LS #44: Iphone Photography Workflow

Summary

In this session, we dive into the practical side of using your iPhone as a serious photographic tool, from capturing in ProRAW at full 48-megapixel resolution to managing your images seamlessly across the Adobe Lightroom ecosystem.

Key Takeaways

• The Adobe ecosystem has three distinct layers working together: Lightroom Classic handles your local raw files and serious editing, Lightroom Mobile and Desktop give you cloud access across all your devices, and understanding which layer does what clears up the confusion most people have about storage and syncing.
• Your iPhone’s built-in camera app with ProRAW enabled is your best option for maximum image quality, giving you 48MP files with Apple’s computational photography baked in, while the Lightroom app is better used as a cloud viewer than a camera.
• Shooting with your iPhone is genuine photography practice, not a compromise. You’re still making compositional decisions, still experimenting with long exposures and different framings, and those habits of seeing and exploring carry directly into your work with your main camera.

Action Items

• Open your iPhone Settings, go to Camera, then Formats, and enable ProRAW and Resolution Control so you can shoot 48MP ProRAW files with the built-in camera app whenever the moment calls for it.
• In Lightroom Classic, check that cloud syncing is turned on and go into Preferences, then Lightroom Sync, to enable the setting that automatically downloads cloud images to a local folder on your hard drive.