The Humanistic Vision Behind OPPO imagine IF Photography Awards：Stories of Love, Memory, and Everyday Beauty

Attracting over a million entries from 81 countries and regions, OPPO imagine IF Photography Awards celebrates the powerful potential of mobile photography to capture life’s most compelling moments. Honoring 56 exceptional works showcased at the Paris Photo 2024, this year’s competition reveals how mobile imaging goes beyond technology—it captures and shares stories of humanity, creativity, and cultural diversity.

Each winning work offers a glimpse into universal experiences, capturing moments that resonate across cultures and bridging human connections. These stories reveal the unique power of mobile photography to connect us, and how advanced imaging technology empowers everyone to share their world, frame by frame.

Celebrating Global Creativity: OPPO imagine IF Photography Awards 2024 Winners Announced

OPPO today announced the winners of its second annual imagine IF Photography Awards, a global competition celebrating creativity and innovation in mobile photography. Launched in January and closed for submissions in July, the competition saw over 1 million entries from 81 countries and regions.  Including China, India, Mexico, Columbia, and Egypt were among the top five countries in terms of submissions. OPPO will showcase winning works at Paris Photo, the largest international art fair in November.

"Exceptional photographs have the power to preserve cherished emotions, even in the most seemingly mundane of moments, transforming them into timeless memories," said Pete Lau, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer of OPPO. Alec Soth, Magnum Photos member and competition judge, added, "Photography is esteemed as an art form that blends a multitude of techniques, not merely capturing stunning sights but also evoking profound emotions and resonating with power," 

From Heart to Lens: HUAWEI Pura 70 Series Immortalizes Moments of Time Together with Emotive Photo Narratives

Photographed by Hersley Casero, FotoMoto

Global tech leader HUAWEI has made another big splash in the industry with the release of its latest line of smartphones, the Pura 70 Series. With several improvements in terms of hardware and software innovation, the HUAWEI Pura 70 Series stands as a cut above its competition, particularly when it comes to its cameras’ capabilities.

Designed for those who seek to capture the world in all its fleeting beauty, the Pura 70 series introduces groundbreaking camera technology that improves the photography experience with every push of a button, and serves as an effective testament to the tech brand’s “forward-looking” approach to how they make their products. With a relentless focus on innovation and quality, Huawei continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in mobile photography.

Capture Nature’s Beauty: Exploring the Outdoors with realme 12 5G

Take stunning shots of the outdoors and make the most out of summer with realme’s newest Number Series

As summer continues in full swing, Filipinos are making the most of the season with various adventures. In the spirit of the season, let the realme 12 5G capture the beauty of the outdoors, from breathtaking mountain views to tranquil beach sunsets. Whether hiking through the forests or diving into crystal-clear waters, the realme 12 5G is the perfect companion for capturing and sharing breathtaking moments that last a lifetime.

Explore vivo V30 Pro's ZEISS Triple Main Camera

vivo released its newest addition to their V Series, the V30 Series, in March 2023. Following its launch, the vivo V30 Pro has been making headlines due to its impressive cameras co-engineered with ZEISS.

The vivo V30 Pro comes with ZEISS Triple Main Camera, each boasting flagship quality comparable to premium devices at a higher price, elevating the standard of ZEISS in mobile imaging with unparalleled advancements.

With its midrange price, the vivo V30 Pro promises top-tier performance, especially with its stunning portrait photography capabilities. It is now available in the Philippines for Php 34,999 at 12GB RAM and 512GB storage variant.

How storytellers find that legendary shot with the Xiaomi 14

Atom Araullo, Jaja Samaniego, and Jonathan Hodder share tips on capturing the money shot with Xiaomi 14’s Leica Summilux optical lens

Photo by: Jonathan Hodder

Connections are made better with images that help bring a story to life. Mobile photography is a medium that makes this possible, as storytellers can capture the perfect money shot with just a few clicks.

Journalist Atom Araullo and photographers Jaja Samaniego and Jonathan Hodder know this all too well. Their careers are built on capturing authentic moments and transforming them into remarkable memories. With the Xiaomi 14 co-engineered with Leica, they’re able to snap sharp and vivid images that enhance their creative vision.

Transform Shots and Be The Portrait Master: Game-Changing Mobile Photography Tips using realme 12 Pro+ 5G

realme goes to Baguio on March 23 to roll out the next leg of Portrait Master Academy

Capturing moments on camera has become integral in this digital age. For many, taking photos is more than just preserving memories; it’s about sharing them with their loved ones and followers online. Last March 16, realme kicked off the Portrait Master Academy with a photowalk in Escolta, Manila. This was led by a commercial photographer, Stephen Capuchino, who showed the Squad how they could be portrait masters with the realme 12 Pro+ 5G.

Capuchino also shares the latest tips on maximizing the flagship camera technology of realme’s newest device:

The Secret to Jaw-Dropping Mobile Photography of Xiaomi 13 Series: Lighting and Sensor Size

Discover the power of the 1-inch sensor and Leica-powered camera system of Xiaomi 13 Series

How do you take Instagram-worthy photos?

