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Don’t settle for “just average” to “good” photos when you and your iPhone are capable of creating truly outstanding photos. You just need to learn the techniques and with my crash course style training you’ll learn them very quickly.
It won’t take you years or even months to learn how to shoot great photos. You’ll be able to completely master your iPhone camera including its hidden features in a little over an hour. Then you’ll learn my easy composition techniques that you’ll be able to put in to practice immediately.
Don’t settle for “just average” to “good” photos when you and your iPhone are capable of creating truly outstanding photos. You just need to learn the techniques and with my crash course style training you’ll learn them very quickly.
It won’t take you years or even months to learn how to shoot great photos. You’ll be able to completely master your iPhone camera including its hidden features in a little over an hour. Then you’ll learn my easy composition techniques that you’ll be able to put in to practice immediately.
Most people find it difficult to learn photographic composition. In fact, it took me years to learn these techniques from books, classes, research and experience, but you’ll learn these techniques in a fraction of the time that it took me.
That’s because over the years, I’ve found a way to simplify the concepts into easy to understand and follow guidelines. No technical talk or overwhelm here. Just practice my fun and easy techniques and you could see great improvement in your iPhone photography in just a couple of weeks.
Some additional things you will learn:
How to take very sharp and clear photos even when viewed on larger screens. Most photos look sharp on the small iPhone screen, but when you view them on a larger screen, such as an iPad, computer monitor or a TV screen they often look fuzzy and pixelated.
How to take amazing low-light shots regardless of which model iPhone you use.
The difference between quick snapshots and a well-composed photograph. Good composition is the key to great photos regardless of the type of camera you're using.
How to recognize a good photo opportunity when you see it. Most people are blind to the photo opportunities all around them. I hear so many people say, "There is nothing to shoot where I live". Well, after going through this course you'll begin to “see” photo opportunities everywhere.
You’ll know exactly what to look for when you go out to shoot photos. With my specific guidelines to follow you'll immediately know if a subject or scene has good potential to be a great photo.
How to use angles and perspective to add interest and impact to your photos.
How to take better photos while vacationing or traveling. Who wants the same old average photos that everyone else is taking at popular locations?
Plus, much more.
This course covers all model iPhones including the latest iPhone 15 models.
This lecture explains what you can expect get out of this training.
This lecture will help you make some quick changes to your iPhone camera and settings so it will be optimized for photography.
This lecture is for iPhone 11 and newer model owners. After completing this lecture you'll have a good understand of the basic features and controls in your iPhone camera... Part 1
This lecture is for iPhone 11 and newer model owners. This includes Pro & Pro Max models. After completing this lecture you'll have a good understand of the basic features and controls in your iPhone camera... Part 2
This lecture is iPhone XS, XS Max and older iPhone owners. After completing this lecture you'll have a good understand of the basic features and controls in your iPhone camera.
Completing this lecture will enable you to get creative and take full advantage of the manual focus and exposure features in your camera to produce the clearest, sharpest and well exposed photos.
Not only will you be able to create amazing, full panoramic photos, but you'll also be able to use your camera for great wide-angle shots even if your iPhone doesn't have an ultra-wide angle lens.
You'll be able to stop the motion for action shots so sharp and clear that people will have a difficult time believing you used an iPhone camera.
Want awesome candid shots? This lecture will show you how to use your iPhone camera in a way that no one will know when their photo is being snapped.
Completing this lecture will enable you to get creative with the hidden features in Live Photo. You'll also know when to turn it off to avoid lower quality photos and wasting iPhone storage space.
Completing this lecture will enable you to use Portrait Mode and Portrait Lighting to their full potential to produce great portrait photos.
Contrary to popular belief, you can get really great night or low-light photos with almost any iPhone model. This lecture shows you how.
This lecture will enable you to get the best results when using Night Mode (iPhone 11 and newer models) in various lighting situations.
This quiz will help you determine how well you understand how to use your camera features.
Make your good photos even better with these simple editing techniques using the built-in iPhone photo editor.
This lecture will enable you to impress your friends and family with super-sharp photos.
This lecture will help you start to develop your "photographer's eye". Knowing the difference between well-composed photos and quick snapshots will help you start to see photo opportunities that average people miss.
After completing this lecture you'll be able to use the most popular composition technique that is used by all pro photographers.
This lecture will help you avoid the mistake made most often by iPhone Photography beginners. Most beginners never realize they are making this mistake until it's pointed out to them. You'll also know how to fix this mistake in photos that you've already taken.
