The iPPA 2016 awards were recently held, where the best iPhone photos of 2016 were announced, proving that the line between the quality of photos taken by smartphones and digital cameras has already completely blurred. Or as they say, the iPhone is like a pen. Good or bad, it just won't write the poem, the poet will. Sometimes all you need for a good photo is a sense of composition and a good eye. These iPhone photographers did it best this year.
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Meet creative director Huma Mobina and architect Arsalaan Sever Butt from Lahore, Pakistan, who got married seven months ago and absolutely love to travel. They dated for two years before they breathed their fateful 'yes', and were recently supposed to travel together on their second honeymoon, but her husband failed to get a visa for Greece in time, so Huma was forced to travel alone. She returned from her trip with a series of funny photos in which she mourns the absence of her husband and seemingly hugs him.
The world has evolved incredibly fast in the last 100 years, so it's almost hard to imagine how some things have changed in that time. Some cities have been "under the knife" countless times in recent decades and have become unrecognizable from the past. The most beautiful example is Dubai, which was more than a desert a decade and a half ago, but today it is one of the most vibrant cities in the world, where machines hum 24 hours a day and where the cityscape changes practically every day. But Dubai is far from an isolated case.
Some time ago, we wrote about the photographer Petar Adams-Shawn, who impressed with a series of wedding photos with reflections of the wedding in his eyes and wedding rings, and the young photographer from Belgrade, Dejan Stojančević, found a similar "market niche". In contrast to clichéd photos of city landmarks, he captures his subjects in the reflection of drops.
You know that sometimes you have to take a step back to see the bigger picture. Something similar applies to FatFeedZero's Instagram profile, which is adorned with aesthetic and seemingly random images, but when you look at the series from afar, you realize that each one is an important piece of the mosaic.
The scene at the scene of world attractions is identical everywhere. The tourists' cameras are facing the same direction. Well, only British photographer Oliver Curtis's camera, which photographs what's behind our backs, is pointed in the opposite direction, which no one pays too much attention to and which is often unfairly overlooked, even though it captures what gives it all its pulse. Check out Volte-face's interesting photo series.
Cape Town is a city of contrasts. With its cosmopolitan nature, it is indeed the most beleaguered tourist location in southern Africa, but despite all the glitz and beauty, we cannot ignore the huge gap that yawns between wealth and poverty. And it is much deeper from the air than from the street. See the incredible "discrepancy that is sometimes hard to see from a human perspective," as the drone photographer of the Unequal Scenes series, South African Johnny Miller, explains.
Spanish photographer Emilio Jiménez focuses on the female body in an evi costume in his series of photographs, "Anatomía natural, salvaje", whose intimate parts are covered by the shadows of leaves instead of a fig leaf.
A painting without composition is like soup without salt. Composition is the construction of a picture with the help of virtual lines and characters that support each other harmoniously for a perfect final result. It is a large area of photography that, unlike others, cannot be learned by heart. There are written and unwritten rules, such as the golden ratio, the rule of thirds, and the Fibonacci sequence, but these rules are there to be broken. Dirk Bakker combined his love of lines, patterns and shapes under the PhotoGraphic photo series, photographs of architecture with perfect composition.
Many fans wear t-shirts with the motifs of their idols, but only a few have the opportunity to meet them live. There are even fewer who meet them when they wear a t-shirt with their image or a t-shirt somehow related to them! Meet 10 people who wore the right shirt at the right moment. If this is not luck!
Did Filippo Ioco trick you too? If you strain your eyes a little more, you will realize that these photos are not only picturesque scenes of the landscape, but contain an "intruder" - a nag. The Swiss artist skilfully blended them with nature using paint, pigment, clay, mud and earth. So much so that you would not be ashamed to show these photos to your child.
In Podgarić, Croatia, Slovenian photographer Luke Paige captured two Slovenes skating on the Yugoslav monument to the revolution of the Moslavina nations, which was created by the sculptor Dušan Džamonija and which was discovered by Josip Broz - Tito himself in 1967. It symbolizes the wings of freedom, and skateboarders Jan Robek and Miha Miklavčič posed for Paige.