BBC Earth Unplugged have some great ideas for making professional-looking videos using a smartphone camera.

In the video above, Sam Hume shares some tips and tricks on how your smartphone can be used to capture natural-history style footage. What’s good about the video is that it focuses on cheap hardware additions rather than software, and the effects are pretty substantial! It covers time-lapse, slow-motion, macro and more.

The panning trick above uses a standard tripod and two broom handles!

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