This lecture will help you know what should and what shouldn't be included in the background of your scene for a good composition.
After completing this lecture you be able to use certain elements in the scene to guide your viewer's eye where you want it to go in your photograph.
You'll know how to use frames in certain ways to compose shots that will direct and hold your viewer's attention longer.
This lecture will enable you to use symmetry and balance to compose more interesting photos
Using the technique that you'll learn in this lecture will enable you to create remarkable photos that stand out from all of the average "me too" photos online.
After completing this lesson you'll know how to find and recognize different types of perspective shots that always peak the interest of viewers.
This quiz will help you determine how well you understand the photo composition techniques in this course.
This lecture will give you some good reasons on why you should edit some of your photos and why use the Snapseed editing app.
You can download the Snapseed App for free in the App Store. In this lecture you'll learn how to open photos and start using some of the tools in Snapseed.
You'll learn how to use the crop & rotate tools and change the aspect ratio of your iPhone photos. You'll also learn how to straighten the horizon of your photos
You'll learn how to use the Perspective Tool to correct the perspective distortion that usually appears when shooting buildings and other architecture. You'll also learn how the Expand Tools works to add pixels to your photo and why this can be extremely helpful.
The iPhone usually works well in providing correct colors, but it doesn't always get it right. There may be times where you'll want to cool down or warm up your photos. This lecture shows you how.
You'll learn how to use the Tune Image controls to fix or enhance the exposure of your image. You'll be able to tune the exposure, highlights, shadows and other elements of the image to your exact taste.
You'll learn how to use the Details Tool to enhance and bring out the details in your image. There are two controls in the Details tool. One works with the structure of the photo and the other works with the sharpness. Small changes using these controls can result in big improvements.
You'll learn how to fix or enhance specific areas of your photos. This powerful tool comes with controls to fix brightness, contrast, saturation and structure of certain areas of your photo.
In this lecture you'll learn how to use the Brush Tool more precise editing of specific areas of your photo than the Selective Tool. It's a fun tool to use. It's almost like painting with your finger.
You'll learn how to use the healing tool to remove some unwanted items from your photos. You'll know how to easily remove blemishes, wrinkles, trash cans and various unwanted items from your images.
Many people find this tool complicated and non-intuitive. This lecture will simplify it and make it easy to understand and use. You be able to make edits to specific areas of your photos based on tones, colors and contrast.
You'll learn how to use the Tonal Contrast Tool to fine tune the editing of your images. This tool makes small subtle changes to help you finish up your editing after using various other Snapseed tools.
In this lecture you'll learn how to correct or improve portrait photos. You'll know how to smooth skin, lighten dark areas, fix exposure issues, etc.
This video shows you how to add flattering glamour glow to portraits and other images.
You'll have to try this filter to understand it. I was pretty surprised when I saw what it can do. Watch the video and give it a try.
This lecture will show you how to use this filter to soften or blur the background or other areas of your photos. You'll also learn how to add an attractive vignette to some of your photos.
The human eye has a much higher dynamic range than any camera. This means what you see is not always what you get in your photos. This lecture will show you how to use the HDR (High Dynamic Range) Scape filter to make corrections.
In this lecture you'll learn how to add drama to your photos. You'll be able to make your photos light and airy, dark and moody, etc.
In this video I demonstrate how I use the next three, filters. The Vintage, Retrolux and Grainy Film filters. These filters work well for making new photos look like old, vintage photos.
Adding the grunge style can create interest and help you add your own personal artistic style to some photos. In this lecture you'll see how I use this filter. Hopefully it will give you some inspiration.
These filters do much more then simply transforming a color photo to black & white. This lecture will show you some ways to make your photos more dramatic, more impactful and more interesting. You'll even know how to transform an average looking photo into a fine art style photo.
This lecture will show you how to add text and decorative frames to your photos.
Stacks is an advanced feature in Snapseed. It's very powerful and it will enable you to use all of the other tools in Snapseed more efferently and effectively. This lecture makes using the Stacks feature easy. I recommend that you watch the previous editing videos in this course before watching this video.
The Masking Brush enables you to achieve more advanced and precise selective editing. This lecture shows you how I use it.
Working with double exposures is a fun way to get really creative and come up with some very unique photos. This video will show you how to create double exposures and hopefully give you some ideas for projects.
All of the other videos in this course show you how to use each editing tool individually. This video will demonstrate how I use many of the tools in my entire editing process step-by-step. I added this video because I feel it will give you a better understanding of the entire editing the process all at once.
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