Behind the shots: Paris on iPhone 14 Pro

I've recently returned from beautiful Paris, France, arguably the most photogenic city in the world, filming an episode of my YouTube travel series PhotowalksTV. On the show, I bring viewers with me to great locales (like Paris) and take virtual photowalks, while shooting photos on the same camera I assume home viewers use: a smartphone.

For this episode, I left the big Sony cameras at home, and used three iPhones, a 14, 13 and 12, pro editions, with most of the work on the 14 Pro Max. (As well as some crazy shots on the Insta360 X3 camera.)

I operated like the great Paris street photographers of the 1940s, with just one small camera and a "normal" lens that back then was 50mm, except the iPhone is way more versatile, with three lenses, an ultra-wide (.5), wide (1x) and telephoto (x3.) In millimeter terms, that's 13mm, 24mm and 77mm. I could do mostly everything folks with big cameras could do, with the exception of a long zoom for ultra close-ups.

Big plus: I could also shoot handheld, 4K video, and use the camera in places where folks with big cameras might get booted out.

How do the photos compare to the big guys? I'll let you be the judge of that. But I think several look pretty comparable, and are a testament to how far smartphone camera technology has come. So I thought I'd fill you in on how I get the shots.

Thanks everyone for taking a look. Any questions, feel free to hit me up right here and stay tuned for more episodes from Paris in the coming weeks.