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History and Facts of Esato's Cameraphone shootout Competition |
ceaser2008
Joined: Jul 14, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: Surat, India
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I dedicate this thread to DonJuan. Thank you for everything. 
Originally, the idea of starting such thread was came up in the mind of DonJuan. He is the starter of such a amazing thread. He has this idea way back in Sept' 2006. He had started a thread Best Picture. to talk with the moderators and to get the views of other members on this. It took almost one and half year to get things going for it and on Jan' 2008, first competition thread was started. First, Jan' 2008, competition was started by mizzle with 'Water' as a theme. The major rules were the same as present rules except few. One of that was - no editing on PC, only in phone by PhotoDJ allowed. From second month, minor post-processing like image correction, noise reduction allowed.
There was major argument on archived pictures, as DonJuan wanted the picture for the competition to be taken in Jan month only to boost up the creativity and imagination of shooter. But it was not mentioned in rules, so archived pictures were also uploaded. Because of that the number of entries went as high as 37.
Nanu was the first to enter the competition with picture. Muhammad-Oli was picked as a winner not by voting but by the sheer knowledge of mizzle. Due to lack of time, mizzle had handed over the competition to DonJuan. From second month DonJuan was the host of the competition. First month went very awful as so many arguments, archived pictures and lot of Do's & Dont's as it was expected i guess. But from second month, every thing was nice, straight and well organised. Very quickly DonJuan got it right. This shows the class and master-piece of his work and handling.
For first 3 months- Jan, Feb, March' 08, the rule of uploading original picture on 'phonephotos' section was not introduced. Everybody had to mention the details like phone used, if they had done any post-processing and why they feel the word or phrase ( Theme ) influence the picture. Until in March' 08, Muhammad-Oli suggested to upload the original picture to phonephoto section in order to save the exif data and quickly Amras had followed his suggestion. From April' 08, rule of uploading original picture to phonephoto section was incorporated.
Till April' 08, the one rule was - every participants must vote in order to qualify otherwise their entry would be considered invalid. Though it was not followed by words but during this DonJuan had PM all participants to vote. This rule was short listed from May' 08 by DonJuan himself.
The theme chosen by DonJuan has clear, distinct, more of a feeling - expression like and outstanding touch. E.g Love, Priceless, People, Black & White, Urban life.
DonJuan had disappeared in the month Sept' 08 may be due to lack of entries. As this competition was his idea and he had nourished it for 2 years, so he could not see this thread dying. Only 4 entries were there. He re-appeared once in Nov' 08 but after that no traces of him.  But now if he see that his idea had not died and the competition is going very well, he must be feeling proud.
DonJuan had once declared that he would give the winner of Dec' 08, the calender of whole year's winning pictures as a award from his expense. But it did not happen.
From Feb' 08 to Sept' 08, DonJuan had selected the theme and hosted the competition but due to his disappearance, in Oct' 08, Marty Mcfly, winner of Sept' 08 had hosted and selected the theme for the first time. From there on, winner is deciding the next month's theme and host it.
In Oct' 08, moderator maseur had made the thread sticky.
In terms of entries, Jan' 08 is the most successful month but due to archived pictures, i would say most successful month is Nov' 09 having 34 entries and the theme was 'Ultra Macro'. Least number of entries was in March 2016 with only 2 and the theme was 'Plastic', can you believe it?
From April' 10, new rule was introduced. The idea was given by Pitzon. The rule is 'Every participent can change his entry for one time only. He has to post his new entry in new post and old entry must be removed.' The intension behind this rule is to give freedom to participent to change his entry, if he finds a better one.
Most number of votes were casted in Oktober '13 with 'Autumn Colours' theme, having 36 votes and the winner was Bonovox with 17 votes in his bag. Least voting done in Dec' 08, only 4.
We had tie for the first time in June' 09 between mechexpert and -PERFECT-. Both had begged 6 votes each. The theme was 'Nature' by Raiderski.
There was a 4way tie in Januari '11 "A New Start" After a second round of voting VLADISLAUS took the victory.
