Camera phone competition June 2016:"Fish"
 

Already 6th of June so let's get on with it.

I picked "Fish". Something really a lot easier than last month, but also hopefully opens up the doors for lots of creative ideas. There are some amazing minds around so I can't wait to see what we get this month!

Ladies & gentlemen - start your engines!

The rules are known.

Photos must be taken during this month
Photos must be taken by the posting member
Photos must be taken with a camera phone
Users post only one photo per entry
Users can change the entry only once
Users must name the phone they used (so I could include it for voting)
Last three days of this month are for voting

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À la carte wishes or do you go by omakase?

(not my entry, but my fish :p )

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Nice to see that the competition is going along nicely without me. As far as I'm concerned, people can start new threads without me. I've been busy with school and it isn't over, not until at least the beginning of July but I'll try and participate, haven't done that in a while. :)

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Not a sushi guy myself, so was not familiar with the term "Omakase". Will definitely use that the next time a waiter asks me what kind of toast I'd like.

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Sounds fun! We've had a lot of rain here lately, I think I'll start by looking in my basement.

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Have a sashimi or barbecue depends on the type of fish. :D

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There are three types of Sushi joints.
The ones that don't know about omakase and offer mostly rolled Sushi, which has nothing to do with authentic Japanese cuisine. The staff is called rolls-robots within the scene. A management structure exists with all imaginable disadvantages like unhappy employees and cost reduced raw materials.

Then there are the restaurants led by western chefs, who have picked up some authentic knowledge but try to force it into theyr learned concepts. eg trying too hard to be stylish and innovative and have a service crew to look professional in regards to western standards. They will do everything to please the guest, having special dishes for part time allergomaniacs variing from originally planned taste or even destroy meat well done.
Even if they offer a omakase experience, it is most likely served by the service crew with some processing time for dishes to reach your table.

Both above calculate prices based on what they estimate a customer is willing to pay for the meal and adjust quality accordingly. Also the opening times are adjusted to lazy customer ”demands”, like supermarkets do.

In Sushi (Su=Sour/Vinegar + Meshi=~Rice) meaning a course supported by that typical sweet sour rice or Sashimi meaning artistically presented seafood, you have following inherent requirements that are extremely hard to achive with above mentioned foot chains attached.

The chef / guest relationship and trust plays a big roll in the experience. Often no price is given and you will have to honestly tell your limit. Btw. apprentices actually serve the often fabeled 7 to 10 years, where the necessary skills to do acceptable sushi are being picked up in the first 3-4 yeares (like in every culinary field) then followed by social training building confidence in showing your skills in front of your customer.
All that to humbly learn there is no perfection possible in the quest to form identical experiences from ever evolving raw materials.
The experience includes melty rice conveniently kept at body temperature contrasted by sea water cold fish around 4 to 6 degrees celsius. The contrast only stays for under a minute until everything adapts to surrounding temps causing the chef to urge you to eat quickly. Fresh cut fish surfaces have slight odores that vanish before any waiter could deliver. If roasted seaweed is served, it stays crispy for only very short time, sucking moisture form the rice or fish. Heck there are chefs who include mouth size of theyr guest into size of the pieces and get horrased by feminists who claim to have been served less then theyr male table neighbours.

oh, this got long and OT.
If you look for good sushi, look the chef into the eyes and have a chat.

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Here is my entry for this month. Taken with N900 as always.https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbvbask2my...8_003.jpg?dl=1

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Because we all enjoy the variety of human language here, "barbecue" (or BBQ or bar-b-que or bar-b-q, etc., etc.) also depends on where you might be.

I'm about in the middle of the USA, so I'm at the crossroads of regional expressions. Travel just 1 or 2 degrees North and BBQ (etc) exclusively means food cooked on an open fire -- usually outdoors. But drive 2-3 degrees South, and barbecue (Barbeque, BBQ, etc.) is a liquid condiment consisting of a combination of water, tomato sauce, vinegar, salt, sweetener, and herbs and spices in various proportions -- or food prepared with such a condiment.

