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Posted by ceaser2008
I dedicate this thread to DonJuan. Thank you for everything.

Originally, the idea of starting such thread was came up in the mind of DonJuan. He is the starter of such a amazing thread. He has this idea way back in Sept' 2006. He had started a thread Best Picture. to talk with the moderators and to get the views of other members on this. It took almost one and half year to get things going for it and on Jan' 2008, first competition thread was started. First, Jan' 2008, competition was started by mizzle with 'Water' as a theme. The major rules were the same as present rules except few. One of that was - no editing on PC, only in phone by PhotoDJ allowed. From second month, minor post-processing like image correction, noise reduction allowed.

There was major argument on archived pictures, as DonJuan wanted the picture for the competition to be taken in Jan month only to boost up the creativity and imagination of shooter. But it was not mentioned in rules, so archived pictures were also uploaded. Because of that the number of entries went as high as 37.

Nanu was the first to enter the competition with picture. Muhammad-Oli was picked as a winner not by voting but by the sheer knowledge of mizzle. Due to lack of time, mizzle had handed over the competition to DonJuan. From second month DonJuan was the host of the competition. First month went very awful as so many arguments, archived pictures and lot of Do's & Dont's as it was expected i guess. But from second month, every thing was nice, straight and well organised. Very quickly DonJuan got it right. This shows the class and master-piece of his work and handling.

For first 3 months- Jan, Feb, March' 08, the rule of uploading original picture on 'phonephotos' section was not introduced. Everybody had to mention the details like phone used, if they had done any post-processing and why they feel the word or phrase ( Theme ) influence the picture. Until in March' 08, Muhammad-Oli suggested to upload the original picture to phonephoto section in order to save the exif data and quickly Amras had followed his suggestion. From April' 08, rule of uploading original picture to phonephoto section was incorporated.

Till April' 08, the one rule was - every participants must vote in order to qualify otherwise their entry would be considered invalid. Though it was not followed by words but during this DonJuan had PM all participants to vote. This rule was short listed from May' 08 by DonJuan himself.

The theme chosen by DonJuan has clear, distinct, more of a feeling - expression like and outstanding touch. E.g Love, Priceless, People, Black & White, Urban life.

DonJuan had disappeared in the month Sept' 08 may be due to lack of entries. As this competition was his idea and he had nourished it for 2 years, so he could not see this thread dying. Only 4 entries were there. He re-appeared once in Nov' 08 but after that no traces of him. But now if he see that his idea had not died and the competition is going very well, he must be feeling proud.

DonJuan had once declared that he would give the winner of Dec' 08, the calender of whole year's winning pictures as a award from his expense. But it did not happen.

From Feb' 08 to Sept' 08, DonJuan had selected the theme and hosted the competition but due to his disappearance, in Oct' 08, Marty Mcfly, winner of Sept' 08 had hosted and selected the theme for the first time. From there on, winner is deciding the next month's theme and host it.

In Oct' 08, moderator maseur had made the thread sticky.

In terms of entries, Jan' 08 is the most successful month but due to archived pictures, i would say most successful month is Nov' 09 having 34 entries and the theme was 'Ultra Macro'. Least number of entries was in March 2016 with only 2 and the theme was 'Plastic', can you believe it?

From April' 10, new rule was introduced. The idea was given by Pitzon. The rule is 'Every participent can change his entry for one time only. He has to post his new entry in new post and old entry must be removed.' The intension behind this rule is to give freedom to participent to change his entry, if he finds a better one.

Most number of votes were casted in Oktober '13 with 'Autumn Colours' theme, having 36 votes and the winner was Bonovox with 17 votes in his bag. Least voting done in Dec' 08, only 4.

We had tie for the first time in June' 09 between mechexpert and -PERFECT-. Both had begged 6 votes each. The theme was 'Nature' by Raiderski.
There was a 4way tie in Januari '11 "A New Start" After a second round of voting VLADISLAUS took the victory.

Highest number of votes to the winner is 21 and it is in Apr' 10, winner is Raiderski having theme 'Technology'. Least number of votes to the winner is 2 in Dec' 08. nnr3 was the winner and theme was 'Vehicles'.

