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Invasion of the Peruvian Jolly Green Giant
Invasion of the Peruvian Jolly Green Giant
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Challenge: Surrealism (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S5100
Location: in my bedroom, on the poker table, Bettendorf, IA
Date: Mar 8, 2005
Aperture: 200
ISO: 400
Shutter: 4.5
Galleries: Humorous, Animals
Date Uploaded: Mar 8, 2005

 If you've read my profile, you already know that I'm a nut for my pets, and will tie them into submission photos whenever appropriate. Here you meet Spargel, my seven-month-old parrot. The idea was to make him look out of place as an oversized South American bird in a culturally American-looking childrens' bedroom.

To accomplish the set-up, I simply put him in my dollhouse (I'm in the process of refurbishing it; so far only the nursery is complete), and shot several frames. This turned out to be the only shot in which he hadn't yet climed off the bed and was stubbornly a centimeter from the camera, pecking at the swinging lens cap.

I used a flash, as well as a lamp positioned beside me for lighting.

In Photoshop, I adjusted the tones, mostly to dull down the reds a bit, toyed a bit with the brightness and contrast, and cropped it down.

Statistics
Place: 58 out of 271
Avg (all users): 5.6285
Avg (commenters): 6.8261
Avg (participants): 5.3519
Avg (non-participants): 5.7480
Views since voting: 1393
Views during voting: 579
Votes: 358
Comments: 24
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/15/2005 03:22:55 PM
How cute!!
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 03/15/2005 01:59:16 PM
Oh. that's too cute! I love it 10
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 03/15/2005 08:53:34 AM
Feels like this has a yellow cast that might best be removed
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 03/15/2005 08:07:24 AM
Very unique. I really love what you've done here. 10
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 03/13/2005 01:53:05 PM
cute~!
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 03/13/2005 11:15:19 AM
hehehe, can't help but give you a high score just for thinking of it
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 03/13/2005 08:40:33 AM
Great subject matter let down by poor lighting/ exposure. Even given the subject matter there seems to be a strong yellow colour cast. Excellent idea though and makes me smile to look at it. 7
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 03/12/2005 04:58:15 PM
Now this is wierd! I went 'WHAT THE F***' when i opened this up, and that tells me you suceeded in surrealism. Unfortunatly, i really don't like the lighting, which is way too green and takes away from the model of the shot. Also the lighting is too strong and washs the whole set. Composition could've been slightly better as well but overall, pretty good. 5
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 03/12/2005 11:10:28 AM
wierd
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 03/11/2005 05:05:43 PM
The epitome of surrealism... congrats on a great shot
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 03/11/2005 11:33:21 AM
this pic made me chuckle, great idea :) however the yellow/green tones are a bit overly done.
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 03/11/2005 11:32:23 AM
Very cute. A better quality image would have given this entry a sharper edge in the challenge. However, as id you still get credit for a good sense of humor and a good composition. 6
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 03/10/2005 11:25:09 AM
Cute. It looks like there is a yellow color cast to the photo, though, that I would have fixed.
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 03/10/2005 09:45:51 AM
Not a bad idea though the image is grainy, over exposed and has a slight yellow-cast.
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 03/10/2005 05:17:31 AM
Not bad... just bit overexposed.
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 03/09/2005 05:00:44 PM
This is one of the few photos I think fits the definition of surreal, but unfortunately you've got a lot of bright, over-exposed areas, and a lot of noise in the photo that I doubt you intended to be there.
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 03/09/2005 03:32:53 PM
Haha.. very detailed miniatures!
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 03/09/2005 11:55:59 AM
So - did that thing eat your kid? ;-) Nice job - could use less green in the room though.
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 03/09/2005 08:58:48 AM
I love this photo. Its a bit grainy. If you haven't run it through neatimage, you should. Very creative. 9! Unless, of course, you want grainy, but I'm a clean image fanatic.
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 03/09/2005 08:32:40 AM
my god, I laughed my you know what off!!! While the technical aspects of the shot could be improved, this is very original and quite possibly the funniest shot I've seen yet. 9
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 03/09/2005 06:22:28 AM
LMAO!!!
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 03/09/2005 04:25:49 AM
a little grainy with a yellow cast. I would have rated it higher with those two problems fixed. 7 for the creativity.
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 03/09/2005 01:56:48 AM
It's a fun shot that reminds me of Kafka's Metamorphosis. I dislike the strong green cast, and the fact that pretty much everything seems out of focus.
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 03/08/2005 07:46:03 PM
peruvian giants ruin everything!
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