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Confident creativity starts with your phone. Simple, powerful ideas to help you grow your phone photography skills, tell visual stories that matter, and unlock your creativity in everyday life. One weekly e-mail at a time.

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LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 26 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: TIP OF THE WEEK: The Top 3 Food Photography Tips That Professionals Use PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Going 2D to 3D With Light & Dark Tones RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: What the World's Biggest Digital Camera Is Looking At TIP OF THE WEEK How the Pros Do Food Photography Attention all you food lovers! Today I'm sharing my go-to techniques for better food photos. Here are my 3 favourite...

LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 25 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: TIP OF THE WEEK: Ditch the Checklist. Follow the Story. PHOTO OF THE WEEK: This Photo Wasn't on the Shot List RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: AI-Generated Photo Prompts for Creative Shoots TIP OF THE WEEK Ditch the Checklist. Follow the Story. What you shoot is just as important as how you shoot. Sometimes we can focus so much on the technical aspects of how to take a good photo...

LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 24 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: TIP OF THE WEEK: 5 Editing Fails to Avoid PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Desaturated Film Look RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: How to Take Photos of Artwork TIP OF THE WEEK Five Common Editing Fails to Avoid 50% of your photo's success depends on good editing. Sadly, most people don't edit their phone photos. And even if they edit their photos, most people don't know the right way to do it....

LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 23 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: TIP OF THE WEEK: Turn City Streets Into Art With Your iPhone PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Dehazing Smoky Photos RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: Cheap Camera Challenge! TIP OF THE WEEK Daytime Long Exposure Street Photography Looking to capture some long exposure city photos with fast moving car trails? You don’t need fancy camera equipment to pull it off. Just your iPhone and a little...

LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 22 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: TIP OF THE WEEK: Your phone camera is applying a dull filter (that you can fix) PHOTO OF THE WEEK: When cabbage stops me in my tracks RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: Culinary arts for inspiration TIP OF THE WEEK Upgrade Your Flat Photos One of the biggest reasons why your phone photos look dull and uncreative is because you’re going straight from shooting to posting. There is no...

LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 21 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: TIP OF THE WEEK: My favourite camera mode to transform flat iPhone photos PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Faux macro on dewy blades of grass RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: Photo Studio Meetup on May 27! TIP OF THE WEEK Upgrade Your Flat Photos One of my favourite things to shoot is nature. And my favourite ways of doing it is by experimenting with my phone camera's techniques to rise above...

LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 20 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK: Who Cares About Art? TIP OF THE WEEK: Case Study: Composition Tips That Actually Work PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Emphasizing Chaotic Beauty RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: Photo Studio Meetup on May 27! INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK Who Cares About Art? Think about this. You come across a subject that suddenly strikes a deep feeling within you. As a response, you take a...

LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 19 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK: The Hidden Secret Shaping Your Creativity PHOTO OF THE WEEK: High-Impact Photography to Change the World RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: Try This Exercise I Designed Just For You INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK The Hidden Secret Shaping Your Creativity Nathan Barry wrote an article about how we now live in an age where everyone benefits from technology equality....

LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 18 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: PHOTO INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK: The Day I Quit My Grade 9 English Assignment PHOTO OF THE WEEK: When Practice Doesn't Feel Like Work RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: iPhone Photography Awards PHOTO INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK Don't Lose the Rules, Just Loosen Them When I was a kid, I didn’t like reading. The thought of reading long boring books or writing lengthy essays was NOT my...

LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 17 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: PHOTO TIP OF THE WEEK: To Buy Gadgets or Not... PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Searching for Beauty in the Drab Season RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: OK Go! PHOTO TIP OF THE WEEK To Buy Gadgets or Not... There are a lot of accessories, gadgets and apps you can buy for your phone camera. Every once in a while I come across a new one and I get excited about the possibilities. I’ve come across...