Highest number of votes to the winner is 21 and it is in Apr' 10, winner is Raiderski having theme 'Technology'. Least number of votes to the winner is 2 in Dec' 08. nnr3 was the winner and theme was 'Vehicles'.
Due to a bug at the host server we had to cancel the December 2015 theme. ok1907 is declared as winner of that month because 9_Destiny handed his Nov'15 over to him.
9_Destiny is our Top photographer with 8 victories.
Raiders, life and hihihans have won the competition 4 times.
Congratulations to all.
My intention behind starting this thread and all this research is to spread awareness about monthly cameraphone shootout competition, so that more and more people would visit the thread and participate. In this campaign, I need few people from esato, who can spread the awareness willingly, only by putting the link to the current month's competition in their signature, like I did, like our beloved mod tranced did.
Those who agree, pls post here or PM me and get your name in my list as i have other idea as well for you.
Thank you.
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spiid
Joined: Jul 18, 2008
Posts: 91
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GREAT effort!!!!!!
I will gladly put the link in my signature  |
hihihans
Joined: Mar 15, 2009
Posts: > 500
From: Netherlands
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That's some serious research. 
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ceaser2008
Joined: Jul 14, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: Surat, India
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@tranced
I think, now i understand why you are so popular mod. thank you for re-arranging the table. Now, it looks decent, nice and clear then my mess.
Thank you once again.
@hihihans
Thank you and Welcome in my campaign. I will PM you, when required.
By the way, it looks cool in your signature.
@spiid
Thanks for appreciation.
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tranced
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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You're welcome. Masseur had his part here too 
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ceaser2008
Joined: Jul 14, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: Surat, India
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On 2009-11-11 03:49:00, tranced wrote:
You're welcome. Masseur had his part here too
Thanks Messeur for everything what you did for this thread and for the monthly shootout competition. I know your work was very secret and silent way, but i came to know your efforts today morning, in saving and protecting DonJuan's effort.
Thank you.
By the way, tranced, whats time in your region? It must be day out there, cause here in india, i have created the thread last night around 10.30 pm and right now its morning here, 9 am, and i can see you guys are still replying. Good job, guys.
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carkitter
Joined: Apr 29, 2005
Posts: > 500
From: Auckland, NZ
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"DonJuan had once declared that he would give the winner of Dec' 08, the calender of whole year's winning pictures as a award from his expense. But it did not happen. "
Perhaps someone who is good at creating pdf files could do that this December so that Esato members could download it and print it off at their leisure? I would love to have an Esato calendar, it could have entries on it marking important months such as Esato's/Laffen's/Masseur's brithdays, playtime, Esato Awards, release date of X10 etc... 
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tranced
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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@ceaser2008: it's GMT-4:00.
@carkitter: we could ask to either to razec, SE cz, White Eye, or any other photoshopper here to make the calendars.
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gola
Joined: Jul 17, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: South Africa
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This should be on wiki.... lol, nice job
"Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do!"
Proverbs 4: 7 |
Raiderski
Joined: Jul 03, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: Poland, Hell, Mountains
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ahh, ok, I'll put link to competition in my signature
I'm wondering, is possible to add and expose link to competition in Esato Photos section?
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ceaser2008
Joined: Jul 14, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: Surat, India
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@gola
Thank you.
@Raiderski
Welcome to campaign. i was expecting this from you. I will PM you, for further step.
By the way, congrats for winning the competition twice.
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idumbakumar
Joined: Oct 01, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: chennai,india.
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good work man.... |
Lightspeed_x
Joined: Mar 03, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: Dominican Republic
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Nice thread!, count me in!
Xperia Z2 4.4.2 Kitkat |
ceaser2008
Joined: Jul 14, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: Surat, India
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@Lightspeed_x
Welcome in campaign. Pls put the link to current month's competition in your signature.
I will contact you in future.
@idumbakumar
Thanks my friend.
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Bonovox
Joined: Apr 13, 2008
Posts: > 500
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This is good congrats to the winners
Phone?? What phone?? | |
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Access the forum with a mobile phone via esato.mobi
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Posted: 2009-11-10 17:48
jay0726 | 
