Wedding Shoot On An iPhone
Several years ago I traveled up to Kansas to see my oldest daughter marry the man of her dreams. I was there to witness the moment with her mom, her bio-dad and a host of family and friends. I didnâ€™t go as the family photographer, but me being me I couldnâ€™t help but take photos. I didnâ€™t bring my compact camera of the time but I did bring my iPhone. At the time I owned the iPhone 5s. The camera on it was the best on any smartphone of the day but it wasn't anywhere near as good as current top of the line smartphones and would be eclipsed just three generations later with the iPhone 7. It was though the camera on had on me. I took many photos that day, along side the wedding photographer.

While my photos weren’t taken on a top of the line camera, or even a very good camera, they were captured. The moments, the memories the event forever saved to be viewed and shared for years to come.

So the next time you feel like you just don’t have the camera or your “better” camera isn’t with you, remember - the best camera you have is the one you have on you.

I often hear how someone doesn’t take photos because they just don’t have a good enough camera. While I totally understand the sentiment, I've felt that way myself more than a few times; it’s just not true. If you have a camera you can capture the moment. Photography is, at it’s hart is more than just capturing a moment but capturing a feeling. While some cameras capture more detail or more dynamic range than others, all captures can capture the moment and therefore a feeling.

When the day was done, my daughter was now a wife and I had over 1,200 photos of the event all taken on my iPhone 5s. In the days that followed I sorted through the images, edited some and sent them on to my daughter. As you look at the gallery below you may notice that in many of these images not everyone is looking at the camera. That’s because they were looking at the actual wedding photographer. I was just trying to get “the shot” anyway I could.

My daughter of course new I was taking photos. I was always the one taking photos. However, I don’t think she knew how many I had taken or how complete the collection turned out to be. It was a good thing too.

The wedding photographer she had hired had some kind of critical error and every photo taken was lost. Had I not taking the photos I did, my daughter would have had only a hand full of images to remember one of the most important days of her life. Nor would anyone else. Not uncommon at weddings is the only one taking more than a handful of photos is the wedding photographer.

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