 Hi friends, happy Mother's Day. This is Anna Moose and today I'm going to be walking you through how to take an awesome photo from home. Okay, first thing that we're going to talk about is lighting. Lighting is one of the most important things, one of the most important tools to make a beautiful picture at home. Or just in general, it is a great tool for manipulating what you want things to look like, the mood of your picture. So first I want to say that if you're at home taking a picture, one of the best things to do is plan the time well. So the two best times I think for taking pictures are the two golden hours that happen every day, which is basically the time right after sunrise for an hour and then right before sunset for an hour. And that is the time where the light outside is that beautiful, glowy, like golden hue that everybody loves. So those are like the greatest times to take pictures outside, especially like in your backyard or whatever. And inside, sometimes at my house, when the light comes in in the morning, it is just so beautiful and it does this like golden thing on the walls. And I love utilizing that time of the day. Second thing about lighting at home, if you are inside taking a picture, notice where I'm standing right here. I'm going to move into the light that is right in front of the window and how it completely changed the way that I look. And it accentuates the color more, it accentuates the color in my face more. It's just a lot more attractive when you stand in front of a window. And it can be great for portraits especially. Right, buddy? Yeah, better in the light. Then I'm going to move this way a little bit. And if you can see over here on the wall, there's this fun effect happening from the window. The light is casted onto the wall and it can be actually really fun and a creative way to play with your photos a little bit. So if I stand in front of it, you can do different things, you know, go up or down. Okay, so one thing about the iPhone is that there is this awesome feature that if you tap on the screen, something that is looking overexposed or underexposed can be adjusted. So my friend is going to tap on the overexposed area of this shot right now to show you how the difference that it makes when you do that. So as you can see, now we are looking a lot better and my skin tones back to normal, the darkness in my hair is back to normal, and he's not this big old white blob, which no one wants. Another awesome feature that the iPhone has in the more recent iPhones is that you have the ability to shoot or take pictures in portrait mode, which basically allows you to focus in by holding down your finger to the focal point or the object that you're taking a picture of, whether that be a percent, a little baby or a plant or whatever it is you're eating, and it will blur out the background, which is a desired effect in photos. It makes it just a little bit more beautiful, so that is a great tool to use if you're doing pictures of your kids or something at home to make it look a little bit more professional. So next what we're going to talk about is composition. One of the important things to think about is the rule of thirds, which is basically in photography, it is a concept of breaking up your photo into thirds horizontally and vertically and putting the object of whatever you're taking a picture of into the intersection of those lines. So we are up against this wall and I'm going to show you a couple pictures of what it looks like to put your object or your people into those intersecting lines. The last part of composition that I want to talk about is being intentional and paying attention to details. So I feel like what what we usually do, because we just want to take the picture, is we just take the picture of the person or the object and we don't necessarily think about what is happening around it. Part of taking a great photo is just being aware of the surroundings of your photo. Sometimes all it takes is just cleaning up a tiny bit of clutter and your picture already looks 10 times better than it did before because you are being intentional. The last thing that I want to say is that you have the ability to be creative and to take awesome photos. Not everybody is an artist, but everyone is creative. If we were made in the image of God and God was the ultimate creator and we all have that ability within us to be creative and to think with that kind of eye. So don't be afraid and have fun playing around with the things that we talked about today. Use lighting intentionally. Be careful of your surroundings and pay attention to detail and use golden hour because you will never regret it. Happy Mother's Day from me and Jack.