066 Taking Amazing Cell Phone Photos with Amy Jackson

Amy Jackson is the founder of www.learnblogphotography.com where she empowers bloggers and entrepreneurs to ditch stock photos and learn to create their own high-quality biz photos. She also offers “Done For Your Biz” custom stock photo services for those who don’t want to learn; they just want it done. Amy is a single mom to her 14-yr old son, who happens to share her passion for both skiing and photography. Amy is proud to be able to leverage her lifelong creative outlet and teach others how to benefit from photography. Transcript: Welcome to The Art of Living big. I’m your host, Betsy Pake, and this podcast is designed to share interviews, stories, and new ideas to help you redefine what could be possible for your life. Thanks for listening. Now let’s go live big. today’s podcast is brought to you by audible. You can get a free audio book download and a 30 day trial by going to audible trial comm backslash live big. They have a million jillion titles, okay, 180,000 different titles for you to choose from. You can listen to it on your iPhone or your Android or an mp3 player. I love audible. In fact, just this morning driving my kid home from school, I started to listen to white hot truth. Ooh, that’s a good one you guys something to look into. You can get your free trial over at audible trial, comm backslash live big. And now here’s the show. Hey, everybody, welcome to this show. I am here today with my friend Amy Jackson. Hey, Amy. Hey, how are you? Hey, I’m good. Thanks so much for being here with me today. Tell everybody a little bit about you and what you do. I’m I’m excited about this. And I’m excited to learn a little bit more about how this all goes down. So tell everybody about you and what your business is. All right. Well, I am a single mom, my son is 14. And he’s a fabulous young man. And since other people have told me that I am not afraid to say it. So you believe it right? Yeah, yes, you know, it’s true, then. Um, but I am the founder of learn blog photography.com, where I teach entrepreneurs and bloggers, photography for their websites, using your smartphone. So cool. And if anybody’s listening and they’re like, well, I don’t have a blog. Don’t shut it off. Because you might teach us how to take a really good profile picture or cover photo, right? for Facebook. Yeah, you can use it for anything. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Go even, you know, just general social media photos, right? Yeah. If you really want to get your Instagram down, this is the podcast to listen to which that’s another story. We might have to talk about that, because I really struggle sometimes with pictures. And I use my smartphone for a lot. I have a fancy camera, but I don’t even feel like because I don’t know how to use it. I don’t feel like it really takes better pictures than my iPhone does. And I heard that before, right? And unless I am in like the perfect environment where I’m at my house and I have all the lights and all that stuff. Like it. Oh, it seems like a crapshoot. So tell. Tell me how you how do you do this? Well, that’s not a short answer. Teach me Your ways. Yeah. Well, so let me let me go this way first. So do you think people can take really great pictures? They don’t need to purchase a really expensive camera? Yes. Are you a photographer like by trade? Or did you just get really good at the smartphone ...