iPhone camera users anonymous {updated}

August 13, 2012 by Filed Under: photography

My creation

{This giveaway is closed. winner: Doty Hoffman}

iPCU anonymous for short. I can’t stop! I love my iPhone camera. I love sharing on Instagram. I’m an addict.

For those of us who love our digital SLR cameras and all the fancy lenses that come with it, it kind of does feel like a dirty secret to be using my camera phone so often.

When I first started using Instagram and I saw some of the pictures my friends were posting I was blown away by how good they were. Now, granted some of them were using iPhone 4 and 4S and I was still using my 3S, so I though part if it was due to the advances in the camera, but then I upgraded to the iPhone 4 and soon began to find out about camera and editing apps that could really make your pictures amazing. It’s still so incredible to me to that some of the most beautiful images I’ve seen this year from other photographers were taken with an iPhone.

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And I may be even more amazed that almost half the pictures I take of my own family adventures are done with my iPhone.

I feel like I’m just beginning to learn my way around editing an iPhone photo. Your personal style can really come through just like it does with a regular camera. Currently, my favorite camera apps are Snapseed and VSCO CAM. I’ve been thinking about getting procamera, but I haven’t done it yet.

This year I’ve taken so many pictures with my iPhone that I plan to include them in our family album at the end of the year. It will be my first time to print my phone photos.

Remember when I first told you about the iPhone Photography ebook? After reading it I discovered some new editing apps and learned some tricks on saving and posting my photos from my iPhone. If you’re just starting out or want to know more, I highly recommend Alli’s book. I’m an affiliate, so I get a few bucks when you buy it. You can become an affiliate too. I love how she’s set things up to make it even more fun to share her book. Very clever marketing.

iPhone Photography: The Visual Guide by Alli Worthington

You can purchase your own copy for $9.97 or you can win one today by leaving a comment!

Any old comment will do, but if you happen to be on Instagram, I’d love for you to leave your user name so I can follow you. Perhaps you’d like to join iPCU anonymous with me.

10 Comments
  • http://www.partofthemiracles.blogspot.com/ Beth

    I’m an iPCU wannabe right now! :) My phone camera just doesn’t allow for the most exceptional photos. It does in a pinch, but that’s about it right now. I’m hoping for the day soon that I’ll have an iPhone–those are 1st world dreams, now, aren’t they?

  • http://www.perfectbydesign.blogspot.com inHistiming

    I want that book. I take ALL of my pics with my iPhone! Think my ‘handle’ is just wendywoerner. Let me know if you don’t find me. We may already be connected there.

  • Theresa

    the shutter on my Nikon needs to be replaced. fortunately I have a back-up Nikon, but I have been using instagram more lately anyway so it doesn’t seem like such a big sacrifice.

  • Suzanne Jackson

    I find myself taking more pictures with my iPod Touch these days, especially since my daughter hijacked my camera. My son often offers to edit for me, and he’s found several fun apps to use. I’ll often just email the pictures to myself and then edit them on PicMonkey, though.

  • doty hoffman

    hi, i’m doty and i’m an iphone camera user. when i blog, i have to think…”no, that picture was on my phone and not on my camera”. i’m also an instagram addict, i love keeping up with the pictures people take. it’s just so easy to whip out the phone before the beast of a camera i carry around. i’m so glad there’s a place to go for people like us now, thanks for letting me share : )

  • michelle mercer

    i’m definitely an ipcu member. especially for the summer – it’s just been too hot to drag a camera around. i rarely even add a filter on instagram. got to play with some of those editing tools. when we went on our airboat ride there were three ladies for idaho on the boat with us. one had a camera and her battery died while on the trip. i took pics with my phone and then txted them to one of the girls – can’t figure why they didn’t use one of their phones except that i don’t think they had iphones.

  • http://twitter.com/Ashley1605 Ashley Broach Cruce

    I would love to win one!! You already follow me on instagram! I seem to take way to many pictures with my iPhone too. It’s like I forget to use my good camera!!

  • Rachel

    I’d love the photography book! I’m a phone-photo newbie and am still trying to figure out instagram. It’s not that easy for me since I haven’t found any kind of explanation of the app’s features. I do use my phone a lot. Mainly because it’s much better than my “real” camera.

    Ps: on instagram, I’m onestitchrachel.

  • Sarah Caldwell

    I want to win this iPhone photog book!! I take most all my photos on iPhone, including a trip I took overseas this spring! My instagram (fave foto app of course :) is sarjane37. Fun post!

  • http://www.othersuchhappenings.com marsha@othersuchhappenings

    this is why i am getting the new iphone5 when it comes out this fall. my iphone4 works fine but i take so many pictures and videos with it, it is worth the investment to have better quality photos and videos.