Posted on 03/01/2015 9:11:42 PM PST by Swordmaker
Apple tells us that it’s launching a new global advertising campaign called “Shot on iPhone 6.” Starting this week, billboards in 70 cities in 24 countries around the world will feature photos captured by iPhone 6 owners. 77 iPhone photographers will be featured in the campaign after Apple selected their images as its favorites.
The worldwide nature of this effort makes this possibly the largest mobile photo gallery ever put together, featuring the work of a group that spans a wide range of backgrounds, nationalities, ages, professions, cultures and photography experience.
The photographs in the campaign were not commissioned by Apple and captured by hired photographers. Instead, the company reviewed tens of thousands of photos published on the Web by iPhone 6 owners, eventually selecting a small set of them to feature worldwide.
The image above was shot by Renee M. in Union City, California. Apple was intrigued by the balance between shadows and light, which helps highlight subtle details such as the repeating footprints in the dirt.
Here are 20 of Apple’s favorite iPhone 6 photos, along with Apple’s rationale for selecting them:
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I'd tweak Apple users, but I'm not a dick.
Apple, Samsung, whatever, I am so impressed with the pictures taken by a device that thirty years ago was the size of a brick and only capable of phone calls.
That is completely apocryphal. I know that Glenn Beck repeated that canard, but it simply is not true.
Rob Janoff of Regis McKenna Advertising designed the logo with the apple representing, wait for it, an apple.
RJ: Well, I'm probably the least religious person, so Adam and Eve didn't have anything to do with it. The bite of knowledge sounds fabulous, but that's not it.And there is a whole lot of other lore about it. Turing the famous supposed father of computer science who committed suicide in the early 50's was british and was accused of being homosexual, which he was. He was facing a jail sentence so he committed suicide to avoid all that. So, I heard one of the legends being that the colored logo was an homage to him. People think I did the colored stripes because of the gay flag. And, that was something really thought for a long time. The other really cool part was that apparently he killed himself with a cyanide laced apple. And, then I found out Alan Turing's favorite childhood story was Snow White where she falls asleep forever afrer eating a poisoned apple to be woken up by the handsome prince.
Anyway, when I explain the real reason why I did the bite it's kind of a let down. But I'll tell you. I designed it with a bite for scale, so people get that it was an apple not a cherry. Also it was kind of iconic about taking a bite out of an apple. Something that everyone can experience. It goes across cultures. If anybody ever had an apple he has probably bitten into it and that's what you get.
It was after I designed it that my creative director told me: "Well you know, there is a computer term called byte". And I was like: "You're kidding!" So, it was like perfect, but it was coincidental that it was also a computer term. At the time I had to be told everything about basic computer terms. Source: Interview with Rob Janoff
An earlier Apple Computer logo featured Sir Isaac Newton under an apple tree. Photos of this early logo along with other photos of the evolution of Apple logos can be seen at Apple Logo Evolution, Think Marketing Magazine.
While the Turing link to the Apple logo makes for interesting conversation, it doesn’t appear to stand up under close examination. Nor would Steve Jobs have said he wished it had been created in honor of Turing. No one can seem to recall him saying it. I think it sounds like what an Anti-Apple crank would have put in his mouth.
Not according to all the reviews of the iPhone 6 and 6plus cameras. . . and inferior to what? The Galaxy 6S has not even been released for sale, so I think you are VERY unclear on the concept.
Certainly, but there was a thread not too long ago about professional photographers who have eschewed their DSLRs in favor of using their iPhones for the majority of their work. I went round and round with one of the posters who could just not get it through his head that any professional would ever use any cellular phone camera for ANY work at all, despite me linking to all these professionals' web pages and their photographs done on iPhones, including some who were Pulitzer Prize winners, who were DOING IT. He kept calling me a liar. . . despite the proof in front of his face. The article was on 26 professional photographers who were using iPhones. Some of those included a National Geographic pro, one who did a Time Magazine cover, and one who did sports photography. . . and he still insisted that no professional would ever use an iPhone for professional use.
But who ever said it was intended to convince people an iPhone's 8MP 1/3" sensor was the equivalent of a DSLR. . . but frankly, photographs taken with an iPhone have beaten the output of many DSLRs in photographic contests. Megapixels is not a measure of quality. . . as many Android users are learning to their dismay.
The measures of iPhone users around the world show they DO make phone calls. Sorry. Your assumptions are wrong from your limited observations are wrong.
If you were correct, the same observations would apply to all Android smartphones.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge Official Camera Samples Released
I love your assurance of something you so not have a clue about. . . based on the word of a foreign company operated by a convicted criminal. But that's OK. Use what you want.
They were saying that about the camera in the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. . . and Samsung sales BOMBED and Samsung's profits tanked. . . so much so that Samsung's share of the Cellular phone profits are now just 11%. And they have dropped to Number 4 in China and Apple has been able to grab 33% of the market share in South Korea, Samsung's and LG's home market. . . that's really impressive of Samsung's product performance.
You go first..........
I repeat megapixel count is not a quality comparison. . . it merely is a measurement of how large you can make prints. Quality has a lot more to do with the size of the sensor, the sizes of the pixels on the sensors, light gathering ability, speed of the processor to do all that. The speed of your vaunted S6 seems a tad slow, looking at the motion blur in this example:
interesting adjustable depth of view. . . but it makes for a POOR photo.
Really, Blue Highway, what those eight demonstration photographs tell me about Samsung is that they literally have no artistic taste. None at all. Every single photo is NOT one I would have selected to demonstrate the capabilities of my new camera. Poor subject matter, poor composition, poor lighting, and poor execution. No taste.
Pretty sure they are purposely going for motion blur and bokeh. If you know DSLR’s you will know digital cameras will not compare but they are getting better and the S5 and S6 is proof of that as seen in the 8 pictures.
The one of the person’s reflection with the red umbrella is great. My daughter has taken excellent photos with her i-phone, but she’s just got natural talent, her grandfather and great grandfather were professional photographers.
Bfl
My Dad was a camera buff. I remember he would haul around a camera bag filled with film, light meters, and his favorite Rolleiflex. Occasionally he’d ask me to hold the camera bag. The damn thing must have weighed 15 pounds.
He would have loved to see the amazing photos we can take today with a device weighing a few ounces and so small you can carry it in your pocket.
I guess I’m stuck with DSLRs such as the Lumix since the phone cameras are too light and I shake too much nowadays.
The smartphones will no doubt go a long way to ending the era of the DSLR.
I have a Galaxy and when I use the camera and get a clean image, I like what I get.
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