The November Challenge was a great success! It was inspiring to see all the great submissions. The November Challenge was one of the most successful challenges yet in terms of participation.
Personally, I am still using my iPhone regularly to capture interesting things I see when I don’t have my DSLR with me. Sometimes, it’s just not practical — or permissible — to have a full size camera. But the iPhone is always with me. How about you? Has the November Challenge helped you find new ways to use the camera in your mobile phone?
I was planning to pick a few submissions to feature, but there were just too many great shots to choose from. So rather than just looking a a few shots, here is a slideshow of all the photos from the 2009 November Challenge. Enjoy!
It’s time for another super exciting Monthly Challenge! This will be the last Monthly Challenge for 2009, and it’s going to be a lot of fun. For the month of November, your challenge is to shoot and post one photo per day, using your mobile phone!
"Greeted By The Fog" by Jeremy Brooks
Here are the guidelines:
Each photo must be taken with a mobile phone.
All editing (cropping, image adjustments, effects, etc.) MUST be done ON THE MOBILE DEVICE!
The photo can be uploaded to Flickr using any means, but you MUST NOT change the appearance of the photo after it leaves the mobile device.
"Point of entry 16/365" by jøhn ƒaher†y phø†øgraphy
Depending on the mobile device you use, you may have quite a few options open to you when it comes to editing. Even if you use a mobile phone that does not have fancy editing available, give the challenge a try! You will most likely find that you can capture interesting and unique images using whatever technology you have available.
"Long boat" by dave_apple
If you use an iPhone, you might want to check out these apps:
Best Camera ($2.99) Provides effect filters and a crop tool. Filters can be combined to get different effects.
AutoStitch ($1.99) Simple to use app for stitching together multiple photos to form one large panorama photograph. Samples can be found here.
Photogene ($2.99) Provides crop, sharpen, histogram, exposure, contrast, saturation, color temperature, straighten, rotate, mirror, and effects.
Photoshop Mobile (FREE) Provides very good crop tool, rotate, flip, exposure, saturation, tint, black and white, filters, and various effects.
Flickr (FREE) You can use this app to upload and tag your photos directly from your iPhone. You can also browse Flickr.
Camera Bag ($0.99) Filters to emulate various classic camera and film looks. Normally $1.99, but currently on sale for $.99.
There are many, many more applications for the iPhone that are geared toward photography. Just search for photography in the app store to find them, or browse the Photography section of the app store on your phone.
If you use an Android based device, check out these applications:
PicSay Pro The award winning photo editor for Android. Spice up the pictures on your mobile phone and share them with your friends.
Snap Photo Pro ($0.99) Snap Photo Pro has a stability feature that only snaps the photo when you’re holding the phone still. Very nice! And Android let’s you replace it as the default camera app.
"Walkway in a Winter Wonderland" by Daniel Greene
No matter what device you use, it’s probably worth your time to check out thebestcamera.com, which is the site associated with the Best Camera app. You can also look at the Flickr groups “Photos Taken With An Apple iPhone” and “Cameraphone“. There are some fantastic examples of what can be done with relatively simple cameras.
As usual, please add the tag “NovemberChallenge2009″ to each photo you upload for this challenge so we can find them. Then add “NovemberChallenge2009-01″ to each day’s submission, making sure to update the last number for each day. In addition, please add each photo to the photochallenge.org group on Flickr.
"Here's my ride!" by Daniel Greene
This is our last monthly challenge for 2009. Let’s make it the best one yet!
As we’ve attempted a wide variety of topics for our photo challenges, I’ve had a really good time. Not only have I learned more about photography, I’ve become more and more observant. Colors talk to me. I see wonderful light sources, casting their power upon a subject. Sometimes, I just see a scene in black and white. I’m always seeing wonderful portrait potential.
Each challenge has brought a slightly different group of participants. We’ve had over 25 a couple of times, and we’ve had as few as 3 or 4. You’d think I might become disappointed by the smaller numbers, but oddly enough I’m unphased.
I’m sure that the topics have influenced how many participate. If you’re not interested, or think you won’t have the time or energy to hunt down the desired topic, you might decide to skip this one. My encouragement to you is to consider that we grow the most, when we’re challenged to work outside our normal boundaries.
During this political season, here in the US, I’ve actually spent more energy reading and listening to the opposing party. I have not compromised my worldview, but I have expanded what news I have chosen to consume.
This applies to our art too. Challenge yourself, this November, to get out and successfully participate in the challenge. What’s odd, is that I’m pushing you to do this, with no real motive. Unless you see your growth and my happiness from that, as motive. Yes, I have an ad running on this blog. But I run that ad on my personal blog and Photowalking.org too. I’m not getting any kickbacks or cash for clicks. All I get is a nice pro account, with SmugMug.
OK, you’ve lasted this long…what’s the challenge? If you read the blog title, you already know. We’re going to shoot scenes of manual labor. I wanted to set out to simply shoot work, but that became a little vague, as I researched it some more.
So, the goal is manual labor. With the shift of the seasons, fall here in the northern hemisphere and spring in the southern, there will be much transition in our lives. There are leaves to rake, wood to chop, repairs to be made. Go out and shoot it all!
We’ll start shooting and submitting on November 1st, 2008. Make sure to tag your photos correctly, “novemberchallenge2008“.
What happened with the September Challenge? Did we have a winner? Yes, the judges and I are selecting the winner right now. I hope to announce the winner and their prize in the next week, or so.
