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Say Cheese!
Say Cheese!
seebrown


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Challenge: Say Cheese! (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G5
Location: Vancouver BC Canada
Date: Dec 11, 2005
Aperture: F2
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/6
Galleries: Snapshot, Macro
Date Uploaded: Dec 13, 2005

I was hoping to get a better reflection with perhaps more than just a dark background reflected in the iris and a little more of his smile in the shot ... though this was the best I could do with the time I had! Many thanks to my dad for putting up with me while we tried to get this shot.

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Statistics
Place: 94 out of 107
Avg (all users): 3.7929
Avg (commenters): 3.5294
Avg (participants): 3.2545
Avg (non-participants): 3.9244
Views since voting: 664
Views during voting: 390
Votes: 280
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/20/2005 12:59:59 PM
Doesn't meet the challenge .. no cheese. :(
12/17/2005 04:38:36 PM
"Use cheese as the subject of your photo to make your audience smile." Enough said.
12/17/2005 09:52:30 AM
Where's the cheese?
12/17/2005 08:59:01 AM
Not related to the challenge in any way, except the title.
12/16/2005 05:05:45 PM
Nice reflection in the eye
12/16/2005 04:44:04 PM
Say Cheese!: The old photographer's cliché is now a challenge topic. Use cheese as the subject of your photo to make your audience smile.

I hate to be playing English teacher here or come off as a DNMC critic, especially that English is NOT my native language but dissecting the description makes it pretty clear:
USE CHEESE as the SUBJECT of your photo to make YOUR AUDIENCE SMILE.

Based on the capitalized letters I had the following expectations in this challenge:
1. There would be cheese (even if implied) in the photo (Cheddar, Swiss, Gouda...etc). This cheese would be the SUBJECT of the photo. (Subject - Synonyms: matter, topic, theme. These nouns denote the principal idea or point of a speech, a piece of writing, or an artistic work.)

2. This is open to discussion but by Audience I would assume either the voters, or, someone in the photo looking at cheese

3. the photo would be somewhat funny as to make me smile.

After reviewing your photo, I feel it does not meet the challenge either because there is no cheese in the photo or because it's not funny. Or both.
12/16/2005 12:39:09 AM
the reflection of the photographer is a bit distracting, but I still like the shot
12/14/2005 05:59:29 PM
although this is a great shot (so much detail i can see the photographers reflection in the eye) im not getting the cheese the eye doesnt even give me the impression of happyness or a smile (which would hapeen when saying "cheese")
12/14/2005 05:23:29 PM
I see no cheese.
12/14/2005 04:05:15 PM
The focus on this is soft. For me it's really pushing it to make the challenge because I can't see anything relating to the topic, even though the subject may be smiling. It's a tough one....but....
12/14/2005 01:44:29 PM
Sorry I don't see how this meets the challenge. No cheese, no reference to "say cheese", doesn't make me smile.
12/14/2005 09:27:03 AM
This would have rated higher in B&W. Good pic though. 8
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12/14/2005 09:07:34 AM
not great imagination for the title. Clearness is really with limit of the blur.
12/14/2005 06:53:01 AM
Other than the title, this has nothing to do with the challenge.
12/14/2005 06:34:56 AM
Doesn't make me smile. Camera can be seen reflected in eye -- why not have the eye reflect some cheese?
12/14/2005 02:02:16 AM
Ahh - good idea! Shame the reflection's not defined enough but hard with only basic editing.
12/13/2005 07:45:06 PM
Where's the cheese?


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