If equipment had ever been an issue on this forum, then for those of us who post images here, we would feel compelled to list in detail what equipment was used for every image we post, which we don’t do and never have done, even though it is the norm on most other photography forums, but not this one, so equipment or equipment snobbery is simply not the issue here.
So it must be something else and I think it must boil down to a question of how serious the photographer is about what they create and the effort and skill they are willing to put into creating it and I just don’t see it with iPhone photography, when done with the ubiquitous one click instagram(esque) type processing so prevalent today. I am not saying it can’t be a good done like this, but what I am saying is that it can never be individually and creatively good, done like this.
As Jeff pointed out by referencing some of Dan Burkholder’s work produced through an iPhone, it is amazing, but it has also been achieved through a huge amount of effort for each and every piece he creates. Thumbing an app to make every shot into some sort of instantaneous production line ‘art’, just isn’t.
It’s like trying to compare gourmet restaurant food to a TV dinner IMO.
So yes great work really can be done with iPhone, but the keyword here I think is ‘work’ which cannot be achieved to any meaningful level using shortcuts and by effortlessly pushing a Jpg through a one click app, that 100 million other people are also doing with their Jpg’s at the same time and using the exact same app, there just isn’t enough personal creativity in it for me.
Dave