Photos from the winners of the eighth annual iPhone Photography Awards have been posted on the IPPA website, offering a look at some of the best pictures captured with an iPhone over the course of the past year.
As in previous years, the photos feature a range of different subjects, from people to landscapes to animals. This year's first place photo, by Michal Koralewski from Poland, depicts a man playing traditional Polish songs on an accordion.
The second place photo is an impressively clear image of a bird in flight, while the third place winner features a couple on a train. According to the contest, all photos were taken with an iPhone, and photo editing with apps like Instagram and VSCO was permitted.
Along with the top three winners, IPPA also chooses winning photographs from several different categories, including animals, architecture, children, flowers, food, landscapes, nature, panorama, and more. The image below, taken in Cairo, took the top slot in the "Travel" category.
Apple's iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, and iPhone 5 continue to rank as the three most popular cameras on photo sharing site Flickr, which is no surprise given the quality of the images that can be captured with the phones. Apple continually improves the picture quality in its iPhones, and rumors have suggested that the upcoming iPhone 6s could include the biggest camera jump yet.
Photos from all of the winners of the 2015 iPhone Photography Awards can be found on the IPPA website. The site is also now accepting entries for the 2016 awards.
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Just appreciate the picture and stop thinking about it too much. :rolleyes:
Supporters of post-production argue that it's not much different to using analogue filters or customising the development procedure to enhance or minimise certain traits such as highlights and shadows or colour reproduction. There was always a great deal of flexibility in the days of film be it film types with different properties, cross processing or even double exposure just to name a few.
I'm inclined to accept the fact that digital enhancement is just something that will always exist in modern photography, however I also strongly believe that capturing the best possible image in the first instance will always produce the best results and that you can't really fake a good picture in post.
There's a calculation you can do to find the optimum viewing distance, it's something to do with the diagonal of the image, never used it!
(This is all the stuff they taught me at college 25+ years ago so it may have changed!)