r/iPhoneography

Turns out they’re chasing moisture. No life philosophy. No bucket list. Just: “That side smells wetter, I’m going.”

Default camera app | 29 mm, f 2.2 | VSCO filter g3

The food in Florence definitely made up for all the stairs I climbed to get this shot.

Shot on iPhone 14 Pro Max using the regular camera app. Edited in Lightroom.

Was laying out by the pool and caught some nice views of the sky.
Edited with Lightroom mobile.

Photograph taken on 4/28/26 6:10 AM

This photo has no business being as good as it is given it was taken on an iPhone 5s in 2017. It's possibly the best photo I've ever taken and it was sitting somewhere in a library of 30,000+ photos I'd basically given up on ever organising.

That's what made me build Curator. Not because I wanted to delete photos, but because I wanted the good ones - the ones actually worth keeping - to be surfaced, saved & printed for my wall or an album. The problem is you can't get there without wading through series of 26 shots of the same thing / scene first, that I'd taken while trying to get the best shot where I only really want to keep 1 or 2.

The app uses on-device AI to identify and group similar photos and suggest which one from each group is actually the best - based on sharpness, lighting, whether people are looking at the camera, whether you've edited it before (a good sign you already knew it was worth keeping). User stays in control was an important principle: you can scroll through, change anything you disagree with before deleting, and then it suggests albums based on your trips and time periods using those curated photos.

If curious, it's still in TestFlight if anyone wants to try it before app store release - free during beta, privacy-centric: nothing leaves your phone. Take a screenshot in the app to leave a comment if you spot anything you think needs adding or improving - I'd love feedback.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/By5zRRpd

Will see if this post abides by the rules.. technically not advertising an editing app per Rule 3, and genuinely wanted to share my goat!

Shot in Singapore using the Dazz app

I got the shot this morning. It’s actually an HDR merge of a 3-bracketed shot. I took on my iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Caught Jupiter, the Moon, Venus, and a meteor and then the moon in close up. iPhone 16 Pro and ProShot app. Telephoto hens with iPhone attachment for the moon shots.