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The Official Esato Phone Camera Shootout Competition January 2016: "Reflection"


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Posted by ok1907
Happy new year.

I really like reflections in photos. It doesn't have to be on water. Any surface or material is ok as long as it represents some sort of reflection. I think it is a good theme to be creative.

Here are some photos from members:









RULES:

- Pictures must be taken with a mobile phone by that member.
- Only 1 photo with allowance for only 1 change.
- No archive photos & photos must be taken in January 2016.
- Post full size photo here http://www.esato.com/phonephotos/ & post a link to that photo.
- Post processing is allowed, but nothing extreme like adding/removing objects or altering the composition in any way.
[ This Message was edited by: ok1907 on 2016-01-04 00:46 ]



Posted by emerson_shei
Amazing Theme... Congratulations

Posted by hihihans
Yay Welcome to 2016.
As I understand that many people still have problems to upload to Esato.
We accept other forms too. Skydrive/ Flickr / whatever.
Good luck everone. Happy new year. Happy new theme.
📷

Posted by mlife
I see the rules for this month don't reflect the allowance of post processing.... did we decide against that? I think it's time we let this competition evolve and maybe attract more folks to enter/compete..... It's a new Year, lets get some new rules and maybe breath some life back into the competition.

just my .02

Posted by goldenface
I agree.

Posted by hihihans
I'm always in for suggestions.
Only saturation and white balance?
I see no problem in simple things like that.

Posted by ok1907
I am not against processing unless there is adding or removing objects. Composition is the important thing for me. You decide how much processing is allowed and I'll add it to the rules.

Posted by mlife
.... My thoughts were just "in phone" processing for color, tint sharpness, HDR, focus stacking etc.... things which could enhance an image but not alter its composition. I agree with no adding/removing objects and would even maybe disallow cropping as to keep the original composition as much as possible.

Posted by difenbaker
I agree...some post processing should be allowed. But not too much that the photo doesn't look 'natural' or realistic.

Composition is the key - any post processing should not deviate from the overall composition of the shot. Most phones nowadays can adjust brightness, cropping, saturation, sharpness, hue, contrast,... some even have HDR and speed adjustments. I think that as long we stick to those SAME editing features as phones do... we should be okay, right?

cheers!

Posted by mlife
No editing or PP, just figured I would kick off the month...


Original

Posted by difenbaker


Im having a bit of a problem uploading to the esato gallery, so here's a Flickr link.
Link:


cheers!
[ This Message was edited by: difenbaker on 2016-01-13 12:42 ]


Posted by hihihans
Cool pic

Posted by bronxdude

[ This Message was edited by: bronxdude on 2016-01-14 11:12 ]


Posted by hihihans
I'm waiting for some sunshine. Nothing reflects in dizzling rain.

Posted by mlife
WoW.... some great entries!! I should probably step my game up.... Nice work difenbaker and bronxdude!

Posted by tranced
I have a candidate, but I'm not sure yet.

Posted by bronxdude
when do we vote? haha!

Posted by tranced

Original

Posted by ok1907
10 hours left to participate.

Posted by ok1907
Ok then. Time to vote. It has been a quiet month. There are 4 entries.

mlife


Original

difenbaker



bronxdude



tranced


Original

Please write the name you want in bold.
[ This Message was edited by: ok1907 on 2016-01-28 23:01 ]


Posted by mlife
difenbaker

Posted by hihihans
WoW ok1907. Straight at 0.00
I just couldn't find inspiration last month.
My vote, euhmmmm difenbaker

Posted by McKinley
My vote goes to difenbaker
[ This Message was edited by: McKinley on 2016-01-29 08:55 ]


Posted by tranced
difenbaker gets my vote

Posted by emerson_shei
My vote goes to Bronxdude !

P.S: I make a request to the winner of this month, please choose for the month of February an easy and globalized theme so that everyone can participate... Let's shake the Esato, let's save it!

Posted by hihihans
@emerson. Every theme is as easy or hard as one makes it.


Posted by emporium
bronxdude

Posted by Masterful
bronxdude

Posted by ShortyPretty
bronxdude

Posted by hihihans
This brings us to the beginning of February.
Oh wait. Do we have a winner?
DIFENBAKER


Sorry bronxdude. If you count its also 4 votes for you but shorty was out of time.

Congratulations. You can start the new theme whenever youre ready Difenbaker.

Posted by tranced
Congratulations, difenbaker!

Posted by difenbaker
Thanks for the votes guys! Sorry for the late reply... been away for a few days.

I'll start the new thread for February right away...

cheers!




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