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“Apple’s iPhone is a fantastic little gadget. Global positioning system meets touch-screen meets iPod / portable video player meets hyperportable computer, meets camera.”

Another killer feature is that you can actually make phone calls with it! ;)

Yes its true iPhone images are superb and due to this online business are now handle through iPhone.
http://sdplabs.com/made-for-iphone

I was happy to see all these quality photos come out of the iphone. I have a mini-tutorial on my blog on what apps to use and how to use them here:
http://effli.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/iphone-photos/

I just wanted to thank you for including me in your iphone blog article. You have made my day, night and week. Photograhpy is my hobby. I have had no training but the first time I picked up a camera I knew this what I wanted to do forever. Being a playwright/tv writer it opened up another avenue of creativity to me and I loved it.

When I got my iphone my creativity exploded because my camera was with me always. I look forward to taking many more photos… and someday publishing a book called “Steve Bluestein’s Good Eye”

Thanks again.

Goes to show you don’t need fancy equipment to take a good picture.

Nice pictures. They encourage to pull out my iPhone and try more frequently.

Overall, I have found the iPhone’s camera to be subpar at best in low lighting. But it takes surprisingly good photos in daytime.

If those are the best you could find, I’m not convinced ;)

@Danferno – hahaha, well each to their own – I was pretty impressed!

I’ll give it to you that there are a couple of good ones there, but they seem to be more the result of good post processing than camera quality. The colours just seem sup-optimal and the grain is sometimes beyond the acceptable.

Hello – thanks for including me in your list!

As you said, I have turned on the ‘protection’ thing on Flickr which stops people saving the images but if you want me to send you any for inclusion on here, then just let me know!

Thanks

M

Hey, there!

First of all, thanks a lot for featuring my work on your blog and for your very nice words about it. I deeply appreciated.

But just to clear something up… I’m a guy!!! And you referred to me as a “her” up there somewhere! LOL. Just in case!

Don’t be afraid of trying out with your iPhones, people… it’s a matter of keeping the lens perfectly clean, and the hand as steady as you’re capable of when shooting… and with a minimal processing to enhance the image, you’ll be surprised of what you can get!

Sion: Oh, that’s so embarrassing! I’ll fix it now – thanks for your advice!

I found this one, its my favorite so far.
http://flickr.com/photos/kingpinphoto/1232059831/

Great stuff! I LOVE some of the stuff I’ve shot on my iPhone. Seriously. It’s a fun lo-fi version of my DSLR. Hehe

great write up and thanks for the heads up on the photographers. I have been a long time photographer, but only recently gotten into phoneotography. I think taking the picture through an iPhone is a great break from the DSLR and 21MP. Perhaps that same refreshing feeling that comes from camping instead of sleeping in a proper bed at home :).

This is a really great collection. And shows why I want an iPhone. I am retired from industry (the first big factory closing in Virginia) and income is an issue now so it will be a long, long time before I get an iPhone. But *someday* I will be able to capture photos and be part of this group.

For now I will dream of that time and will plod along and do my blogs and websites with photos taken with my trusty digital SLR camera I got before retirement!

John P

If the image has been tweaked in Photoshop, then the final image isn’t really the product of the iPhone.

And why is the article so biased towards the iPhone in the first place – there are hundreds of cameraphones / smartphones out there that do the same job. Why give Apple all the credit?

This search on Flickr also turns up hundreds of amazing iPhone photos…

http://flickr.com/search/?q=iphone&ss=2&ct=6&cm=apple%2Fiphone&s=int

how are you guys taking such sharp pictures with the iphone?

I wished i had an iPhone. I never thought iPhone has a camera.

The image taken from iPhone looks good and can compete with other cameraphones or even cameras.

Now I need to re-think shooting with my iPhone. :) Great post!

I really like this one. Its not edited in anyway.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24788278@N04/3127539462/

Why give Apple the credit? Because they built a phone that is so easy to use that you actually use it… Before I had a Nokia with a 5MP camera and a Zeiss lens. Not only were the pictures not as good as those I take with my iPhone, but handling the pictures was so awkward that it was a constant source of frustration.
That’s why!

I have manage to take some very decent pictures with my iPhone:

- http://www.flickr.com/photos/tnkgrl/3321503163/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/tnkgrl/2877002598/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/tnkgrl/2565588691/in/set-72157605517434935/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricardocavolo/3266134723/

it is always about getting it right. understanding how it handles the exposure, the camera is not that good but if you know how to use it, it sure is a good camera, in good light of course.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoken/2110378080/ from an iphone

Hola este es mi blog realizado integralmente desde el iphone ahi pueden apreciar muchas creo yo excelentes fotografias que realice con el telefono

Those are good photos, though I doubt very much that some of these were actually taken with an iPhone. If they were, they were post-processed dramatically.

