The invention discloses a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises a memory, a processor and a photo shooting lighting program which is stored on the memory and can run on the processor, whereinthe photo shooting lighting program is executed by the processor through the following steps of detecting ambient brightness when a shooting instruction is detected, judging whether the ambient brightness is smaller than a preset brightness threshold value, and if a judgment result is yes, starting a lighting function to increase the ambient brightness. After the ambient brightness is enhanced, ashot picture is brighter and clearer, and a flash lamp is not needed after the ambient brightness is enhanced, the conditions such as white balance disorder, main body overexposure, dark surroundingand influence of halation on facial expression cannot occur, and the technical problem that photo shooting through the existing mobile terminal is poor in photographing effect under the condition thatthe ambient light intensity is low or the flash lamp is used is solved. The invention further provides a photo shooting lighting method and a computer readable storage medium.