Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

The theme is a bit abstract - just connect the three words in the theme with a photo - in any way you see it (except literally:).

Rules, with a small addition:

• Photos must be taken during this month and posted before voting starts.
• Photos must be taken by the posting member.
• Photos must be taken with a camera phone.
• Post processing is allowed but you have to say what you did.
• Users must name the phone and software they used.
• Users post only one photo per entry.
• Users can change the entry only once.
• 3 day voting period starts on October 28th at 20:00 UTC and ends on the evening of October 31th.
• Winner of the vote should choose the next month competition theme.

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

As the theme called for: moving lights in autumn :).
https://matland.be/transfer/movinglights.jpg
Shot on F(x)tec Pro1, stock camera app, no edits.

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

Autumn lights and slow motion... very slow. ;)


https://svenskasprakfiler.se/show/20...and_Motion.jpg


Xperia X stock photo app, no mot.. sorry, no edit.

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A nice pincushion effect there ;)

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Little differend light and motion... I took this today... - Jolla1 (Resize with Gimp)

http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1603036308

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

you missed the season man :D

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

Do You mean "premature ejaculation" ?

Sorry, no...

I just live in the "middle of nowhere" where it's too cold and that's how it can happen middle autumm... Peace...

However, I wanted to take part in this the competition... (remember, my english is not fluent... so ... there could be misunderständings ;) )

Peace <3

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OK guys and girls.
I had to be quick this morning. Sun was moving fast and touched all with a beautiful autumn light...
http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1603179181
Pro¹, Stock camera app, cropped and sharpened with darktable. (believe it or not, there was no need to touch saturation :eek:)

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You don't happen to have a picture where your camera would have moved a bit? Would like to see that with motion cause the light is awesome.

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What, that contrail does not hint on a motion enough? ;)

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That's what I figured the motion was . . .

I think I'm past the window where I can get a buzzy bee's blurry wings anymore this season. Could I be so lucky as to catch a falling leaf in a sunbeam in mid flight? We'll see . . .

All kinds of motion going on across the street where workers are coming and going to rehab a house for a TV show. Can't quite figure out how to use that. :(

Here's some great examples of motion depicted in still images that I can't quite figure out how to capture in a photo. I don't quite have the painter's abstract liberties . . .

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Hello, guys. I haven't participated for long time; somehow taking photos with Xperia isn't as much fun as it was with my poor old N9 ;)

This photo technically is awful (for some reason, my X. seems unable to focus in low light), but I'll share it nevertheless, for there's another form of motion (or rather movement).

http://lemur.hg.pl/i/p/v205v7.jpeg

The blue light comes from police cars surrounding us. The white building is cathedral in my hometown of Katowice.

XperiaX, Advanced Camera, cropped and slightly perspective corrected in Darktable.

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Honor 9 lite, default cam, no added sugar.

The motion is implemented. Lots of motion: back and forth, back and forth, up and down, up and down, and all the time waving from right to left, left to right, on a very bumpy and muddy surface.

Last moments to dig. Got on to the next level: level 16th century. A coin from 17- -. Haven't tried to check the worn coin better than that. First coin found from that era. My detector had lost the sound. Opened it and the speaker worked only if I pressed it from the middle. Made a small ball out of duck tape to press the middle when speaker in place and now it works and it muted the sound. I had thought to solder an audio controller to do that but now I don't need to.

http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1603867298

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

Did you mean "implied", by any chance? I love the light!

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

I don't know which I meant, so really can't answer. If you ask me, I meant of course implemented cause I used it (without being sure what it means though). So I meant to say something which I have in mind and used the word "implemented".

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"Pancharevo Lake in Gold", Pro1 Advanced Camera, panorama stitched in Hugin, Some shadows/highlights/colors editing and slight tone mapping in RawTherapee.

https://iili.io/3wTVEl.jpg

Where is the motion, you ask? There is a flying bug over the lake on the right, you'll have to zoom in to see it. :D

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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d33ef6b_3k.jpg

For other resolutions, failed candidates, bonus photos: image20201007_165213352_v2

I tried bees on flowers, but focus wouldn't lock on a moving bee. Tried snowflakes falling on autumn leaves, but flakes disappeared against the leaden sky.

But this one I shot later in the day the contest theme was announced. Intended to be a snapshot, but it's got all the elements, so it's my entry. Motion of the kids could be a little more pronounced, but they're clearly in mid-stride.

Xperia camera still busted . . . so OnePlus One, UBPorts, stock camera app. Cropped and color tweaked with digiKam editor. Rule of thirds implemented with blunt object.

Context for this year's corn maze:
https://louisburgcidermill.com/great...e-1024x779.jpg

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Missed the topic i guess... But my pandemic induced incoming lockdown depressive mood did not let me chose a vivid subject i guess.

