If you’re like me, you’ve never been really happy with the images that come right out of the iPhone, specifically for anything photography related. Snapshot images or memories? It handles those swimmingly - they just have that “phone” look, typically associated with overly sharp images where dark and bright areas look too crushed.

I figured there had to be a better solution out there, thus a few months ago I spent a lot of time trialing different apps on the iPhone to see if something existed that allowed me to shoot pleasing images without any editing required. From that research, I discovered my current favorite solution, an app called No Fusion. In this article I want to go over the best ways to use the app and deep dive into what makes it great.

Have you ever been curious to know what spending more money on a camera system actually gets you? What if I told you that going from a $100 camera to a $10000 camera, you’ll actually lose features. To find out, I’ve got six tiers to showcase everything you could possibly gain, or lose when spending more money.

I’ve spent a couple months shooting with the Fujifilm X-E5 and put together my full review on it on my YouTube channel. Throughout that review I was testing a few new (and old) recipes on the Fujifilm X-E5 that I wanted to share here if you’re interested in using them yourself!

These recipes are not exclusive to the Fujifilm X-E5. Any camera with the X-trans 5 sensor can utilize these such as the Fujifilm X100VI, Fujifilm X-T5, Fujifilm X-T50, and a few others. Honestly these likely work great on other sensors as well (I got to use a few on the GFX100SII at some point), but your results may vary.

I credit Instagram for inspiring me to find landscape photography and push myself to travel. In 2014, Instagram started to shift from an app people used to add filters to their smart phone photos to a social platform where photographers dominated. This was the era when the chronological feed was still alive and before the algorithms changed everything. A place that platformed travel photography, grand landscapes to the masses, and inspired me to leave my home town to explore the world.

This started the golden era of Instagram for photographers… but golden eras don’t last forever.

Whether you’re a photographer or someone’s grandma (or both), you can identify “phone” photos. These are the photos that have no shadows or highlights, overly sharpened gritty details, and always make colors a bit more saturated than they are. For the masses, phone photos are great. They allow us to capture snapshots and memories with all the details we want, like our silly faces regardless if we are shooting directly into the light or not. The problem is, these photos suck for photography.

Is it possible to get photos straight from your phone that don’t look anything like “phone” photos?