17th Fchat Photo Contest 3/22-4/22

Congrats to Alfas!

The topic he chose is...

"Cell phone shots. No P&S, No dslr, No mirrorless...

Seems everyone has them on them at all times no reason to miss a shot. Push the limits and see what yours can do. Use whatever app/processing you can in the phone. No PP on a computer, pictures to be straight out of the phone/camera only honor system."

I think this will be a great topic, really evens the playing field. Please upload your submissions here and if you re-upload a different picture please make sure to say so.

Good luck!

 

Alright iPhone, let's see what you're made of

 

Sorry Paul, the photo has to be taken between 3/22 and 4/22.

 

Sorry. Feel free to delete

 

Unfortunately, I can't upload pics from my phone onto the internet

I'll have to sit out this one

 

You can E mail them to yourself and then post

 

i don't even have a camera phone.....

 

Yeah, or just plug your phone into your computer and save to the HD. That's usually what I do. Also, I have the Photoshop Express app on my 3GS

 

Are you living under a rock? The Round Rock?

We need to meet up next time in back home in Austin. We probably live like 2 minutes away from each other. I live by the Texaco...er..whatever they rebranded it to, on 620

Ah man, we could've just left it out not delete it. I want to see what the shot looked like.

J, does your phone have a MicroSD slot?

 

Here is an example of what my phone can produce

Straight from the camera, and untouched

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I want to win for once, I guess if I want to win, I would have to post images, instead of sitting out of the contests

 

Ju can dew it!!!

 

Me neither so I'm out for this one. And before anyone asks me if I live under a rock....no I don't but I can't have a camera with me at work so I either have a camera in my phone or I leave my phone at home (or in the car).

Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with though!

 

I have an iPod, which has no camera.

I always have my Nikon Coolpix with me for taking on the fly shots.

If I ever win a contest again, I'll select "Rocket mounted cameras only" or "Shots taken below 100 feet of water only". That'll weed out the competition

 

I think it is a fair topic.

Who would have thought that in 2011 there are actually people who have no cellphone

 

I do have a cellphone, but it is (deliberately) so basic that it has no camera (nor anything else). Call me cheap if you like, but I'm a firm believer that devices should be separated (which is also why I would never shoot video footage with my SLR or take snapshots with my digital camcorder).

Quite frankly I find this a bad topic.

 

I'm out.

 

The "challenge" is not about "your" usage of devices or being cheap. The intent of the "challenge" is to get people out making an image with a tool different than the one they might normally consider.

With the ever expanding abilities of these devices they beg the question of what they are capable of given more consideration in use than just a "shapsot".

Here are just short of 100,000 examples of what a cellphone camera can do with a little thought and effort. A number of them put to shame what a "more capable" camera system can do in the hands of a person with no ability to "see".

http://www.flickr.com/groups/73532194@N00/pool/

quite frankly, I find similar opinion's a t..., I mean shortsighted... but to each their own...

add the fact the cellphone camera will supplant the P&S market sooner than later as the market consolidates over time with improving cell cameras and there won't be a benefit to carrying two devices vs. one anymore.(one could make the compelling argument we're there already depending on what most people "need" from their P&S)

The idea for the challenge certainly was not to limit participation but to expand it given the ubiquity of the cell phone camera. I sort of assumed in a forum like fchat and it's varied demographic one would find a breadth of cellphone users that had camera's onboard encouraging participation as opposed to alienating it.

Despite these best intentions it seems I've proven the point you can't please all of the people all of the time.

 

While they might replace P&S cameras one day (they're still a long way off functionality wise) they will never replace a SLR.

To me fotography is not what I can do with a McGuiver approach but what generates the best picture. If that would be a cell phone camera, I'd be shooting solely with that. But that's not where it's at.

Fact is that so far you excluded 5 regular participants.

Oh well, I'll just have to sit this one out.

 

Just a feeling we'll have more additions than subtractions this month

 

That was not the argument I posed even remotely... mirrorless will bury the slr as it advances(that's another debate)... LOL

Sorry, but your dslr sitting on the shelf or in the bag while you are out with your P&S more often than not is exactly a McGuiver approach to photography. If image is king as you say then I'd expect the dslr to be on you more often than not. It sounds you are like a lot of people out there, me included. Want nice images, don't want the weight bulk of a dslr for just banging about(you might try mirrorless, they are capable & fun). With cell camera's for me there is no reason to buy a P&S again for simple moments and even simple hd byte's as they do a great job with little trade off to a P&S.

The best camera is the one that you have with you to catch the moment you want as best you can... these different devices are simply tools, each with its own set of abilities and trade off's... This challenge as I mentioned is to see what this particular tool is capable of.

Next time around it's phone upgrade time it might be worth the no cost free upgrade to see what they can do to embrace more opportunities for catching an image or maybe even getting rid of one extra device in your pocket...

 

not my entries for this but a few as example... in the spirit of disclosure they were re-sized on my PC

Samsung Galaxy S Captivate.
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is my webcam on my laptop close enough to a camera phone?

 

Can it call collect??

j/k!

 

skype

 

Me neither.