I decided to write this post while going out with my family in the 4th of July weekend. As my hobby + habit, I brought my DSRL camera with me on the trip… but then I decided to give it a break and use the camera of my iPhone in stead… it was for a couple of reasons:
- Wide-angle lens of the iPhone can do much better in taking landscape photos than my 50mm lens. It can capture a wider view of the scene.
- When going on vacation, I do not want to deal with a bunch of technical stuffs but rather a simple point-and-shoot camera. And the iPhone or any compact-camera can do that job better than a bulky and heavy DSLR.
- In additional to the simplicity, the iPhone camera is really versatile when it comes to sharing photos. I can send the photos on the iPhone straight to Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr, and even post them on my blog…even cooler that I can make some adjustments and apply special effects to the photos without dealing with the computer ever.
I love Pro HDR so much…It is perfect for taking landscape photos with your iPhone (or probably any photos which do not include moving objects). The app can smartly detect the brightest and darkest areas in the photos and continuously take 2 photos at 2 different exposure levels. It then automatically merges 2 photos into one by taking the best parts of each photo… So, I will never have a photo that is too dark or too bright. Can any expensive cameras do that? … NO WAY… at least not for now…
The Tripod is also an awesome app… especially for someone who does not have a steady hand… when you hit the shutter button, the iPhone will not take a picture right away… but it will start to measure the movement of your hands using the built-in gyroscope of the iPhone… and then the camera will automatically take the photo when it feels your hands are steady enough… how cool that is!
The best part is that both of these apps are FREE and you can download them from the iTunes.
So my point is that you can take good picture with whatever camera (of course, the working ones)… you can produce a horrible photo with a $10,000plus camera, but you can produce an amazing photo with just a cheap toy camera… it is all about your imagination, creativeness, and your own view to the world… you don’t TAKE the picture… you MAKE the picture…
To end this post, here are some photos coming straight from my iPhone without any editing on computer.
