July 09 - READERS READING

[odklizec]

Thank you all who participated in the June contest (vote here)! Let's start with JULY contest! This time, there will be two winners announced - "overall winner" and "honorable mention".

Theme:
The first theme for this month is "READERS READING"! Just post a photo where the main subject is someone reading something. It's kind of candid/portrait photography contest. I guess there are plenty of photos like that in your libraries?

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!

The deadline for posting contest photos is 31.07.2009 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:

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.

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;). If the overall winner does not pick the GT1 or SP license, the winner of "honorable mention" can have one of these prizes. Otherwise, he can pick something from the rest of choices.

HW prizes for this month:
- Ricoh GT1 lens + GH1 with hood (usable with GRD/GRDII) - option of choice for winner
- Special Ricoh "GR Digital" pin - very rare item! (I will post a picture later)
- Special Ricoh neck and wrist strap - another very rare item! (I will post a picture later)
- Delkin LCD cover + 4GB SDHC card + microfiber cloth for lens/LCD cleaning

SW prizes for this month:
- SILKYPIX Developer Studio, kindly provided by Shortcut Software.- option of choice for winner
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!

[Wiener]

Tourist reading the Vienna guide on the No 1 tram.

Where next?

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:54 pm

Focus length: 5.1 mm

Shutter speed: 1/125 Sec

F-number: F/2.9

ISO speed rating: 80

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: Caplio GX100

Exposure program: Normal program

Exposure bias: -17/10 EV

Metering mode: Pattern

[rui fernandes]

Timeless Reader.jpg (328.45 KiB) Viewed 1445 times

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:26 am

Focus length: 6.7 mm

Shutter speed: 1/1 Sec

F-number: F/4.2

ISO speed rating: 64

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: Caplio R3

Exposure program: Normal program

Exposure bias: -5/10 EV

Metering mode: Pattern

[Kaz de Wro]

Last tram
gx100

[fabuchan]

Relaxing in the light
GRDII

[rondo]

here is one that I would nominate:
download/file.php?id=2236
posted here:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1829

[busch63]

my little son:

[Klaatu]

Looking for useful things...........

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:32 pm

Focus length: 5.9 mm

Shutter speed: 1/17 Sec

F-number: F/3.5

ISO speed rating: 154

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: GR DIGITAL 2

Exposure program: Aperture priority

Exposure bias: 0 EV

Metering mode: Pattern

[LittleBlackBox]

iPhone Reader, from the Mall Rats series.

[Nevin]

The Curious Heads of Reading

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:35 am

Focus length: 10.5 mm

Shutter speed: 1/25 Sec

F-number: F/4.4

ISO speed rating: 200

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: RICOH GX200

Exposure program: Manual

Exposure bias: 0 EV

Metering mode: Pattern