One nice part about shooting with an iPhone - you are almost invisible as a photographer. Pull out a DSLR and everyone gets camera shy. Nice capture.
Thanks Alan.
I have found that with the iphone I am a bit more invisible, but not totally. When I was up near Pasadena last Sunday and doing some street photography in the rain, I still got lot's of looks. People notice you pointing your phone at them and will look. The phone isn't as big as a camera, so you do get less looked at, but people will still look to see what you are taking a photo of with the iphone.
Probably the most invisible I have been is when I have my regular camera over my neck facing forward, hanging down by my waist and then I just rest my hand on it with the finger over the shutter button. I shoot a little wider and just press the shutter that way. As long as you aren't holding the camera up high to your eye no one notices. Keeper rate is probably about 40%, but at least no one gives you a second look.
The problem with that technique with the iphone it's so hard to hit the shutter button on the face of the phone as there is no physical way to know your finger is on the button on the screen. Thinking about it, I guess I could use my headphones and press the volume button? Or there is a way to take photos by pressing the side button? I could check into that, but at this point I do get noticed even though I try to be very subtle and not look at the people and shoot through my car windows, etc to mask the phone.
