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I take a lot of photos. Currently in my iCloud Photo Library, there are 236,167 images, 6,429 videos and 8 items. And I’m running out of cloud storage. While Apple has made major improvements in Photos and the iCloud Photo Library in recent years, such a large
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The organizational overhaul still focuses on the overall timeline of when photos were taken but curates them in a new and smart manner based on days, months, and years. Using machine learning, Photos can pick images and videos that are relevant to your location and time of year. Also improved
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Lightning can be one of the most difficult and time consuming things to photograph. It's hard to predict when it will hit and there's usually adverse conditions that make it potentially dangerous. But the results can be, well, striking. With DSLR cameras, the standard way of
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There's a really cool feature in iOS 13 that allows you to watch a series of concurrently taken Live Photo's simultaneously as one long video. I noticed this a few weeks ago when I was watching a Live Photo and it kept on going through the
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Summer is one of my favorite times to take photos. The weather is nice, the light is good and everything seems in motion. For editing, I’ve continued to explore the app Darkroom. One of my favorite features is applying frames. They make photos stand out on Instagram and help,
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The days are getting longer and the temperature is rising, it’s summer in Michigan. Here are some of my favorite photos I’ve taken in the past month. Lots of beautiful sunsets and some quality time with my family’s dogs.
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Apple announced a whole bunch of new software on Monday during its WWDC keynote, and Camera and Photos were well represented. While many of the big new features come with the release of new iPhones in the fall, there was a good amount announced for I played around with the
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Photos is baked into iOS — it is the default image editor and one of the few apps you cannot delete. It is also the hub for all photos and videos across devices. Like I wrote in my iOS 13 wishes for the Camera app, Photos is powerful because of its
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I’m starting a new monthly feature highlighting my favorite photos I’ve taken with my iPhone. This month, I fell back in love with shooting in black and white. I never really used the built in filters in the Camera app, but my girlfriend sent me some photos using
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I use the built-in iOS camera dozens of times every day. It is just a couple taps or a swipe away from launching. Because of the simplicity to open, load and shoot, it is my most used camera app, and the most used app on my iPhone. As Apple’s
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I recently presented at Kalamazoo Social Media Week. It’s a great conference full of local Kalamazoo marketing folks. It’s always fun to meet the people behind the brands we follow digitally and hear what works for them. The goal of my presentation was to give actionable tips for
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If there was one basic rule to taking better photos with your iPhone, what would it be? Over the weekend, I was listening a recent episode of John Gruber’s The Talk Show with guest Merlin Mann and the subject came up. The most basic rule of photography is to