“Everybody always has their iPhone with them, so you can get these photo opportunities that you’d never have with your giant DSLR,” said Zach Winter, a proud iPhoneographer. “You can be kind of sneaky with it.”

Despite the lack of manual controls on smartphone cameras, their photos can look pretty decent, and you can touch them up easily with photo-editing software sold through the iPhone or Android app stores (e.g. for the iPhone, we’re big fans of CameraBag.)

Winter is just getting started with an iPhoneography blog for the San Francisco Bay Area. He encourages smartphone users visiting or living in San Francisco to submit their best photos to build a stronger Bay Area iPhoneography community. Even though it’s called iPhoneography, Winter welcomes Android shooters to submit their pics, too.

“There wasn’t any sort of community in San Francisco, and I thought that was kind of odd considering that Apple is based in the Bay Area,” he said. “There’s some community struggling with San Francisco, as far as the arts go.”

Winter provided the photos in the gallery above as some excellent examples from photographers who submitted to his site, as well as some pics he shot with his own iPhone. They are indeed impressive.

Inspired yet? Wired.com invites you to submit your best smartphone photos to us. We’ll post the top entries here on Gadget Lab.

See Also:

• Show Us Your Best iPhone Art
• Gallery: Confessions of an iPod Touch Artist

Authors: Brian X. Chen

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