Please see if there is an instruction manual available for your phone.
Most cell phone cameras are fixed focus, fixed focal length units. This means that they don't zoom and they don't focus. Remember that wide angle lenses provided greater depth of field than a longer focal length lenses. So, the lens in most cell phones are wide angle. The sensors are very, very small so they pretty noisy compared to most point and shoot cameras. However, the smaller the lens system, the smaller the aperture utilized and thus the greater depth of field. Exploit these qualities of the phone. Also, you can utilize filters and accessories lenses to modify what your camera can shoot and how it is recorded.
Newer high end cell phones such as the iPod 4th generation and most Droid phones have autofocus capabilities. This will only become increasingly common place. In the relatively near future, there will not be any point in having both a smart phone and a point and shoot digital camera.
Blog posting about Dan Burkholer's current iPhone work. Dan Burkholder has done some very progressive work with digital printing over the years. He also shoot a nice series of images about the aftermath of Katrina.
Photo Tecnique article by Dan Burkholder on his use of an iPad and iPhone to take and edit digital photos.
Gizmodo article on cellphone photography. Nice collection of cell phone photography.
Pixlr - a great online photo editing application.
Pixlr - a great online photo editing application.
The 300 most important rules of iPhoneography - Half funny and half practical Flickr guide to photography using an iPhone.
Nice article with good links on producing interesting work with an iPhone.
ShakeItPhoto is a fun iPhone app that emulates a Polaroid image.
Andigraf is a fun iPhone camera app that is similar to a multishot camera.
Good links on cell phone photography:
Pro photographer Chase Jarvis video on using iPhone to take photos
Here is a link to an iPhone app that he developed, simplifies photo sharing
http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-use-a-camera-phone
http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/02/shawn-roccos-cell-phone-photography.html
http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/aug/28/cell-phone-photography-project-beyond-border-conte/
http://www.brendaregier.com/
Accessory lenses for cell phones
Spherical fisheye lens and special software that can be used to create 360 degree panoramas. Be sure to check out the immersive panorama samples at the bottom of the screen.
Accessory lenses for cell phones
Spherical fisheye lens and special software that can be used to create 360 degree panoramas. Be sure to check out the immersive panorama samples at the bottom of the screen.
Jelly Lens - a manufacturer of cell phone accessory lenses. They have a surprisingly large variety.
Review of macro lens for HTC phone, but applicable to all phones. Includes links to stores which sale such lenses.
Nice examples of photos taken with fisheye, macro, and wide angle accessory lenses.
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