I never had much luck or enthusiasm with the iPhone camera, it’s probably better as a camera than my old DSLR (Nikon D70), but as @Kel is saying you photograph with your whole body… never a preconceived composition but just getting what FEELS right… or really the very MOMENT when things feel right (even if the subject is static, light always moves, and the subject is anyway just a catalyst for light revealing itself…)
But for me the “body” part still requires being immersed in a viewfinder, eye right up against the glass, because with the phone, having to physically point my attention towards a screen that remains a screen (in other words, always announcing itself as a layer of mediation) doesn’t quite get me there…
Of course, that really is just me. Everyone will find their format/device, which may be just whatever’s at hand (in 2005 there really wasn’t such a thing as an acceptable phone camera, and the DSLR craze had just taken off a few years earlier). The finding is what’s important, not the device. But it’s not easy switching once found because your whole body has to re-learn. Also, every finding finds its own direction. I wanted to actually go backwards, to film… but always with color, which seemed hard to manage in terms of development (i.e. i would have to become very serious indeed, meaning giving up music).
