iPhones are great for taking snaps to upload to the interwebs or for sharing with friends when you don't actually care about picture quality. For anything else, get a dedicated camera!
Yeah, all devices have their place. I was shooting individual action shots of a swim team (w/a big pro DSLR), and one mom had decided not to reserve a session. Instead, she watched what I was doing (lay on the deck and shoot butterfly or breastroke coming toward me). So she sent her swimmer out for a lap, got prone on the deck, and spent about 15 minutes snapping pics with her iPhone. Then she borrowed a P&S from another parent and spent 15 minutes trying with that. Finally, she got her kid in line and paid for shots. I can respect the effort, but these miniaturized cameras have some serious limitations. Her daughter now has a 30" canvas of a perfect fly stroke hanging over her bed.
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iPhones are great for taking snaps to upload to the interwebs or for sharing with friends when you don't actually care about picture quality. For anything else, get a dedicated camera!
Yeah, all devices have their place. I was shooting individual action shots of a swim team (w/a big pro DSLR), and one mom had decided not to reserve a session. Instead, she watched what I was doing (lay on the deck and shoot butterfly or breastroke coming toward me). So she sent her swimmer out for a lap, got prone on the deck, and spent about 15 minutes snapping pics with her iPhone. Then she borrowed a P&S from another parent and spent 15 minutes trying with that. Finally, she got her kid in line and paid for shots. I can respect the effort, but these miniaturized cameras have some serious limitations. Her daughter now has a 30" canvas of a perfect fly stroke hanging over her bed.
Examples of the iPhone camera's potential.
Keven Russ:
http://iphonephotographyschool.com/kevin-russ/
http://grid.vsco.co/journal/vsco-cam-kevin-russ
Ben Lowy:
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/181700/ben-lowy-photographs-libya-with-his-new-iphone-hipstamatic-lens/
http://connect.dpreview.com/post/6401294793/photojournalist-lowy-shares-favorite-image-eyem
Enjoy.