Why is my iPhone photo library so big?

I am trying to make space on my phone to take photos at an event this weekend. I went in and deleted nearly all of the photos in my library, everything off my photo stream, then went to the 'deleted photos' and did "delete all." I currently have 17 photos in my Camera Roll, 31 in My Photo Stream, 1 video that is 2:20 long, and 0 Recently Deleted. This shouldn't take up that much space, but when I go to Manage Storage, it tells me that "Photos & Camera" is using 4.1GB of storage: 4.1 GB in Photo Library, 30.3 MB in My Photo Stream and 5.7 MB in Shared Photo Stream.
How can 17 photos take up 4.1 GB?? What's going on here and how can I fix it??

If you have already emptied the Recently Deleted album,and still have phantom photos, check this post:
Have a look at this solution: There are apparently more users suffering from phantom photos that cannot be deleted: Changing the date makes the photos in "Recently deleted" visible again:
txforeverMar 5, 2015 6:38 PM Re: More photos in settings than photos app shows
Re: More photos in settings than photos app showsin response to morganfaith6
I managed to get rid of the phantom usage. Restoring iPhone and resetting the phone settings/data do not work for me.
I had to move the Date on my phone earlier by 1,2,3 months and found the phantom photos in the Recently Deleted Folder. Next, I deleted the photos manually from the Recently Deleted Folder and the usage got freed up from my iPhone.

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