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Challenge: Knife Fork Spoon II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Date: Jul 3, 2011
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Emotive, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 3, 2011

[Jul. 9th, 2011 01:30:07 PM]

Bought a cupcake at the bakery, clipped off a 1/2" off the tines of the fork (maybe should have gone more), looked up fake blood recipe on the internet (mostly corn syrup and food coloring), and asked my daughter to wield the fork.

My wife was totally turned off by the image. I suspect some voters will be too. Oh, well. We had fun.

Statistics
Place: 20 out of 66
Avg (all users): 5.9508
Avg (commenters): 7.6250
Avg (participants): 5.6000
Avg (non-participants): 6.0920
Views since voting: 1266
Views during voting: 305
Votes: 122
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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 07/10/2011 08:32:20 PM
This reminds me a bit of the movie Shine, with Kathy Bates. Cleary it's a very well executed shot. From the lighting to the composition. I'll echo Lydia's Horridly wonderful statement ;) because I feel it's horrible but in a way you kinda like the shot? can't explain it. As for why it's not a 6+. IMHO the shot is on topic with the fork and all but the story told here has it playing a supporting role. And it has some fake blood which made some people wince? which might be the first reason.
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07/09/2011 02:57:07 PM
Straightforward and delicious!
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 07/08/2011 06:19:54 PM
This reminds me of 'Requiem For A Dream'
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 07/08/2011 04:02:24 PM
Ouch! I'll stick to my dessert then. :P
The title and the picture work very well together to induce the cringe. My top5.
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 07/06/2011 08:50:35 AM
Ouch. Nice visual effect where the fork appears to be *in* the hand. Blood is pretty good - but IMO, falls down in two areas - last run against the hand is too red - should be color of clump just above the run - and the clump above the run has no reason to be there, unless they've been posed like that long enough for the blood to dry / coagulate. Regardless, visual is close enough to fool unless you look at it too long. Also like the single star on the plate. This just makes me wince in pain...
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 07/06/2011 03:59:22 AM
That's some rough play. She must be pregnant :)
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 07/05/2011 06:28:20 AM
I like this,hope to see it somewhere near the top.
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 07/03/2011 11:57:27 PM
I'd do the same thing. ;-) Extra point for the blood.
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 07/03/2011 09:21:00 PM
I guess you REALLY like cupcakes...
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 07/03/2011 08:40:16 PM
Yikes!
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 07/03/2011 08:29:17 PM
Good one!!! I love the laugh as well.. hummm hope that was a staged n you really didn't get forked!!! LOL
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 07/03/2011 08:27:33 PM
Horridly wonderful.



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