Where you live as in the city/town one lives in? Or an apartment, house, dorm, etc? I'm assuming it's the former but I just wanna make sure!
- Quality of image
- Good use of photo editor software
Also, people who use fancy cameras (vs simple smartphone photography) are more likely to win this?
Yes, city/town one lives.
Fancy cameras are not important but the effort they make to make their picture look better is.Almost all of us have a simple mobile camera and making good use of lighting and some hands on editing will surely make it look good !