I’m probably not the person that Steve Jobs had in mind when he approved the iPhone camera’s specifications: Except for testing purposes, I have yet to upload a single image from the iPhone to Facebook or Flickr. While I do some edits on the iPhone, I’m old school enough to transfer images to my Mac, then work on them a bit more before posting them on the web (still not to Facebook and hardly ever to Flickr.)
In fact, as I keep shooting more and more pictures with my iPhone 3G, I’m learning to appreciate the iPhone camera more and more. The whole process reminds me of the summer of 2000 when I got my Kodak DC280 2 mega pixel digital camera. Similar to the iPhone, the camera was quite limited, but post-processing in the digital darkroom could bring its images much closer to what I wanted, even although it was quite laborious. There was no Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop itself had just reached version 6.0. Panorama tools were in their infancy. Your digital workflow was cobbled together by your own skills and limited by whatever tools you could get your hands on (I even wrote some myself).
A lot has changed since. Today, post-processing has not only got much more powerful, but also much less of a time sink, so it’s more enjoyable to work on images shot with the iPhone. Plus, my digital darkroom skills have improved over time and I’m more productive (or so I think). If I still had to use Photoshop 6, I would not have embraced the iPhone camera as much as I did.
Similar to assigning photographic projects to yourself to improve your skills, I use the iPhone camera as almost a “back-to-basic” tool while trying to feel out its boundaries and my own post-processing limitations and also taking a break from shooting everything with a DSLR. I know I will get another point & shoot or micro-4/3 camera as my main carry-along in the future, but until then I enjoy shooting with my iPhone. So expect to see more of my iPhone images on this site in the future.
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