If you’re like me, you’ve never been really happy with the images that come right out of the iPhone, specifically for anything photography related. Snapshot images or memories? It handles those swimmingly - they just have that “phone” look, typically associated with overly sharp images where dark and bright areas look too crushed.

I figured there had to be a better solution out there, thus a few months ago I spent a lot of time trialing different apps on the iPhone to see if something existed that allowed me to shoot pleasing images without any editing required. From that research, I discovered my current favorite solution, an app called No Fusion. In this article I want to go over the best ways to use the app and deep dive into what makes it great.

Whether you’re a photographer or someone’s grandma (or both), you can identify “phone” photos. These are the photos that have no shadows or highlights, overly sharpened gritty details, and always make colors a bit more saturated than they are. For the masses, phone photos are great. They allow us to capture snapshots and memories with all the details we want, like our silly faces regardless if we are shooting directly into the light or not. The problem is, these photos suck for photography.

Is it possible to get photos straight from your phone that don’t look anything like “phone” photos?

Every year I take the new iPhone Pro model and compare it to my Canon R5. This is my 5th year in a row conducting this comparison, and over those years I’ve been extremely impressed and sometimes disappointed. This year I was hopeful to see an improvement on the new Telephoto lens but as you’ll see from the images, it is not all about a stat sheet. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves and also you can download a few of the raws I’ve taken this year to explore them yourself.