Thank you to everyone who participated in our weekly iPhone photography contest. This week’s theme was “Abstract” and we had over 750 amazing images submitted. The quality of entries was absolutely superb, which made it very difficult to select just 30 winners. After much deliberation, here are the 30 winning abstract iPhone photos that show wonderful creativity.
Hillary Morin
Adrian Werner
Antonio Camacho
Basith Al Naasar
Chris Baird
Dan Kafalas
Daniela Gualtieri
Dariusz Sobiecki
David Popkin
Deena Berton
Evelyne Sieber
Gunnar Hägg
Holly Schultz
Inna Klim
Joanna Proffitt
Karen Morgan
Karin Taylor
Kelwy Oliveira
Lolly Kakumani
Manthan Patel
Maria Cristina Gonzalez
Mary Ann Tardif
Mike Lodge
Penni James
Ramim Alam
Remigijus Stirbys
Rosie Karel
Sherry Manners
Vicki Russell
Wei Wei
Which one of these photos is your favorite? Please let everyone know in the comments below!
How to Enter the Next Photo Contest
Last week we published a tutorial covering 11 Clever Ways To Use Buildings In Your iPhone Landscape Photos.
The article is full of useful tips on how to make your landscape photography more interesting and eye-catching.
Not only do buildings add a strong focal point and sense of scale, but they also allow you to create wonderful mood and atmosphere.
Buildings are a great way to tell interesting stories about the landscape and they create an emotional connection between the viewer and your photo.
So the new contest theme is Buildings, and any iPhone photos of buildings in landscapes or urban environments can be submitted.
To participate, go to contest.iphonephotographyschool.com in your web browser and sign up or log in.
When you’ve signed in, tap Submit Photos then select the photo you want to upload.
Repeat to upload more photos (you can submit up to 10 images). If you change your mind, you can delete a photo by tapping Delete beneath the image.
All photos must be shot and edited on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Images should not have watermarks.
The submission deadline is Sunday, April 3. Winners will be announced on Monday, April 4, and the winning images will also be featured on our iPhone Photography School Facebook page.
Congratulations everyone! Really amazing work 🙂
Thank you for including one of my images. I really liked a lot of these and enjoyed that they seem to represent a wide range of techniques.
When will we be able to see other photographer’s work and like the photo in tihs non-EyeEm environment? Why did you leave EyeEm?
Also, could you please tell us (perhaps repeat) your process for choosing the top 30? Use an algorithm?
Hi Mym. I’m not sure of the timescale at the moment, but we’ll definitely keep you posted. There are several reasons why we chose not use EyeEm, including the fact that images can’t be downloaded at full size and quality from EyeEm, and we’ll be able to offer more features in the future by using our own platform. As Mike correctly mentioned in his reply, there’s no algorithm to select the winners. They’re chosen by real people just like other photo contests, and the winning images are selected based on factors such as overall image quality and sharpness, composition, lighting, subject matter, storytelling and editing. I hope this answers your questions. Best wishes, Kate.
Congratulations to the winners this week. All of these are amazing abstracts!
hi
Just added a reply to Mym but the post keeps disappearing. Is it better to ignore the Reply option nod just post as a comment.
Hi Mike. For some reason your comment went into the pending folder, but I’ve just approved it so it should now be visible 🙂
Thanks Kate. Thought I was losing my mind for a minute.
No problem Mike 🙂
it would be nice if all the competing photos and winners could have their instagram or eyem profile in order to be able to see great photos!
I learned a lot from this!
Eunito – isn’t that the point of belonging to IPS or IPM where all the learning takes place via the videos. You will not really learn just from looking at photos on EyeEm. I’m sure many members will still post their images in Facebook for you to view.
I learn a huge amount from simply viewing the work of others on EyeEm and one of the benefits of participating in the contests was being able to view the work of others and see how the theme was being interpreted as the week progressed. This learning occurred across a range of areas from composition, to story telling , lighting etc and often in conjunction with your tutorials. I would think it would be a shame if the huge learning opportunities available via viewing the work of others was underestimated.
Thanks so much for including my mushrooms amongst these other wonderful images. Much appreciated! 🙂
Congratulations Karin! 🙂
It was an interesting theme for a contest, but truly not every image reflected an abstract in subject matter and editing – a cat is a cat and buildings are buildings – I don’t think images that are recognizable objects can be defined as abstract
It’s pretty hard to define what is an abstract photography. It could also be about unusual shapes and sizes, lines or colors. But thanks for your opinion Tracy. 🙂