'Storage full' but won't let me delete photos???

My storage has been full for a while so I plugged my phone into my computer to transfer photos over...long story short my laptop crashed in the process so I can't try this again but I know that I cleared up a ton of space on my phone after syncing the photos and deleting a bunch. However, my phone now insists on filling the free space with random photo albums from my computer and music that I don't want on my phone, so I still can't take any photos. It doesn't give me the option to delete these albums from my phone, either. I even deleted a bunch of apps I didn't really want to delete in order to clear up space but it just filled it all up with old random photos again. I was going to disable the photo stream but I'm afraid I'll lose all the photos saved to the cloud? I'm going on vacation in a week and want to be able to take photos!

If the photos were created on your iPhone you can directly delete them. If the photos were synced from your computer and you can't delete them on the phone. You have to sync with iTunes on computer. You add a new EMPTY folder and sync the empty folder to your iPhone at the "Photos" category.
[I want to show you the screenshot, but i can not uplaod it.]
Actually photos will occupy most capacity of our phone space. we want to keep the photos always and don't want to delete them. however, i would like to reduce photo size to free up our iPhone capacity

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201313
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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201302
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https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
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