Experimental
iPhone Photography
Artistic Images Beyond the Snapshot.
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Anyone can take a snapshot.
You're about to make art.
About the Course
Your iPhone is a complete creative studio, and Lisa Carney shows you how to use it. Break free from the rules of traditional photography and dive into experimental image-making, where motion, distortion, reflections, and abstraction become tools for personal expression. Lisa shares techniques for double exposures, light leaks, wet plate looks, silhouettes, and abstract compositions, then transforms them with apps like Photoshop, Lightroom, Mextures, Tintype, and Prisma. If you've ever wanted to make images that feel unmistakably yours, this is where you start.
Why This Course Matters
Every photographer hits a wall where the technically correct image stops being enough. This course is what's on the other side.
Lisa teaches you to see the world as raw material and build a toolkit of capture and editing techniques that stack across apps, so one photo can become five different works of art. Photographers who learn to break the rules on purpose return to every shoot with sharper instincts and a stronger point of view.
Who's Teaching You
Learn from an artist who breaks the rules for a living
Lisa Carney has spent more than 30 years retouching for the motion picture and television industries, where impossible images are the day job. Here she turns that pro-level eye loose on the camera in your pocket.
Lisa Carney is a high-end retoucher and photographer with more than 30 years in the motion picture and television industries, where impossible images are the day job. She brings a pro's eye and an artist's curiosity to everything she teaches, with a gift for making advanced techniques feel like play.
What You'll Learn
Skills you'll use every time you shoot
From your first light to that final edit — here's what you'll walk away knowing how to do.
Capture the unconventional
Motion, distortion, reflections, light leaks, double exposures, photograms, and scanner art. Turn everyday subjects into something completely original.
Recreate classic looks, no chemicals required
Wet plate, cyanotype, and blueprint styles built right on your phone, inspired by masters like Sally Mann.
Build your mobile editing stack
Photoshop and Lightroom on mobile, plus Mextures, Tintype, Prisma, and Diana, and when to reach for each one.
Combine apps for one-of-a-kind effects
Send an image from Lightroom to Diana to Mextures and back, stacking looks no single app can create.
See patterns everywhere
Abstract, aerial-style, and graphic images pulled from ordinary scenes using Lightroom's geometry and crop tools. No drone required.
Tell a story with every experiment
Narrative and originality are what turn a fun effect into art. Lisa shows you how to put them at the center of your work.
The Full Curriculum
6 lessons, start to finish
Tap any lesson to see what's covered.
Lisa defines what experimental photography really is: curiosity over rules, play over perfection. Get ready to rethink what the camera in your pocket can do.
Motion, distortion, light leaks, double exposures, photograms, and scanner art — plus why narrative is the secret ingredient that makes experimental work original.
Experimental work happens at capture or in the edit, and Lisa covers both. Find inspiration on Instagram and Behance, then recreate wet plate looks, blueprint styles, collages, and Renaissance-inspired edits right on your phone.
Silhouettes, underwater domes, and aerial-style patterns without a drone. Lisa shows how changing your perspective at capture opens up a whole new world of conceptual images.
Lisa demonstrates her essential app stack — Photoshop, Lightroom, Tintype, Mextures, Prisma, and Diana — and shows how combining apps unlocks effects no single tool can create.
Lisa wraps the course with a challenge: take these techniques, trust your curiosity, and create work only you could make.
From the Course
What you'll learn to create
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More Than One Course
This course is just the beginning
Experimental iPhone Photography comes with your KelbyOne membership — and so does everything below. Tap any benefit to see what's included.
The full KelbyOne library covers photography, Lightroom, and Photoshop from first principles to professional technique — portraits, landscape, travel, studio and flash, wedding, sports, street, food, fashion, business, and more. Every course is taught by a working pro, broken into focused lessons you can watch in any order, and available to stream whenever you want. Start a class on your lunch break, finish it that night, and come back to it any time you need a refresher.
KelbyOne releases a new course every single week, so your membership is worth more the longer you hold it. New techniques, new gear, new software releases, and new instructors are added continuously — meaning the latest in photography and post-processing is always waiting for you, and you'll never pay extra for it.
Not sure what to watch next? Curated learning tracks sequence the right courses in the right order so you build skills step by step instead of jumping around. The Photographer's Fast Track is designed to save you years of trial and error, and your progress is tracked along the way so you always know what you've finished and what's next.
Your membership includes a growing toolkit of free Lightroom presets, Photoshop brushes, and other downloadable resources you can put to work right away. Many courses also include downloadable practice files so you can follow along with the exact images the instructor is using — learning by doing, not just watching.
Stream on your computer, phone, tablet, or Apple TV and pick up right where you left off on any device. The KelbyOne app also lets you download classes for offline viewing, so you can keep learning on a plane, a road trip, or anywhere without a connection. Your account works anytime, anywhere.
Learning is easier with people in your corner. KelbyOne members are a welcoming, genuinely helpful community — the kind who go out of their way to answer questions and help you progress. When a technique doesn't click, there's a place to ask, and real photographers at every level who are happy to help.
If you're unhappy for any reason, contact us within the first 30 days of an annual membership (or the first 7 days of a monthly membership) and we'll gladly cancel and issue a full refund. You also get access the moment you join, and you can cancel anytime from your account page. There's nothing to lose by trying it.
Membership
One membership. Everything unlocked.
Experimental iPhone Photography and the entire library of courses come with a KelbyOne membership. Go annual with code IPHONE20 through July 11 and you'll pay $179 — about 49¢ a day, and $60 less than paying monthly.
Everything included
- This course — Experimental iPhone Photography, all 6 lessons
- Full access to all 1,000+ courses
- A new course every week, at no extra cost
- Guided learning tracks & the Photographer's Fast Track
- Free presets, brushes & downloadable practice files
- Watch on desktop, mobile, tablet & Apple TV — even offline
- Friendly, helpful member community
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Questions? Answered.
Everything you need to know
Right away. The moment you join, you can sign in and start watching Experimental iPhone Photography — and every other course in the library — immediately, on any device.
Absolutely. KelbyOne has courses for every skill level, taught in plain language, step by step. This course meets you where you are, and the rest of the library grows with you as you improve.
No. Lisa shoots with the phone in her pocket, and the techniques work on any recent iPhone. She uses a handful of inexpensive apps like Mextures, Tintype, Prisma, and Diana, plus Lightroom and Photoshop on mobile — and shows you exactly how she uses each one.
Annual is the best value by a wide margin: $199 for a full year works out to about 54¢ a day and saves you $40 compared to paying month-to-month ($239.88/year). Monthly is there if you'd rather start small — and you can switch to annual anytime.
Yes. Cancel whenever you like from your account page and you'll keep access until your membership period ends. You're also covered by our money-back guarantee — 30 days on annual, 7 days on monthly — so there's no risk in trying it.
Yes. Stream on desktop, mobile, tablet, and Apple TV, and pick up right where you left off on any device. The KelbyOne app also lets you download classes to watch offline — on a plane, a road trip, anywhere.
Of course — KelbyOne has members all over the world. All prices are listed in US dollars (USD), so just keep your local exchange rate in mind at checkout and renewal.
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