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...
12 days ago • 2 min read
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...
19 days ago • 3 min read
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....
26 days ago • 3 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 15 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK: What Happens When You Say Yes More Often PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Focus on the Nail RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: Book Recommendation (and it's not about photography) INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK On Saying Yes This might be unpopular advice. But… You should say yes more often. Not to filling your calendar to look more successful. Or to getting a fifth dog. Or to...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 15 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK: Emulation Leads to Transformation PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Photoshopped Photo Circa 2008 RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: We're Traveling to Norway with Emma Wright INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK Emulation Leads to Transformation A little personal story from me today. It's a 4-min read. If you feel like your photos aren’t improving and your creativity falls flat, even...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
SPECIAL E-MAIL ANNOUNCEMENT (THE ONLY OUT-OF-SCHEDULE E-MAIL YOU'LL GET, I PROMISE!) • • • Hey Reader! 👋 Jumping in here quick to announce a special 60-min crash course I'm offering live on Zoom Tuesday April 29th at 7:00pm CST (with playback video available if you miss it). This crash course is designed to set you up with the best and quickest route to creating stunning photos with your phone camera. Open to everyone for $50 CAD. Come say hi (or participate with your video & mic off, I'm ok...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Welcome to Week 14 of 2025! In today's e-mail, you'll get: PHOTO TIP OF THE WEEK: How to shoot towards the sun (and make it look great) PHOTO OF THE WEEK: BTS of my commercial shoots RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE: Stunning travel photos (shot on iPhone 16 Pro) PHOTO TIP OF THE WEEK How to Shoot Towards the Sun Have you ever seen the sun do this when you take a photo of it? iPhone photo, straight out of camera and not edited. Shooting...
2 months ago • 2 min read