Huawei NEXT-IMAGE Awards 2020

[terse]

Huawei sponsored its own version of the IPPA with its Huawei NEXT-IMAGE Awards for mobile photos, and they tossed quite a bit of cash about in prizes, as you can see in the App Whisperer story here:

Huawei NEXT-IMAGE Awards: Winning entries capture stories through the lens

After 114 days of photography, submissions and judging, the Huawei NEXT-IMAGE Awards have crowned their winners. This year’s wins come especially well earned

theappwhisperer.com

And you can see all the winners here:

HUAWEI NEXT-IMAGE Awards 2020

gallery.consumer.huawei.com

 

[terse]

Quote from the App Whisperer article:

This year’s wins come especially well earned as Huawei received a record-breaking number of submissions, with participants from over 120 countries and regions submitting more than 1.19 million incredible entries. With entries up 128 percent since last year’s contest, 2020’s Huawei NEXT-IMAGE Awards was one of the world’s most popular and influential photography competitions.

Winners were chosen from across six categories, with three Grand Prize winners, 15 category winners, 50 runners-up and five Honourable Mentions being awarded. Each Grand Prize winner was given up to $10,000 from the NEXT-IMAGE creation fund, while category winners were awarded $1,000. Winners across all categories were given a Huawei P40 Pro.

 

[sinnerjohn]

Huawei P40 Pro.

That looks like a tasty phone as well, good prize. I assume you had to have a Huawei model to enter?

 

[terse]

That looks like a tasty phone as well, good prize. I assume you had to have a Huawei model to enter?

That's how it looks to me, although since entries are closed at the moment there doesn't seem to be any way to get an official list of requirements for submission.

 

[sinnerjohn]

The Huawei P40 Pro might just be my next phone the specs are superb but there's no Google support so it would be like buying an iPhone with no access to the appstore hmm

 

[terse]

The Huawei P40 Pro might just be my next phone the specs are superb but there's no Google support so it would be like buying an iPhone with no access to the appstore hmm

Someone on one of the DPReview forums mentioned that and pointed here for a solution:

 

[ImageArt]

The Terms and Conditions are at the bottom of the page. You have to provide your Huawei ID and give your life away otherwise no other requirements.

 

[ImageArt]

The Terms and Conditions are at the bottom of the page. You have to provide your Huawei ID and give your life away otherwise no other requirements.

That old phone could come in useful after all except I never did take any decent pics with it!

 

[RoseCat]

I don’t really care for the idea of limiting the brand of mobile phone. Just have a mobile photography contest!

 

[sinnerjohn]

I don’t really care for the idea of limiting the brand of mobile phone. Just have a mobile photography contest!

I assume that also goes for the IPPA?

 

[RoseCat]

I assume that also goes for the IPPA?

Yep! I think it’s dumb to single out one mobile phone model.

 

[sinnerjohn]

Yep! I think it’s dumb to single out one mobile phone model.

I guess it's all about selling units in the end, all dressed up as creative arts.

 

[rizole]

The Huawei P40 Pro might just be my next phone the specs are superb but there's no Google support so it would be like buying an iPhone with no access to the appstore hmm

Apart from google maps you can pretty much get anything you need from other sites. Apkpure.com for example.
Google free for over 4 years.

 

[terse]

I guess it's all about selling units in the end, all dressed up as creative arts.

Cynical but apt. Although there's no official connection between the IPPA and Apple, there's no doubt it sells phones for them directly and indirectly. It's unfortunate that the equally large and good MPA and the smaller Mira Mobile Prize get less press that than the IPPA does, but that's the power of Apple's name -- the stories get picked up because "It's Apple!"

I suppose "mobile" as a separate category will fade away eventually.

(By the way, Smithsonian Magazine's annual photo contest has a category for mobile and (a bigger surprise to me) a category for altered photos.)

 

[sinnerjohn]

Although there's no official connection between the IPPA and Apple

But you can't enter unless you have an Apple device, official association or not.

 

[terse]

But you can't enter unless you have an Apple device, official association or not.

Right, and even if it's not the actual company running the contest in Apple's case, as it is in Huawei's, there's little difference in the result (except maybe more prize money in Huawei's contest).

I'm thinking about entering some more general (i.e., not all mobile) contests in the coming year, maybe starting with the Smithsonian (deadline Nov. 30 for this year).

 

[sinnerjohn]

That old phone could come in useful after all except I never did take any decent pics with it!

I'm not sure how you could have not got a good photo from a 40mp device!!

 

[rizole]

That old phone could come in useful after all except I never did take any decent pics with it!

I'm not sure how you could have not got a good photo from a 40mp device!!

I was disapointed it wasn't substatially better than my phone but it's better than good enough.

 

[RoseCat]

(By the way, Smithsonian Magazine's annual photo contest has a category for mobile and (a bigger surprise to me) a category for altered photos.)

Wow!

 

[ImageArt]

Yep! I think it’s dumb to single out one mobile phone model.

I totally agree! I bet Apple supports it in some way. I hate to see good mobile photographers restricted because they have a different phone! The problem with MPA is that it’s so darn expensive it ends up doing the same!

 

[RoseCat]

The problem with MPA is that it’s so darn expensive it ends up doing the same!

Yes. That’s why I don’t join these days. I can’t really justify it.

 

[ImageArt]

I'm not sure how you could have not got a good photo from a 40mp device!!

It was all a bit complicated because the 40mp only kicked in if you used one setting which defeated the purpose of all the cameras and options such as night shots, zoom or portrait.

I used to zoom into the photo afterwards and be disappointed by all the noise. I personally felt there was a lot of over sharpening. And you know I think you get used to the ‘feel‘ of a certain brand. Although I don’t see it in other people’s photos I saw it in my own.