'Water' challenge

[EasyTiger]

This weeks challenge is 'water'. As always if you're unsure of the rules visit the 'challenge rules' thread, and if you're answers cannot be answered there PM me. Interpret this theme however you wish. have fun!

My entry :

This photo is my favourite all time photo, the only ps work done was to add a duotone to it in photoshop.

[basstard]

Umm...this is fairly water-involved.

It was going to be entered in sunrise/sunset, but i registered on the old forums a couple days after entries closed.

[EasyTiger]

shame about the artifacts you have on there, because that's a gorgeous photo :)

[basstard]

resized it to make it look better.

My digital camera's small and not particularly good at quality pics, 800x600 being the max size. It looks better now I've resized it.

[EasyTiger]

nice one. That does look better :) Very nice photie!

[Ly]

yay! another from norfolk, not that it can compete with yours, ET...
:)

[EasyTiger]

very purdy!

[2PieR]

My camera arrives tomorrow and I plan to blow all 150 shots trying to photograph the kingfisher on a dive. That thing must goa bout 40mph... but I'll get it one day.

I will EDIT this when I have a good shot of the canal, hopefully with either the ducklings or the kingfisher.

[moog]

lots of water and 2 angry swaaaaaaans

[EasyTiger]

very nice kernal!

[moog]

thank you darling \o/

[*coo*]

you dont know how long this took me, but im loving the outcome

i call it: dye in a goldfish bowl!

[PeePers]

good one coo
:)
very purdy

like yourself

[[murray]]

Originally posted by *coo*
you dont know how long this took me, but im loving the outcome

i call it: dye in a goldfish bowl!

Thats very good.

Very mystical, I like it a lot :).

Only a couple of weeks til I can afford my digicam.

[katox]

oooh coo that is lovely. :) well done.

[wilywampa]

my first entry for one of these thingies..

[EasyTiger]

very nice!

yours was very good too coo.
Some wonderful entries for this one guys :)

[DarkTrojan]

I guess I could enter, given the amount of water photos I have .....

[stav]

http://cheesefarm.co.uk/pics/DSCI00017.jpg

this is the only pic i have with water in it

[Fick]

Very impressive photies there everyone!

Hopefully I'll be able to work out how to upload mine from here, since I still don't have internet at my uni house, and I'm currently stuck on a mac in college.

[2PieR]

My Kodak CX6230 arrived today! My first proper digicam! Here is my water pic... it's of the canal. Thans EasyTiger and Manny for helping me pick this camera, I am extremely pleased with the results... I've taken about fifty shots so far today! Loving it.

[Flower]

http://www.rob-and-sarah.co.uk/images/bob_underwater.gif

Had to really reduce the number of colours to reduce the file size, which is a shame.

[EasyTiger]

great photos guys! :D

[Rhaeniel]

Hey ET, whatever happened to the whole 'sending pics to you first so it's not just a favouritism contest' idea?
Ah well, here's my pic.
Taken at Centre Parcs by my own fair hand.
I love that red sand under the water :)

(full-size version here) (http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/jostacey/lake01.JPG)

http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/jostacey/lake01smaller.jpg

[EasyTiger]

nice one R :)

Yes I think we'll do that when I can sort out a website for it all and such. Just too busy at the mo :shock:

[Rhaeniel]

Fair enough.

Nice pics all :) I'll be stealing these for my desktop :D It changes constantly and I have a thing for water... and hands O.o the last two challenges have been a bit spooky really!

Ah well, keep clicking ^_^

[bethie_nova]

2nd attempt...
Hopefully this will be my first post and first entry. I can't seem to get the vB code thingy to work.
OK. The picture was taken at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, looking down into the aquarium.

[DeathOfPies]

cool photos, i like the apquarium one

[EasyTiger]

very good bethie_nova :)

[Rhaeniel]

Ooh, I do like Bethie's one :) very nice.

[bethie_nova]

Thanks guys. :) This one was a suprise for me because I thought I had left the polarizing filter on my lens. The reflections in the water would have been gone if I had, and turns out they make the picture much more interesting.

