It’s starting to feel silly to point out: You no longer need a great dSLR to take a great picture. Still, we made you prove it. Here are the best entries from this week’s Shooting Challenge, cellphones.
https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-cellphone-redux-5963985
You know what’s the best part of these cellphone Shooting Challenges? The entries are so incredibly diverse. Even compared to a fairly open-ended technique or theme for dSLRs, everyone’s entry was surprising in some way-each capturing a slightly different angle on this infinitely faceted living jewel. I guess that’s the difference of taking photographs with a camera that’s always on you. Great shots. The full gallery is below, and they’re also available on flickr.
WINNER: LA Skyight
I caught this lightplosion on a morning hike through Griffith Park in Los Angeles. iPhone 5 and Instagram.
– David Freid
Random Effect Process
*Image of guy Shot with- iPhone 4S native camera.
*1st-Man sketched and painted in Sketchbook mobile
*2nd-Circle design in Sketchbook mobile and Percolator(with various effects till I felt it was done)
*3rd-Scratchcam for scratch effects
*4th-Snapseed to sharpen, grunge effect and crop
*5th-Blender to blend with circle design
Story: I saw the guy standing against a wall in a “model-ish” stance. Thought it was kind of funny, so I snuck a shot. I knew right then that I wanted to sketch the shot. I started the sketch and went through about 12 colour changes till I was done. Then proceeded with the random effect process above until my Fiance said it was good enough.
– Eddie Pearson
Australian Outback
Took this picture this morning on my iPhone 5 at work in the Australian Outback. Usually such a bright and vibrant environment, it’s unusual to see heavy cloud cover, so turning round from my work to see this approaching over a hillside was quite stunning. Edited it with Snapseed to bring a more desolate look to the overall scene.
– Ian Oliphant
Noir, Post-Badminton
So my friend and I had finished playing badminton at University of Guelph and we had left the building at like 11:10 pm. It was really foggy outside and my friend started taking pictures, I thought it would be funny if I stood beside a tree and tried to look like the slenderman but that didn’t happen. So I was about to leave with him until I saw one of the pictures he took(he used a htc phone with a 5 MP camera), it looked sick. So being the professional photographers we were, we started taking pictures in black and white, other modes were ok but B&W was the best. I had a couple of other pictures but I decided to use this one. I had my friend walk up the street and I took this picture.
I used a Samsung Galaxy S3 to shoot this. I didn’t use anything special, I used the following settings: Single shot, exposure value 0, auto focus, black and white, white balance auto, iso auto and metering centre-weighted.
– Manwinder Sidhu
Man In The Sky
I just visited Boston for the weekend and forced myself NOT TO take my DSLR to work on this challenge. As a result, I had a lot of photos to choose from and a lot of less weight to carry around, which was great; however, the iPhone camera still sucks for indoor low-light shots, so I did miss my T2i a bunch of times. I took this specific photo at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, in the contemporary art gallery. iPhone 5, edited in Camera+ for white balance.
– Diego Jimenez
Chase
Here’s a shot of the vibrant Mayan girl mural by Belgian graffiti artist Chase on Santa Monica’s quaint Main Street. Taken with an iPhone 4; processed with the stock iOS Camera app.
– Jeremy Brigden
Ancient Bloom
We have had the most miserable, wet and windy week here in the Bay Area. Yesterday, in a brief interval between downpours, I went to assess the damage done to my roses. To my amazement only a few bushes
had been banged about so I cut the blooms and brought them inside and I got the idea to arrange the fallen petals in the shape of a flower. I took the photo with my iPhone 4 and used Camera Awesome to edit. A little Cowbell and the Slide Filter sent my creation back in time and then the Freshman Frame made a nice finishing touch.
– Georgina Lawrence
WINNER (uncropped): LA Skyight
I caught this lightplosion on a morning hike through Griffith Park in Los Angeles. iPhone 5 and Instagram.
– David Freid
You know what’s the best part of these cellphone Shooting Challenges? The entries are so incredibly diverse. Even compared to a fairly open-ended technique or theme for dSLRs, everyone’s entry was surprising in some way—each capturing a slightly different angle on this infinitely faceted living jewel. I guess that’s the difference of taking photographs with a camera that’s always on you. Great shots. The full gallery is below, and they’re also available on flickr.
