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Challenge: DPC Cinema (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: May 7, 2006
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: May 7, 2006

 A woeful tale of suburban over-consumption.

Handheld in the store under fluorescent lights. Corners faded to provide space for type -- see this link for a version with sample type added:
//dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=331351

-RGB Curve
-Created diagonal mask in alpha channel
-RGB Curve through mask to fade corners
-RGB Curve through mask to fade corners (repeat application)
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 119kb

Statistics
Place: 194 out of 207
Avg (all users): 4.4819
Avg (commenters): 3.5000
Avg (participants): 4.2088
Avg (non-participants): 4.7255
Views since voting: 915
Views during voting: 307
Votes: 193
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 05/18/2006 09:25:26 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

If text would've been allowed you'd have definitely got a better reception here. Your post challenge shot was well done.

The idea is really creative. Driving Pop Crazy was an excellent choice and I like how you incorporated that shopping cart buggy to get it across. I'm guessing you know what hurt you: the faded corners you left to insert the text. Most people, myself included, would've never considered that adding text was what it was for and probably voted it down wondering what the heck the photographer was thinking to post process an image like this. I didn't vote in this challenge but would've done the same thing.

Like I said, overall a great idea.

Thanks for the opportunity to critique this image!

Cheers - Phil
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/14/2006 08:27:49 PM
I come from a graphic design background, so I was planning for the added type, as well as isolating the arms and reducing some of the clutter of the BG.

Here's an example of how the finished poster might look:

 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/13/2006 08:12:10 PM
The areas of brightness in the UL/LR corners is very distracting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/10/2006 09:17:26 AM
Great photo, and the title is a funny description, but I get no sense of a movie from this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/10/2006 06:49:51 AM
the white on the corners and the shpping cart handle reall take away from the image to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/09/2006 02:22:24 AM
Nice photo. I'm not sure what to think about the white lighting you used on the bottom and upper side of the photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/08/2006 10:57:12 PM
Keep your hands inside the cart at all times...nice shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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