[EasyTiger]

how would you not have got reflections with a polarising filter?
I only ask because I have a circular polarising filter, and i'm sure i've had reflections in water before...

[manny]

flower: try saving it as a jpeg, then you can use full 24bit colour and it shouldnt be too large.

I believe the file attachment size has been increased to 200kb.

[Flower]

Cheers manny.

ET - relfections are polarised - so if you have a polarising filter it removes them. though I assume it depends on which way they are polarised, and which way your filter is. mebbe.

[bethie_nova]

Generally speaking, polarizing filters assist in reducing reflections from windows and the like. It may not work as well on water, but I'm not 100% sure on that.. When it's a hazy day out, I know it will help you get a sharper picture, if that's the effect you're after. I had another picture I thought about entering for this contest that's a black and white infrared using a red filter. It's not my official entry, but if you want to see it, it's at http://www.geocities.com/bethie_nova/land4.jpg


Damn geocities... http://www.geocities.com/bethie_nova/photography.html and then it's landscape 3

[Flower]

have a look here:

http://www.offrench.net/photos/articles/polarizing_filter.php

[EasyTiger]

cheers flower and Bethie.
You learn something every day :)

[manny]

http://ninjarobots.net/photos/128_2803.jpg

[basstard]

wow manny...how'd u take that pic?

was it photoshopped/underwater camera or just a really good relfection?

It looks great, however you took it.

[EasyTiger]

gorgeous manny! I love it :)

[wilywampa]

flip it upside-down and it's a lot easier to understand

[Meteuro]

This is my first entry. Nothing done to it in photoshop simply because I would probably do more harm than good. It was taken at school camp with a disposable camera. I nearly got a black eye 'cause I took so many pictures of waves that always slammed the camera back onto my face. Ouchies.

Edit: Sorry, didn't realise it was bitmap. Fixed now.

[EasyTiger]

nice one meteuro :)

[I'm Jim Too]

I am on the verge of buying myself a proper camera - honest! :p
http://www.jhillier.clara.co.uk/Image041.jpg
mmm boating on the serpentine...

[fishstick]

this is my friend trying to convince me to pick up waterskiiing :D
he was unsuccessful. lol

[katox]

http://members.lycos.co.uk/kissingkats/markwet3.JPG

well done et for making such a fab competition. gonna be so hard to choose a winner! :O :D


ooh yes. this pic (mm shoddyness) was inspired by Millias' Ophelia (sorta) -

http://65.107.211.206/painting/millais/paintings/ophelia.jpg

such a beautiful and sad painting.

[Microman]

very nice picture, has a lot of meaning

here is a pic i did while i was in yellowstone this summer, (a national park in the USA) any way i took this pic while i was walking on a trail, its not my best pics i have, but i cant realy get my slid film on the comp now can i, that is unless i get internegs, but i am cheep, any way this is a 800x600 pic, if it were less it would be hard to see, i hope that is in the size requierments

[sarro]

scubA fuN!!
actually sn0rkeling at the time, thats a piece of d0g f00d in his mouf!!

[DarkTrojan]

Another dead body in your bath kat?

[Shpox]

either that or she fell asleep again.

[Rhaeniel]

wow I can't believe how many people have entered this time!
This has become very popular ET.
Now there's too many to choose from =/

[EasyTiger]

There are so many to choose between yeah. It'll be good they'll be group voting, so you can narrow it down ;oD

Fantastic photos there guys :)

[katox]

hah. it's my brother. mmm drownings. freak you out enough to vote for me pinkerbell? ;)

[EasyTiger]

oi behave :P
There will be no rallying for votes!
Besides which, you've won one already! Some of us havn't :P

[katox]

just wheelin an dealin ma man! bitta duckin and divin, know what i meeeeeeaan?:p

[stav]

i think it was just an attempt to try to kill your brother and take photos of it ;)

[EasyTiger]

challenge is over :)

For voting, there will be 3 groups. The winners or 2 closest winners from those groups will then go forward into a final vote.