Now I know why my flash photos are so bad!

Hopefully this isn't going to make me look like a complete dummy. I thought it worth posting as I haven't seen anyone else mention this issue...
Since getting my iPhone 4 I have been very disappointed with the quality of all of my photos taken with the flash. Regardless of the distance of the subject all the photos have come out very washed-out. I don't have the protective plastic on the back of the phone, and I was getting the same results with and without my case on. Despite the overall improvements I saw in my photos with iOS 4.1, flash photos were still really bad.
The penny has just dropped! When I take landscape photos with my iPhone 4 (camera button to the right, lens and flash to the left) I hold the phone in both hands with my fingertips. Because the phone is so slim a fair amount of my left palm sits forward of the left-hand edge of the phone. It doesn't appear in the photos, however there is obviously enough there to reflect a substantial amount of the flash. Holding the phone in my right hand and using my left hand to tap the on-screen button has resulted in dramatically better results.
This is so obvious now I've realised what the problem was that I can't believe I haven't worked it out before now. I thought it worth posting here anyway - just in case anyone else is doing the same thing.
Now all I have to do is work out why I get so much noise in photos taken under artificial lighting...

As a Photographer the term "artificial lighting" means bad or poor lighting. While the human eye is quite capable of adjusting for almost any lighting condition, the "dumb" sensor in your phone camera is nowhere near as capable. While I am not sure that the iphone camera uses variable ISO for it's sensor, I would be surprised if it doesn't. ISO simply refers to the sensitivity of the camera sensor, which sensitivity is raised for low light shots. Prosumer cameras have the ability to take low light shots with a higher ISO to some extent, and professional digital cameras even moreso (professional in the Nikon world meaning $2500 US and above). Making the sensor more sensitive causes noise, and in a low end camera without flash, that noise will be more readily apparent.

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