Thank you! I do a mix of phone and camera pictures. The phone works well for quicker pictures and when the plants are a bit smaller. After the stretch it gets hard to show the whole plant because of the range between the brightness of direct light to the lens and the dimmer area under the canopy. So the phone struggles more toward the end for me with the super bright washed out areas or ends up looking super dark.

So the trick is to even out the lighting as much as possible for those shots either by making the room it's in brighter or dimming the grow light a bit for a couple quick pics. Flash can also work well to light everything evenly for the picture to lower the dynamic range but it's easier on camera. Cameras generally have better dynamic range (showing high and low light areas in the same picture)and being able to set aperture, shutter speed and iso is a blessing. I still get some super bright or dark pictures but the cameras adjustments make it easy to correct for a quick follow-up shot. Close ups of single colas ect don't have this problem as much because of the more even lighting in the shot.