# Photo Contest Vote! May '08 Theme: Water **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 2, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386 "2008-06-02T06:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/21 "2008-06-03T06:21:49Z")
Call me crazy, but I think we may be seeing a winner. ---
**Author:** ![chino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/22 "2008-06-03T06:38:28Z")
haha yea… i think so ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/23 "2008-06-03T06:40:26Z")
Fox News would have called this vote early Monday morning. Even CNN would have called it by now. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/24 "2008-06-03T06:47:19Z")
hate to admit it…but i think the photos are pretty weak to be considered for a contest. ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/25 "2008-06-03T06:47:24Z")
ok, I’ll leave voting open for the rest of today, just before I leave (5PM), I’ll give someone their props! ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/26 "2008-06-03T06:48:23Z")
> [@LAFENGAS](#): > > hate to admit it…but i think the photos are pretty weak to be considered for a contest. The photo I orig took got lost on my usb drive so I had to take one the the day before which wasn’t the greatest… I know you have a camera so you better enter next months 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/27 "2008-06-03T06:50:02Z")
who submitted wet. it seems something is fishy with that photo… ---
**Author:** ![SkunkApe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skunkape/32/7575_2.png) [@SkunkApe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SkunkApe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/28 "2008-06-03T06:51:03Z")
> [@LAFENGAS](#): > > hate to admit it…but i think the photos are pretty weak to be considered for a contest. OMG THANK YOU!!! 👏 dont get me wrong…props for people taking the time to take the pics, more than i can say for myself since im really not into photography… but these are just not very good at all. ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/29 "2008-06-03T06:53:49Z")
> [@Locutus](#): > > who submitted wet. it seems something is fishy with that photo… what do you mean fishy? ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/30 "2008-06-03T06:58:52Z")
> [@SkunkApe](#): > > OMG THANK YOU!!! > > dont get me wrong…props for people taking the time to take the pics, more than i can say for myself since im really not into photography… but these are just not very good at all. Oh, and I have plenty of pictures I’d enter into a contest but the fact that the picture was supposed to be taken within the couple weeks could account for your lack of enthusiasm for the entries. ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/31 "2008-06-03T06:59:16Z")
> [@BluBalls](#): > > what do you mean fishy? It means I found some things in the photo that may be indicative of “more than a touch up in photoshop” lets just say, its not clearly a chop, but I found some statistical anomalies that lead me to believe its been manipulated past teh typical clean up. ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/32 "2008-06-03T07:01:50Z")
> [@Locutus](#): > > It means I found some things in the photo that may be indicative of “more than a touch up in photoshop” > > lets just say, its not clearly a chop, but I found some statistical anomalies that lead me to believe its been manipulated past teh typical clean up. There isn’t anything wrong with that, someone could have submitted an HDRi if they wanted. ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/33 "2008-06-03T07:02:39Z")
> [@SkunkApe](#): > > OMG THANK YOU!!! > > 👏 > > dont get me wrong…props for people taking the time to take the pics, more than i can say for myself since im really not into photography… but these are just not very good at all. why do u have to hate its not healthy to be mad at everyone/everything ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/34 "2008-06-03T07:15:38Z")
> [@Locutus](#): > > It means I found some things in the photo that may be indicative of “more than a touch up in photoshop” > > lets just say, its not clearly a chop, but I found some statistical anomalies that lead me to believe its been manipulated past teh typical clean up. Since the contest is fairly over, I actually took that picture 🙂 There was very little photoshop done. I simply cropped and slightly sharpened the pictuer (unsharpen mask 1pix, 80%). It was taken in a lightbox with my 50mm 1.8 lens shot at 1.8 aperature. That goes to show that you don’t really need photoshop for many effects, lighting and lens play a big part 🙂 :tup: ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/35 "2008-06-03T07:18:03Z")
I’ve definitely seen better stuff in our Random Picture thread. Hopefully next month we get more submissions. ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/36 "2008-06-03T07:20:18Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > I’ve definitely seen better stuff in our Random Picture thread. Hopefully next month we get more submissions. werd. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/37 "2008-06-03T07:23:52Z")
Since it looks like we’re pretty much calling this one done, the water balloon was mine. I really wasn’t completely happy with it but I was tired of filling water balloons and trying to capture the instant they popped. I went through about 30 balloons. Later on I figured out it probably would have looked better with a dark colored background. ---
**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/38 "2008-06-03T07:23:52Z")
ooops i never sent mine in, i will def enter the next one though ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/39 "2008-06-03T07:24:29Z")
Winner: JayS - Water Balloon vs Knife Great shot and congrats! edit: doh, you beat me to it lol 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386/40 "2008-06-03T07:26:11Z")
I think if one of the forum sponsors wanted to throw something in (even if it’s a 10 dollar gas card) for the winner, we’d get more entries and make it more interesting. Any sponsors interested? 🙂 [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-contest-vote-may-08-theme-water/49386.md?page=3)