There are so much motion and action that normally, either the still photo or the video will look off. Pets and natural portraits are by far the trickiest to get right. RELATED: How to Take a Good Portrait Photo That way, your wallpaper will look normal, but when it’s in motion, it’ll be packed with personality.

If you take the photo when they’re smiling normally, the live photo should capture the two silly faces. I’d recommend you have them pull a silly face, relax back to a normal smile, then pull another silly face. Make sure you’re in a well-lit place-anywhere with a big window normally works great-because live photos look particularly grainy in low light and then have your subject pose. Staged portraits are a little trickier but still possible. RELATED: How to Take Good Landscape Photos You have plenty of time to line up the shot, make sure your camera is stable, and, since the motion is cyclical, they almost always look good. The easiest good live photos to take are landscapes, especially if there’s moving water. Otherwise, brace or rest your iPhone as well as you can.

For the transition to look good between the still and motion parts of the live photo, you need to keep your iPhone as still as possible while you take the shot.

This means you need to have a shot set up before you press the shutter button.

A Live Photo records a few seconds before and after when you take the photo.

For one of the first times ever, I’m recommending you shoot with your iPhone held vertical. There are a couple of other key things you need to bear in mind: You also want the transition to when the wallpaper is in motion to look natural. This means that you need to make sure the still photo part looks great.

Most of the time your background will be still.

A live photo is, first and foremost, a photo.

Live photo as wallpaper