The incredible iPhone camera

“We meet again,” said one of two pretty ladies as I walked Killian, my rescue Irish Setter, yesterday at nearby Boughton Park.
One had hair as red as Killian.
They had greeted us earlier — me and my chick-magnet.
“It looked like one of you guys was taking photographs,” I said.
“That would be me,” red-head said.
I took my iPhone out of my pants-pocket. “I’ve said this a thousand times. This is the best camera I ever had. And I also have a Nikon D7000. You see which one I carry.”
“Yep,” red-head said. “Carry it in yer pocket, and get fabulous photographs. Even manipulate.”
“What I do is e-mail ‘em home to manipulate with my Photoshop. And I hardly hafta do anything.
All I do is ‘shaddup-and-shoot;’ the iPhone is doing the technical stuff. That allows me to be more aware of composition.”
“In college I was a photo-editor, and was always altering tonality,” red-head said.
“So you remember darkroom days,” I said. “Brown finger-tips.....”
“....and the toxic smell of fixer,” red-head added.
“You probably also know what ‘burning and dodging’ are.”
“Yep,” red-head said. “Did ‘em all the time.”
“My brother took a fall-foliage photo, and I boosted the color-saturation with Photoshop. ZOW-EEE WOW-EEE,” I said. “You couldn’t do that 40 years ago.”
I hated to leave, but Killian was barking: “Come down outta that tree and fight!”
“There’s something else I wanted to say here, but I forget. I’m sure I’ll remember in a little while.”
“Enjoy yer photography,” they said as they walked away.
I remembered later. “This iPhone must be shooting through a pinhole. The depth-of-field is incredible.”
I bet red-head would get it.

• A “rescue Irish setter” is usually an Irish Setter rescued from a bad home; e.g. abusive or a puppy-mill — or perhaps its owner died. (Killian was a divorce victim.) By getting a rescue-dog I avoid puppydom, but the dog is often messed up. —Killian was fine. He’s my fifth rescue.
• “Burning and dodging” are part of photographic printing. Print-paper and film sensitivity are more extreme than the eye. Print a negative to print-paper and usually the sky — clouds — bleach out. That area gets additional exposure = “burn-in.” Dark areas of a print usually over-expose, so what information may be on the negative gets lost. To save that, one “dodges” that area = blocks exposure with a piece of cardboard, whatever.
• RE: “Boosted the color-saturation.......” —Reds are more red, yellows more yellow, greens more green, etc.
• A “pinhole” is a tiny light-emitting hole that projects any image passing through it — the hole is as if done with a pin. A small pinhole will project near-infinite depth-of-field (area in focus), like from infinite to almost to the pinhole. An iPhone is in focus from infinite down to almost a foot or two. The wider the lens (not a pinhole), less will be in focus.