How to capture incredible images with your mobile device

  • How to apply photography techniques to a smartphone camera

  • How to maximize your mobile device’s built-in photography functions

  • How to shoot powerful images in any lighting condition

  • How to balance your phone’s flash capabilities while making the most of natural light

  • How to use lighting, composition, and exposure to bring your images to life

  • How to tell a story with nothing but a smartphone camera

  • How to professionally edit photos with cutting edge mobile technology

  • How to get the best out of iPhone and Android photography apps

We believe this is the only course you'll need to dramatically improve your mobile & iPhone photography!

Key course topics:

This course is aimed at teaching anyone who wants to take their Android and iPhone photography to the next level. You don’t have to know anything about photography or own any expensive equipment. With your smartphone in hand, we’ll cover the following digital photography topics:

  • Mobile Photography / iPhone Photography

  • Photography Composition Tips

  • Understanding How a Smartphone Camera Works

  • Using Natural Light to improve your photos

  • Creative Keys to a Great Photo

  • Advanced Mobile & iPhone Photography Features

  • Editing Photos on Your Mobile Device / iPhone

  • Sharing Your Photos on Social Media

  • and so much more!

This course is designed to give you a strong theoretical and practical foundation in digital photography. As we go through each topic, the goal is to help refine your process so you can adapt to any interesting situation you and your camera come across.

Learn how to create the perfect social media photos ready for sharing and engagement. See digital art through the eyes of your audience and understand how to communicate with them through visual storytelling and innovative photography.

Who are the Instructors?

We are Phil Ebiner, Sam Shimizu-Jones and Will Carnahan - professionals making a living from our photographic skills.

We’ve created some of the world’s top-rated photography courses taken by millions of students around the world. Many of our students went on to make money and build businesses out of the skills they learned working with us.

We came together to create this amazing course for enthusiastic photographers like you, and everyone who wants to turn their smartphone camera into a professional lens.

You'll get premium support and feedback to help you become a better photographer!

Our happiness guarantee...

We have a 100% money back guarantee, so if you aren't happy with your purchase, we will refund your course - no questions asked!

Mobile photography has never been more exciting!

You don’t need a DSLR to capture stunning images. With this course, you’ll learn how to make the most of your Android or iPhone by creating incredibly shot images that you can edit on your device. So don’t wait around, we can’t wait to work with you!

We can't wait to see you in the course!

Enroll now, and we'll help you take better photos than ever before!

Sam & Will

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Instructor Details

Video School

Learn creative skills, from absolute beginner to advanced mastery. 

Video School exists to help you succeed in life. Each course has been hand-tailored to teach a specific skill from photography and video to art, design and business.

Whether you’re trying to learn a new skill from scratch, or want to refresh your memory on something you’ve learned in the past, you’ve come to the right place.

Education makes the world a better place. Make your world better with new skills!

Our courses can be watched 24/7 wherever you are. Most are fully downloadable so you can take them with you. You can also view them on mobile devices with the Udemy mobile app.

All courses have a 30-day money-back guarantee so that you can check it out, make sure it’s the right course for you, and get a refund if it’s not!

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Reviews

4.4

586 ratings on Udemy

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By Mohamad Affindy on 9/3/2024

I have enjoyed this course. The instructor's teaching style is engaging and the content is cleared and well-structured. The course effectively covered the skills I was looking to develop and the material provided have been both useful and relevant to my needs. Overall it matches my expectation. Great !

By Anonymized User on 2/13/2023

Great basic knowledge on Photography (not just only mobile photography), a lots of well-explained photo shoot exercises, not so much tutorials about the Camera App on the iPhone (which can be found on Apple's website anyways I guess?...)... As Bonus, the team recommends 3 best editing softwares, and you can download some Preset files with tutorial videos on how to install and to use them. My only humble suggestion is for you to change the title of this course. Because it creates an illusion about the content. I thought this course is specificaly about iPhones, and how to use iPhone Camera Settings and details about the Camera App interface and it was not the case, but overall this is a good course. I definitely recommend it.

By Kelsey Chow on 1/5/2022

Really great quick overview that is less in depth and heavy than other photography courses without losing the important basics. I would have loved to see a bit more content on the photo editing side especially with all these different apps available on mobile devices. Still, a great and easily crushable course that provided a few great tips and tricks

By Melissa Robles on 12/30/2021

I definitely learned some of the features on my iPhone that I never knew how to use. I did appreciate the basics of photography and how to take a creative shot. I also like the editing session as I never knew what most of the editing features were or how they could be used to enhance a photo (I usually end up using the auto edit feature as it seemed easiest). I would prefer a lesson on how to find some of the features on my phone but I do understand that it would be almost impossible with the many types of phones out there. I do feel better about my ability to use my camera but would definitely not label myself a pro yet!

By Ho Viet Cao Cuong on 5/29/2021

This course inspired me a lot. The contents is well-built and informative. I think it is better if the course have more lectures about case study that point out what is good or not good in a example photo that make students can reinforce what they have learnt. However, this is a great course, I really recommend it!

By Ankita K on 2/24/2021

The course was great to understand the basics. I liked the demonstrations the instructors did to help understand how to click good photos in different situations. That said, I would have liked to understand some of the iphone apps that can be used (moment, procamera, etc.) for overcoming the shortcomings of default camera.

By Terri Bruffett on 12/28/2020

Lots of good basic photo tips whether you are a novice or want to review your basic skills. I especially liked the second part which was going out in the field and talking through their mindset of taking the photo. Finishing up with post production and sharing finished off the complete process. Well done gentlemen.

By Mary Anne Harris on 12/28/2020

Love, love, loved it. When you work together there is good energy and back and forth sharing that is fun. I don’t have the newest iPhone but most everything still applies. Might want to check the section on the VSCO app. It seemed like it cut short. Great information and demonstration, easy to watch, subjects flowed well. Yeah.

By Winifredo Villamora on 12/23/2020

I appreciate the tips from real pros about techniques most people are not familiar with. I especially like knowing about the photo editing apps that professional photographers use. This will be helpful later on as I take more photos.

By Jurvian on 12/16/2020

This course can be better if : 1. Editing section with Lightroom and Snapseed can give a lot more informations, I see that in editing photos in smartphone section take 27 : 52 mins, while editing with lightroom and snapseed only 3 - 4 mins, personally I think this is not enough time to cover editing section with lighroom and snapseed, especially this course is aim for beginner. 2. Editing section with VSCO is cut off, please fix this 3. The Social Media section can be more informative like showing what instagram like or another app for share your photos. I like the sharing your photos online section in Photography Masterclass because I got a lot of info as a beginner photographer myself. Overall, I enjoy learning from Mobile Photography course and got more knowledge about mobile photography. I hope I can join another of your courses. Thank you Phil, William and Sam, all of you have done a great impact for me to become a better photogapher.

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Overall Score : 88 / 100