Of course, other regionalisms are also recognized. A meal cooked outdoors might also be a "Smoker" or "Cookout" or other term.

All of which is even funnier because I'm the vegetarian of the family, who's still responsible for making sure that the animal flesh (fish, fowl, or whatever) is prepared to each member's liking.

Anyway, still trying to find an interesting subject for the month. Probably gonna stake out the neighbors' koi pond, assuming the herons, raccoons and fishers haven't emptied it. Wish me luck.

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Not at all OT! What a plethora of useful information! I though I knew something about sushi, but I feel very humble right now.

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I want to participate! This is my entry for now, taken with N9:
http://hedayat.fedorapeople.org/misc/fish.jpg

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Meet my daughter's pet Newtie. I know he is not a fish: I have taken a bit broader approach to the topic.
Taken in the evening of 14 June 2016, with a Jolla. It took about 30 attempts to take a usable picture as he would not stand still and Jolla's camera is absolutely terrible at taking pictures of moving objects in less than perfect light conditions.

Attachment 38394

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Love the flying unicorn. According to my daughter, they're the rarest kind.

Your persistence paid off capturing that little beast. I'm always a little torqued when my wife gets a nice clear shot of our toddler indoors while playing and my N9 is all Blurry McSmears.

Oh, and I was turned into a newt once.

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this is absolutely the most wrong way to keep betta splendens. :(

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Yes, hopefully it will be changed soon. :(

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Three entries? Come on people, submit your photos, the voting starts TOMORROW!

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Well, no fish here... Maybe i'll find something before evening...

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Ok... Here is my Fish

http://huispaus.ucs.fi/tmp/fish.jpg

And phone/camera is still N9

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That month went by like nothing o.o
Took the n8 this morning and remembered to take some macro right befor leaving the kitchen.

Starring from left to right, nigiri from spanish-tuna, scotish-salmon, french-meagre and organic shrimp.

http://mosushi.net/misc/20160627_180552.jpg

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This was tougher than I thought. My fish didn't want to co-operate :-)

https://sites.google.com/a/stylezsof...tos/pleco1.jpg

Pleco in my aquarium. Taken with my N9 in night(!) mode.

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Oh. I was almost to publish a screenshot of dissecting phishing emails that haunted my servers in early June, but it would be... fishy ;) So, poor photo, poor camera, strange lighting and reflections. Made in emergency room of hospital to amuse my son, waiting for x-ray... of course, after some hours we spent there, Jr. sad "booring!" and ran away on his "claimed-to-be-broken" leg.

Phone is Palm Pre2 this time.

http://lemur.hg.pl/i/p/1er56gj.jpeg

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Voting time!

1. saponga, N900
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbvbask2my...8_003.jpg?dl=1

2. hedayat, N9
http://hedayat.fedorapeople.org/misc/fish.jpg

3. pichlo, Jolla
http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=38394

4. catbus, N9
http://huispaus.ucs.fi/tmp/fish.jpg

5. mosen, N8
http://mosushi.net/misc/20160627_180552.jpg

6. spfoo, N9
https://sites.google.com/a/stylezsof...tos/pleco1.jpg

7. briest, Palm Pre2
http://lemur.hg.pl/i/p/1er56gj.jpeg

A lot of good pictures but none that really stands out and shouts at me, "pick me, pick me!"
My vote goes to:

4. catbus, N9.

I like the simplicity of the picture and the fact that is a bit different in some way that I cannot quite put my finger on.

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am i late?
https://fs02.androidpit.info/userfil..._hero-w782.png

:D

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Late? You would be disqualified on at least 4 out of the 7 competition rules:
- Photos must be taken during this month
- Photos must be taken by the posting member
- Photos must be taken with a camera phone
- Users post only one photo per entry
- Users can change the entry only once
- Users must name the phone they used (so I could include it for voting)
- Last three days of this month are for voting

:D

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my vote is on #6 spfoo for his screen filling, slightly intimidated looking catfish :D
Thanks to pichlo for compiling the vote, much appreciated!

