…is the one you have with you.
Needless to say that no matter how great your vision is, not having a camera with you will not help you get any pictures. It is simply a practical reality for me that I can’t have my SLR with me every day when I head to work. For the longest time, I just pestered at the missed opportunities, blamed this and that, and the other for my inability to take pictures. Yet, nothing said that a picture MUST be taken with an SLR. So what was stopping me? OK, you can’t really answer this question (it’s not that you can’t, but I just won’t let you, cuz I know what you will say, especially you Justin, yes I mean you, you know who you are 
…anyway, I digress).
Enters the iPhone. Other than the fact that it’s just a great piece of technology, the main reason I got my iPhone was specifically to be able to take pictures at will, whenever I feel like it.
The advantages are two-fold: 1) obviously, you have a camera on you at all times, that’s a big plus; 2) contrary to an SLR, you have almost zero control: no lens changes, no aperture or shutter speed setting, zero, nada, zilch. The result is in fact quite counter-intuitive: by restricting your possibilities, you in fact free your mind of its constraints. You have a set of parameters to work with, it’s now up to you to do something with them. From a creative perspective, I must say it is liberating. Instead of going for a different lens to produce the look you always produce, now you have to come up with a different way to view the same subject.
Now each week from now on, I will try (time allowing) to post an image I took with my iPhone.
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It’s about time. We finally pulled you from the dark side! All the apps available now do give you choices. You don’t have to use them until later though. Free your mind and the soul will follow.
Jay
Hey, I just couldn’t resist the call of the dark side!
I’m still in the land of Nokia but my wife is getting a lot of use out of her iPhone camera. I might have to join the revolution soon.
You just can’t escape the inevitable…
i am happy to hear you write about this younes. if you know what your doing, you don’t have to have a the fancy camera to take good photographs. some of the best images i have seen, have been taken with cheap, little, plastic cameras
moments in time can never be recreated and having a camera that fits into your pocket, is at these instances, indeed quite liberating.
That’s exactly how I feel, liberated. I have to say it has really refreshed my take on photography!
Can’t do it – the iphone is as expensive as any SLR on my list – and I’d rather check one off said list.
And link to me when you mention my name will ya? Courtesy lost on this younger generation.
Wonderful! I look forward to seeing and learning from your creativity with an iPhone, Younes.