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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe January Photo contest has a twist!
California Peggy won the privilege of selecting this month's theme.
The entrant takes a photo of anything they want, with some restrictions!
1) Those are that the photo be taken by cell phone ONLY.
2)AND that the photo has not been post-processed in ANY way.
So, one cell phone photo, right out of the camera! NO EDITING AT ALL.
This is a "level the playing field" contest. The idea is to remove any advantage that professional equipment or editing software may provide. Cell phones do a number of things very well, apply various corrective fixes without user input and in one respect are the best camera, that is, the one you have with you. Some phones offer in camera editing and the idea is to not even use that, as close to 'straight out of the camera' as we can get. Just you and your creative eye. I do not intend to ask for second submissions.
The contest is open for submissions one week from today, Monday Jan 9 and will close one week later, Jan 16 or when the maximum of 30 entries is met. Preliminaries will be posted as soon as possible and open for votes for 72 hours. Finals immediately after and winners the same.
I will cross post this and the invitation to submit to the Lounge and to GD.
MONTHLY CONTEST:
Only one entry of your own original work per person, unless/until the Volunteer Host opens Submissions for second entries. You need to post your entry in the submission thread started by the Host of a contest. Please be sure to include a "Title" for your photograph in the Subject line of your post. The submission thread is for photo entries only, no comments, no questions. The Host will start a separate thread just for comments and questions.
Once a photo is entered in a contest it is ineligible for any future contest unless the Host specifies otherwise.
The Winner of the contest is the one that comes up with the Theme of the next contest. They can just decide on a theme or may ask for suggestions and then run a poll to pick one of them. Either way the Theme will always be at the discretion of the person who won the contest.
The Volunteer Host has the option of adding other rules to the contest they are hosting. An example would be no Black & White or all Black & White entries.
The Volunteer Host has the option of declaring the submissions being blind (no one knows who entered which photo) or public. Should the Host op for blind submissions it is their responsibility to instruct entrants on how to get their entries to the host.
Please keep your entry no larger than 1024 pixels in its longest dimension and under 675K in file size. If you need help posting a photograph or with image sizing, just ask.
The Volunteer Host is the final authority in their contests. The Volunteer Host may enter a contest as long as the Volunteer Host is not the previous winner and has not selected the theme for the contest which they are hosting.
Submissions will be limited to 30 entries maximum unless the Photography Group votes to change the limits.
The Winner of the contest agrees to pick the next month's theme. The Winner of the monthly contest may not enter the contest for which they selected a theme.
The Submission & Comment threads will be posted in the Photography Group. The Preliminary polls and Final Contest poll will be posted in GD per Admin's permission.
The Host of the Contest may copy and paste these rules into their submission thread or post a link to these rules into the submission thread. The Host WILL copy and paste the CONTEST LICENSE into the submission thread in its entirety. (At bottom of post)
Only one entry of your own original work per person, unless/until the Volunteer Host opens Submissions for second entries. You need to post your entry in the submission thread started by the Host of a contest. Please be sure to include a "Title" for your photograph in the Subject line of your post. The submission thread is for photo entries only, no comments, no questions. The Host will start a separate thread just for comments and questions.
Once a photo is entered in a contest it is ineligible for any future contest unless the Host specifies otherwise.
The Winner of the contest is the one that comes up with the Theme of the next contest. They can just decide on a theme or may ask for suggestions and then run a poll to pick one of them. Either way the Theme will always be at the discretion of the person who won the contest.
The Volunteer Host has the option of adding other rules to the contest they are hosting. An example would be no Black & White or all Black & White entries.
The Volunteer Host has the option of declaring the submissions being blind (no one knows who entered which photo) or public. Should the Host op for blind submissions it is their responsibility to instruct entrants on how to get their entries to the host.
Please keep your entry no larger than 1024 pixels in its longest dimension and under 675K in file size. If you need help posting a photograph or with image sizing, just ask.
The Volunteer Host is the final authority in their contests. The Volunteer Host may enter a contest as long as the Volunteer Host is not the previous winner and has not selected the theme for the contest which they are hosting.
Submissions will be limited to 30 entries maximum unless the Photography Group votes to change the limits.
The Winner of the contest agrees to pick the next month's theme. The Winner of the monthly contest may not enter the contest for which they selected a theme.
The Submission & Comment threads will be posted in the Photography Group. The Preliminary polls and Final Contest poll will be posted in GD per Admin's permission.
The Host of the Contest may copy and paste these rules into their submission thread or post a link to these rules into the submission thread. The Host WILL copy and paste the CONTEST LICENSE into the submission thread in its entirety. (At bottom of post)
How to post images:https://democraticunderground.com/103659987
If you don't have that one-in-a-lifetime picture in your phone already get out there and make one!
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The January Photo contest has a twist! (Original Post)
AndyS
Jan 2023
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LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)1. Okay to use telephoto lens on phone camera?
Oh
I think I found something Straight phone photo. !
AndyS
(14,559 posts)3. If you are referring to the clip on accessory lenses, no.
The intent is to use the full image as recorded and not to use the digital zoom feature either.
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)4. Great. Thanks.
Basic point and shoot .
BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)2. I
I think this is a great idea! I've seen some beautiful photos ruined by post processing.
Diamond_Dog
(32,010 posts)5. Must it be a cell phone
Can I use one taken from my IPad mini?
AndyS
(14,559 posts)7. Asking Peggy. Will get back to you asap.
AndyS
(14,559 posts)8. Peggy says yes, the concept is the same ie point n shoot. The other stipulations apply. nt
Diamond_Dog
(32,010 posts)9. Thank you Andy and Peggy.
Bayard
(22,100 posts)6. Excellent idea
Delphinus
(11,831 posts)10. Exciting!
I am going to look through my phone right now. Thanks!
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)11. Great idea...
The phones do takes good pictures.
I won't be participating because I refuse to use my phone for that, I don't want want a phone that takes pictures, my choice.
It will be fun to see what the entries are!
Good luck everyone!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,640 posts)12. Kick!
crickets
(25,981 posts)13. This is a wonderful idea! K&R