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My vote goes for 5. mosen.

I had to make some sushi rolls after drooling over that photo a few minutes...

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[QUOTE=mosen;1508631]my vote is on #6 spfoo for his screen filling, slightly intimidated looking catfish :D

Nah nothing intimidates this fish. He's the Marlon Brando of my aquarium. I was getting desperate for a photo because the Colombian Sharks I was trying to get were just too fast for the N9. Then Marlon graciously parked himself on the piece of wood like saying:"Want a pic?"

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If Your Fish is Marlon Brando then mine could be Elijah Price?


And... My vote goes to #1 Saponga...

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Mosen has my favorite shot this month.

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Vote for 3. pichlo

7.. Briest.

I like all the color, and the 'soft focus' gives it an impressionist feeling.

(Live) fish are.pretty tricky with the slow lens and slow shutter of most camera phones.

I was hoping to put my old S-E K550i in a baggie and try it in neighbors' koi pond but ran out of time and lost track of the phone as well. I think hardware shutter release button would have worked ok, as opposed to capacitave screen on recent devices. Oh well.

Thanks everyone for playing!

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i vote for No 3 Pichlo

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come on, just kidding man :D:p

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Fishy pictures all :D First my quick critics of each image.

#1. saponga;
Nice recurring mural, however as it is a pattern piece I'd like to have seen it either straight on (so that the pattern would be totally uniform) or taken at even more slanting angle, creating vertical or horizontal lead lines.

#2. hedayat;
I was not aware that "old-fashioned-goldfish-bowls" even exit any longer! This image yearns for better background, non-smudged glass and definitely a sigeways lighting, the flash pretty much ruins it. Otherwice, the colourful fish in a bowl would be nice subject.

#3. pichlo;
Argh, the picture is too small again, cannot make out detail! (I vaguely remember bitching about the same thing before...)
Anyway the unicorn is a cool detail and the lighting is snap-on. The main subject is fishy enough for me.

#4. catbus;
Good idea but capturing glass objects on a glass background is a hellish job, and can make the end result look a bit flat, with unwanted reflections all over the place.

#5. mosen;
Really delicious setup! Love the DoF and tasty colours. This is clearly an image that was well-thought-of before capture.

#6. spfoo;
Way too dark for my taste, however the eye is a nice catchpoint. Maybe crop just a bit so the lighter distractive detail in the left bottom corner would be dropped off, and then add just a tad of sidelight.

#7. briest;
Just lovely light green, unfortunately the ceiling lamp reflections lessen the punch... Also as the details of the fish are small, the image should not be fuzzy/shaken.

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And my winner is #5. mosen

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No, they've considered their exit a while ago but then changed their mind :D

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thanks, yes a bit planning and a tripod were involved :p
To the extend that my colleague now thinks i am totally crazy since i pulled out a 500watt floodlight we had laying around in the warehouse to accomplish one single shot just befor leaving work...
Luckily, the yellowish color was completely turned to an okayish purple/white by n8 tungsten whitebalance. so it is unedited from my side!
Still unbelievable to me sometimes how well the n8 performs when enough light is available!

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It's always tricky with dark shots. One of my computer screens shows this really nicely with a lot of detail on the fish, the other too dark with hardly any detail. The N9 also shows it really well. I had other shots with more background and light areas to contrast more, but I loved this one on the good screen. Good point of extra light from the side, could have been an excellent kick. Because the model really doesn't mind. I even took one photo by accident with the flash on - no reaction.

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Blame the TMO uploader, it shrinks pictures to 640x480. I could have uploaded it to some "cloud" service like the others and used a link but that would be against my political persuasion.

No More Cloud!
No More Cloud!
No More Cloud!

I wouldn't have taken points off for over-editing even if you'd adjusted the color balance ex post facto. It's a nice fishy still life either way.
For large enough values of enough light my college physics lab room with an accidental pinhole in the blackout shade performed pretty well as a camera obscura.

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#5 mosen - Beautifull colours