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Challenge: Famous Last Words (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Nov 28, 2006
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1 second
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Nov 28, 2006

Punchline from an old joke.

Non-alcoholic beer and steering wheel, lit by neighbor's security light through the windshield.

-Handheld (left-handed, cross-handed), macro mode
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 88%/1.3 dia/TH = 7
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 99kb

Statistics
Place: 110 out of 112
Avg (all users): 4.0279
Avg (commenters): 3.3333
Avg (participants): 3.4912
Avg (non-participants): 4.1609
Views since voting: 1687
Views during voting: 540
Votes: 287
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0


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09/12/2007 04:20:54 PM
Interesting concept and image. And you got a brown ribbon to boot. Nice.
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09/12/2007 07:40:24 AM
oldie but goodie, tucked it into the BLur side challenge eh? thanks for the rerun
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12/06/2006 02:36:19 PM
Originally posted by Nefir:

Looks grainy and rather out of focus. I guess that's what you see when you're driving drunk!

I wish this was composed better.. its an interesting idea.

You seem you be the only one to get the idea ... I wanted this look a lot like what you'd see under those conditions.

I had to shoot in tight (macro mode), since I was both modeling for and taking the shot -- with my left hand, crossed over. Sitting in the driver's seat, there's only a few inches between the lens and the wheel.

With a one-second exposure, I was actually pretty impressed at how in-focus the top of the bottle came out; most of the rest is more OOF because of the shallow DOF.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/05/2006 04:54:27 PM
Eeh, out of focus, cant see much of the beer bottle, could have been a funny shot.
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12/04/2006 10:47:18 PM
I don't get understand what I am looking at.
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12/04/2006 03:40:35 PM
Dull, badly lit, out of focus, not a lot to commend it as a photograph.
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12/04/2006 10:50:32 AM
Looks grainy and rather out of focus. I guess that's what you see when you're driving drunk!

I wish this was composed better.. its an interesting idea.
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12/03/2006 11:58:05 PM
Classic quote! Is this in a car? The only objects I'm really sure of is the bottle and a fingernail.
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12/01/2006 09:10:51 PM
cant see whats going on
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12/01/2006 04:10:10 PM
dont know wat to make of this and too noisy
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11/30/2006 10:58:52 PM
Not much good to say here, sorry. Out of focus, poor composition, noisy, etc. Better luck next time.
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11/30/2006 12:43:44 AM
can't tell what's going on here, sorry.
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11/30/2006 12:41:41 AM
Scary! Nice work.
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11/29/2006 07:42:34 PM
Not exactly sure what this is.
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11/29/2006 02:11:22 PM
a little too dark
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11/29/2006 01:17:03 PM
Not sure what you were trying to show, but I'm not getting it. That said, those definitely qualify in the ironic sense of the challenge!
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11/29/2006 10:29:18 AM
I get the mood and message of the image
I am not sure that I like the lack of a focus point.
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11/29/2006 09:42:01 AM
very dark ... not very sharp ... sorry
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11/29/2006 12:37:56 AM
Concept is okay, but photo needs better focus.
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