How To Take Better Photos For Your Website & Social Media

Here are some photography tips specifically tailored toward business leaders who use iPhones!

High-quality photography is important for every website and social media page, but what exactly makes incredible iPhone photography?

Although mastering photographic moments is something that challenges even the most experienced professionals on a day-by-day basis, business leaders only initially need a few tips to point them in the right direction.

Check out our helpful tips to improve the photos on your website and social media!

1. Keep Pictures Simple

A lot of businesses tend to overcomplicate their pictures, and this often is connected to distracting image details.

Focus on your image composition by making sure that your commercial pictures only have one subject. This means scanning backgrounds before taking a shot and making sure that there are no distracting elements that could take away from your subject matter.

2. Shoot Low Angles

Nothing screams out amateur photographer more than taking a picture at eye level or chest height. Although this is the most convenient angle for iPhone photography, it’ll inhibit your creative options.

Try thinking outside of the box in terms of your photography angles by shooting from a lower angle. This will create a unique perspective that highlights foreground details and improves your beautiful Colorado landscape pictures!

3. DIY Lighting Hacks

All of the best photographers in the world will tell you that technology doesn’t create good pictures, but good lighting does.

If you’re taking pictures outside on a sunny day, make a fist and extend your hand out in front of you. Closely examine how the sunlight hits your hand, and know that this is how your subject will be lit.

And if you’re seeing a glare through your iPhone screen while preparing your pictures, use one of your hands to provide a tiny bit of shade above your phone’s lens. Just make sure that your hand is out of the picture and that your image is focused correctly. Another good tip for this method is to snap pictures with your down-volume button, which will help you avoid needing to physically touch your phone’s screen.

4. Understanding iPhone Picture Editing

If you don’t already know how to edit iPhone pictures correctly, then it’s time to learn.

There are many awesome adjustment features found in the iPhone camera app, but all of them need to be utilized carefully. A good idea is to go past where you’d normally go with an image adjustment, and then slowly scale the edit back until it looks good.

Just be sure that your images don’t look over edited, because this is a cliché social media trend that could potentially turn off customers!

5. Turn Your Camera’s Grid On

How you arrange a subject and complementary elements within a frame will have a huge impact on your image composition. Every iPhone has a grid feature that can help you better see how symmetry and the Rule of Thirds is being used in your pictures.

This photography rule essentially means that your subject should be placed where the grid lines intersect with each other, which will create a more cohesive aesthetic that always looks great!

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