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The harshest environment of all
The harshest environment of all
Yo_Spiff


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Challenge: Harsh Environments II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2008
Camera: Canon PowerShot S5 IS
Location: My desk
Date: Mar 16, 2008
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Humorous, Blur
Date Uploaded: Mar 16, 2008

 Pre-challenge notes:
I plead the 5th amendment!

Post challenge notes:
I intentionally go for the brown, just once, and guess who beats me out! Yep, Charlie Baker.

It took some work to make it this bad. My apologies to the people who genuinely gave me helpful advice and tried to be kind with their comments.
I suppose what kept it above a 3 was that some people liked the point I was making. How a handful of people thought it deserved a 9 or a 10 boggles my mind though.

High ISO noise, bad white balance, glare, high levels of JPEG compression. Softened and then sharpened after resize.

Statistics
Place: 128 out of 129
Avg (all users): 3.2635
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 2.9792
Avg (non-participants): 3.3782
Views since voting: 1298
Views during voting: 327
Votes: 167
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 01/24/2010 04:23:42 PM
Hey, that's my first blue ribbon winner on the front page. Cool. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/03/2008 05:07:11 PM
Maybe some people saw it as an ironic statement - and gave you a 9 or 10 for inferred creative genius? I gave a 3 actually... probably because the concept was good and that i reserve 2's for badly sized shots and i have never given a 1 to my knowledge ;P
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/25/2008 09:51:14 AM
This is seriously bad, but I couldn't give it below a 4, because it met the challenge and was still recognizable. Sorry ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/23/2008 09:35:05 AM
Agree!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/22/2008 04:57:22 PM
Far from the harshest environment. Would have liked a clearer, more noise free version of this image. Crop is not bad except for the little sliver of something you left in the lower left corner.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/21/2008 07:06:45 AM
You have made it extra harsh with the glare from the room lamp and bad white balance.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/20/2008 11:49:11 AM
Yep, i can relate to this idea!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/19/2008 12:47:55 PM
Amen to that!!!!! Not the best of shots, but certainly deserves scoring higher for the humor and "truth" in this shot! *grin*
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/19/2008 07:30:00 AM
Well if you didn't shoot grainy undersized images with better control of your white levels maybe it wouldn't be quite so harsh.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/19/2008 02:27:41 AM
Amen!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/18/2008 09:49:36 PM
A bit grainy....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/18/2008 04:55:32 PM
Ha ha, too true!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/18/2008 03:27:34 AM
too true
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/17/2008 01:26:16 PM
very true and I hate to add to it, this photo is grainy and the light shinning off the screen is distracting, perhaps a contrast adjustment and different lighting would have been better
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/17/2008 09:35:26 AM
now this made me smile
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/17/2008 07:59:45 AM
I REALLY FEEL this one!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/17/2008 06:51:37 AM
Only thing I see here is a harsh picture, :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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