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Challenge: Promote Your Zoo (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Jun 7, 2009
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Humorous, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 7, 2009

... or Hissing Cockroaches from Madagascar, as exhibited in the "Backyard Zoo at the Lawrence Hall of Science on the University of California campus in Berkeley.

Of course, the dim red lighting didn't help ...

-Handheld, Tv mode, Manual Focus
-RGB Curve
-Isolate Red Channel to Grayscale image
-Crop
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0 (applied twice)
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-Text layers added
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 196KB

Statistics
Place: 85 out of 87
Avg (all users): 3.8535
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.0000
Avg (non-participants): 3.8000
Views since voting: 942
Views during voting: 316
Votes: 157
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/14/2009 04:40:29 PM
Ok it's a very grainy photo but the concept behind it is hilarious and it would work just fine if you'd had better light to work with I think.
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06/13/2009 11:25:18 AM
Well, of course it's absolutely horrendous and cockroaches totally gross me out. But, this is just up my ally and should get the 'Shoehorn' award. For that, I love it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/12/2009 04:50:52 AM
Looks a bit blurry and grainy and I am not sure if it would make me very keen to visit this zoo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/11/2009 12:06:13 PM
Is that call promote?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/11/2009 08:39:44 AM
Yikes!! I don't think I want to visit one of those guys. But a very cool look at one and nice different approach to the challenge!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/09/2009 10:00:42 AM
Very grainy
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06/09/2009 12:27:17 AM
We don't all have access to the finest zoos so we use what we have. Scores for you will probably be all over the place- don't be disappointed if they are. I like it. Some people will just hate bugs.
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06/08/2009 04:14:09 AM
Creative, clever idea. Bit noisy, but I love the composition, creativity and b/w
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