AUGUST 2012 - MUSIC IN B&W

[odklizec]

Thank you all who participated in the July contest (you can vote >here<). It seems the July contest was a bit tough? Let's start with the August/b] contest!

Theme:
The theme for this month, selected by previous month winner (MarcusEyre1), is "MUSIC IN B&W"!

Rules:
You must post one photo right in reply to this post. Please, do not link them from other sites! Use the "Upload Attachment" instead.
The photo must be taken with Ricoh camera!
The max size of the photo is limited to 1200x800 and must contain EXIF!
Please guys, make sure your photo contains EXIF! Entries without EXIF will be disqualified! Tip for LR3 users, make sure the "limit file size" option is disabled during export! And one more thing. Photos linked from external sources are displayed without EXIF!
Ricoh film camera entries (without EXIF) are allowed, but only from people with previous forum activity and history (some previously posted Ricoh analog photos).

The deadline for posting contest photos is 31.8.2012 at 12PM forum time

Here you can learn how to upload (please, do not link) the photos right to the forum post...
http://www.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 Mediachance and 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:
- Ricoh GR pin, neck strap
- Ricoh backpack, Ricoh pen, Ricoh stickers, microfiber cloth for lens

SW prizes for this month:
- SILKYPIX Developer Studio, kindly provided by Ichikawa soft laboratory.
- 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 title! The best would be to enter the title in the "File Comment" box along with your uploaded photo. At the end of each month I'm hunting for the titles over your posts and sometime I have no other option than to use "unnamed", which is somewhat silly title

 

[dunders]

Guy Plays the Pipes



EXIF note: I hadn't got used to the 'MySet' feature, and forgot to change the lens data. This is taken with the Elmar 4/135.

 

[Fairly]

Jazz & Crime

 

[Wiener]

Travis!

The exif data seems to have become detached in PSE. I will try and restore it but just in case my incompetence wins, then this was taken on the 4th August 2012 with my GRD3...
Andy

 

[5four]

The Blues

 

[HawkeyX]

River of People

 

[game1980]

[No message]

 

[Rog Tallbloke]

[No message]

 

[Khortal]

the backstreets of the city & towns can be places of difference

Good Luck all .... .

Kort .

 

[Duane Pandorf]

Belly Up Bar, Aspen Colorado

 

[Nujuw]

Image Taken on: 2012:08:09 11:21:09
Focal Length: 15.3mm
Shutter speed: 1 / 5 sec
F-Number: 10
ISO Speed Ratings: 400
White Balance: Auto white balance
Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
Camera model : Gx 100
Exposure Program: Aperture priority
Exposure Bias Value: -0.3
Metering Mode: Center Weighted Average

 

[UMSP]

[No message]

 

[timothyckc]

[No message]

 

[Blow-in]

Hands

 

[Cristian78]

The Sax

 

[esp]

Sunday morning

 

[reddevil1909]

The girl who plays the piano.



Exif data

Camera: Ricoh GX200
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/3.4
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 64
Exposure Bias: -0.3 EV

 

[Gab]

One man band...

 

[Mainiac]

'Dover Beach' rehearsal
Sigma 105mm f2.8 lens

 

[Snapclick]

To one and all featured here: GREAT SHOTS! I'm particularly smitten with these: The Sax, River of People and Backstreets... I've been photographing for 5 (five) decades and am very impressed with the results showing-up here and on other forums that post Ricoh shooters. As one who began taking photographs w/a Rolliecord while in the seventh grade, I've loved the B&W scene and have decided to return to it w/one of these instruments: Digital IV or GXR w/M mount.

Thanks again everyone!