Responding to the outrage from the artistic community after it announced the "Shot on iPhone Challenge" contest earlier this week, Apple's now confirmed that ten winning photographers will indeed be compensated for their work.
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Fuzion for iPhone boosts your portraiture photography with double exposure effects
With Fuzion, anyone can create double exposure effects effortlessly.
Apple announces ‘Shot on iPhone’ contest
Apple today announced the 'Shot on iPhone Challenge,' inviting iPhone users from around the globe to submit their best shots for a chance to be featured on billboards, in retail stores and online. Submissions will be accepted from January 22 to February 7, and Apple says a panel of judges will be selecting 10 winning photos.
Google Photos now lets you adjust bokeh blur and focal point of your Portrait mode shots
Some cool new features are coming to Google Photos for iOS, including Portrait mode bokeh editing and changing the focal point of the blur, as well as leaving the subject of your photograph in color whilst changing the background to black and white.
Why iPhone XR captures way better low-light portraits than iPhone XS
Portrait photography on iPhone XR yields surprisingly good results in some low light situations where it’s unusable on the costlier iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max devices.
DxOMark on iPhone XS camera: “very reliable overall” & “consistently delivering good results”
DxOMark last week published their full-on review of the iPhone XS camera. We originally skipped it because DxOMark scores can be very misleading or just meaningless, but have decided to pull some choice quotes that best describe why, in many areas, Apple's new flagship phone offers noticeable improvements over last year’s iPhone X.
How to enable or disable HDR camera settings on your iPhone
In this tutorial, we will share how to adjust the HDR (high dynamic range) settings for your iPhone camera. You can choose to turn it on so your iPhone can take better shots in high-contrast situations or turn it off if you prefer that.
iPhone XS camera enhances your vertical panoramas with uniform exposure & focus
If you take panoramic images, especially vertical panoramas, you're going to digg the improved cameras on the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max smartphones. According to travel photographer Austin Mann, vertical panos taken with these latest Apple smartphones retain focus uniformly across the shot and no longer suffer from exposure issues.
Apple’s first-look video showcases iPhone Xs video recording improvements
Apple's official YouTube channel yesterday released a first-look video offering a glimpse of camera and computational photography improvements made possible by the nearly 10x faster Neural engine in its industry-first 7-nanometer A12 Bionic system-on-a-chip.
Customize the Camera app in iOS 11 with Shutter
Photography is a common interest among iPhone owners, and that’s why Apple packs a capable hardware and software package inside of every handset. Nevertheless, iOS’ stock Camera app could still do with some improvements.
Enter a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed Shutter by iOS developer Jbrownllama. This tweak provides an extensive list of options that let the user customize their Camera app to their liking.
LightsOn enables Portrait Lighting mode on the iPhone 7 Plus
If you have an iPhone X or 8 Plus, then you might be familiar with the Portrait Lighting feature that Apple conveniently bundled into your handset’s stock Camera app. It applies professional lighting effects to your photo subject with the help of your device’s dual camera setup and powerful processor.
The iPhone 7 Plus also sports a dual camera setup and a powerful processor, but Apple uses software to limit Portrait Lightning to the iPhone X and 8 Plus. Fortunately, a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed LightsOn by iOS developer Voltized can fix that.
Tim Cook highlights the 2018 iPhone Photography Award winners
Eleven years ago, Apple created the iPhone Photography Awards. The 2018 iPhone Photography Award winners have now been announced. Not surprisingly, the images are beautiful and inspiring and show great detail.