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iPhone Photos
John Kieltyka
Like many people in the last few years, I have come to see iPhone photography with the same renewed sense of possibility I felt when I got my first digital camera; this is a tool that is eminently spontaneous and portable - it is exciting. Add to this the raft of ever-improving apps available for iPhone photographers and you have what is, for me, a paradigm shift in how I see the act of making images.
Not that I'll be abandoning my DSLR or my studio lights anytime soon, but in the same way lo-fi photography (Holga cameras, Polaroids, etc.) freed us from the technical minutae of things and allowed us to explore, the iPhone allows me to "just shoot" faster than anything I've ever experimented with. Keeping a camera on me at all times has never been so much fun...
The majority of my iPhone photos are shot with the Genius camera. In post-processing, I'll crop the image, maybe sharpen it and balance the colors, then apply a filter or two. My go-to apps for these are mostly Photogene, CameraBag and CrossProcess, although I seem to collect photo apps with startling regularity :)
-John Kieltyka