I currently feel more like one of my friends empty rainy restaurant patio :p

Pro¹, Stock Camera, unedited

https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/20201011_190550.jpg

Edit, Wow, reading the backlog, Cool entries everyone!
Great effort robthebold! Bundyo with a magic atmosphere. Maemish in action! Just Great, Thanks all

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

The list, hopefully in time:


#1: netman

"Moving lights in autumn", Shot on F(x)tec Pro1, stock camera app, no edits.

https://matland.be/transfer/movinglights.jpg


#2: eson

"Autumn lights and slow motion... very slow", Xperia X stock photo app, no mot.. sorry, no edit.

https://svenskasprakfiler.se/show/20...and_Motion.jpg


#3: catbus

"Little differend light and motion..." - Jolla1 (resized with Gimp)

http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1603036308


#4: Fellfrosch

"Sun was moving fast and touched all with a beautiful autumn light...", Pro¹, Stock camera app, cropped and sharpened with darktable.

http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1603179181


#5: briest

"Another form of motion (or rather movement).", XperiaX, Advanced Camera, cropped and slightly perspective corrected in Darktable.

http://lemur.hg.pl/i/p/v205v7.jpeg


#6: Maemish

"Last moments to dig", Honor 9 lite, default cam, no added sugar.

http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1603867298


#7: Bundyo

"Pancharevo Lake in Gold", Pro1 Advanced Camera, panorama stitched in Hugin, Some shadows/highlights/colors editing and slight tone mapping in RawTherapee.

https://iili.io/3wTVEl.jpg


#8: robthebold

"Corn maze stride", OnePlus One, UBPorts, stock camera app. Cropped and color tweaked with digiKam editor. Rule of thirds implemented with blunt object.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d33ef6b_3k.jpg


#9: mosen

"Empty rainy restaurant patio", Pro¹, Stock Camera, unedited.

https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/20201011_190550.jpg

Please choose until Sunday night, 23:59 UTC (I know November starts, but better to have 2 days for voting than one).

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

I really like the fast moving sun and vote for #4 Fellfrosch!

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My vote goes to #5 briest. Hoping this movement is in peaceful (e)motion for good and reasonable things!
I love the colors. Usually you only get this with filters or heavy post image processing.

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#6: Maemish I ireally love the light :)

But it was a hard choice. #1: netman was a serious contender but the pincushion effect and the beer can on the railing spoiled it ever so slightly.
Other contenders were:
#4: Fellfrosch - A good shot, if only a bit too dark and the white of the house slightly to the left of the centre bottom takes too much of the frame.
#5: briest - If the movement is what I think it is, then I would support it wholeheartedly, but alas the photo iteslf was not all that remarkable - other than the eerie blue colour.
#7: Bundyo - Lovely, peaceful location caught at a good moment, with the flying bug. You could have also mentioned the movement of the couple(?) in the rowing boat in the background. I would have preferred it not as a panorama, though.
#8: robthebold - I love the colours and the shadows of the low lying sun, but please, if you are taking a picture where people are the centre of attention, only seeing the back of all of them is kinda distracting. Just some of them looks like capturing a moment; all of them looks like you went out of your way to only show their backs. I understand the urge to protect their privacy but there are ways. For example, make them appear like they are there merely by accident, like the rowers in Bundyo's shot. You could achieve that for example by taking the picture when they are just rounding the corner.
#9: mosen - Another serious contender due to the mood of the picture rather than the picture quality, although the quality is good, too. I would have preferred if you aimed the camera a notch higher, to reduce the amount of ground in the foreground and expose the top of the tree in the background.

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Gotta be #6: Maemish

The sunset, the color, the light on the spade handle and the shadows in the furrows. I think the presence of tools implies motion enough for me. Well done.

Nice pics, everybody.

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I vote #6: Maemish to, even though the motion is as bad as mine. :)

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The one that keeps catching my eye scrolling past the photos a few times is #3 catbus, so that's my vote :).

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For me it is #3 catbus.
Instantly takes me away and reminds that fall weather is not uniform even in europe :D
From photographic quality i would have chosen maemish or robthebold.

@Pichlo, thx for the nice words.
I attempted to keep the black shadow line below the trees centered. Ideal would have been if i had 1 meter more space to move back. But i was rubbing a wall already. A wider camera objective wold have helped to not cut off the trees and lamp on the right.

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#7 Bundyo. I started to seach the fly he mentioned and was inside that picture for so long that it became real to me. The two boats, one black and one white, were not the motion for me. If you zoom in the top of the picture in the middle there is a whiter short line in the water which in my eyes seems like the rings in water done by a fish. And when the under the surface part of the lake becomes real, then the picture is filled with motion.

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My vote goes... #2 eson

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Did you find it?

Attachment 41332

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

I never found it, myself, but I also couldn't find my glasses.

Would be even cooler if the fly showed up more than once in the panorama, like the same kid on both ends of the high school class portrait.

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That is no bug or fly. Man you spot a UFO cause atleast I can't identify what that flying object is! What a shot!

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By the way, there were numerous ducks in the lake and I've just missed one of them flying low over the water. :) The rings over there was another duck that descended to search for fishies. I've tried to capture it later, but no luck.

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Would be #7: Bundyo for me. While I like Fellfrosh's and Maemish's photos just as much, Bundyo hit me right in nostalgia for lakes of my youth. And nostalgia is an autumny feeling, isn't it?

Well, it's complicated and the direct reason of demonstrations (which was ruling of so-called "Constitutional Tribunal" concerning abortion) was but another spark into the barrel of gunpowder. It did not help that said Tribunal itself was manned in unlawful way by ruling party, despite (much more tame then, though also massive) protests.
Fortunately, so far cases of physical violence were rare and contained, but language is harsh, polarization grows and it's unclear how the situation develops. I hope for a change, for our current political system is scary.

Courtesy of the Church and the State, working hand in hand ;)

And this is what made me consider the photo worth showing at all ;)

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

The results are in:

#2 * 1
#3 * 2
#4 * 1
#5 * 1
#6 * 3
#7 * 2

So, #6 Maemish wins this round, congrats! :)

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

Really? Wow, thanks to all three! This time the votes spread a lot. Gonna post a new competition soon.

Re: Phone Camera Competition October 2020: "Autumn Lights and Motion"
 

And here it is.