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Challenge: Road Signs IV (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Humorous
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Home
Date: Jan 30, 2005
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/10 sec
Galleries: Humorous, Action
Date Uploaded: Jan 31, 2005

 Set this up in my basement. Made a platform to fit on top of the ping pong table so I could lay on it and raise my legs above the sign. Used wall paper that looked like bricks for the brick wall. Used 2 large sheets of blue cloth fastened together for the sky. Set the back end of the bike up on a couple of boxes to make it look like it was flipping up. Lighting was just 2 large ceiling fluorescent lights from either side. Cropped, slightly saturated the colors to try to hide the seam in the blue cloth, sharpened and used Neat Image to remove some of the grainy appearence in the sky. This was one of the most complicated and time consuming pictures I have tried to compose because I wanted it to look as realistic as possible. I still saw several flaws but ran out of time and energy! It took over 100 shots to get to the final one. Hope you like it.

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 292
Avg (all users): 6.4983
Avg (commenters): 7.5862
Avg (participants): 6.2540
Avg (non-participants): 6.6826
Views since voting: 2155
Views during voting: 491
Votes: 293
Comments: 39
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 02/11/2005 05:03:05 PM
Lawrence: another master image which perks up the viewer to look. Great! Congratulations on your top 10 finish.
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 02/10/2005 02:18:58 PM
nicely done, quite creative.
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 02/09/2005 01:29:03 PM
Man this is such a trip!! Creative isnt a word for this.. Since you put all that effort into it I say from the bottom of my heart that this shot in my eyes makes 1st:) Keep up the great work!
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 02/09/2005 05:36:48 AM
Congrats on the top 10!
Well done on the set up
Coley
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 02/09/2005 05:35:27 AM
i imagined this would be a hell of a job to make it look this realistic
u really succeeded in that
to me this sublime executed shot is a big ribbon
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 02/09/2005 01:44:23 AM
cool
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 02/09/2005 01:33:19 AM
Very nicely done....Inede :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/08/2005 06:38:03 PM
Nice try!
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 02/08/2005 07:02:21 AM
Nice twist on the theme.
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 02/08/2005 06:17:24 AM
ouch. I've been there. this is a great piece of originality, Scalvertesk in its composition.....
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 02/07/2005 08:52:08 PM
has been validated..that says enuff
superb
a postcard
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 02/07/2005 05:24:18 PM
Wohooo! This is definately my favourite for this challenge, no matter what pictures are still to come. Reminds me of graphicfunk's "Ouch, no servicable parts inside". Funny, well executed, dynamic, well composed. 10.
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 02/07/2005 04:02:21 PM
Hillarious.
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 02/06/2005 11:41:40 PM
very creative, can imagine who this is :)
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 02/06/2005 05:09:06 PM
Ouch, nice shot
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 02/04/2005 11:29:38 PM
lol, very nice :D
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 02/04/2005 08:39:03 PM
ScalvArt :)
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 02/04/2005 04:36:35 PM
Very well set up, good tones, an excellent chance.
Good luck 9
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 02/04/2005 03:04:46 PM
Very amusing. I'd prefer to see a little more brightness in the background here.
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 02/04/2005 09:17:53 AM
LOL!

Hope you ribbon, I at least gave it a 10 for the idea alone but it´s executed perfectly :o)
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 02/03/2005 11:29:58 PM
Very creative.....well done!
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 02/03/2005 11:56:22 AM
This has got to be Scalvert!
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 02/03/2005 04:53:27 AM
good setup hope you do well awesome made me laugh
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 02/03/2005 02:28:13 AM
funny and ok
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 02/02/2005 11:01:36 PM
Great shot and title!
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 02/02/2005 10:29:22 PM
very convincingly set up!
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 02/02/2005 08:38:30 PM
This one made me laugh. Cool idea and title.
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 02/02/2005 04:23:02 PM
By far the best of the best of the stop signs in this challenge. Very creative and funny. Should be a top three finisher.
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 02/02/2005 12:01:46 PM
that's pretty funny
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 02/02/2005 11:48:57 AM
nice composition...welldone
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 02/02/2005 10:10:53 AM
LoL!
I like the scene! Very well imagined!
Great shot
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 02/02/2005 09:48:58 AM
HAHA! Love the humor! 9
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 02/02/2005 09:30:13 AM
Great photo, very creative, ~~kicks self for not thinking of something like that~~ Good job!
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 02/02/2005 06:50:12 AM
cute concept, but way too photoshopped for my liking :/
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 02/02/2005 04:53:28 AM
Hokiey as heel but made me grin.
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 02/02/2005 03:32:13 AM
HAH
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 02/02/2005 01:42:08 AM
Studio? Nice job. Very creative. I wish I had a studio. lol
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 02/02/2005 12:11:15 AM
If you werre riding a Gary Fisher you could have bunny hopped that
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 02/02/2005 12:10:02 AM
This one cracked me up! Awesome idea, nicely executed. Well done, I hope it does well! 10
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