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Camera phone competition September 2016: "Darkness"
For this month competition, If this topic wasn't proposed before, I propose "Darkness".
This can be tricky, I don't really know how to make pictures in the night or when there no enough light, everytime there is too much noise going along. Also please share your tips.... http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...90#post1514090 Ah, there should be rules of course. Nothing new (just copied from earlier contests): 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 Last three days of this month are for voting https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr242BkWAAE8-0E.jpg Dead End tunnel (Paris France) @ J1 Closed ! Winner is : catbus, N9, "Arcturus" : Entries: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=34 https://wiki.maemo.org/CameraPhoneCompetition http://huispaus.ucs.fi/tmp/darkness01.jpg |
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Nice theme! A different topic and can be innovative.
I'm thinking of just pop in to an Apple Store and take a pic...... |
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Hmmm... Here is so much darkness, maybe too much... Only problem is, how to catch even part of it...
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Laying aside tofhe metaphysical aspects, even the literal catching darkness with one of my cameraphones will.sure be a trick. All dark would just look black or noisy black. Think I'm.gonna need to try for some chiaroscuro for this one. But it's the challenges that inspire our creativity they say... |
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When i read this, i took a long breath and put my pipe down... I knew now it is time to take a picture of darkness... And here it is. - No... No fish or reflection, bird or freedom. Just Darkness... Still, there is the One sparkling star, which is trying to interferes darkness... "Arcturus..." http://huispaus.ucs.fi/tmp/darkness01.jpg Obviously taken by me and My Precious (N9) [edit]foolish typos, there maybe more...[/edit] [edit2]Not for competition but aeroplane just landed... [/edit2] http://huispaus.ucs.fi/tmp/16090018.jpg |
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I actually took this one on the 28th, but I could take essentially the same picture now so I'm posting it anyway. It's really just a picture of some grapes at night with the camera focussing right next to the spotlight, but I love how it turned out, and it works astonishingly well as an ambience on the Jolla phone, with which I took the picture.
https://i.imgur.com/r41tHWc.jpg |
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I would let it slip through but the rules say the photo must be taken this month so perhaps leave it to the popular vote? ;)
What is that pattern of blue dots in the middle? |
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I think that this topic is easy enough for Dave999 to participate since he's from the dark side.
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Haha, I didn't really mean to participate, just share a nice picture in a fitting thread (that said, it was taken after last month's contest was over, as far as I understand). Is there a thread for 'pictures that look good as ambiences on Sailfish'? |
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I see.
Re participation, I think the idea is that one should not submit photos taken before the theme was announced. At least that's the guideline I use for my own submissions. |
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Thanks for your honesty! I guess no one is checking exif anymore and you could have pretended successfully that your shot was done yesterday ;)
since we are already very vague on the timing the vote and new thread starts due to lack of a moderator, we should be strikt in case of rules that are not necessary to bend to keep this competition running conveniently. I nevertheless read from the current rule that pictures taken before the theme was announced can count when shot during the month in question. Should we reformulate "Photos must be taken during this month" to "Photos must be taken and posted after theme was announced and before voting starts"? |
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In the meantime, I suggest accepting nthn's picture as a submission to appreciate the honesty. |
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I said darkness not voidness :P
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Probably you all know better than me, but I recently figured out that raw cam is great to take photos in low-light conditions (if your 'darkness' photo is actually in low-light conditions, it might help :) ).
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"Pass U in the darkness"
http://swagman.org/juice/20160915_004.jpg Taken by Nexus5 running SFOS v.2.0.2.48 |
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Ok, I give up trying to get a better one so here's my "darkness":
https://sites.google.com/a/stylezsof...s/16090013.jpg The bright dot in the sky on the left is a planet, but I'm not sure which one. Taken with my faithful N9 as usual. |
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Lucky you! I live in (small, but still) a town with too much light pollution. And even when I venture out, which in my case is not very far, all I see when I look up is the orange glow reflecting off the perpetual cloud cover.
Oh Britain, sweet Britain! :D |
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You should have to start thinking about coming month topic... [OT] I must add this... With the spirit of WCOH... https://youtu.be/nuU-maGdvSc [/OT] |
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Here is my entry. It is about as good as it is ever going to get so I might as well leave it at that. It is my 9yo daughter's room in its usual, messy state. I do not dare to think what this room will look like when she is 16.
Attachment 38695 The burnt-out bright spot in the left is a fish tank, in case you were wondering. The room actually looked darker in real life, the camera's long exposure compensated for the lack of light. Taken about 2 hours ago with a Jolla. I must say the result quite surprised me, considering Jolla's camera's deservedly bad reputation. It is amazing what you can achieve with an improvised tripod and a shutter delay. |
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My very first idea was a long exposition of a road. But I don't think that I'll manage to do that in time. So, here we go with plan b.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w7bta6nl23...0_008.jpg?dl=1 N900 as always. |
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"Mumbai, as darkness seeps in"
Happened to be in Mumbai the previous day. I thought, why not! Intex Aquafish Intentionally focussed to a shorter distance And exposed to the streetlight on left top corner (of course automatic) |
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Nice variety of entries. Thanks for the pics everyone!
hmm... It becomes kind of obvious to myself that i am not having much of a life outside my business... Looking through the pics i did today with a tripod and 15sec timer function, this struck me to be fitting the darkness theme. The guys who build the Photokina "Sigma" booth did a good job with light imho. Yaay, no need to go out in the dark after 14 hours work. First pic is my entry called "I am contrast" :D Second is for spatial orientation and to raise the sales of your local sushi-joint ;) "Camera" was Nexus5 on 2.0.2.48. Erhm yes, and Sigma does this kind of freaky things which leads me to put camera in quotation marks when talking about phones. http://mosushi.net/misc/photocomp/20160924_037.jpg http://mosushi.net/misc/photocomp/20160924_042.jpg |
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That sure looks like nice sushi. Do people who vote for your picture get review samples?
