Neat billboard ...
I don't approve Apple doing this worldwide, to gain "forced" attention, but still .. WOW.
Neat billboard ...
I don't approve Apple doing this worldwide, to gain "forced" attention, but still .. WOW.
Luckily for you Apple does read these forums and have taken your opinion into consideration, please give them 24-48 hrs to begin removing all ad placements from building, billboards, magazines and online to accommodate you.
I also don't care, but I think it has more to do with Apple promoting the iPhone. as something it isn't - professional quality camera.
No professional is selling their Nikon/Canon and relying solely on the iPhone.
That's not to say the iPhone can't take nice photos - particularly when you're using additional hardware (like extra lenses), and photoshopping/filtering the crap out of them.
But these photos really look good because the photographers understand how to control aperture, light, composition, lenses etc. The actual camera itself is not controlling those things. Any idiot with a hammer and chisel won't suddenly start sculpting statues like David.
I think that's why this campaign doesn't really sit right with me. Apple aren't really celebrating the skills of these photographers - they're instead trying to claim credit for those skills and sell the idea that 'you, too, can take photos like this if you just had an iPhone 6'. To me, that's just disrespectful and (I feel) a bit arrogant.
I think the photographers should be credited in the ads rather than just the camera.
But that's just my opinion. I'm sure the campaign will sell millions more phones.
This is just makerting ! Irony being apple has dropped the ball with it's photo editing software.
Give a photographer any smartphone and they will produce you amazing pictures, it's about composition and not the camera . All the current high end phones have the capability to produce these images in the right hands.
Just look at the pics that apple is promoting in this markerting campaign and what comes out of the iPhone 6, so much post processing, and composition composition composition....
Oh Jeez, somebody in the other thread predicted how far this lunacy would go. So the iPhone6 doesn't contain talent, so Apple shouldn't be allowed to show these picture? Come on, this is just nonsense. Take a look at the gallery on Apple's website. Every photo has commentary on what the photographer did to make it a great photo and none credit the phone.
And while you're there please find the photo that has had the crap photoshopped out of it. You can start by locating the one which has credit to 'Photoshop' in the list of apps.
The fact you don't acknowledge that the photographers ARE credited on every billboard shows that you want to be offended by this. Again, the website is celebrating the photographers. But take a look at advertising for all kinds of cameras. They all use photos taken by skilled photographers and nobody ever got upset or offended by it before. All the credited photographers will have given their permission for work to be used like this, and the ones I've seen offer any comment are delighted.
So? You can do great things with an iPhone. Should it be illegal to promote that message?
In two weeks:
"Samsung Launches Worldwide 'Shot on Galaxy S6' Ad Campaign Spanning Magazines, Billboards and More"
It surprises me that they managed to get iPhone JPEGs to print up to billboard size well. But then, you're looking at them from very far aware so I guess you wouldn't notice the low res image.
So what? The ads don't mention the competition. HTC can run their own ad if they want to.Give those same photographers a htc , nokia or Samsung , and the results would be just as impressive. Issue here is that the iPhone 6 does not have a camera that is so much better than the competition.
What you are missing here, you also do post processing of images after they are shot using apps. These images you see will have been pp in lightroom, ps etc, though since they are not apps on the iPhone , they are not listed. It's a markertng campaign for the iPhone and apps.
And it's just a smartphone camera , go ahead and take your best pic with your iPhone 6 and compare it with what apple is promoting, now ask yourself why your pic looks like crap, using the same phone and app?!!
Are the billboards that high-res anyway?
Are the billboards that high-res anyway?
What a pity Apple isn't also supporting photographers by continuing to produce professional level software.
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I also don't care, but I think it has more to do with Apple promoting the iPhone. as something it isn't - professional quality camera. . .
I also don't care, but I think it has more to do with Apple promoting the iPhone. as something it isn't - professional quality camera.
No professional is selling their Nikon/Canon and relying solely on the iPhone.
What a pity Apple isn't also supporting photographers by continuing to produce professional level software.