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Drink more coffee
Drink more coffee
hecksheri


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Challenge: Billboard (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD100
Location: Tampa Florida
Date: Feb 26, 2005
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: auto
Shutter: 1/2s
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Feb 26, 2005

I poured all my coffee beans onto an old chess table and put a cup of coffee on it. I felt like it needed a little something to make it "billboardy", so I put a drink me sign on it. I filtered with neatimage, then in photoshop I used autolevels, and autocontrast, then I did some selective dodging and burning to highlight the coffee cup in the middle and to give the background a bit of a glow around the cup. I cropped it a bit to give it more of a billboard shape.

Statistics
Place: 96 out of 148
Avg (all users): 5.2336
Avg (commenters): 4.8000
Avg (participants): 4.8652
Avg (non-participants): 5.4960
Views since voting: 837
Views during voting: 325
Votes: 214
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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03/04/2005 10:33:17 PM
Love the colors and composition
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03/03/2005 03:27:14 AM
Composition: 7, Technical: 7, Appeal: 7, Challenge: 8, Overall Calculated Average Score: 7
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03/01/2005 07:49:51 PM
Personally, I would have left the handwritten sign off and moved the cup a bit to the side. Nice composition otherwise. Gotta love that dark roast. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/01/2005 01:33:03 PM
Much better without sign
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/28/2005 07:42:20 PM
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.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/28/2005 01:22:04 PM
this is not 640x320
02/28/2005 09:38:11 AM
It would have been more efficient to have placed the cup and the coffee beans on the all-white tablecloth (or at least uniform color). This table you selected is too busy and it takes away from otherwise potentially high score photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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