"You can trick the camera. Often I'm in Manhattan and I want to take a picture down on the street, but my iPhone's camera sees the street as much darker, it overexposes the street, and then the sky blows out. So what you can do is point the camera at the sky real quick, then bring it down and take a picture immediately, before it has the chance to adjust its exposure."

"There's the beer bottle technique. You put your empty beer bottle up to your flash and shoot, and what it'll do is, depending on the color of your beer bottle, is create an interesting color of light. One of my friends had the tortilla-chip flash. He would take a tortilla chip and put it in front of the flash so when the flash popped, it had to go through the tortilla chip, and it created some light but not a full-on harsh flash."