Due to a bug at the host server we had to cancel the December 2015 theme. ok1907 is declared as winner of that month because 9_Destiny handed his Nov'15 over to him.

9_Destiny is our Top photographer with 8 victories.
Raiders, life and hihihans have won the competition 4 times.
Congratulations to all.

MONTHHOSTTHEMETOTAL ENTRIESTOTAL VOTESWINNING VOTESWINNER
Mar'16hihihansPlastic264tranced
Feb'16DifenbakerThings473hihihans
Jan'16ok1907Reflections374Difenbaker
Dec'15Esato.FRCanceled000ok1907
Nov'15trancedCorner101459_Destiny
Oct'15mlifeGlass5105tranced
Sep'15difenbakerSunsets495mlife
Aug'15alennLow-key8124difenbaker
Jul'15NOZDepth of Field #211133alenn HPkuk610i
Jun'159_Destiny
Open #2983NOZ
May'15MadibaChurches81159_Destiny
Apr'15fbloise
Collections4126Madiba
Mar'15emporium
The Weather12146fbloise
Feb ’15XperiaJunkie
All About Music7136emporium
Jan'15emerson_shei
Favorite Dish7115XperiaJunkie
Dec'14emerson_shei
Your Pet693NOZ emerson_shei
Nov'14blackvodka
People at Work7113emerson_shei
Oct'14chunkybeats
Your Landmark71510blackvodka
Sep'14emporium
Sport4117chunkybeats
Aug'14NOZ
Silent B&W 12208emporium
Jul'14hihihans
Garbage 5126NOZ
Jun'14xell
Loneliness 6207hihihans
May'14cu015170
Selfie 11209xell
Apr'14tranced
Vehicle Parts162311cu015170
Mar'14XperiaJunkie
Sunrise & Sunset10206tranced mlife
Feb'14blackvodka
Nature by night5209XperiaJunkie
Jan'149_Destiny
Capture the moment11247blackvodka 9_Destiny
Dec’13goldenface
Coloured Lights122169_Destiny
Nov’13Bonovox
Architecture91811goldenface
Okt’13Sylwester
Autumn Colours163617Bonovox
Sep'13cupcake30
Lots of them17226Sylwester
Aug'139_Destiny
On Duty5146cupcake30
Jul'13hihihans
Fruit1224119_Destiny
Jun'13mlife
Open (verb)13229hihihans
May'13Ricky D
Life222612mlife
Apr'13mlife
" "14258Ricky D
Mar'13jorji
Women in our lives6138mlife
Feb'139_Destiny
People112217jorji
Jan'13hihihans
Numbers122299_Destiny
Dec'12xiaoness
Feast for the Eye9205hihihans
Nov'12xell
Moving On15228xiaoness
Oct'12chunkybeats
The letter J10196xell
Sep'12pohuman
Front of the Sun10205chunkybeats
Aug'12jorji
Vacation6207pohuman
Jul'12Samuele
Colours20289jorji
Jun'129_Destiny
Depth of Field273210Samuele
May'12Flinston
Close Up253099_Destiny
Apr'129_Destiny
Spring13205Flinston
Mar'12io_bg
Golden Hour82089_Destiny
Feb'129_Destiny
Populair Places8186io_bg
Jan'12Bonovox
Nightlanscape1325119_Destiny
Dec'11mlife
Missing122110Bonovox
Nov'11emporium
Movies5168mlife
Oct'11biosx
Drinks12209emporium
Sept'11goldenface
The Colour Red14269biosx
Aug'11snuupy
Black & White Photography24319goldenface
Jul'11wawawee
Nature262812snuupy
Jun'11reeflotzRule of Thirds92717wawawee
May'11io_bgHobbies12189reeflotz
Apr'11pohuman
silhouettes17246io_bg
Mar'11reeflotzToys15208cyber-shoter
Feb'11VLADISLAUSHandmade8177reeflotz
Jan'11domipostA new start11235+4VLADISLAUS
Dec'10fulger06Shadows14249domipost
Nov'10JunzFire142910fulger06
Oct'10jay0726Contrast212510Junz
Sept'10TTTAfter the rain213410jay0726
Aug'10cyber-shoterLow angle18267TTT
Jul'10VLADISLAUSMemorial17219cyber-shoter
Jun'10redhunterContradiction162415VLADISLAUS
May'10RaiderskiMy Passion32287redhunter
Apr'10PitzonTechnology222821Raiderski
Mar'10modeFood & Beverage21309Pitzon
Feb'10mochuothpNon-color Portrait20239mode
Jan'10imaticxAnimals303017mochuothp
Dec'09RaiderskiDecember without limits27286imaticx
Nov'09PlankgatanUltra Macro34348Raiderski
Oct'09PitzonWood13139Plankgatan
Sept'09Jack.netsNight121912Pitzon
Aug'09boy_ice1987Panorama Macro11107Jack.nets
Jul'09-PERFECT-Clouds22248boy_ice1987
Jun'09RaiderskiNature13176-PERFECT-, mechexpert
May'09-PERFECT-Water202110Raiderski
Apr'09RaiderskiReflections24207-PERFECT-
Mar'09PitzonBridges91310Raiderski
Feb'09trancedRocks894Pitzon
Jan'09Yea gLandscape7178tranced
Dec'08Muhammad-OliVehicles1042nnr3
Nov'08amawanqaArchitecture965Muhammad-Oli
Oct'08Marty McflyMacro20114amawanqa
Sept'08DonJuanLove495Marty Mcfly
Aug'08DonJuanPeople1096jigonx
Jul'08DonJuanFlowers17197Marty Mcfly
Jun'08DonJuanSunsets/Sunrise11104NightBlade
May'08DonJuanUrban Life16106dentoters07
Apr'08DonJuanBlack & White161712razec
Mar'08DonJuanColours25115Shuuro
Feb'08DonJuanPriceless13127crossmatched
Jan'08MizzleWater37N/AN/AMuhammad-Oli