While large megapixel counts are now quite popular in cameras, light plays a major role in capturing those great photos. More light means better-looking pictures.

Fashion photographer BJ Pascual shares his thoughts on the epic Galaxy S23 Series

#TeamGalaxy’s BJ Pascual shares what he loves the most about the new Samsung Galaxy S23 series, including some tips on how to make your photos even more epic.

Many people use their mobile phones to capture the important moments in life – be it travel adventures, family gatherings or even a night out with friends. It’s these precious milestones that call for an equally impressive phone with camera features to record epic memories – such as those that come with the new Galaxy S23 Series. 

Launched at the Epic House party held at The Fifth Rockwell, the Galaxy S23 Series comes with some truly stunning innovations when it comes to photography and videography. Just ask renowned fashion and lifestyle photographer BJ Pascual, who took guests on a tour of the Epic Nightography room, which featured the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s incredible camera features such as the enhanced Nightography mode and the 200-megapixel camera. 

Take a look back at how the Galaxy S21 Series 5G changed the mobile photography landscape forever

Galaxy S21 Plus in violet placed underneath Galaxy S21 Ultra in black on a black surface

The new year is fast approaching and people have been over their heads with resolutions to make their 2022 epic. This year made everyone realize not to take things for granted and how important it is to make the right choices for an extraordinary future full of epic moments.

Early this year, Samsung introduced the Galaxy S21 Series 5G to empower content creators, photographers, and filmmakers to make these moments epic by delivering an experience like no other. Revolutionary contour-cut camera design, the fastest chip ever in Galaxy and intelligent battery to outlast the day. The Galaxy S21 Series 5G is truly epic, inside and out.

The smartphones unveiled groundbreaking camera features that helped customers experience new mobile photography methods. Its AI-powered multi-camera system captures stills and videos like how professionals would envision. 

The Director’s View gives professionals an array of options to control the angle of the shots without using their bulky, traditional cameras. On the other hand, content creators and vloggers can enjoy the Vlogger View feature where shutterbugs can simultaneously utilize both the front and rear cameras, a convenient way for multitaskers to record clips while showing their real-time reactions.Close shot showing off the dual camera feature and video capabilities of the Galaxy S21 Ultra by using the front and rear cameras

In Portrait Mode, the camera blurs the background and focuses only on the subject resulting in high-quality output. Users don’t need to use third-party applications to focus further on the subject. Whereas, the Single Take feature can capture all the epic actions in one shutter click, resulting in up to 14 photo and video options. 

The Galaxy S21 Series 5G has an 8K Video Snap with a crystal clear image captured straight from 8K video footage. The smartphone also offers a smooth Super Steady video at an improved 60fps that lets them seamlessly take videos of action-packed adventures. The device recently became the official tech partner of AirAsia for their limited travel web series “AirAsia Thrills.”

Mobile Filmmaking Philippines also featured the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in its series of how-to videos to demonstrate how to shoot films using the devices’ epic multi-camera system. Its founder Mark Tristan Cua shared that working as a filmmaker, it is important for him to have full control of his camera settings.

“Manual adjustments on my shutter speed, ISO, White Balance, and Manual Focusing in real-time on my Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G give me advantages when shooting. It's like converting my smartphone into a small cinema camera.”

The Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G carried the iconic 100x Space Zoom to help users shoot for the stars for faraway shots. The device gave them the creativity to take photos of subjects from afar, like the moon. 

The Galaxy S21 Series 5G not only changes video and photos forever, it optimizes processing speeds and boasts a powerful performance, raising the smartphone bar to epic. It sports best-in-class Dynamic AMOLED 2X display, super-smooth refresh rate of up to 120Hz, and HyperFast 5G connectivity, among others.

Samsung has offered the world the Galaxy S21 Series 5G, which can be dubbed as one of the best, if not the best smartphone there is today. The device’s intuitive photography tools also helped aspiring photographers and filmmakers to capture their everyday moments and made it effortlessly epic. 

Everyone is trying to make up for things that did not pan out in the year 2021, and it was a humbling experience that will surely make them think twice before making their choices, a choice that will deliver an outcome they want to achieve. 

With all the amazing features the Galaxy S21 Series 5G has offered, all eyes are on the tech company and what they have in store to top the device that once made users' everyday epic. The hype for Samsung’s next epic maker is much-awaited by every individual that aims for an epic everyday moment.

Get to know more about Samsung’s epic flagship devices at samsung.com/ph.

Safe Samsung Shopping

Health and safety protocols are strictly followed in Samsung Experience Stores to keep consumers and employees safe. Adhering to the guidelines set by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Samsung has limited the number of its customers to 50% capacity, implemented the mandatory use of face masks and face shields, and performs frequent sanitation in all stores. 

Samsung Experience Stores also has unique QR health declaration codes to promote a safe and contactless contact tracing process. Product demonstrations are done side-by-side instead of face-to-face while keeping the required safe distance of one (1) meter to make sure everyone is socially distanced.  

To find the nearest Samsung Experience Store, visit samsung.com/ph/samsung-experience-store/locations.