How to Take Photos of the Solar Eclipse with your Smartphone

Remember the iphoneography tips we’ve been teaching you over the years? You’ll want to use them if you’re planning on taking photos of the #solareclipse on Monday. Auto focus won’t work. Manually use your finger to lock the focus on the moon. Slide your finger up & down to change the exposure. Android phones have […]

5 Steps to Organizing and Ordering Photos for Memory Keeping

Hello friends and fellow memory keeping enthusiasts.  About 4 months ago I made the switch from printing photos at home, to ordering my prints from the lovely folks here at Persnickety.  In that time, I’ve developed a system for editing and ordering my photos that works wonders for me.  This system allows me to have […]

Facebook is Not Photo Storage (Part 3)

If you’ve landed here, you may have read Facebook is Not Photo Storage 1 and Facebook is Not Photo Storage 2. Bottom Line: Facebook is a social platform. It was never intended to be used as cloud storage for our priceless memories. Social feeds compress images for various reasons, not only are there millions of […]

Facebook is NOT Photo Storage (Part 2)

Facebook users upload more than 3 million photos a day. That’s a lot of data to store and your facebook feed needs to load quickly or users won’t stay engaged, so to lighten the load, Facebook compresses your images. What does this mean? Your photos are tiny. Pixels are gone. Facebook was created for posting […]

Facebook is NOT Photo Storage -Part 1

Facebook and Instagram are not photo storage! These social platforms are in no way obligated to store our photos. DO something with your legacy, print your pictures.

Photo Editing with iOS 8

With the new iOS 8 software update for Apple, we can now take a photo and enhance it right inside of the camera roll. Ready to Play? Pull out your iPhone or iPad. Open up a photo in your camera roll Click Edit in the top right hand corner to get started Auto Enhance Once […]

Negative Space in Photography

Truth: A fancy camera will NOT make you a better photographer. Whether shooting with a dSLR or your mobile device, the basic fundamentals are still the same. Today we are going to discuss negative space, also referred to as empty or white space.  Photographers spend a lot of time thinking about their subjects, however the […]

10 Tips for Better Mobile Photographs

I originally wrote this post in 2013! It’s been nearly TEN years of mobile photography. Our phone sensors are stronger, video has drastically improved, and there are more editing and filter apps than I can count! I’ve built my own mobile app, Persnickety Box, the easiest solution for timeless photographs that will last. The key […]