[GateCityRadio]

Lets see your best people shots taken with your point and shoots! These can be portraits, candid, street, whatever....as long as a person is in the frame. Please keep it safe for work folks!

RULES (as per usual):

1. Have lots of fun!
2. Cameras:

No cameras with sensors larger than 1".
No large format or camera typically requiring a tripod to use.
No interchangeable lens cameras.
No 35mm (D)SLRs or any camera weighing over 1kg.

Cameras permitted (cameras listed as acceptable here supersede rules above):

Mobile phones, old and new, iPods, tablets, toy cameras.
Fixed-lens 35mm and smaller-format film and digital rangefinder and viewfinder cameras.
Interchangeable or fixed-lens 110film SLRs and Pentax Q.
TLRs, 6x9, 6x7, 6x6, Medium Format "folding", "box", or "Holga-style" scale focus cameras ( subject to 1kg weight limitation).

ANY CAMERA BRAND ALLOWED.

3. Entries will close on June 30th, 2014 at Midnight (cst).
4. Maximum image dimensions are 1024x768 (ish) pixels.
5. List camera brand and model with entry for all to see, and exposure data would be nice.

6. The photos in this contest must have been shot within the last year.
7. Contest winner determines the rules, selects theme, sets closing date and judges the next competition.

8. Enter one image, however you may change your entries as many times as you like up to the contest closing date/time.
9. Feel free to post a shot ( not judged) which shows off your setup.

a few examples are attached.

Attached Images

     

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Last edited by GateCityRadio; 06-03-2014 at 01:07 PM.

[CeciProAm]

I think everyone is stunned and/or intimidated by your examples~
they are quite compelling~what did you use to shoot them?

[Mooey]

Please keep it safe for work folks!

Not sure about your second example mate

[Mr Bassie]

Some iPhone pics shot with the hipstamatic app:

[GateCityRadio]

Not sure about your second example mate

I was thinking no nudity or violence when saying that.

---------- Post added 06-03-2014 at 09:05 AM ----------

I think everyone is stunned and/or intimidated by your examples~
they are quite compelling~what did you use to shoot them?

The model shot and the woman making kettlecorn was with the MX-1, the other two were with an old Kodak P850 Superzoom.

---------- Post added 06-03-2014 at 09:06 AM ----------

Some iPhone pics shot with the hipstamatic app:

Great submissions! Please narrow it down to one by the close of the contest, thanks!

[micromacro]

How about some creative filters? Here is Samsung Galaxy4, shoot with phone filter Moody. Self portrait from January.

[Mooey]

I was thinking no nudity or violence when saying that.

NSFW (to me) means, if somebody happens to walk past your monitor in work and sees whats on the screen....would they think you were looking at something you shouldnt be

[GateCityRadio]

NSFW (to me) means, if somebody happens to walk past your monitor in work and sees whats on the screen....would they think you were looking at something you shouldnt be

Okay, removed it.

[Jacquot]

Here's a first for me...

Saying good bye to friends. Fuji X10.

[ivoire]

Street performer does a flip over 4 people. Sigma DP2M

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[Mr Bassie]

Are Sigma merrills allowed? I thought they do not meet the criteria. Cool shot though ivoire.

[crewl1]

Pentax Q7 (is it allowed?)

Camera make
PENTAX
Camera model
PENTAX Q7
Date/Time
2013:11:03 13:24:18
Resolution
768 x 1024
Flash used
No
Focal length
33.2mm (35mm equivalent: 153mm)
Exposure time
0.0050 s (1/200)
Aperture
f/2.8
ISO equiv.
100
Whitebalance
Auto
Metering Mode
center weight
Exposure
aperture priority (semi-auto)
Focus range
close
Keywords
Dia de Los Muertos
DateCreated
20131103
Time Created
132418

[ChristianRock]

I guess technically the DP2M qualifies based on the fact that the lens is fixed and the sensor is 35mm size or less. The line that says it qualifies says it should be a rangefinder/viewfinder camera but it's been allowed before.

The Q7 qualifies for sure, there's a line where it is explicitly allowed (all Q's are allowed, from what I understand by reading the 3rd line of the "cameras permitted").

The point is that since a Ricoh GR and the Sigma DP cameras are allowed - and a Sony RX1 would be allowed as well - it's a bit difficult for a compact camera in the classical sense - like my Pentax Optio - to compete with these cameras that give results that are better than most APS-C ILCs out there. And I think that's fine - compacts as we knew them are a dying market and probably won't exist in a few short years.

But I participate anyway, when I'm able, because to me it's about the challenge of taking a picture within the theme. Plus knowing I probably have no chance, takes away any pressure and I can just shoot whatever I want without worrying about what everybody else will think.

[ivoire]

I guess technically the DP2M qualifies based on the fact that the lens is fixed and the sensor is 35mm size or less. The line that says it qualifies says it should be a rangefinder/viewfinder camera but it's been allowed before.

The Q7 qualifies for sure, there's a line where it is explicitly allowed (all Q's are allowed, from what I understand by reading the 3rd line of the "cameras permitted").

The point is that since a Ricoh GR and the Sigma DP cameras are allowed - and a Sony RX1 would be allowed as well - it's a bit difficult for a compact camera in the classical sense - like my Pentax Optio - to compete with these cameras that give results that are better than most APS-C ILCs out there. And I think that's fine - compacts as we knew them are a dying market and probably won't exist in a few short years.

But I participate anyway, when I'm able, because to me it's about the challenge of taking a picture within the theme. Plus knowing I probably have no chance, takes away any pressure and I can just shoot whatever I want without worrying about what everybody else will think.

@CR...Since the DP#M's were allowed in the last comp I thought I'd drop one in. It's up to GateCityRadio (rule #7) as to its allowance. Keep in mind that he won the last competition using the MX-1. It's not necessarily the tech of the camera that counts in producing great images.

---------- Post added 06-05-2014 at 10:52 AM ----------

Pentax Q7 (is it allowed?)

Camera make
PENTAX
Camera model
PENTAX Q7
Date/Time
2013:11:03 13:24:18
Resolution
768 x 1024
Flash used
No
Focal length
33.2mm (35mm equivalent: 153mm)
Exposure time
0.0050 s (1/200)
Aperture
f/2.8
ISO equiv.
100
Whitebalance
Auto
Metering Mode
center weight
Exposure
aperture priority (semi-auto)
Focus range
close
Keywords
Dia de Los Muertos
DateCreated
20131103
Time Created
132418

@crewl1...1/1.7" in the Q7 is smaller than 1" sensor so you're good and so is that image! Like it a lot

@Mr Bassie... First one is my favorite and thanks.

@micromacro... very cool image

@Jacquot... Great family shot

[micromacro]

So, smartphones are out? Ooops....