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Challenge: Battle Of The Sexes (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Location: Victoria, BC
Date: Jan 14, 2007
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 1/10
Shutter: 50
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Jan 14, 2007

 The worst part of this was cleaning the downstairs bathroom!

Shot in B&W, noiseware, USM, curves, cloned out paint spots on the floor (didn't look like paint!)

Postchallenge comments;
This was fun! It did better than expected and it's my highest during-challenge comment count :)

I know the shot suffers flaws. I wanted a straight-on shot but as it was I was holding the camera against the cabinet opposite already. Thank goodness for P&S with swivel screens :D
My lighting is buried atm behind piles of boxes and furniture cleared out of my mom's house and the lamp I tried to use in the bathtub totally refused to cooperate (must be male?). On top of it all, I was on my first full-blown cold-suffering day.
So yup, I'm happy with my finish on this one! Thanks all, for votes and especially your comments :)

Statistics
Place: 13 out of 90
Avg (all users): 6.1741
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.7451
Avg (non-participants): 6.2740
Views since voting: 1671
Views during voting: 590
Votes: 270
Comments: 52
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 03/13/2009 10:49:57 AM
OMG how did I miss this one! This is hilarious. Grats on the lucky 13 placing :)
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 01/22/2007 06:10:00 AM
funky and cool!
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 01/21/2007 08:52:55 PM
So funny, I'm just going to assume that your '3' votes were from humorless souls... Or possibly they don't have porcelein bowls.
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 01/21/2007 08:14:49 PM
hey, 13th place, that's a cool number! congrats :)

so (post-challenge question) does the broken half lid gives more support and comfort when we need to take a dump? :p
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 01/21/2007 07:53:33 PM
AWESOME idea :-)
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 01/21/2007 07:49:31 PM
Nice finish! The best toilet seat shot, and the only one with 6+

Proof that it was a good one - any 6+ pic these days is something to be happy with but you know that already.
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 01/21/2007 07:38:52 PM
Congrats on 13th! This is perfect!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/21/2007 06:46:26 PM
Funny! Best of the toilet photos.
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 01/21/2007 04:34:45 PM
LoL!!
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 01/21/2007 10:10:54 AM
Funny title...
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 01/21/2007 09:29:21 AM
made me laugh!
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 01/21/2007 06:48:02 AM
This is definitely the best of the toilet pictures, and a great photo unto itself. 8
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 01/20/2007 03:29:46 PM
This is very well done!!
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 01/20/2007 07:16:32 AM
now that's classic!! ha!
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 01/20/2007 04:30:45 AM
need one like this in our house :)
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 01/20/2007 12:47:57 AM
nice thinking.
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 01/19/2007 06:19:26 PM
I am a little very disappointed with this challenge actually but you have the better
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 01/19/2007 05:18:56 PM
The extent to which to go to make a DPC entry... the best toilet seat photo here! 10!
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 01/19/2007 12:49:19 PM
Ahahaha
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 01/18/2007 11:28:49 AM
Thats drastic action for a challenge !
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 01/18/2007 06:34:08 AM
For your halfass friends?
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 01/17/2007 02:08:14 PM
haha Funny :)
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 01/17/2007 01:36:40 PM
Did you actually chop your toilet in half for this challenge? A for effort!
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 01/17/2007 12:50:12 PM
that is awesome! great idea!
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 01/17/2007 07:34:13 AM
I think that I wouldn't have seen so many toilets if the challenge had been "photograph a toilet". Having said that, yours is unique and made me laugh, and it's pretty well photographed. I like the caption too.
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 01/16/2007 10:57:18 PM
this is going a bit far just to make a photo!
but good point :)
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 01/16/2007 07:24:23 PM
:-) cute shot
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 01/16/2007 05:22:57 PM
You really took this challenge to heart. Creative!!
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 01/16/2007 03:12:21 PM
This is so funny. Of all the entries along this line, this is the best
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 01/16/2007 11:54:20 AM
well what can I say should be one in every home !!!!!!!
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 01/16/2007 09:02:54 AM
Normally bathroom images are very difficult to pull off, but this one is very simple, very savvy and very funny! Great job!
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 01/16/2007 08:53:55 AM
Great twist on the toilet bowl theme.
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 01/16/2007 01:40:28 AM
Cute take on a pretty common theme in the challenge.
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 01/15/2007 05:56:27 PM
Ha. Clever!
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 01/15/2007 05:53:50 PM
Definetly an awesome idea lol. Thank the lord my Girl Friend doesn't care. I think that you could have worked on the lighting so there wasn't so much of a shadow on the right side.
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 01/15/2007 10:47:26 AM
Very creative, of all the toilet shots, I think I like this the best.
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 01/15/2007 09:45:53 AM
Top pick for clever image an title combo. Crop might be just a touch tight, imo.
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 01/15/2007 08:40:56 AM
Funny!
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 01/15/2007 07:18:38 AM
At last an original take on this :-)
(hope it wasn't an expensive seat)
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 01/15/2007 07:08:11 AM
At least you're an original so far...
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 01/15/2007 06:43:03 AM
Concept: Common - Execution: Unique Subject: Boring.
Good control of lighting and focus.
Does not compete well with others in this category, but image quality redeems in many ways.

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 01/15/2007 05:25:33 AM
nice idea, a full frontal, symmetric shot might have had more impact
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 01/15/2007 05:08:45 AM
I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall in your household to watch the 'Battle of the Sexes' Final when your other half discovered what you had done in the name of DPC! Nice one...
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 01/14/2007 11:20:34 PM
Hohoho I kike this very much as an idea
The lighting is not very good
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 01/14/2007 10:43:41 PM
Awesome take on a common theme.
I had to have the Solomon reference explained to me though.
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 01/14/2007 10:17:06 PM
Now...'I like this even handed approach'! This well suits the challenge as well as howing 'the wisdom of Soloman'. Very good photo.
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 01/14/2007 08:57:18 PM
lol seems you went to alot of work for this. Theres SO many toilet pictures its nice to see one with more thought in it and more work done. The lighting is so-so, the bottom right is too dark. 6 for creativity
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 01/14/2007 08:35:31 PM
Excellent idea, propmaking and perfecto title.
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 01/14/2007 08:32:32 PM
This is an original toilet seat shot!
Why were there so many toilet seat?!!!!
6
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 01/14/2007 07:50:01 PM
YES! Awesome take on this popular concept. I hope people understand the reference.. but I don't think a lot of people will.
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 01/14/2007 07:29:19 PM
cool...it almost looks like an optical illusion. Must of taken some work to cut that thing in half!
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 01/14/2007 07:28:35 PM
Hilarious! Clean editing.
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