I'm not a landscape photographer, but I tried using my phone for landscape photography – and I’m impressed!

Experimenting with Landscape Photography on a Camera Phone

I'm not a landscape photographer, but I tried using my phone for landscape photography – and I’m impressed!

Modern camera phones keep defying expectations, even in genres ruled by DSLRs.

I’ve taken photographs of landscapes for assignments when they fit a story, but a traditional landscape photographer I am not.

I shoot landscapes much like street photography – shifting moments, reactions to shape and texture, a dialogue with what’s in front of me – rather than planning a perfect composition.

I wanted to see how the phone would respond to how I see.

So when I decided to take my camera phone out for an hour on the Gower coast, I wasn’t trying to emulate a typical landscape shoot.

Author's summary: Camera phone landscape photography experiment yields impressive results.

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Digital Camera World Digital Camera World — 2025-10-15