The Best Camera Is The One That's With You: iPhone Photography by Chase Jarvis (Voices That Matter),   ISBN:9780321684783

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This is a fun book that shows how much fun you can have and what great images you can take with even the crappiest camera.

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To be reminded to focus on the picture instead of the gear, this rediscovery of the pure pleasure that push us in to photography in first place, is what it makes this book great. Obviously apart the really rich hundreds of photos and personal phrases the book is about. In a small beautiful square format, is a book everyone should have around when feeling down in inspiration. Really cheap also, you don't even have to think about it, just get it, you won't regret. By the way if you have an iphone, join the community as this book is just the beginning, a sample, so far now in a couple of months the site [...] probably has thousands of pictures in it. The photography world have a debt with chase jarvis, thanks for inspiring my everyday on to making great stuff.

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It's hard not to flip through this book and not find yourself inspired to go out and take pictures. Everyone else seems to be writing about the need for latest photography equipment or software or the need to go some pricey workshop halfway around the world to get that amazing photograph. With this book Chase Jarvis shows you can find interesting and beautiful subjects for your photography everywhere you look and more importantly, you can capture beautiful images using whatever camera you have. If you love photography you'll find this book a great source of inspiration!

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I have lots of photography books, written by a whole lot of different people. This one deserves a place on the shelf with those others for two main reasons:

(1) The images here are really good. Sure, there's nothing that'd do a killer job of selling Sandisk equipment, but they're honest (as is Mr. Jarvis, when he describes them as "a chunk" of who he is) and clear, and tell parts of stories that are compelling.
(2) This book is one of the best how-tos I've seen, but not because it diagrams how images are made or because of equipment or access to celebrities. No, this book is comprised of images that Jarvis made with his iPhone. Certainly all of us don't have iPhones, but in today's cellular world, it's hard to find a mobile phone that doesn't also take pictures. The lesson here is simple: You don't need fancy equipment to make photographs. Start small.

I think that people who open this hoping to find a technical manual are gonna be disappointed, but people who are interested in finding inspiration to make images will find a wellspring.

Thanks, Chase, for helping make photography a little more accessible.

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The idea that you can't take a photograph without a camera is a good one. Gotta carry your camera around or else you'll miss tons of photos. But the photos in this book look exactly like you'd expect them too... considering they were all taken with a cell phone camera.