Your iPhone is already a very good camera. This book shows you how to use it properly.
iPhone Photography is a plain-English beginner's guide from filmmaker and photographer Wayne Sables. It skips the jargon and the gadget worship and teaches the skills that make photos work on any camera: where to stand, which lens to use, how to control focus and brightness, how to see light, and how to compose a frame so people know where to look.
Updated for iOS 27 and the iPhone 18 Pro, it covers every current feature a beginner needs: the redesigned Camera app and its new customisable controls, Camera Control gestures, Night mode, Macro, Portrait mode, Live Photo long exposures, Photographic Styles with the new texture and grain controls, ProRAW, and the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture and Pro controls.
Unlike most phone photography guides, it tells you where features fall short: when pinch-zoom wrecks quality, why Night mode smears people, why ProRAW is not automatically better, and why f/1.48 on a phone still gives modest background blur.
Your iPhone is already a very good camera. This book shows you how to use it properly.
iPhone Photography is a plain-English beginner's guide from filmmaker and photographer Wayne Sables. It skips the jargon and the gadget worship and teaches the skills that make photos work on any camera: where to stand, which lens to use, how to control focus and brightness, how to see light, and how to compose a frame so people know where to look.
Updated for iOS 27 and the iPhone 18 Pro, it covers every current feature a beginner needs: the redesigned Camera app and its new customisable controls, Camera Control gestures, Night mode, Macro, Portrait mode, Live Photo long exposures, Photographic Styles with the new texture and grain controls, ProRAW, and the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture and Pro controls.
Unlike most phone photography guides, it tells you where features fall short: when pinch-zoom wrecks quality, why Night mode smears people, why ProRAW is not automatically better, and why f/1.48 on a phone still gives modest background blur.
