by William Petruzzo | Jun 11, 2018 | Advice, Business, Portraits, Smartphone Skills
Let me be candid for a moment—you should not take your headshot yourself. Even professional photographers, unless it’s part of some art project, usually get a colleague to make their headshot. The purpose of a headshot is to help you make connections you need, help...
by William Petruzzo | Apr 9, 2018 | photography, Smartphone Skills
Here we are at the end of our blog series on capturing better everyday images with your cellphone. This will be our last entry for now. it’s been fun trying to think through the really important points of photography, so that someone who doesn’t care much about...
by William Petruzzo | Mar 26, 2018 | Advice, Smartphone Skills
Last time on our Better Photos series, we talked about what to do after you’ve taken a whole bunch of photos. “The Culling Habit”, as we called it, is all about emphasizing some images over others, and making them more impactful by hiding all the rest. We’ve come a...
by William Petruzzo | Mar 12, 2018 | Advice, photography, Smartphone Skills
Last time on our Better Photos series, we talked about “rapid fire exposures” or “burst mode” or “multi-exposure” shooting. Basically, when you take a whole bunch of photos at once. At one point in there, I reasoned that one of the problems that rapid fire exposures...
by William Petruzzo | Feb 26, 2018 | Advice, photography, Smartphone Skills
Welcome back for another installment of Better Photos with Your Phone. Last time we talked about locking the exposure, a feature available by default on most smartphones, which allows you to take a little more control over how the photo looks without having to know a...
by William Petruzzo | Feb 12, 2018 | Advice, photography, Smartphone Skills
This issue of Better Photos With Your Phone is back this week with a quick and powerful tip for getting better photos in your every day shooting situations. Up until this point, we’ve been discussing the mindset of taking a good picture broadly, and some of the basic...