Simplified and actionable photo tips, with a dash of creative inspiration, to improve your phone photography skills and build your confidence as a new photographer. Start taking photos with consistency and intention to make a bigger impact, capture attention and build trust. Distilled from over 15 years of professional photography expertise.
Share
Unlock Creativity With The Power of 3
Published 17 days ago • 2 min read
LEVEL UP
YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY
with Gabrielle Touchette
In today's e-mail:
The power of 3 for more creative photos.
A live workshop on Zoom, coming up in January.
A 20-sec tutorial on sharper, clearer phone photos.
Read more below....
THE POWER OF 3
Bad design shouts at you. Good design is the silent seller. -Shane Meendering
Things grouped in threes tend to bring more natural, harmonious visual appeal to a photo. That's why good photographers gravitate towards this number when composing an image.
The number of things you include (and don't include) in your frame can have a huge impact on your photos.
Like Shane said, if you do it well, people won't necessarily notice why your photo works, but it'll just work.
On the other hand, if you're not using good design when composing images, your photos will look a little "off".
The great thing about good design is that it's easy to apply and anyone can start using it to transform their photos.
So next time you're out taking photos - keep count of the subjects, objects or visual elements in your frame. Think about how you can group them in threes, or even how you can group a pair of subjects into three parts (1.5 things, as opposed to 2 full things, for example).
Good design uses THREES to improve a photo.
In my BEFORE photo, I was stuck with two objects. To make this photo better, I split them into three half parts (AFTER photo). The results: a more visually appealing photo.
Join me live on Zoom to learn more:
Looking to take your photography to the next level?
Join me live on Zoom in January for a phone photography workshop experience with me.
I've re-worked and improved my popular photography training course into a fun and informative 2-part course.
The first 1-hour session will cover camera techniques, lighting and creative training. A week later, the second 1-hour session will cover editing, preparing files and developing your own custom presets.
I'm also providing a Q&A at the end, so you can ask me anything.
Can't make it on the date & time? No problem - the workshop is recorded and a play-back video link will be available after the workshop for two weeks.
Early bird pricing is available until December 2 (almost 50% off regular price).
When I started out in film photography in the mid-1990s, I had no idea how my world was going to get flipped upside down when digital photography hit the market in the early 2000s.
Fast-forward today, digital point and shoot photography has come a long way with phone photography. This is what I love about the convenience and quality of my iPhone camera:
Simplified and actionable photo tips, with a dash of creative inspiration, to improve your phone photography skills and build your confidence as a new photographer. Start taking photos with consistency and intention to make a bigger impact, capture attention and build trust. Distilled from over 15 years of professional photography expertise.
LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Why is it that some people's phone photos look like this... ... while other people's photos (using the same phone camera) look like this?: That's because the first person is shooting in auto mode, and the other person is shooting in a more intentional, manual way. So if phone camera technology is so advanced in 2024, why does auto mode produce such terrible photos? DESIGNED TO BE AVERAGE That's because phone cameras were designed to...
LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GABRIELLE TOUCHETTE ••• Becoming a good photographer involves three different types of skills. And yes, even pro photographers struggle to develop these skills. I can personally attest to this! When I was first starting out, I would see so many good photos by other photographers, but whenever I tried to recreate them, my photos always looked painfully bad. They were either too dark, too unclear, too cheesy or too boring. Soooooo many cheesy photos. If you...
LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY with Gabrielle Touchette Ever wonder what a professional photographer sets their iPhone camera settings to? Today I'll show you. Three things I do: #1 - I set my camera to shoot Most Compatible and not High Efficiency. #2 - I turn my Grid on. #3 - I turn my Level on. Let me show you why (and how). First, go to settings on your iPhone. Scroll all the way down and click on "Camera": In camera settings, click on "Formats": #1 - Go in "Formats" and set your camera...