I recently got an iPhone 12 Pro. It's the first time I've really had "new" and "current" equipment - my normal camera is about 15 years old, and I'm generally a "use what you've got" sort of photographer. When I was out along the banks of the Mississippi River with my boys last week, I started playing with the wide angle lens and a few of the effects.
Here are a few images that are straight from my phone. I
always at least gently edit my images, but these have not been cropped or had any density/contrast adjustments. The most I did to them was adjust the exposure as I was in the process of making the photo; I did nothing in post.
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River Tree
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Rail Bridge
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Washed-Out Ash
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Rower
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Rain-Splattered Beaches
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Tiny Waves
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Driftwood
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Driftwood and Ice
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Frozen Pebbles
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Trees
The "silvertone" effect in these images makes the images a little too painterly for me: click on and zoom in to some of the larger images to see the over-sharpening happening at the edge of higher contrast areas. But I like the overall contrast it provided, although the middle values get a little lost (which kills me a bit as a photography professor who's always preaching about proper tonal range).
We'll see if I end up playing around more with my phone in a professional manner...