Camera phone competition November 2016: "Motion"
 

November is here, and our photo competition theme for the month is "motion".

Like the 2 most recent themes, motion presents a challenge to the cameraphone. Limited light gathering capability necessitates longer exposures, blurring moving objects. And slow (and sometimes unpredictable) focusing also make it a trick to catch a moving subject. But challenges seem to inspire, so lets use it.

Motion can be whatever you want it to be. The most obvious interpretation to me is a moving subject. But perhaps it's the camera that's in motion. Perhaps an artful blur provides evidence of it, or perhaps something stopped in the middle of an action is motion frozen in time. Perhaps it's an illusion or a metaphor . . .

Same rules (copy-pasta from before):

Photos must be taken during this month (after theme is announced?)
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 (software would be nice too?)

Last three days of this month are for voting

Have fun and maybe amaze your online friends!

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Unfortunately no photo to show...yet. But the other day I was traveling in western Brazil and saw a giant beetle - a couple of inches long and wide beast. Scary thing! As the beetle was slowly walking along I naturally tried to make it my "motion" photo for the month. Easier said than done with the N9..and perhaps my limited skills. I was so focused on getting a pic with my N9 for the competition that I totally forgot that my DSLR was in my backpack...

So in the end no photo for the competition and not even a memory. Just another lost opportunity.

Next: Going hunting for hummingbirds...

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Not this one, was it?

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Nope :-) This one had partially green metallic color in the back. A few years ago in the Amazon I did see the biggest fly I have ever seen. It was lying dead on the street in Rurrenabaque, Bolivia. First I thought it was a bird - like a sparrow or similar. But it was a fly - close to the size of my hand...

As a side note: the author of The Lost World a.k.a Jurassic park got his inspiration for the book near Rurrenabaque, in the Madidi reserve. The Bolivian government just gave oil and gas exploration licenses in the same park to a few international companies.

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Not the best, but it's a start.
http://i.imgur.com/TQk3wYT.jpg

Device: Panasonic Lumix CM1
Edited using tools on Google Photos.

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Edit. Disregard this post. I was wrong

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Ok, I have to attend since we can't have a competition with only one participant. That is simply no fun!

Name: Alien attacks the day moon
Dimensions: 480 x 640
Shot: 1/125 sec. f/2.2 4.15mm(zoom)
ISO: 25
Device: iPhone 6s Plus

To give you some background...
Earth(me and the bird) moving at speed 107,000 km/h through the solar system, at the same time Moon is moving 3,683 km/h. Meanwhile, I'm walking in about 3 km/h while taking the photo and the bird might flying at a speed of 23 km/h...To add some complexity to it all. The light traveling at the speed of light...1080 million km/h

https://s12.postimg.org/ecyqo5hdp/alienattack.jpg

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Oh dear, it is the end of the month, isn't it.

OK, here is my entry. There is no way it could compete with or even compare to the outstanding awsomness of Dave's photo, but it is the bestg I could muster.

Taken with (and posted from) my N900. I tried with the Jolla first but the results were absolutely appalling.

Attachment 38806

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Whole month, no messages...

I had quite angry virus Nephropathia epidemica which almost melted my brain. Another option was to die.. or heal...

Lucky me... I'm back again...

So little time to get any good picture but here is one quick...

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

Camera is still N9 and software cmdCam

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Are you serious? Never heard about that virus but it sounds pretty ugly. We are honored to have you back in the game again. Stay safe.

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This was a really difficult theme, I took pictures all month and even build a Lego contraption for it.

Nokia 808 Pureview out of a moving car: Lightflow
http://testem.duckdns.org:31757/Images/Lightflow.jpg

Edit: Other pictures after voting has ended.

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Just recently got a OnePlus One. Installed Sailfish on it under MultiROM. Apparently, the kids will call anything a "ROM" these days.

Anyway, here it is, my first photo shot on the aforementioned phonetablet, or again, as the kids say, "numbersign phablet":

http://i.imgur.com/QmH1fti.jpg

My dog in the "cone of shame". I just meant to shoot a pic of her for the first trial shot with working camera on the OnePlus One, but she was shaking her head -- perhaps in objection to the cone -- so I got motion by accident.

Shot on OnePlus One, Sailfish camera. Couldn't figure out how to edit it, or upload it, or send it by bluetooth or anything, so emailed to myself and cropped square on a PC (sorry rules). I'm not sure if the OnePlus One port Bluetooth just doesn't work, not sure if Sailfish has a photo editor, not sure of a lot of things, but at least the camera works and so does gmail so here it is . . .

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is 8am GMT on 28th November, three days before the end of the month. As per the rules, the last three days are for voting. I was going to start now but since we have only a small number of entries, I have decided to wait till noon to get a few more entries in. Keep them rolling in, please!

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Even extra 4 hours did not help to get more entries so I declare the submissions closed with just the following six:

1. shanttu, Panasonic Lumix CM1
http://i.imgur.com/TQk3wYT.jpg

2. Dave999, iPhone 6s Plus
https://s12.postimg.org/ecyqo5hdp/alienattack.jpg

3. pichlo, Nokia N900
https://talk.maemo.org/attachment.ph...6&d=1480245406

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

5. Macros, Nokia 808 Pureview
http://testem.duckdns.org:31757/Images/Lightflow.jpg

6. robthebold, OnePlus One
http://i.imgur.com/QmH1fti.jpg

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And my vote goes to...

1. shanttu, Panasonic Lumix CM1

Lovely expression of the motion, lovely colours, lovely atmosphere.

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I vote for shanttu too,
the blurry bus in front of a (quite) steady background perfectly fits the months theme.

I tried to capture a similar one near the start of the month, then yours appeared and I decided to go for something else instead.

As all EXIF data has been stripped by imgur:
Could you tell me exposure time and iso?

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Thanks for your opinion. It was shot using shutter priority. 1 second, ISO 320, F 2.8. Original jpeg was too bright.

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1. shanttu
I really like it ! Thanks.

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Thread had very slow motion in this month :D
1. shanttu

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1. Shanttu

In the end I didn't get a shot at all for this month. Great subject but I think we - or I - need 2-3 months to get a decent "Motion" pic :-)

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I vote for 1. Shanttu

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Here we call it "colar elisabetano". Guess why ? :p
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/klhhsotajp...age_3.jpg?dl=1

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#1 shanttu, cracking photo

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Ya, vets here call it an "E-Collar" for the same reason, although I suppose that the derivation is lost on some.

Just for fun: "I do not like the cone of shame . . ."

And my vote goes to 3. pichlo, because it's such a happy looking scene. But shanntu's is an amazing cameraphone shot, and Dave999 certainly has the highest relative speed -- astronomical, I'd say.

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shanttu is a must. Amazing shot.

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My vote goes to #5 Macros. Nice minimalist photo.

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#1 Shanttu.

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shanttu if it still matters to vote

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Shanttu. Looks nice!

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Reckoning time!

By my count, shanttu is the clear winner. I did not even bother to count the votes (11, if you need to know): you just look through the posts and see the pattern. There were only two stray votes, one for pichlo (thank you, robthebold, very nice of you! :)) and one for Macros.

Congratulations to the winner. It is now up to shanttu to choose the December theme.

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As promised, here are all photos I considered for the contest.
Some of them may make good wallpapers.

Thank you for the vote shantu. I am curious about the next theme :)

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Nice. 3105 is my favourite. You should have submitted that one ;)

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Thanks for your votes! New competition here