How to DIY Your Headshots (If You Have To)

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...

Better Photos With Your Phone: Strike a Pose

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...

Better Photos With Your Phone: Editing For Even Better Photos

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...

Better Photos with Your Phone: The Culling Habit

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...

Better Photos with Your Phone: 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...

Better Photos with Your Phone: Lock the Exposure

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...