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Weekly photo contest - August 1 - 9 - Street on my phone

akash.nu

akash.nu

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May 26, 2016
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Apologies for the late post but it has been a crazy busy week for me at work. Even now I’m trying to get this post up during my commute back home because I still have to work once I get in.

With that out of the way, let’s dive into this week’s topic. So I’m a phone photography enthusiast as a lot of you might know. I’ve recently started to dabble into street photography but since I only have my phone on me most of the times, I’m only looking at it from what can be achieved given the constraints of a small sensor coupled with lack of zoom etc.

So this week I’m really intrigued to see what the amazing contributors on here can achieve with their phones when it comes to street themed photography. Capturing moments, unplanned smiles, kids sharing food by the river, street photography can literally bring in so much unplanned context to a situation. So amuse me guys.

The rules are same as usual -

· The photographs must be your own work.

· Be creative and have fun.

· You may only submit one photo per contest.

· Please do not comment on photos until after the judging has taken place.

· The contest runs for a week and starts now!

· At the end of the week, last week’s winner will choose a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place photo, providing as much feedback as possible.

· If the winner is unable to complete the selection within 48 hours of the deadline for close, then a vote will be carried out to select a winner. This will be based on the number of "likes" each image has. In the event of a draw, the second place winner from the previous week will choose the tiebreaker.

· The 1st place winner will start a new thread with the topic/theme of their choice, and act as the judge for that contest. (Winner has 48 hours to create new theme, after that it defers to 2nd place).

· Please update the Weekly Contest Master List when you post a new contest.

Some inspiration here from my own shots:

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deep diver

deep diver

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I'll help fill out the numbers.

This young man’s parents own a falafel stand inside Cleveland’s West Side Market. He was not happy about having to pick the parsley leaves from the stems.

I rendered this as an infrared image to create all of the negative space that draws the eye to the boy’s face.

Full disclosure — This was shot with an older Android phone.

Gottlieb - Westside Market - 19 B&W resize.jpg

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akash.nu

akash.nu

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Hi guys, apologies. It hasn’t been a good week. Unfortunately I’m at a really tight situation and won’t be able to type up the detailed response I originally wanted to but here is the verdict -

@deep diver is the winner for me. The backstory coupled with the concentration of the boy working really set the mood for me.

@Indydenny a close second. Nice background with the  store, just feel like if it was a different angle with maybe people walking in to the store would have made it a better one for me.

@mollyc nice one as always, sunset in the cityscape feels awesome. Like the dark foreground with the buildings.

Thanks everyone for the entries and apologies for the delay this week.
 
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akash.nu said:
Hi guys, apologies. It hasn’t been a good week. Unfortunately I’m at a really tight situation and won’t be able to type up the detailed response I originally wanted to but here is the verdict -

@deep diver is the winner for me. The backstory coupled with the concentration of the boy working really set the mood for me.

@Indydenny a close second. Nice background with the  store, just feel like if it was a different angle with maybe people walking in to the store would have made it a better one for me.

@mollyc nice one as always, sunset in the cityscape feels awesome. Like the dark foreground with the buildings.

Thanks everyone for the entries and apologies for the delay this week.
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Thanks for the win. I really did not expect it. The original image doesn't look very good, and it took me a while to figure out what to do with it. I used my phone because we had finished the shoot and were on the way back to the car. I was being too lazy to take out my camera again.
The boy is concentrating on being angry and he was talking it out on the defenseless parsley.
I'll get something put up by the end of the day.
 
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