While hotly debated, Malcolm Gladwell's much-cited 10,000 Hour Rule — that you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become a master at something — is at least motivational in its insistence that nothing but relentless honing of your craft will help you improve at it. No matter how skilled you are, no matter how many years of experience you have, it's putting in the hours that will turn you from hobbyist to expert.
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With every new iPhone and iOS update, Apple makes one thing clear: Photography is very, very important to mobile phone users. Statistically, that’s a trend that’s pretty easy to see; Instagram announced last year that it had topped 800 million users, and the various iPhone iterations top every data set about who uploads their photos to Flickr.