My intention behind starting this thread and all this research is to spread awareness about monthly cameraphone shootout competition, so that more and more people would visit the thread and participate. In this campaign, I need few people from esato, who can spread the awareness willingly, only by putting the link to the current month's competition in their signature, like I did, like our beloved mod tranced did.

Those who agree, pls post here or PM me and get your name in my list as i have other idea as well for you.

Thank you.




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Posted by spiid
GREAT effort!!!!!!

I will gladly put the link in my signature

Posted by hihihans
That's some serious research.

Posted by ceaser2008
@tranced

I think, now i understand why you are so popular mod. thank you for re-arranging the table. Now, it looks decent, nice and clear then my mess.

Thank you once again.


@hihihans

Thank you and Welcome in my campaign. I will PM you, when required.
By the way, it looks cool in your signature.

@spiid

Thanks for appreciation.

Posted by tranced
You're welcome. Masseur had his part here too

Posted by ceaser2008

On 2009-11-11 03:49:00, tranced wrote:
You're welcome. Masseur had his part here too



Thanks Messeur for everything what you did for this thread and for the monthly shootout competition. I know your work was very secret and silent way, but i came to know your efforts today morning, in saving and protecting DonJuan's effort.
Thank you.

By the way, tranced, whats time in your region? It must be day out there, cause here in india, i have created the thread last night around 10.30 pm and right now its morning here, 9 am, and i can see you guys are still replying. Good job, guys.

Posted by carkitter
"DonJuan had once declared that he would give the winner of Dec' 08, the calender of whole year's winning pictures as a award from his expense. But it did not happen. "

Perhaps someone who is good at creating pdf files could do that this December so that Esato members could download it and print it off at their leisure? I would love to have an Esato calendar, it could have entries on it marking important months such as Esato's/Laffen's/Masseur's brithdays, playtime, Esato Awards, release date of X10 etc...

Posted by tranced
@ceaser2008: it's GMT-4:00.

@carkitter: we could ask to either to razec, SE cz, White Eye, or any other photoshopper here to make the calendars.

Posted by gola
This should be on wiki.... lol, nice job

Posted by Raiderski
ahh, ok, I'll put link to competition in my signature

I'm wondering, is possible to add and expose link to competition in Esato Photos section?

