Anyone with a smartphone can be an amazing photographer, because a person takes a photo, not a camera. Proof of this is the largest photography competition in the world, the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards, where this year we also found the mobile phone category for the first time. The winner was chosen by people's votes on the website of the World Photography Organization WPO, and you can find out which photo received the most votes below.
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German photographer Dieter Klein chose an interesting subject for his photo series. He is looking for "natural" car cemeteries around the world, places where people have laid their cars to rest and are now overgrown or merged with the environment. Fascinating.
It is a mistake to believe that a better camera will automatically make a better photo. The latter is created by the photographer, not the camera. This is only a tool to achieve the goal, so it is far from everything depending on expensive equipment. In photography, therefore, there are some golden commandments that cannot be replaced by any solutions that manufacturers try to create shortcuts to quality. One such is the composition, which often decides whether a photo deserves a place in the album or not. Mastering the basic rules of composition in photography is therefore one of the prerequisites for creating good photos. And here are some tips.
Matthias Jung is a designer who, with the help of surreal collages, conjures up a fantasy world dominated by structurally completely impossible houses.
Photos taken at just the right moment can be the result of planned preparation or sheer coincidence. Namely, during the search for the ideal moment that will make the photo something special, often not only knowledge and technique are at play, because in addition to your knowledge, instinct and finger on the trigger, there is also some luck involved. We have collected a bunch of such unique "snaps" in the photo gallery.
Alex de Mora is a photographer who prefers to put people over the age of 60 in front of his lens, as he finds older people much more interesting than younger models. Let's take a look at his latest project, which shows what our generation will look like when they retire, or what the retirees of the future will be like.
Digital artist Anil Saxena, like many others before him, somehow took to Photoshop before publishing his photos. But he did not become there simply because of retouching or processing, better cut, etc., but for creating surrealistic scenes. And the following exuberant photo manipulations were created.
Apple wants you to know that its iPhone 6 smartphone is a legitimate competitor in the field of professional photography, so as part of the "Shot on iPhone 6" campaign, it has published a series of the best photos taken with the iPhone 6, with which it wants to promote the quality of its camera . And indeed, if anyone ever doubted the quality of the photos that the iPhone 6 is capable of taking, Apple definitely shut his mouth with this. Actually opened, because the scenes are absolutely stunning.
Photographs of the world from a bird's eye view show the world in a completely different light. Pieces of the world seem like wallpaper patterns, like a tapestry, like some organism under a microscope. Yes, the bird's-eye view world is a world unto itself, giving wings to our flight fantasies. And when we watch such aerial shots, we immediately become real Birdmen.
The World Photography Organization has announced its shortlist of winning photos for this year's 2015 Sony World Photography Awards. This year's photo show broke the record, as no fewer than 173,444 outstanding photos from 171 different countries were submitted. See the best photos selected by Sony World Photography.
As a photographer, American artist Blake Little has captured quite a few of the world's most famous faces. Finally, he decided on a more experimental photography – namely, he played with the human body as a medium that forms when the skin comes into contact with a certain substance. Blake Little chose between, adding a "sweet sculptural" photo series, Preservation, to his portfolio.
When true panic reigned in New York at the end of January due to the forecast of snowstorm Juno, Slovenian photographer Jaka Vinšek walked all night through the snowy metropolis. While people preferred to stay warm, he captured magical moments of peace, which are otherwise so rare for the loud streets of the city that never sleeps.











