Photography

Hi everyone!

Today I went on a walk in a park and had a lot of fun trying to find interesting angles and subjects to snap a pic with my phone. I really loved walking around "with the eye of a photographer" and wanted to hear your recommendations on what would be a good first buy geared towards my interests. While the pictures were satisfactory from my OnePlus 12, I am aware that they would never rival the quality of bigger sensors/lenses.

I owned one DSLR back in the days but never got the interest of playing in the manual and semi-manual modes.

My ideal camera would be one relatively simple to operate but offering good specs that would make computer touch-ups (cropping, colours, balance, etc) as I think that my interest will be on detecting good capture opportunities more than finding optimal camera settings.

My guess is an entry level DSLR/mirrorless would be interesting to explore different lenses?

The products will probably be computer wallpapers (4k HDR screens) and I would love to prioritize the crispiness/resolution.

As I don't plan to do more than play with it from time to time, I am looking in the sub 1.5k $ area (new or used)

TL;DR: Looking for a worthwhile step-up from a cellphone to capture crisp wallpapers of nature/sceneries. +-1500$ new/used.