May 2010 - WATER

[odklizec]

Thank you all who participated in the April contest (you can vote here). Let's start with May contest!

Theme:
The contest theme for this month is "WATER"! Let's show us your best photos of Oceans, rivers, lakes...to drops or tears. All postprocessing is allowed.

Rules:
You may post one photo right in reply to this post. Please, do not link them from other sites! Use the "Upload Attachment" instead.
Contest photo must be taken with Ricoh camera!
The max size of the photo is limited to 1024x768 and the file must contain EXIF!
Please guys, make sure your photo contains EXIF! Entries without EXIF will be disqualified!
Ricoh film camera entries (without EXIF) are allowed, but only from people with previous forum activity and history (some previously posted Ricoh photos).

The deadline for posting contest photos is 31.5.2010 at 12PM forum time

Here you can learn how to upload (please, do not link) the photos right in forum post...
http://ricohforum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=56
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Contest Prizes:
Also this time, there will be some really interesting HW prizes (big thanks to our sponsors Ricoh and Alpha Digital!). Of course, there will be also the usual set of SW prizes from Shortcut, Mediachance and newly also Pixelmator!

The winner will have an option to pick either the HW or SW prize. Winner will also have an option to pick anything from the below listed prizes (just one of them of course;) ).
HW prizes for this month:
- Delkin LCD cover + Energizer battery (DB60/65 compatible - here) + microfiber cloth for lens/LCD cleaning

SW prizes for this month:
- SILKYPIX Developer Studio, kindly provided by Shortcut Software.
- Pixelmator - Image and Photo editor for Mac OS X, kindly provided by Pixelmator developers.
Or any of these, kindly provided by Mediachance...
- Dynamic Auto Painter
- Dynamic Photo HDR
- PhotoBrush
- DCE AutoEnhance
- Pure Image NR

In addition, the winner will be honored to suggest a contest theme for next month!

Good luck everyone!

PS: Please folks, give your photos a reasonable tittle! The best would be to enter the tittle in the "File Comment" box along with your uploaded photo. At the end of each month I'm hunting for the titles over the entire post and sometimes I have no other option than to use "unnamed", which is somewhat silly

[Loz]

Harking to 'back in the day' when we used to put glow sticks in our water bottles.

Clubbing.

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Wed May 05, 2010 12:41 pm

Focus length: 5.1 mm

Shutter speed: 1/1 Sec

F-number: F/2.5

ISO speed rating: 400

Whitebalance: Manual

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: Caplio GX100

Exposure program: Manual

Exposure bias: 0 EV

Metering mode: Pattern

[busch63]

waterline vs walkline

[xenolink]

Big Splash! Under the Bridge!

Bridge_Splashin.jpg (561.01 KiB) Viewed 2761 times

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Fri May 07, 2010 12:57 am

Focus length: 6 mm

Shutter speed: 1/640 Sec

F-number: F/5.6

ISO speed rating: 64

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: GR DIGITAL 3

Exposure program: Normal program

Exposure bias: -1/1 EV

Metering mode: Pattern

[Kaz de Wro]

WATERgate
gx100

[dgoakill]

Urban Waterfall.

[ollinger]

Walk like an Egyptian
GXR A12

[markus.heinisch]

A cold and unfriendly sunday afternoon at the river Isar in Munich

Isarwehr

Isarwehr-1.jpg (164.33 KiB) Viewed 2112 times

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Sun May 16, 2010 9:43 pm

Focus length: 9.4 mm

Shutter speed: 1/1000 Sec

F-number: F/4.1

ISO speed rating: 64

Whitebalance: Manual

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: RICOH GX200

Exposure program: Normal program

Exposure bias: 0 EV

Metering mode: Pattern

[Lucas]

Frozen

[RawMike]

Sea Breakwater

Sea Breakwater.jpg (584.79 KiB) Viewed 1887 times

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:54 pm

Focus length: 15.3 mm

Shutter speed: 1/500 Sec

F-number: F/10

ISO speed rating: 100

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: RICOH GX200

Exposure program: Normal program

Exposure bias: 0 EV

Metering mode: Pattern