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Who Doesn't Like Grandma's Cookies?
Who Doesn't Like Grandma's Cookies?
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Challenge: Film Noir (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
Location: Austin, TX
Date: Aug 8, 2011
Galleries: Black and White, Horror
Date Uploaded: Aug 8, 2011

 HA! This is my lovely 84-year old mother who graciously posed for this shot. We laughed until we cried!

Statistics
Place: 22 out of 106
Avg (all users): 6.0309
Avg (commenters): 7.1818
Avg (participants): 6.0714
Avg (non-participants): 6.0145
Views since voting: 1132
Views during voting: 402
Votes: 194
Comments: 21
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 08/17/2019 08:42:33 AM
Sadly, my 92 year-old mother passed away 3-3-2019. She loved my passion for photography, and very graciously accepted my requests for her to be my muse. Godspeed Mama!
 09/16/2011 08:23:00 AM
the title is just perfect, I actually lol'd in real life!
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 09/16/2011 07:07:04 AM
Sweet shot in a Grandma's gonna stab you kind of way!
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 08/19/2011 12:02:42 AM
some more, please. I am so glad you had as much fun making it as we have viewing it.
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 08/17/2011 02:04:42 AM
OMG, I can only imagine the two of you on the floor laughing. Fabulous image, absolutely love it, and the story behind it.
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 08/17/2011 02:04:40 AM
OMG, I can only imagine the two of you on the floor laughing. Fabulous image, absolutely love it, and the story behind it.
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 08/17/2011 12:22:55 AM
Surprised this didn't score higher .. but super congrats on your front page and please call children's services hehehe
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 08/17/2011 12:18:50 AM
One of my absolute fav's! A well-deserved 9 is what I gave it.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/16/2011 06:29:49 PM
Hardly a femme fatal but I like the fact I don't know if she's frightened or angry, nicely shot
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 08/16/2011 04:42:50 PM
Great Over The Topness. Lighting and pose are perfect. Crop's a little tight, but that adds to the humor.
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 08/16/2011 02:14:49 PM
I gave this a 10 and would have given it 11 if I could have. You have one heck of a great model - her expression is frightening - for some reason her age makes her even more frightening because my mind imagines how many victims she slaughtered in her lifetime .. excellent lighting and pping.
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 08/14/2011 06:48:43 PM
that's just a scary face, well the look on her face anyway, great model
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 08/14/2011 06:17:03 PM
Want to see something really scary? Place your hand over the right side of her face.

Noir is usually more subtle than this, but what the hell. Let's have some cookies.
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 08/14/2011 01:17:25 AM
Hitchcock's nightmares come true. Excellent. Awesome model!
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 08/13/2011 11:55:21 AM
Nice shadow and light work. This looks like it has a little green tint to me, which seems a little odd.
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 08/11/2011 02:31:45 PM
This is great! What a great facial expression and hilarious title.
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 08/11/2011 01:41:15 AM
I came away extremely conflicted from this image. On the positive side, perhaps no other shot here (with exception of one) has made me come back to it as many times and stop and think about it. The model is just superb! She did a fantastic job with the facial expression, posture, etc. It just screams Hitchcock to me!!! The lighting is almost great....I just think it's a touch too harsh as the completely washed out areas on her face and forearm indicate. I also like the processing with a slightly greenish tint. However, here is why I'm giving this the score that I am:

1. Technical aspects (not sharp enough, high-key areas are over-exposed...there are also two distracting white spots on the black part of the blouse (either hot pixels or ???)..should have been cloned out. More of the knife shadow in the composition would have been great!

2. As much as I love Hitchcock and horror genre, in my classical definition of Film Noir this just DNMC. I wish it did...and perhaps it's my own film snobbery but I simply cannot vote this higher in a Film Noir challenge.

With better technical aspects this would have been a 7-8 shot from me in this challenge. The way it stands...it's a 6...although part of me really wishes I could score this higher. It's a superb shot on it's own.
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 08/10/2011 10:29:00 AM
Nice lighting and noir shadows. Also, nice crazy eye.
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 08/10/2011 08:45:15 AM
Great expression
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 08/10/2011 06:50:59 AM
She plays her part very well :) (at least - I . hope she plays it)
One small detail on which I'm still hesitating: her right eye in the dark, as it is now, or just slightly visible...
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 08/10/2011 03:04:07 AM
Nice, this is in your face noir. Phycho-like.
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