Session	Duration	Price
iPhone Photography Tour	60–90 minutes	£160 per group
In French (iPhone et photographie)	60–90 minutes	£160 per group
With portrait session add-on	90 minutes	On request

About This Tour

Most people who own an iPhone use about 20% of its camera’s capability. The other 80% — ProRAW capture, manual exposure lock, composition modes, the hidden gestures that change what the camera sees — sit unused because nobody has shown them where to find it or why it matters.

This tour is that explanation. Your guide is a professional photographer who knows Cambridge’s most photogenic locations from 27 years of shooting them, and knows the iPhone’s camera system well enough to get results from it that most users have never seen. The combination — expert local knowledge and genuine technical understanding of the tool in your pocket — produces images that are genuinely impressive on any screen.

What the Tour Covers

Technical

• ProRAW mode — what it is, when to use it, and what it gives you in editing
• Manual exposure lock and focus lock — the two taps that transform iPhone photography
• Portrait mode — when it works and when it doesn’t, and how to control the depth effect
• Shooting for editing — capturing the information you need to develop the image later

Compositional

• The grid and how to use it without becoming mechanical about it
• Leading lines, foreground interest, and depth — the principles that make small-sensor images feel large
• Getting close — iPhone lenses reward proximity in a way that longer focal lengths don’t
• Cambridge-specific angles — the locations where iPhone photography produces its best results

Experience the Cambridge iPhone Photography Tour

Editing

• The native Photos app — using its tools to the full without any paid software
• Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows — the five adjustments that fix 90% of problems
• Colour grading on an iPhone — warmth, saturation, and how to make Cambridge look like Cambridge

College Access — Important

⚠️   All photography tours follow public streets, riverside paths, and open spaces. No college entry is required or included on any tour. College exteriors, gates, and riverside views are photographed from public vantage points throughout. There are no entry fees, no photography restrictions from the college, and no access limitations on any of our tours.

Tour Flexibility

💡  Our photography tours are live private experiences. Routes, lighting conditions, and stops may vary depending on the season, weather, local events, and what Cambridge looks like on the day. Photography is inherently responsive to conditions — a guide who adapts to the light and the city as it actually is will always produce better results than one following a fixed script. The route is chosen specifically for the locations where iPhone photography excels — good light, strong compositions, and enough visual interest at close range.

Booking Information & Terms

All tours are private — just your group and Jean-Luc. Pricing is per group, not per person. Cambridge Tours reserves the right to modify routes and stops at short notice where conditions require it. All tours available in English and French. Minimum rate: £160 per group.