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Apple Reveals iPhone 11 Night Mode Photo Challenge Winners
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Pretty amazing shots, makes me want to upgrade to a new phone
I was happy with my XS, even with it's "sorta night mode," until I saw what the 11 is actually capable of.
I've yet to make a photograph where there was not some post-processing involved.
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For sure on that!
Pretty amazing shots, makes me want to upgrade to a new phone
I guess that's the whole point of the contest 😏
Nothing was missed. Those are the home bases for the photographers, not the locations of the photos.
Gotta say, I shoot a lot of night long exposure on my Fuji X100F with a tripod as a hobby, and the latest iPhones go pound for pound. It’s insane what computational photography can do.
I have an iPhone 8 Plus now and after looking at these phots I want to upgrade. What was a turnoff for me before was the slow lightning port on the new iPhones.
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Depends on where one considers the line to be drawn, since the iPhone's camera is pretty heavily in the realm of computational photography already.
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Just imagine what the next iPhone will be capable of doingPretty amazing shots, makes me want to upgrade to a new phone
It's amusing to skim down the comments and see all the confusion over the location - I scrolled through the photos, noticed that the locations looked implausible, and quickly surmised they were where the locations of the photographers, not the photos - it was the only other explanation that made sense.
In other news, three of six are from Moscow - if Russia follows through with its demands that all smartphones ship with Russian government-mandated software on them, and Apple responds by withdrawing from the market, I wonder how that will affect such photographers.
In other news, three of six are from Moscow - if Russia follows through with its demands that all smartphones ship with Russian government-mandated software on them, and Apple responds by withdrawing from the market, I wonder how that will affect such photographers.
The interesting thing, here, is that even with a great dedicated camera, shots like these are rather involved to set up and would typically involve longer exposures times and blending multiple exposures, in addition to some considerable post processing (to, in the hands of a professional, a superior result—provided the subject itself allows for all this fuss, which isn't always the case). Which is to say, manually doing a lot of what the iPhone is doing behind the scenes.
Night mode really is very impressive.
And one thing I appreciate about Apple's implementation over some similar solutions to the same problem, which already existed (e.g. from Google), is that Apple's processing is doing more than largely ramping up the exposure to turn elements of the dark into a more daylight scene; their processing is taking far more steps to honor the ambiance of the nighttime scene.
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iPhone 8 doesn't support this mode.
I expect a potential iPhone SE2/iPhone 9 product (rumored for end of March) will have an A13 chip...but do I understand correctly that Night Mode requires the wide-angle lens to collect more light? Assuming the new budget phone has just one camera lens, then, I guess I should expect it to NOT support Night Mode.
Yes, they did. Explicitly: “Users are invited to share their impressive Night mode images captured with iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max.”
Why would they have a Night Mode photo contest with iPhones that don’t have Night Mode?
I’m not impressed. Sry. Maybe they would’ve been better with Night Mode.
Great shots, however I'm very skeptical of the people in the distance on that Rubén P. Bescós (Pamplona, Navarra, Spain), iPhone 11 Pro Max shot. They look too clean, almost like concept art when you zoom in and see how well the lines flow between all the animals and people. Some of the cloth reacting to what appears to be wind in the scene seem inconsistent in the direction it's blowing (Flag poles, tail hair, body position as if moving against strong winds, etc.)
The poles they are carrying are a little strangely designed, as that they're all connected. I'd be curious to know what that culture uses that type of pole design for if so. A couple of the hands holding these poles don't look well lined up to actually be holding them. If the person was holding them at their finger tips, that may make some sense but given the strong wind ques and the odd riccity structure of the connected pole design makes me skeptical of managing such a pole with finger tip style grip.
The proportions of 9th character looks very stylized in the legs, almost Disney like.
The mass of the second 3rd donkey/animal is missing a head. Maybe it happened to be low, stretching when shot though.
Perhaps this one got accidentally submitted?
All great shots! This one just looked a little too suspect in the object(s).
EDIT: As pointed out below, I need to improve my reading comprehension skills. This was a shot of an art installation. Thanks Spacetime Anomaly https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...photo-challenge-winners.2225373/post-28257040
The poles they are carrying are a little strangely designed, as that they're all connected. I'd be curious to know what that culture uses that type of pole design for if so. A couple of the hands holding these poles don't look well lined up to actually be holding them. If the person was holding them at their finger tips, that may make some sense but given the strong wind ques and the odd riccity structure of the connected pole design makes me skeptical of managing such a pole with finger tip style grip.
The proportions of 9th character looks very stylized in the legs, almost Disney like.
The mass of the second 3rd donkey/animal is missing a head. Maybe it happened to be low, stretching when shot though.
Perhaps this one got accidentally submitted?
All great shots! This one just looked a little too suspect in the object(s).
EDIT: As pointed out below, I need to improve my reading comprehension skills. This was a shot of an art installation. Thanks Spacetime Anomaly https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...photo-challenge-winners.2225373/post-28257040
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It's is a photo of a monument (metal statues of pilgrims).
Ahhh! Yes, I should have read more careully. An art installation. I'm happy to be incorrect here! Thank you!
I will admit my Halloween shots this year weren't great. :-/
The option to email in your photos specifically asked your phone model. Software can add "Night Mode" but I did not use any software on my pics. imagine them if I had an 11 Pro with Night Mode.
The first picture in this thread seems VERY basic to my non-professional eyes ... then again if taking in Kupol then damn this iPhone 11 series can really perform in the extreme cold!
Yeah, I've done back comparison between my X and the wife's 11 Pro, it's not in the same ballpark.
Hahaha, nice, +10 internet points for you
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Oh man, I would've loved to have had the Pro 11 for this Halloween (we go all out, made a huge, motor driven ghost this year over the main graveyard). My photos were __ok__.