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Challenge: Complementary Colors (Classic Editing)
Collection: Miscellaneous
Camera: Sony DSC-F707
Location: River Heights, UT USA
Date: May 18, 2003
Aperture: f 8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: May 18, 2003

I basically used rubber stamps and Illustrator to make the lips, and then put the apple in front of the printed prop.

Statistics
Place: 2 out of 82
Avg (all users): 6.9381
Avg (commenters): 8.1200
Avg (participants): 6.9355
Avg (non-participants): 6.9412
Views since voting: 7662
Votes: 113
Comments: 38
Favorites: 14 (view)


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05/28/2003 12:50:15 AM
holy cow I am so impressed! good job, david!
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05/27/2003 09:09:12 PM
Good question, Gordon. Originally, I wanted the green kiss on the apple, but I couldn't get the rubber stamp to work on it, and I didn't want to put green lipstick on! I suppose I went with green lips on red apple just because it was a bit different in the wacky world I wanted to create with the photo. I also really wanted to see the bite well, and with a bright green apple, it wouldn't have been so obvious.
05/27/2003 09:09:28 AM
Congratulations on the win - what was the thinking behind the green lipstick/ red apple - rather than the perhaps more obvious inverse ? Or was it just that you wanted something less obvious/ more jarring ?
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05/26/2003 06:47:23 PM
One more ribbon for the display case. Congratulations! This was one of my picks for the week.
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05/26/2003 05:48:38 PM
Congrats david! I just love new ideas. More please, you are so good.
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05/26/2003 10:21:45 AM
Congrats, great setup and execution.
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05/26/2003 09:14:45 AM
Simple set up, great composition, and clean techs = great score. Congratulations
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05/26/2003 05:32:30 AM
Hehe, collecting ribbons, are you?
Nice shooting, David. Great eye for composition.
Congrats, Marco.
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05/26/2003 02:49:09 AM
Congratulations David, a very original shot!
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05/26/2003 02:35:49 AM
Not Another Ribbon.... One of my ten's this week , Well done ..
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05/26/2003 02:30:38 AM
great shot, david! congrats!
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05/26/2003 12:22:10 AM
ok David, what are we going to do with you? You have a great imaginations. Congrats!!!
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05/26/2003 12:03:33 AM
Ahhh - makes sense. :) Great work, congrats on the ribbon...again.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/25/2003 11:52:14 PM
nice composition
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05/25/2003 10:34:22 PM
Excellent work on the high key here. I would love to know how you did the lips. 8
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05/25/2003 12:29:33 PM
This is so lighthearted and fun. Very creative and original!
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05/24/2003 04:30:49 AM
One of my favourites this week. Great composition and the colors are perfect. So is focus and the cropping. Perhaps I had mede it a little darker but that would probably had spoiled the white background. Meets the challenge very well. Well done and good luck!
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05/23/2003 10:31:53 PM
This is inspiring work! Excellent! I wouldn't change a thing.
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05/23/2003 02:53:41 PM
Clever shot.
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05/23/2003 01:13:25 AM
Huh. That's... different. Well, you certainly do use complementary colours, and I suppose that it's a good picture in general, but I'm still not quite sure what I really think of it.
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05/22/2003 11:32:11 PM
I like this photo alot, i think it will definetley be among the winners, but maybe a different background, not the lipstick, the white, but i like it, = 8
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05/22/2003 11:18:46 PM
adorable! What a unique idea, and well executed. I love the set up, like the kisses snuck up and ambushed the apple. :)
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05/22/2003 10:01:30 PM
very creative. I like it. 9 Jacko.
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05/22/2003 12:24:14 AM
Imaginative and well executed.
Mark
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05/21/2003 05:53:16 PM
Very cool. Lighting is nice, and great job making the "kisses" gradually get smaller. The one thing is maybe make the bite in the apple look better (bigger, more defined, etc.).
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05/21/2003 04:08:10 PM
Hehe! Very nice. Although the picture would even have been nice without the kisses - only the apple! At least fewer kisses...
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05/21/2003 12:46:21 AM
This shot reminds me of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" for some reason. Great composition and idea.
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05/20/2003 01:56:27 PM
Very unique set up and composition. The green and red colors are vivid and do well to meet the challenge. Green lipstick seems to be a little bit of a turn-off, but the symbolism is too stronge to ignore. Great Job 10...one of my favorites. Good luck in the challenge.
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05/20/2003 10:11:16 AM
very nice job with composition and lighting. the "line" you created with the lips is quite strong and leads the viewer to the upper right corner of the photo, for better or worse. nice job...7
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05/20/2003 09:11:44 AM
nicely set up, great focus, funny immage
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05/20/2003 05:57:52 AM
Made me smile! Very creative and well done, must be worth the top of the scoring scale - 10.
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05/20/2003 02:07:19 AM
I have seen stuff like this before; yet, it's fun. Nice composition. That apple looks so good that i'm very tempted to take a bit from it as well. Very clean image. I like square presentations! 8
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05/19/2003 07:39:20 PM
the green lipstick seems odd, although it does mean you meet the challenge - how about a green apple and red lipstick ? Creative idea (7)
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05/19/2003 05:39:28 PM
Totally creative shooting...just super. Bravo.
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05/19/2003 03:50:44 PM
I love the focus and the composition. 8.
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05/19/2003 02:42:37 PM
Funny and simple = 7. Only thing I'd have done different is to have more space between the apple and the first kiss.
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05/19/2003 02:08:48 PM
This is a really neat shot... I think I like the backwards theme here... most probably would have approached this idea with a green apple and red lip prints... I think the little reversal of that... nice use of imagery and excellent story telling in this photo... minor detail: Maybe just a tad more space between the apple and the closest kiss... great work... = 10
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05/19/2003 01:15:31 PM
I like the artistic nature of this shot. Your tones and lighting are very well done. Something seems offbalanced with the shot. May want to play with different camera angles and position of apple in relationship to the kisses. Still very well done! 8 -danny
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