Posted by ceaser2008
@gola

Thank you.

@Raiderski

Welcome to campaign. i was expecting this from you. I will PM you, for further step.
By the way, congrats for winning the competition twice.


Posted by idumbakumar
good work man....

Posted by Lightspeed_x
Nice thread!, count me in!

Posted by ceaser2008
@Lightspeed_x

Welcome in campaign. Pls put the link to current month's competition in your signature.
I will contact you in future.


@idumbakumar

Thanks my friend.

Posted by Bonovox
This is good congrats to the winners

Posted by ceaser2008
We need more people in this campaign. More people would work tremendously together.

Again requesting all to participate in this campaign to spread the awareness. There is no personal benefit to me or anybody. Pls join and lets make this competition come alive.
[ This Message was edited by: ceaser2008 on 2009-11-13 13:14 ]


Posted by NightBlade
Good work man. I'll try and take part in the next competition.

Posted by tranced
Just an update: I've talked to White Eye and he told me he would think about it. He's good designing phones concepts. Why not a simple calendar?

Posted by ceaser2008
@NightBlade

Thank you. You are always welcome. By the way, its only 13th so you can participate. Dont forget to drop your valuable vote in the end.

@tranced

Thats great news!! Now we will have calender.

Posted by amawanqa
I'm impressed!
Excellent research and work, caesar2008! This has been a long time coming and it's great that such a thread has finally come to fruition.

Posted by carkitter
I would love to compete in the cameraphone shootout thread more often but having only the iPhone 3G 8GB means there's not really much point. iPhone 3G has the worst camera of any phone since the K750i made manufacturers get serious about cameras. Shame.

@tranced
Have you run it by Laffen to get permission to use the Esato logo? I wonder if an extra rule should be added to each months competition to say that entry also allows permission for the winning photo to be used in the next calendar? It is all not-for-profit of course.

Don't mean to over-complicate things but in this day and age everyone needs to know where stay stand as far as copyright etc.
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Posted by ceaser2008
@amawanqa

Thank you for your appreciation. Why not creating old magic again. Let do some exercise with our phone camera.

@carkitter

Its okay. But there must be someway.

I am sure tranced must be following what is needed for it, otherwise he would not declare it.

Posted by tranced
Regarding the calendar, laffen'd told me about a site which made calendars from photos uploaded by members. Here's part of the PM:


On 2009-11-11 18:10:52, laffen wrote:

There is a lot of copyright issues related to publication of a photo calendar by members. I know of a site which made a book based on photos submitted by members so it should be possible to do with a calendar of course. The way they arranged it was by letting all contributors having a couple of copies of the book for free and let all others have to pay for it. The profit went to a charity organization.



Posted by ceaser2008
@tranced and laffen

Why should we turn to other website for that calender, where no esato logo or other official things are not included? And lets not forget that this is the OFFICIAL camera phone shootout competition.

Dont know about others but these are my thoughts.

Apart from this, one question, when anyone upload the winner's pic on that site, the copyright issue will not come in play ???


Posted by mechexpert
wow .. man u did a deep research
.. nice job buddy

Posted by hihihans
Photos are already uploaded, so publish it for members only won't be much of a copyright problem. I think.


Posted by tranced
@ceaser2008: that was just an option.

Posted by Pitzon
Nice work! I will try to get the link in my signature also.
[ This Message was edited by: Pitzon on 2009-11-14 17:01 ]


Posted by ceaser2008
@mechexpert


Thank you

@pitzon

Thank you and welcome in this campaign. I will contact you, when required.


Posted by jj03
the tesco's near me do calendars made up from phone photo's, so it wouldn't be a stretch to get a few printed off. Of course, i would pay for the calendar, as it isn't expensive, and whats money anyways?...its there to be spent isn't it lol. btw..i may have missed the requirements, but can i enter using my omnia hd?

Posted by ceaser2008
@jj03


How can you say that you may missed the requirements. You can refere to the 1st post of camera phone competition thread. The rules are not that hard. All you need is a mobile phone with camera.

Posted by spiid
Is this going anywhere?

Posted by ceaser2008
Thank you, spiid.

