THERE IS SO much more you could do to improve your phone photography besides using Instagram filters.

Sure, everyone looks better in a vintage hue, but what about hanging your phone from a balloon?

The Cooperative of Photography have come up with eight excellent DIY tips to turn your smartphone into a world class photo tool.

1. Get an aerial view

Attach your phone to the balloon, and control it with some fishing wire to get a birds eye view. Just don’t let it fly off.

Who needs a drone, eh!

2. Get a decent sun filter by taking a photo through your sunglasses

WHO NEEDS INSTA.

3. Get some old school cool going on

Make a pinhole in a piece of cardboard and hold it over the lens.

4. Don’t just take a photo of your dinner, give it a 3D frame

5. Download the tiny planet app

Make your panoramas look good… by putting them in a circle.

6. Get some savage exposure with this nifty little trick

7. Selfie inception

Take some shots on one phone, hold them up to your face on another.

8. Make a DIY projector

Cut up a box, add a lens, put your phone inside… viola.

Amazing.

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