iPhone Photography Awards Highlight Best Images of 2024

Every year, the iPhone Photography Awards (IPPA) selects the best photographs captured with an ‌iPhone‌, and the 2024 award winners were announced today. Many of this year's winning images were taken with Apple's most recent iPhone 15 models.

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The grand prize image features a boy at an aquarium, with the photo shot in black and white using an ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro Max.

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The first place image includes a group of swimmers at a lifeguard camp from an ‌iPhone‌ 11 Pro Pro Max, while the second place image features children in Cambodia shot on an ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro.

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There are also winners across a number of categories, including abstract, animals, architecture, children, cityscape, landscape, lifestyle, nature, people, portrait, series, still life, travel, and other. All of the winning images can be viewed on the IPPA website.

IPPA has been running the ‌iPhone‌ Photography Awards since 2007, and 2024 marks the 17th annual competition. The contests are open to ‌iPhone‌ and iPad users worldwide, and images can be edited with iOS apps. It is worth noting that it costs money to send in a photo, but Apple devices are provided as prizes.

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Top Rated Comments

diego.caraballo Avatar
9 months ago
MacRumors gallery is filled with so much better pictures.
Some of the winners are heavily-edited shots...




And others are...I don't how to describe them...



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frownface Avatar
9 months ago

And others are...I don't how to describe them...
You just don't understand art, man. *sips latte*

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Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ds2000 Avatar
9 months ago
I’m not sure if the forum will wreck the quality of these, but they were taken using RAW on my 14 Pro, then the details found in Lightroom.

No fancy lenses, no special lighting, just capturing my girls living out their lives on our vacation. These cameras are an absolute gift to us all.

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citysnaps Avatar
9 months ago
What this shows is great photography comes from the photographer and his/her life experiences, imagination, ability to see, ability to assess the quality of light, ability to compose, recognizing potential narratives that a viewer might conjure, skill, and determination. And very little to do with what camera one chooses to use. Too many people focus on the latter, rather than the former.

iPhones are great cameras in the right hands.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Love-hate ? relationship Avatar
9 months ago
Aren't these quite heavily photoshopped?
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newton4000 Avatar
9 months ago
As someone who photographs mostly in BW, that BW winner is just horrendous. Firstly, there is nothing interesting about the composition - this is an easy enough shot to get at any Aquarium. Second, the processing and everything about it is horrendous. Yes, this is about taste, and some things like HDR are to each his own taste, but I just can't see anybody thinking this is a good image?
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