E da-lhe photoshop nessas fotos! Elas podem até ter sido tiradas com o Iphone, mas foram modificadas!!

No doubt that this photos were post-processed!

In really bright, harsh light that I’d never think of taking a ‘real’ photo in, the iPhone works great. The natural light fall off when used vertically can be used creatively too. I’ve even managed some low light shots that aren’t totally awful.

My person fav I’ve taken is here:
http://flickr.com/photos/faceforwords/3251434315/

as an avid film user, i usually have mixed feelings about pictures taken on camera phones. these photographs are great at showing film users like me that new technology and easier access to taking pictures is a great thing. i especially love the picture of the very crisp coins.

i am, however, annoyed about that photo by breamarie. it looks like half of america’s myspace picture. does that really deserve to be in this unique group or the top 100?

Here are over 500 photos taken with my iphone:

http://flickr.com/photos/stevebluestein/sets/72157604542800390/

hahaha! i have a sony cell with camera 2mpx
and make good photos, and photoshop will help :D

hahaha

will make more photos with my iphone after reading this and seen these amazing photos.

Nice. This is why I started the Photos taken with an iPhone group on Flickr. So much creative work from such an awesome phone.

Don’t forget the apps. There’s some great ones for the iPhone out there. The Pano app being my favourite. My beloved Horizon camera broke on me last year and it would cost me just as much to buy a new one as it would to repair it. But the Pano app is the next best thing. It produces some great Pano phots. Do a search on flickr for “Pano iPhone” for some WOW shots.

its hard to believe that most of these photos were taking with the iphone. first of all, the iphone doesn’t deal with motion very good. i don’t believe that they were all taken with the iphone.

Great photos! Please check out some of mine and give me some feedback. Here are 2 of the best, then all of my Mobile Uploads on Facebook – many San Diego sunsets, piers, nature pics, etc. – all with my iPhone.

another bike in my bike’s review mirror:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1330343&l=bf7dc&id=761814670

Sunset Cliffs:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1358328&l=21cb5&id=761814670

Mobile uploads:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=761814670&ref=profile#/album.php?...

I really like your blog. Be sure to check out mine http://outlivethesun.blogspot.com/ thank you!

For all you skeptics out there, I am here to tell you that ALL my posted pics indeed were, and will continue to be, taken with my iPhone. I am not a liar. Nor do I believe anyone else who says they’re taking pics with their iPhone is lying. And yes, I DO admit to some post processing. But that doesn’t detract from what I think makes a photo good to begin with. My phone doesn’t possess my “eye”. *I* do.

As I have often said…it’s not so much the camera, or the equipment that takes a good photo. You can take a great photo with a handmade cardboard box pinhole camera. I know because I’ve done it.

A large majority of people who take pictures and post them, or who sell them professionally, DO do some post processing. Personally, I don’t consider this to be a crime. I do it because I think it makes my photos look better. And I’ve been VERY up front in saying I do SOME (and not a “dramatic” amount) post processing. I’ve never said otherwise.

But people will believe what they want to believe, I suppose.

Jodee – you don’t have to defend yourself from the doubtful hordes :)

One thing I don’t get, though, is how people have a problem with post-processing – how many photos does a serious photographer upload, say, on Flickr, without tweaking this, that, and the other? Personally, I think only the photo referenced in this article (which was taken on my iPhone and uploaded directly) hasn’t at least been cropped and had its levels tweaked.

There’s purism and there’s purism, but pragmatically speaking, the iPhones weaknesses are so grave that they have to be overcome with careful application of a bit of Photoshop.

Amen, Haje, AMEN.

One more thing I’d like to add to this is the fact that on NUMEROUS occasions people have actually PRAISED my processing skills, as well as asked for advice and tips on how to better their own photos.

So, here’s to us “tweakers”.

And on THAT note, I say ’nuff said. ;-p

liked it a lot! thanks!

there are also some nice iPhone photos on fuzzyshot.com. not on mine, but on those I link for example.

As someone said above, it’s nothing to do with the camera- it’s the photographer (and the amount of photoshopping they do- which based on the above pics, is HEAPS)

I love taking pics on my iphone, they usually come out so well. Except action photos, they always seem to blur for me.

Nice :-).

My photo, http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7501/photoavg.jpg

It is apparent that some of these images were touched up with Photoshop or some other image editing software either within the camera or out.

A camera is a tool. It’s how you use it to it’s full potential that counts. A good picture is all about composition, lighting, subject and angle.

I’ve just stumbled across this excellent blog! You have a new follower! What a great piece about iPhone photography, thanks for sharing your curious finds! I’ve long been a fan in the phone’s picture taking abilities, and lately I’ve become addicted to the luscious ‘Camera Bag’ app!

You can see my gallery here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/garethidavies/sets/72157615258473785/

Keep up the excellent work!
G