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Challenge: Billboard (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Feb 27, 2005
Aperture: 4.1
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Feb 27, 2005

Some carrots on a sheet of laminated white paper.

Selected the BG and blurred the Blue channel because of horrible noise. Used some RGB and Blue Curves to improve the color balance, a little cloning to clean up irregular shadow edges left over by the curves.

Cropped and rotated a little, resized, USM at 66%/0.6dia/TH=5, JPEG=9/10

Statistics
Place: 101 out of 148
Avg (all users): 5.1520
Avg (commenters): 6.2000
Avg (participants): 4.9655
Avg (non-participants): 5.2906
Views since voting: 1087
Views during voting: 329
Votes: 204
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0


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06/29/2005 10:59:44 PM
Yummy! Makes me want one. Now thats good advertising.
03/11/2005 04:52:16 PM
yew wuz robbed! this really was a solid entry, deserved much better. i like it with the text, too. very fitting.
03/05/2005 12:31:52 PM
Thanks for the comments! Here's a link to a version with type added:

 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/04/2005 08:35:40 PM
cute play on words
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03/04/2005 05:55:45 PM
great image

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03/03/2005 05:20:22 AM
ok, i am voting this challenge in 2 passes. in this pass, you will get a partial comment and a score. then i will come back to comment again. if you have any problem whatsoever with this comment, pm me and let me know. otherwise, take it with a grain of salt...i'm not trying to be a know-it-all, i'm just explaining where i'm coming from in voting this challenge. and, if this comment is NOT helpful (of if you think i'm full of $#!+), don't mark it helpful.

billboards are a science unto themselves. a lot of research has gone into determining just how much information a person can digest and retain in specific time spans. they use this information to develop formulas for determining the number of words and letters to use on billboards, as well as their sizes. they also determine the size and number of visual elements to include.

the graphics/photograph on a billboard are designed to get the point across in a moment. on the road, a driver will have less time with a billboard than a voter will give your image. this is a key element in the challenge: composing a shot that will get its point across quickly and succintly. along those lines, a strong composition will probably have few details and make strong use of negative space.
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if love your idea, and the colors. this is a great job, and i only have a couple nits. this is one challenge where you really do have to look at the thumbnail to get an idea of how the image would come across as a billboard (unless one where to move their pc out into the yard and run back and forth in front of it...). looking at it large, you get the full impact of the image. looking at it small, it's almost hard to determine what it is. the one thing that could have made, IMHO, a huge difference, would have been to have shot carrots with their greens still on. anyways, i really hope this does well for you. good luck!
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03/02/2005 12:05:09 AM
To be honest, that does not look appetizing at all....
03/01/2005 02:31:50 PM
Incredibly clever!
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02/28/2005 05:47:33 AM
Wait, It's a billboard about vision and eye candy and it's out of focus? What's wrong with this picture?
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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