Resources

Tips and tricks

This page offers links to advice for journalism students and anyone else wanting to improve their photography skills. (If you’re like me and can’t take a level photo to save your life, Jamie Windsor’s video on the editing process is particularly helpful.)

Video

• 5 Tips to instantly up your photo game, Peter McKinnon

• 8 composition tips for better photos, Jamie Windsor

• 6 Things you should be doing when editing photos, Jamie Windsor

• How to take the best photos with your smartphone, Popular Science

• How to edit photos using the free Lightroom mobile app, Lucy Martin

• How to make photographs look better fast: Photoshop tutorial, Peter McKinnon

• Why every photographer should be using Lightroom: Lightroom tutorial, Peter McKinnon

• Are these photographers cheating? Jamie Windsor

Articles

• Phone photography 101: How to take good pictures with your mobile device, Lindsay Kolowich

• How to take awesome photos with your phone, Joshua Payberah

• Adobe Photoshop vs. Lightroom: When and why to use each program, Gerard Murphy

For Journalists

• Three ways journalists should be using Instagram, Justin Sablich

• How journalists can use Instagram to engage and inform, Diogo A. Rodriguez