Landscape Photography with a Camera Phone
I'm not a landscape photographer, but I tried using my phone for landscape photography – and I’m impressed!
Modern camera phones keep defying expectations, even in genres ruled by DSLRs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
I’ve taken photographs of landscapes for assignments when they fit a story, but a traditional landscape photographer I am not. I’ve recently come to realize that I don’t have the patience for what most people consider 'landscape photography'; tripods, filters and waiting for the perfect light.
I shoot landscapes much like street photography – shifting moments, reactions to shape and texture, a dialogue with what’s in front of me – rather than planning a perfect composition.
So when I decided to take my camera phone out for an hour on the Gower coast, I wasn’t trying to emulate a typical landscape shoot. I wanted to see how the phone would respond to how I see.
Author's summary: Camera phone defies expectations in landscape photography.