ICloud-photos app taking up more space than on my device

My iPhone 4S running iOS 8.0.2 is stating that my iCloud 5gb is full, I go to check how much my photo app takes up and it displays it takes up 3.2gb
Shown in this screenshot at settings>General>Usage>Manage Storage>Photos & Camera
I then went to my icloud storage tab and it states I have 5.1gb worth of photos and videos
To get there I went Settings>iCloud>Storage>Manage Storage>Under backups my only backed up device which currently took up 3.3gb
This issue started happening as i OTA my device to iOS 8.0.0 and I have never been told my iCloud is full as I'd always check my iClouds storage and at the time I updated it had 1.6gb free I have about 100mb of other storage from apps and their documents. And this is my only device being backed up as i deleted an iPod Touch 4G a while ago off icloud before iOS 8 where this problem started.
Any help appreciated as I love the ability of iCloud and how it backs up my storage.

I believe I have solved the problem! Last night I thought I'd failed because it was still showing 5.3 GB needed to back up photos alone. Note that the last successful backup, before iOS 8, was only 3.5 GB total. I certainly have not gone on a photo bonanza since then, so there's no reason they should suddenly take up so much space. Anyway, this morning I decided to just turn off the photo library backups so at least everything else would be backed up.
But when I did that...
The photo backup dropped back down to 2.7 GB. I turned it back on and it stayed the same size. I have no idea if this worked only because I previously turned Photo Stream on and then off again, but if yours is turned off as well you might want to try it in that order. (BTW, I was incorrect before--turning Photo Stream on and off did not cause me to lose photos I actually want to keep in the iCloud backup. As we can see here, it backs up the existing photos on the device separate from Photo Stream.)

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