iPhone 5 vs Budget Compact

[Pea-n-Me]

Originally Posted by cpbjgc

In all honesty, my thinking is the best camera for a shot is the one you have at hand. As long as you have some understanding of expsoure, and the limits of what the camera you are using can do, you can often get a good/creative shot, or at least understand why you can't.

I agree!

I am off to go save some pool chairs at Wilderness Lodge so I have a spot when I get back from pool hopping at the Poly. I like to grab the shady spots so the children (who I took out of school to go down to Disney) can play volleyball in the hot tub. We then head back to Pop to our crockpot of chili that's been cooking all day.

Don't forget to do grill cheese with the iron and rinse out your "delicates" in the coffee pot!

[Pea-n-Me]

Originally Posted by havoc315

I find a lot of novice photographers are afraid of getting too close to their subjects. They feel the need to "stand back."
So 1 piece of advice that I try to follow myself, is to get close... sometimes get a little uncomfortably close, fill your frame with the subject. Don't stick your subjects in the middle of the frame with tons of dead space.

I am a fill-the-frame person. It find it a little challenging with the iPhone, though. One feature I like about it - that my DD showed me and I now use all the time - is to enlarge the picture with your fingers and then take a "screen shot" of it. This enables you to quickly fill your frame and to get annoying things out of the background. And so easily! Great for quick snapshots.