You might be thinking only putting link in signature what could be done?
Actually, whereever we replay or post here in esato, we do more advertise of it. Resulting more people to visit and participate.
Think of new member. How would they came to know this place? Of course, by your and mine signature.
Thank you.
I will contact you when required.

Posted by ceaser2008
@tranced
@hihihans
@Lightspeed_x
@mriley
@Pitzon
@Raiderski
@spiid
@vudu70


Thank you all for joining this campaign. Look, because of your efforts we have highest no of entries- 34 in this month. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Also we have highest no. of voting- 34. This is made possible just with your help. I applaud for you.

But still we require more people to join this campaign. I welcome all who are willing to put link to this month- December competition and join this noble campaign. Pls reply here or PM me to get your name in.

Thank you all.

Posted by mriley
next month we will have more votes and pics than ever thats our goal

Posted by ceaser2008
Sure mriley, we will have more entries than nov'09. I like challenges which keep me motivated.

I am very happy and proud to have you in this campaign.



Posted by frankthetank
Just to let people know:

DonJuan is still about, but these days over at http://photography-on-the.net and can also be found as Anthony Mair on Flickr
[ This Message was edited by: frankthetank on 2009-12-01 22:44 ]


Posted by cyber-shoter
woa!!! nice Work man!!!

very serious work.





Posted by DonJuan
ha what a nice thread!

Im really happy to see that its still going strong!
It seems like a while ago now! thanks for the thread dedication, really appreciated and really made me smile.
I now am a professional photographer and have a website that anyone can have a look at

www.anthonymairphoto.com

i was interested in photography when i started the thread but only got my real camera last year. I wish that my current phone, the G took semi decent pics. I moved to America from England and their camera phones here kind of suck with TMobile!!! thats why i stopped entering in the competition also
but all is good!

once again big thanks and this is a great thread!!

Posted by ceaser2008

On 2009-12-02 07:03:23, DonJuan wrote:
ha what a nice thread!

Im really happy to see that its still going strong!
It seems like a while ago now! thanks for the thread dedication, really appreciated and really made me smile.
I now am a professional photographer and have a website that anyone can have a look at

http://www.anthonymairphoto.com

i was interested in photography when i started the thread but only got my real camera last year. I wish that my current phone, the G took semi decent pics. I moved to America from England and their camera phones here kind of suck with TMobile!!! thats why i stopped entering in the competition also
but all is good!

once again big thanks and this is a great thread!!



Thank you DonJuan,

Thank you for giving us such a wonderful competition.

I have started this thread mainly to boost up the competition and more new people to participate in it.

we all wish if you can take some time from your busy schedule and help us run the competition even stronger. We want to see you around, if possible,

Thanks

Posted by ceaser2008
@tranced

Thank you for updating the table and rest of the facts have been modified by me as last month was the month of many records like most no. of entries and most no. of voting as well. Raiderski has won the competition thrice.

@frankthetank

Thank you, mate. Just because of you, i was able to contact DonJuan and after long time, he has posted here.

Thank you.

@cyber-shoter

Thanks mate.


still we require more people, pls register here.



Posted by spiid
Damn it. Its gonna be hard to win now haha.
Just kidding, thats the point. good job ceaserr

Posted by ceaser2008
I suppose, if anybody want to enter this campaign. As mentioned earlier, i need more people.


I am planning a surprise for all those esatonians who has already joined this campaign, if everything works perfectly.

Posted by mriley
hahaha i love the anticipation

Posted by brys182
whoa this is interesting, im in for the campaign.

Posted by mriley
paste this into your signature mate

Visit For This Month's Exciting OFFICIAL CAMERAPHONE SHOOTOUT COMPETITION!
[ This Message was edited by: mriley on 2009-12-16 00:42 ]


Posted by ceaser2008
Welcome brys182,

Please paste the link in your signature as mriley said.

Posted by tranced
Tip: if the url is too long and won't fit in your signature, use Tiny Url

Posted by mriley
or use this code

url=(Enter Link Here)] (Write what you want to show link here) [/url]
[ This Message was edited by: mriley on 2009-12-16 02:18 ]


Posted by tranced
That's because you didn't disable the BBcode


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