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Apple Announces Winners of Shot on iPhone Challenge

Apple today announced the 10 winners of its Shot on iPhone photography challenge that ran from January 22 to February 7.

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Dina Alfasi from Israel, shot on iPhone X

The winners are Alex Jiang, Blake Marvin, Elizabeth Scarrott, Andrew Griswold, Bernard Antolin, and LieAdi Darmawan from the U.S., Darren Soh from Singapore, Nikita Yarosh from Belarus, Dina Alfasi from Israel, and Robert Glaser from Germany. A variety of iPhones were used, from the iPhone 7 through iPhone XS Max.

Photos from the 10 winners will be featured on Apple billboards in select cities, in Apple retail stores, and on Apple's website and social media accounts. Each of the winners will receive a licensing fee from Apple.

Apple's international panel of judges included its marketing chief Phil Schiller alongside a group of Apple employees and well-known photographers Pete Souza, Austin Mann, Annet de Graaf, Luísa Dörr, Chen Man, Kaiann Drance, Brooks Kraft, Sebastien Marineau-Mes, Jon McCormack, and Arem Duplessis.


View all of the photos on the Apple Newsroom.

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Top Rated Comments

99 months ago
“Apple announces a contest where they don’t properly compensate the winners” would be a more accurate headline....

Do you people talk **** without doing any research at all?
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
macduke Avatar
99 months ago
Two of the ten photos are upside down shots of puddles.

Really.

Remember that for next time, kids.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
shamino Avatar
99 months ago
??? Almost all images are edited in some way. Why is that bad for a photography competition? Unless it is a strict journalistic contest I would expect editing.
The intent of the contest is "shot on iPhone", not "shot on iPhone and then edited to death with third-party software".

IMO, all editing should be done on-phone using only Apple-bundled software (like the Camera app). In other words, it should showcase what anybody could (theoretically) produce using just an iPhone.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
99 months ago
“Apple announces a contest where they don’t properly compensate the winners” would be a more accurate headline....
Let this go already. It was ridiculous from the start.
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chumps52 Avatar
99 months ago
“Apple announces a contest where they don’t properly compensate the winners” would be a more accurate headline....
They backtracked and have agreed to pay them now.
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/24/apple-shot-on-iphone-contest-payment/
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
willmtaylor Avatar
99 months ago
“Apple announces a contest where they don’t properly compensate the winners” would be a more accurate headline....
If you don’t like the terms, don’t play the game. Everyone knew what they were getting into. There was no deception—no bait and switch.

Whining about such a thing is akin to complaining about not getting a paycheck after volunteering.
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Do you people talk **** without doing any research at all?
Yes. Yes they do, in fact.
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