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humble thanks!
But no, absolutely not. It would distort the competition. No fish for votes! Its more like, every maemonean by heart that happens to reveal his dark secret when meeting me, will not be able to turn down the offer of a good treat ;) Photokina is over, next 3 weeks i am in Rostock doing wet jobs (e.g. sushi from material i have no control over and do not dare to offer as reference). October is K-Fair for Dow Chem. in Düsseldorf, November is electronica in Munich for Kyocera. They have two underrated Smartphones out by the way. Could someone compile or point to a list with arguments so i can talk the ceo over to sailfish :rolleyes: |
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A little down at the moment and got sick of myself and when I am in that mood I go out and take a long walk.
So today I took a visit to my nearest park called, Hissingsparken in Gothenburg, in the evening. It turns out to be dark very fast in sweden this time at the year the boring winter is coming. I took some photos and a little later it was really dark. I realized I have forgot to install flashlight on my Fairphone and since I did not have any money on my SIM card I could not download the app. So it was a little bit hard walking home since some of the places at the park has no light et all. Anyway I choose upload this photo since it looks a little bit ghost to me... Phone is Fairphone 2 with SailfishOS. I did rotate the picture since FP2 sailfishos does not do it :/ |
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^--THAT was pretty much what I was expecting from my shot, given my previous experience with the Jolla's camera and its performance in adverse light conditions. As I said, an improvised tripod and a shutter delay do miracles.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/372461...posted-public/https://www.flickr.com/photos/372461...posted-public/
taken in my n9...long gone :( |
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On the way home it got late and outside the glow of our headlights was only darkness.
http://testem.duckdns.org:31757/Imag...09-26-1793.jpg Taken with my 808 |
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Well, time is running out, and I'd hoped for something better . . . But at least it's got a story. First Friday, after dark. (They said we didn't need another concert hall and opera house, but five years after its opening everyone loves it.) The first Friday of every month, everybody and their uncle who's got an art gallery, studio, atelier, or whatever stocks up on wine and cheese and prepares for the crowds of lubricated customers that "First Friday" brings. Well, that aforementioned new performance venue is in the midst of all that artsy stuff, and it's celebrating the fifth anniversary of its opening, so why not synergize? And the opera house within is opening with "Hansel und Gretel". And we're in the middle of the US. Well, that calls for a bake-off! (Get it?) Anyway, my wife is inside with her entry, and I'm out with the kids on a beautiful late Summer night so why not capture some darkness? As I said, I hoped it would be better. I'm not super-fond of the "Dutch angle" I picked. But it's a photo. It's shot on a cellphone. It has darkness. And we're having fun, right? Enjoy First Friday Darkness. N9. Camera+ |
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It's three days before the end of the month, so voting time!
This month's theme proved to be highly popular. I do not remember the last time we had 12 (twelve!) entries. Good luck reading this page on a Jolla in the stock browser ;) 1. www.rzr.online.fr, Jolla, "Dead end tunnel" https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr242BkWAAE8-0E.jpg 2. catbus, N9, "Arcturus" http://huispaus.ucs.fi/tmp/darkness01.jpg 3. nthn, Jolla, "Grapes at night" https://i.imgur.com/r41tHWc.jpg 4. juiceme, Nexus 5 (SFOS), "Pass U in the darkness" http://swagman.org/juice/20160915_004.jpg 5. spfoo, N9, "Darkness" https://sites.google.com/a/stylezsof...s/16090013.jpg 6. pichlo, Jolla, "Messy room" https://talk.maemo.org/attachment.ph...5&d=1474404167 7. saponga, N900, "Plan B" https://www.dropbox.com/s/w7bta6nl23...0_008.jpg?dl=1 8. lal, Intex AquaFish, "Mumbai, as darkness seeps in" https://talk.maemo.org/attachment.ph...1&d=1474631496 9. mosen, Nexus (SFOS), "I am contrast" http://mosushi.net/misc/photocomp/20160924_037.jpg 10. mikecomputing, Fairphone 2 (SFOS), "Hissingsparken in the evening" https://talk.maemo.org/attachment.ph...1&d=1474833152 11. Macros, 808 (presumably Nokia), "On the way home" http://testem.duckdns.org:31757/Imag...09-26-1793.jpg 12. robthebold, N9, "First Friday, after dark" http://i.imgur.com/1V1UpUF.jpg And my vote goes to... 7. saponga |
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vote for saponga
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Wow! 12 entries this month! Great stuff -- especially for a theme I sure thought would be a challenge at first.
Hard to choose, but I like the pure expression of 2. catbus with that nice silhouette and rich color |
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#2 - catbus
PS: it was a pita to view this page on n900 too with both midori via easydebian and microb. Of course I do NOT want compare the n900's 256 mb with Jolla. |
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My vote goes to catbus.
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I vote for catbus. What a hard choice though - really nice photos in this month's contest.
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saponga #7
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