Why do my photo's take 4gb of my iPhone storage, while I have no photo's?

The past time I continouesly got notifications that my iPhone storage was full. (I've got an iPhone 5, 16 gb, iOS 8.1.2).
So I looked at the usage and saw that 6gb of my storage was used for 'Photo's and camera*'. Which made me decide to delete al of my pictures, so right now I have no pictures left in my photo's app.
After I done this I again looked at the usage and saw that I still am using 4gb for 'Photo's and camera*', so my question is: 'How does it come that I have no pictures, but they still take 4gb of my storage?'
Sincerely Ingmar.
* note: I am Dutch so I translated Photo's and camera literally, it might be called different.

If you're talking about iCloud photo library, iPhoto does not support that, and cannot upload photos to it. Also, Apple has not yet provided the ability to upload photos to your iPhoto library by dragging and dropping them to your photos at iCloud.com yet (although it's been reported that they are starting to work with this on their beta site; see http://9to5mac.com/2014/11/06/icloud-photos-beta-upload/).
At the present time, you can only get them to iCloud photo library by adding them to a shared photo stream in iPhoto (see http://help.apple.com/iphoto/mac/9.6/#/phtf7fe6394), then opening the shared album on one of your iOS devices and saving the images to your device (tap Select, tap the images, tap the share icon, then tap Save Image). They should then automatically be added to your iCloud photo library.

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