You may understandably be pining for an iPhone 14, however the iPhone Pictures Awards 2022 has simply landed to proved you do not actually need that rumored 48MP digicam to take unimaginable snaps.

The annual competitors, which runs independently from Apple however is now in its 15th yr, has simply introduced its spectacular winner’s checklist. And it is in no way dominated by the most recent iPhones, with the winners stretching all the way in which again to the iPhone 6S Plus from 2015.

We have achieved some tallying up and 44% of the winners have been really taken on fashions from the iPhone 11 collection or earlier. That mentioned, essentially the most well-represented cellphone by far is the iPhone 12 Professional Max, which was behind 23% of the competitors’s award-winning pictures.

The principles of the IPPA 2022 awards state that photographs “shouldn’t be altered in any desktop picture processing program reminiscent of Photoshop”, so how is there such a diversified vary of kinds throughout the classes, from “summary” to “journey”?

That is as a result of the principles do will let you “use any iOS apps”, which implies a number of the finest photograph enhancing apps and the most effective digicam apps are nearly definitely behind a number of the pictures you may see in our gallery beneath. That mentioned, many photographs are additionally probably straight “out of digicam” and, collectively, the set exhibits what’s attainable with iPhone cameras, whichever mannequin you might have.

Evaluation: Discover a topic and nail the fundamentals

Apart from underlining that you do not want the most recent iPhone to take nice photographs, the lesson from this yr’s iPhone Pictures Awards is that you simply solely want two issues for a terrific snap: an fascinating topic and an understanding of the photographic fundamentals.

You will discover that results like Portrait mode and filters are notably absent from the photographs beneath. As a substitute, the winners present a familiarity with the principle guidelines of composition, an eye fixed for good gentle, and an openness to discovering new angles on acquainted topics.

We might wager that almost all profitable entries have been shot utilizing the iPhone’s major digicam, slightly than the telephoto or super-wide. The IPPA’s guidelines do state that “iPhone add-on lenses can be utilized”, so it is attainable that some could have used a number of the finest iPhone lenses for some further attain. However in the principle, a bit gentle enhancing is all that is probably been required, given the arresting topics.

For those who fancy making an entry for subsequent yr’s competitors, try our guides on take skilled portrait photographs along with your iPhone and take epic panorama photographs along with your iPhone. For now, although, here is a gallery of this yr’s winners of the iPhone Pictures Awards (use our navigation bar on the left to leap to your favourite class).

General winner

Summary

Animals

Structure

Kids

Metropolis Life

Atmosphere

Panorama

Life-style

Nature

Portrait

Sundown

Journey