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Apple Announces iPhone 11 Night Mode Photo Challenge

Blackstick said:
Love a good photo contest, but the fishermen/cormorant pic is a tourist attraction and has been done to death.
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I haven't seen it much myself, and anyhow I quite like the picture.

I'm not really down with the whole cynicism thing, but whatever floats your boat.
 
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dapa0s said:
At least they offered a reward this year, unlike last time...
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I get your point but a "reward" is not the best term. Perhaps providing the winners with a justified fee as is morally correct better describes Apple's "generous" action.
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dapa0s said:
ugh, the richest company on the planet can't afford to pay $10k to winners for their photos? That they will later use for marketing? Really?

That was the problem last year, and people were rightfully outraged.
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Right on. You notice that they say they will pay a "licensing fee" but do not give a figure or even a range of remuneration. They are vague and not committal to monetary values in most of their donations etc. There have been exceptions but not too many. Be upfront Apple and state $$ figures and then let the public judge how it feels about your generosity.
 
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dapa0s said:
ugh, the richest company on the planet can't afford to pay $10k to winners for their photos? That they will later use for marketing? Really?

That was the problem last year, and people were rightfully outraged.
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Do you have inside knowledge regarding Apple's licensing fee that will be paid to the winner?
 
I wish they would allow it with the ultra wide lens... coming from a S10, I actually do miss that.
 
I know I will not win with this picture, but I do not live in a very big city, so I took this off my condo balcony. Just a shot of the part of the city that I can see from my balcony.

I will have to come up with something different if I want a chance.

Still a nice picture in my opinion.

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Effectively unpaid labor for Apple, a lottery of sorts to win publicity, no better than Facebook and Google collecting your personal data.
 
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Blackstick said:
Love a good photo contest, but the fishermen/cormorant pic is a tourist attraction and has been done to death.
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OMG the moment I saw this shot I thought the same. First time I saw Trey Ratcliff do it I said "cool unusual shot" and then 100 more people did the same photo. I finally got it that it's the same guy in the same boat and birds over and over and over. Is this a photo tourist thing?
 
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Blackstick said:
Definitely a chicken/egg problem. Less people buy cameras ever year, so there’s less investment into it, while everyone buys phones, and when they buy a new phone it’s almost always for the better camera. Sony/Fuji/Nikon/Canon feel like Apple and Samsung will eat their lunch anyway, so even if they ship an awesome camera hardware wise, why bother improving the software. Case in point, the menu systems and touch interfaces (or lack thereof) for almost all these brands. Can you imagine how much better the A7Riv could be if Apple’s image processing team could get ahold of that 61MP sensor and could work directly with the team making the optics?! Holy cow
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Doesn't Samsung sell the 108MP sensor they produced?
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Burebista said:
And the SE 2 is being released a week or two later. Coincidence?

I’d say sounds more like a prolonged marketing campaign.
(Timmy’s cringy voice)
“Our customers looove the Night mode. Just look at all these amAAzing pictures! And now we bring this incredible feature to even more people for only...399!”.
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and in your cringy voice you are ascertaining that it is wrong for companies to market their products? I am damn tired of seeing Pixel commercials showing a Nebula from space that can't be seen with the naked eye, but maybe you can see it with the Pixel 4? Interesting!
 
Night photography is my favorite type of shooting on a DSLR (you can see some examples here). It has taken me years to get half way decent at it, using the proper settings, lenses, tripod, remote shutter release, etc. It will be interesting to see what people can do with a point and shoot, looking forward to the results.
 
ericgtr12 said:
Night photography is my favorite type of shooting on a DSLR (you can see some examples here). It has taken me years to get half way decent at it, using the proper settings, lenses, tripod, remote shutter release, etc. It will be interesting to see what people can do with a point and shoot, looking forward to the results.
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Looked at your work, in a word excellent! I also shoot a lot in SF, (mostly with my phone over the last few years) - it never gets old!
 
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citysnaps said:
Looked at your work, in a word excellent! I also shoot a lot in SF, (mostly with my phone over the last few years) - it never gets old!
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Thanks! It’s such a beautiful subject, isn’t it? Would love to see some of your shots if you want to share.
 
We'll see some amazing photos. But it's extremely low cost marketing. The reward is enough to get interest but not pique the interest of the hardcore professional.
 
Blackstick said:
Definitely a chicken/egg problem. Less people buy cameras ever year, so there’s less investment into it, while everyone buys phones, and when they buy a new phone it’s almost always for the better camera. Sony/Fuji/Nikon/Canon feel like Apple and Samsung will eat their lunch anyway, so even if they ship an awesome camera hardware wise, why bother improving the software. Case in point, the menu systems and touch interfaces (or lack thereof) for almost all these brands. Can you imagine how much better the A7Riv could be if Apple’s image processing team could get ahold of that 61MP sensor and could work directly with the team making the optics?! Holy cow
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EXACTLY!


Truly refreshing to read from someone that understands exactly where I'm coming from. The menus on 99% of the cameras out there are horrendous. Sony's silicon+ecosystem, matched with Canon's color science, paired with Nikon ergonomics, attached to Fuji's design elements (mainly real, easy to use physical buttons) = the best camera everyone would buy.
 
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Digital Skunk said:
EXACTLY!


Truly refreshing to read from someone that understands exactly where I'm coming from. The menus on 99% of the cameras out there are horrendous. Sony's silicon+ecosystem, matched with Canon's color science, paired with Nikon ergonomics, attached to Fuji's design elements (mainly real, easy to use physical buttons) = the best camera everyone would buy.
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Unfortunately, with the capability of today's smartphone cameras, that ship has sailed. Outside of obvious edge cases, of course.
 
I got a chance to play with long exposures on my wife's iPhone 11 last night (I'm still using the X) and it's promising. I'm going out to Napa to get shots of the balloons at night on my DSLR this weekend but am also going to play with this, the biggest thing is being able to hold still for several seconds but I will try to prop it and be hands off.
 
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