Many photographers think very negatively about using cell phones to take photographs. They think since everyone has a cell phone that everyone thinks they are photographers. This may be true in some cases, but who cares! Making photographs is fun and cell phone cameras have come a long way over the last few years. They will only continue to get better. I think it is great that people have access to a fairly inexpensive camera that they can use to document their life, especially in today’s social media world.
I personally enjoy taking photographs on my iPhone 5S. I shoot daily, for fun, usually of things that I don’t shoot professionally. There are so many apps out there that you can use to edit your cell phone images. One that I am using currently is called Afterlight created my Simon Filip and Sangmook Lee. They have filters, adjustments, borders, overlays, and you can even create different layers. It is fun and creative. I post my cell phone photographs on my Instagram page, @jeanetteshu, and I use this app to edit them.
I also occasionally shoot images with a cell phone but edited them with Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop the way I would with my professional photographs. Here is an image from a photoshoot that I did on an iPhone 6 plus. It was shot in a studio with a continuous light source.
So, I think shooting photographs with your cell phone can be another way to express yourself artistically. Just because a photograph is taken with a cell phone doesn’t make it any less of a photograph.
