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Grapefruit vs squash
Grapefruit vs squash
whiterook


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Fruits and Vegetables II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE 7
Lens: Konica Minolta 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 MZ
Location: Chatham, MA
Date: Feb 5, 2007
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/0
Galleries: Abstract, Performance
Date Uploaded: Feb 5, 2007

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Statistics
Place: 344 out of 346
Avg (all users): 3.8797
Avg (commenters): 3.7778
Avg (participants): 3.7374
Avg (non-participants): 4.1186
Views since voting: 1277
Views during voting: 357
Votes: 158
Comments: 44
Favorites: 0

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 02/18/2007 09:44:49 PM
Congrats for another brown!
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 02/18/2007 08:42:23 PM
Congrats Stephen on your Brown. I like the banana and carrot silent cheering section.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/18/2007 04:04:21 PM
Too grainy
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 02/18/2007 11:36:05 AM
The grain hurt this one.
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 02/18/2007 05:05:25 AM
Whiterook or a whiterook wannabe. It is a cute idea tho to have a brain challenge amongst fruits and veggies. Too bad you have all that nosie in the pic.
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 02/17/2007 07:31:09 PM
neat idea, however it is way to grainy.
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 02/17/2007 04:52:43 PM
come....on....grapefruit!!!!
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 02/17/2007 04:29:58 PM
Black: b to f3. 10 to stop brown.
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 02/17/2007 04:16:00 PM
JMHO...I am offering a comment because "team work makes the dream work"

The Color is off as well as too grainy. There is no real compostion and the bottom crop was not done well. The "spectators" don't "read" like a crowd or fans of the game, but rather just placed to satisfy what was probably a good idea. Keep at it though. I am too new to offer advice to improve(not at my figer tips} but I have learned about Jpeg and the right time to save. Look for a tutorials or post the photo in a thread once judging is over.
Forge on!
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 02/17/2007 06:50:18 AM
whiterook!
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 02/17/2007 06:32:21 AM
hum hum hum... don't knowwwwwww....
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 02/16/2007 07:12:39 PM
i predict a stale mate ;)
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 02/16/2007 02:30:27 PM
Seems a bit noisy
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 02/15/2007 09:36:04 PM
Different, but what's with the grain? Did you intentionally do this or just use a way high ISO?
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 02/15/2007 03:33:53 PM
You should change your trademark because everybody knows by now the famous chess board so you can't hope for the brown anymore. Good luck.
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 02/15/2007 11:22:58 AM
looks like a brown one
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 02/15/2007 04:37:49 AM
Hmm looks like a homage to someone.
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 02/14/2007 11:49:41 PM
Great lighting! Great composition! Great idea! - 2 Points today!
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 02/14/2007 06:31:46 PM
This will squash the competition.
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 02/14/2007 03:56:02 PM
This is an interesting concept and I generally like noise used in an artistic mannner but I'm not sure it works well here.
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 02/14/2007 09:55:49 AM
a lot of noise in the photo and to many items you dont know what to focus on first. sorry
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 02/14/2007 06:01:04 AM
White rook?
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 02/14/2007 05:07:20 AM
This picture is not good, to ruff and dull, 1
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 02/14/2007 12:55:19 AM
the quality of this photo is really bad. is it the compression?
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 02/13/2007 06:26:26 PM
looks grainy to me, not convinced by the composition
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 02/13/2007 06:04:31 PM
Rookie... have a 10... you feather ruffler, you. BLAST! nope, i couldn't do it. i had to come back and make it a 5.
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 02/13/2007 03:04:34 PM
Looks like an obvious try for a brown... 5

Jack
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 02/13/2007 10:26:21 AM
Interesting concept but low contrast and severe color noise hurts this image.

If it is white's move the bananas are recommending the grapefruit move G3 to G4 to put pressure on the black queen and open things up for a ferocious king side attack against black. That will make for an exciting game. The squash's bishop and queen side rook are no longer well positioned to protect the black king and allows white to develop the attack.
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 02/12/2007 07:33:30 PM
interesting idea, but it looks like it may have been seriously underexposed and adjusted in post processing, which introduced a lot of noise.

Compositionally, it is a bit "busy." there is a lot going on here, and the perspective is a bit to "straight on." One thing that might make it a bit more dynamic is to lower your perspective and use a shallow depth of field to highlight the fruit/veggies from the pieces. Or simplify, and try not to include quite so much "stuff" in the picture.
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 02/12/2007 04:27:04 PM
The noise hurts this picture
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 02/12/2007 01:17:14 PM
the photograph is very grainy
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 02/12/2007 12:52:23 PM
whiterook! I knew we could count on you to go for the brown again!
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 02/12/2007 11:39:29 AM
Totally uninteresting, No Post production. Lack of effort.
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 02/12/2007 08:39:48 AM
grainy, chess, no board, this time I can't find the white pawn
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 02/12/2007 08:34:44 AM
If I was The Rook, I'd sue you for copyright infringement of my special style. 6.
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 02/12/2007 07:24:22 AM
lookin... good, it might ribbon.
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 02/12/2007 07:19:11 AM
I think the grain is intentional, but I'm missing it somehow.
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 02/12/2007 07:09:00 AM
This looks like Whiterook. Going for the brown again? Good Luck.
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 02/12/2007 05:42:52 AM
way too much noise/grain.
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 02/12/2007 04:55:23 AM
congratulations - this photograph contains a fruit and/or a vegetable, therefore it meets the challenge! well done!

um ... extremely grainy, but not a bad idea for a humorous composition. i think you need to ensure that your framing is more clean. the top left corner looks bad, and the fruit in the bottom is cut off.

nice try! 5!
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 02/12/2007 04:44:15 AM
I'm not fond of the grainy look to this
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 02/11/2007 08:34:57 PM
The grain isn't doing it for me on this one. Lots going on without it.
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 02/11/2007 07:34:16 PM
whiterook??
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 02/11/2007 07:17:14 PM
grainy and washed out...sorry:-(
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