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2016 iPhone Photography Award Winners Prove Again Amazing Photos Can Be Taken Without Expensive Camera
Think that you need a fancy camera to take a good picture? EHHH WRONG! Turns out an iPhone is enough to shock people with your sick photography skills, and the winners from the 2016 iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) can prove so.
Just recently, the 9th Annual IPPAWARDS ended, and the winners have been announced. From simple landscape photos to photos of adorable animals - all of them are absolutely amazing. Take a look for yourselves below.
If you enjoyed this article and would like to see more great photos taken with an iPhone, check out the winners of the 2014 IPPAWARDS.
More info: ippawards.com
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#1
Erica Wu From San Francisco Ca, United States, 1st Place, Animals
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#2
Fugen Xiao From Guangdong, China, 1st Place, Travel
#3
Yongmei Wang From Chongqing, China, 2nd Place, Sunset
#4
Siyuan Niu From Xinjiang, China, Grand Prize Winner
#5
Junbiao Cai From Guangdong, China, 3rd Place, Animals
Rob LeBlanc 8 years ago
If you defocus your eyes, it looks like many black and white people holding hands. :)
#6
Jian Wang From Beijing, China, 1st Place, Architecture
#7
Shiyang Han From Beijing, China, 3rd Place, Travel
#8
Xia Zhenkai From Guangdong, China, 1st Place, People
#9
Robin Robertis From Carlsbad Ca, United States, 2nd Place
#10
Junfeng Wang From Shanghai, China, 1st Place, Nature
#11
Lone Bjorn From Zurich, Switzerland, 1st Place, Flowers
#12
Victor Kintanar From Cebu City, Philippines, 1st Place, Trees
#13
Jinsong Hu From Kunming, China, 3rd Place, Abstract
#14
Nazaret Sanchez Rodriquez From Tarragona, Spain, 2nd Place, Landscape
Eva Pištejová 8 years ago
This is Trollstigen, Norway. Probably guy what took a photo is from Spain:)
#15
Junfeng Wang From Shanghai, China, 1st Place, Nature
#16
Nick Ryan From Sydney, Australia, 1st Place, Sunset
#17
Rithwik V.j From Tamil Nadu, India, 3rd Place, Lifestyle
#18
Andrew Montgomery From Hampton Wick, United Kingdom, 1st Place, Food
#19
K.k From Changsha, China, 1st Place, Children
#20
Elaine Taylor From United Kingdom, 1st Place, Portrait
#21
Wen Qi From Guangdong, China, 1st Place, Still Life
#22
Yuki Cheung From Hong Kong, 1st Place, Lifestyle
#23
Patryk Kuleta From Warsaw, Poland, 1st Place, Photographer Of The Year
Paul Morrin 8 years ago
may shed some light if you check out instagram : https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/modern_cathedrals/
#24
Carolyn Mara Borlenghi From Florida, United States, 3rd Place, Photographer Of The Year
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c smith 8 years ago
These are wonderful, but the iphone is hundreds and hundreds of dollars, how is that not an expensive camera?
Catalina Ioan 8 years ago
I think the point was that great photography can be done regardless of equipment, and these awards value talent in composition, a good eye, etc., over strict image quality given by expensive lenses. Also, to be fair, the iPhone may be expensive, but the camera in it is not (in terms of quality), it's still a phone camera (even if it's a decent one at that).
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Amanda Panda 8 years ago
Most of these are using a filter of some kind, its pretty obvious. I have an iphone and you don't get the majority of those effects without some kind of filter or editing. Great pics though.
Levente Krisztián Büte 8 years ago
Photographers edit their picture, so it's not a big deal. Sometimes you need some extra contrast to make the pictures more alive or to enforce what you want to express with the final piece. However the point of this post is that you should know how to take pictures even if you have a potato (thirds, golden ratio, etc). The basics of composing are important everywhere, so the editing is not that important, but sometimes cropping helps for example.
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c smith 8 years ago
These are wonderful, but the iphone is hundreds and hundreds of dollars, how is that not an expensive camera?
Catalina Ioan 8 years ago
I think the point was that great photography can be done regardless of equipment, and these awards value talent in composition, a good eye, etc., over strict image quality given by expensive lenses. Also, to be fair, the iPhone may be expensive, but the camera in it is not (in terms of quality), it's still a phone camera (even if it's a decent one at that).
Load More Replies... Amanda Panda 8 years ago
Most of these are using a filter of some kind, its pretty obvious. I have an iphone and you don't get the majority of those effects without some kind of filter or editing. Great pics though.
Levente Krisztián Büte 8 years ago
Photographers edit their picture, so it's not a big deal. Sometimes you need some extra contrast to make the pictures more alive or to enforce what you want to express with the final piece. However the point of this post is that you should know how to take pictures even if you have a potato (thirds, golden ratio, etc). The basics of composing are important everywhere, so the editing is not that important, but sometimes cropping helps for example.
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