If you want to take better pictures by yourself,
I feel like everyone has recommended a million different tools.
Like, there’s the Octo Buddy.
There’s like, magnetic ledges you can buy.
You could just bring a tripod around and listen.
All of those work, but none of those are actually practical
for how you are going to take photos in your daily life.
What you need to do is
you need to build a skill that I call ledge spotting.
Put it plainly, it alleges any horizontal,
flat surface with a vertical wall
that you can lean your phone up against.
Bam! That’s a ledge.
See this telephone pole? That’s my favorite kind of ledge.
Ledge stairs are ledges. They’re lower,
but they’re great for an outfit pic.
Advanced ledge. Advanced ledge.
You gotta practice balancing your phone.
These are ledges. If you’re a city girl,
you can use scaffolding as ledges as long as the poles meet.
Your phone will fall through this, though,
so be careful. Not a joke.
You can nestle your phone in bushes.
It’s a ledge. Nature’s ledge.
You can even look for ledges along the grooves and divots of buildings.
This little shelf here, as long as it is as wide as my phone,
which it is, is wide enough to be a ledge.
Any fence with a horizontal line is a ledge.
Even these little, like,
locks and rivets bumping out of gates.
These can be ledges. If you can’t balance your phone.
On these yet it’s a skill issue.
Or find a different ledge.
Ledge. Controversial,
but ledge, ledge, ledge.
Street lamp poles are the best ledges, though.
We love street lamps. When I’m going out exclusively to take photos,
I’m just gonna bring a tripod,
because it works everywhere.
But if I’m trying to sneak photos into my daily life,
I’m not gonna buy all these gadgets and gizmos.
We’re just gonna find a good ledge.
Ledge spotting. Make it a thing. Save yourself money.