Phone vs. Camera Showdown

DSLR Version

Lately, I've been cheating on my DSLR camera with my iPhone.  I can't really decide how I feel about it.  Don't get me wrong, I adore my camera.  It takes great photos - as long as I let it do its own thing.  When I try to get involved - in other words, use it on manual - that's when things go a little haywire.  Just when I think I have things figured out, the weather changes and I'm up a creek again.  I actually like the way the photos look more when they're taken in auto than I do when they're taken in manual. Sacreligious, I know!

That's when I turn to my phone.  Say what you want about Apple, but you have to admit, their products take great photos.  It's so easy to just snap a shot when we all have our photos in our hands all day everyday already.  Also, thanks to my Canon Selphy printer, the pictures on my phone are just so much easier to print than the ones on my camera.  Just a few taps and I'm rolling right along, and scrapping away. It's sort of my new addiction.  I love that little printer - I have no idea why I waited so long!

iPhone version

But that's not actually why I've been using the phone so much.  It's definitely a factor, but not the whole story.  The big reason is photo editing.  Thanks to Pic Tap Go I've become a master photo editor. All of the photos on my phone are so much better thanks to this app.  Everything's clear and the colors are sharp. It's the perfect way to become a master phone photographer.  On the other hand, when I take photos with my camera, I can't use the app.  I have to go through Pic Monkey since I don't have a license for Photoshop.  And Pic Monkey while a great deal, isn't exactly the best way to edit photos especially in bulk. The system is clunky and it just takes too darn long. Today, I almost sent photos to my email so I could open them in my phone and then edit them with Pic Tap Go.  Thank goodness the camera photos are so darn large and thank goodness I have so little space left on my phone, or I would have found myself in a never-ending photo-editing loop!

So what can be done about this?  I have no real answers.  Other than, begging Pic Tap Go to create a desktop app to help me with my photo conundrum. And somehow I don't see that coming.  Luckily, Summer is coming and I always get much better photos in the summer, thanks to blue skies, sunshine and fabulous destinations.  Hopefully that will help me out of my scandalous cheating scandal....Seeing as my camera is worth much more than my phone is, one could only hope.