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Challenge: Oxymoron (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Concord, California, USA
Date: Oct 17, 2006
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Oct 17, 2006

 Or an example of Poler Opposites ... a recycled power pole with its signage largely intact, if inapplicable. In this case, it's more visually self-cancelling than a traditional literary oxymoron, but I liked it; maybe something like this was the inspiration for High/Low poker ...

-RGB Curve
-Resize for DPC
-Crop a little from top, bottom and right to 3:2 ratio
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 149kb

Statistics
Place: 110 out of 155
Avg (all users): 4.9888
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 4.6522
Avg (non-participants): 5.1050
Views since voting: 992
Views during voting: 388
Votes: 269
Comments: 5
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AuthorThread
 10/25/2006 11:49:52 AM
thats polar
never mind.....must be out of the box spelling

Message edited by author 2006-10-25 14:03:12.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/22/2006 01:03:31 AM
Oh wow, what an interesting sign! It really has character.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/19/2006 10:58:33 PM
Meets Challenge - 2
Lighting/Processing - 1
Composition - 2
Overall Impression - 2
"WOW" factor - 0
Score: 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/18/2006 12:57:05 PM
creative oxymoron (although I doubt it technically qualifies). The shot has a color cast with flat lighting. That hurts quite a bit. 5
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 10/18/2006 10:33:25 AM
clever.
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