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Breakfast with Homer J
Breakfast with Homer J
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Challenge: Hidden Faces (Advanced Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro
Location: Kitchen table
Date: Dec 20, 2004
Aperture: f 10 +2/3 EV
ISO: 200
Shutter: 0.6 sec
Galleries: Humorous, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Dec 23, 2004

 Going for some humour here and couldn't care about how it will fare. It'll be lucky to hit 5+.

From my interpretation of the challenge guidelines, this fits the challenge perfectly. Who ever heard of a piece of toast having an actual face? Well, this one has one now. The challenge never stated that it had to be naturally occuring phenomenom.

The idea came to me from the grilled cheese sandwich with a depiction of the virgin Mary that was recently sold on Ebay for a ridiculous amount of money. My wife gave me the suggestion for Homer J Simpson and I ran with it.

Most of what you see on the toast was not achieved through Photoshop, but by burning a piece of toast and using a pointy knife to scratch it out using various stencils of an image of Homer. I did a few minor corrections with Photoshop on the piece of toast but what you see is pretty much what I had to work with.

Statistics
Place: 37 out of 97
Avg (all users): 5.4402
Avg (commenters): 6.1304
Avg (participants): 4.9857
Avg (non-participants): 5.6691
Views since voting: 1352
Views during voting: 517
Votes: 209
Comments: 29
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 11/17/2005 07:03:08 PM
really great image and nice work on that toast art! i love this.
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 01/03/2005 06:40:25 AM
This is great, I didn't see this until now! Very funny, will you auction it on ebay soon?
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 01/03/2005 12:27:49 AM
You were absolutely robbed! This should have placed higher.
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 01/03/2005 12:26:36 AM
I got quite a kick out of this one... sorry it didn't rank higher!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/02/2005 07:41:39 PM
That's cool, but it is intended to be a face. I'm looking for things that are naturally hidden faces in everyday objects. Not created faces.
 01/02/2005 03:43:37 PM
Funny. Bumping up.
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 01/02/2005 09:56:45 AM
wow, sell it on Ebay. Good lighting and placement. Border adds to it.
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 12/31/2004 05:18:34 PM
Great job! way to go. Never seen scared toast.
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 12/31/2004 02:17:00 AM
Mmmmmm Doughnut....
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 12/31/2004 01:12:50 AM
OY! PLEASE don't sell it as a holy relic on e-bay!
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 12/30/2004 10:55:47 PM
Doh... All right, how'd ya do it? Too many compositional elements and unimaginative lighting detract from an otherwise very neat image (not the registered trademark of noise reduction software...)
TC
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 12/30/2004 03:29:43 PM
Interesting.
:D Nice to see Homer on toast. I know that it would be easy to see if you know where it is! But I think the other elements are bit distracting in this case. The image doesn't immediately pull you to Homer.
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 12/29/2004 11:57:35 PM
had this been a grilled cheese sandwich with a bite taken out of it, I would give you a 15! :-) Great job. This should ribbon. 10
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 12/29/2004 11:18:36 PM
Hey. . . .I see it! Too bad Homer J isn't as famous as the Virgin Mary. Maybe you could have sold it on ebay for $26,000 too :) Good luck!
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 12/29/2004 03:50:19 PM
Hysterical!! What does the bidding start at???
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 12/29/2004 11:04:02 AM
LOL. Thats great!. I might not have included as many objects in the photo.
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 12/29/2004 01:03:24 AM
Did this "happen" in reality? This seems to be "created"
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 12/28/2004 11:07:32 AM
Unless this is purely accidental, I can't see how this meets the challenge. The face seems to have been put there deliberately meaing that the eyes are meants to be eyes.
 12/27/2004 05:51:36 PM
Oh Homer... I thought it was the Virgin Mary :)
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 12/27/2004 04:27:33 PM
If you scraped it - nicely done! If not - good seeing! Not fond of the text tucked away in the top left corner.
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 12/27/2004 01:35:50 PM
I was expecting a "toast face" in this challenge. You have made this shot stand out with your good sense of humor and excellent artistic skills. Good job.
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 12/27/2004 12:17:31 PM
LOLOLOL!!!!! I have to say that this is the only enjoyable picture in the challenge that I have seen so far.
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 12/27/2004 12:04:56 PM
Is that homer simpso?/LOL 8
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 12/27/2004 08:51:08 AM
funny!
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 12/27/2004 02:32:13 AM
I have a toaster just like this one...very cool.
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 12/27/2004 01:34:52 AM
cool, this made me laugh!
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 12/27/2004 01:33:59 AM
DOH !!!!
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 12/27/2004 01:08:55 AM
This is drop-dead hysterical. I can't decide if I love or hate the incredibly flat lighting, but the "face" is priceless. PLEASE tell me it was a "found face", not a created one. If it was, and if you'd preserved it, you could have sold it on e-bay for big bux.
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 12/27/2004 12:31:40 AM
Thats Awesome
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