If I’m testing a gadget for Digital Camera World, then I usually head to the Barbican Centre in London, England. The Barbican’s sprawling maze of Brutalist architecture makes a great location for a model shoot, especially when I need to light them with an LED or test out a variety of fog machines in the location’s long, dark corridors.
When Apple lent me an iPhone 17 to review as a camera, I predictably shot at the Barbican. However, I also wanted to put the iPhone 17 through its paces in a new location, to break free of the Barbican’s familiar grey-and-brown color palette and stony textures.
