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Shooting macro shots on an iPhone

Shooting macro shots on an iPhone

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Shooting macro shots on an iPhone

One of the biggest changes in digital photography technology over the last few years has been the advancement of cell phone cameras. Honestly when cell phone cameras came out I thought you know that's kind of a fun little novelty. I didn't ever actually expect they would get this good this quickly. I have an iPhone 5 here and I'm continually amazed at the really nice 8 by 10 inch prints that I can get from it. Nevertheless the focal length range, the overall design of the camera is It's for snap shots, and you can get very nice snapshots. Of course you can take good pictures also, but that's really the sweet spot that they're aiming for. There are, of course, a lot of types of photography besides snapshot shooting. For example I'm standing here in front of these very pretty purple flowers and I'd like to get some macro shots of them. Now, just working with the camera as is, I can't actually get that close. Because, like any camera, the cell phone camera has a minimum focusing…

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