Great photos, also remember to take videos. We cherish the videos we have of our kids at younger age and have watched those regularly over the years.
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iPhone Photography Awards Highlight Best Images of 2024
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Woah, did I miss something? When did 'Grand Prize' (>1st Place) become a thing? That's well Spinal Tap.
Apple needs to make an iPhone Ultra, where the camera alone costs Apple $1000 to make, and the whole phone itself has to be sold for $5,000. Market it to photography and videography professionals, but really it'd be the ultimate status symbol and wishlist for 90% of teens and young people in the country. Spending $5,000 on a phone would be the ultimate flex. Still keep the Pro and regular phones around at the same price range they are now, with the Pro phones still having among top of class camera.
I do too, lots of live photos.
I'm upgrading the phone this year to capture the Depth videos as well. When the Apple headset, or other headsets can play them back I can only imagine the joy at seeing them so little and being transported back to that exact moment.
I was absolutely baffled at that photo. It sucks. It looks like it was posted on Facebook by your aunt after the child in the photo showed her how to add post processing in a free iOS app. What a shameful selection for winner.
Edit to say, many of the winning photos in this competition are great. I love them. But the grand prize winner and the first place in the Animals category are just bonkers. They’re so over processed they look like absolute amateur photoshop junk and this organization chose this trash? Unreal.
Look at the first place photo for Animals. It had such an insanely boosted Clarity that you see are dark border around all the animals and it looks terrible. I hate this.
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Damn I would have participated for sure! I took some really neat photos in the last year.
Here's one that's a bit boring but I like it because it would have been really hard capturing with a DSLR. Took it with my 14 Pro.
Here's one that's a bit boring but I like it because it would have been really hard capturing with a DSLR. Took it with my 14 Pro.
Let's add Fan Ho to that list: https://petapixel.com/2014/08/25/fa...-white-street-photography-of-1950s-hong-kong/
These are infinitely better than the "winners". The editing on those are atrocious.
Absolutely. I knew Fan Ho being in the SF Bay Area and have one of his books. Years ago at a gallery reception of his I was lucky to have made an impromptu portrait of him.
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Years ago, before Avedon passed away in 2004, I saw an In the American West exhibition at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center. I was blown away by his portraits - they were huge (maybe 4-6' in height?) attached to a metal backing. And were incredibly engaging. From that I eventually found a used copy of his book In the American West.
It was that exhibition and book that moved me to wanting to hit up random strangers in San Francisco, in different neighborhoods, for some conversation and making a couple of portraits. I haven't counted them, but I'd guess I have around a thousand of them.
Hard to say anything positive about these shots. So over-processed it’s laughable. Absolutely No compositional skills. They certainly do nothing to promote the photography attributes of an iPhone. I enter many international photo competitions (and have won or placed in several) and these would not even get past round 1.They are bordering on embarrassing.
I've started taking Spatial Videos occasionally, especially of my kid. I don't have an Apple Vision Pro and have no plans to get one -- but I could see in the future being glad I have some moments from her younger years captured this way.
In response to all of the unfortunate negative comments up above...
I applaud anyone going out with their camera, especially with an iPhone (the only camera I use today), and making photographs.
Hat tip to all who entered the competition - you're all winners in my book and have my respect!
I applaud anyone going out with their camera, especially with an iPhone (the only camera I use today), and making photographs.
Hat tip to all who entered the competition - you're all winners in my book and have my respect!
The black and white photo is amazing to me because it looks like an illustration pulled from a textbook or children's storybook from the 60s or 70s. There is nothing digitally photographic about it except that it couldn't be accomplished any other way. The composition is also great. We cannot see the boy's expression but that does not stop us from seeing it in our mind's eye. We know exactly what is going on in the photo because it looks both familiar and otherworldly at the same time. It's not particularly beautiful nor intricate but does convey a lot of life. Not sure if it deserves a grand prize, but I didn't judge all of the photos so I'm in no position to place them in any kind of order.
Well it is a sign of bad tone to judge someone’s photo style but thats definitely not my cup of beer. Maybe there is some hidden meaning which I don’t get right, I dunno.
There are so many talented people posting their shots on Macrumors in monthly photos thread and even here in the comments, somehow Apple unfortunately does not lurk here to chose their shots
There are so many talented people posting their shots on Macrumors in monthly photos thread and even here in the comments, somehow Apple unfortunately does not lurk here to chose their shots
For that price it must be Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in California
Literally this🤣
Slap an Instagram filter, here you go as a winner of Apple contest
Lewis Hine belongs in there somewhere, probably next to Dorothea Lange.