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sweetk1685


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Games (Classic Editing)
Camera: Sony Mavica FD-85
Location: Kitchen Table
Date: May 14, 2002
Date Uploaded: May 14, 2002

This is actually a very simple photo to create. I took a bunch of poker cards layed them out on a table and threw money on top.

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Place: 88 out of 94
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05/26/2002 11:19:00 AM
focus?
05/26/2002 01:42:00 AM
I like the business of this scene, it fits. I think it could use more contrasty lighting with darker shadows.
05/26/2002 12:07:00 AM
Makes me very nostalgic for my regular Wednesday night poker game in Queens, NY, many years ago. Great capture. Love the cropping.
05/25/2002 07:58:00 PM
too blurry
05/24/2002 10:37:00 PM
Interesting idea, too many cards on the table tough, would have liked it better with the money in a pile and maybe a hand or two of cards being the only showed. Also the "soft" focus is a little distracting.
05/24/2002 09:56:00 AM
Focus could have been better.
05/23/2002 09:58:00 PM
to out of focus it makes it hard to look at I would have tried a better contrast of colors..but great effort
05/23/2002 08:36:00 AM
out of focus. this photo is rather boring, i dont think the cards make a good background and the money on top just doesnt do anything for me. a better idea might have been a pile of money on a table with a hand of cards in view.
05/22/2002 09:56:00 PM
Nice shot.
05/22/2002 07:32:00 PM
I think some shinier coins may have improved the impact here... I would also like it a little more photographed from an angle rather than from directly overhead... good job!
05/22/2002 02:56:00 PM
I think this would of worked better if it showed an actual poker hand with money next to it to make it look more like the game play of poker.
05/21/2002 06:07:00 PM
Your pictures seems to be a tad out of focus and it looks like maybe you had too much jpeg compression going on. Your file is only 80+kb and you have a maximum of 150kb to work with. Try saving this at a higher resolution. The picture also seems to be a bit to crazy. There is too much going on. I would have prefered if you would have narrowed your subject down, maybe putting the cards in a stack with a pile of money next to it.
05/21/2002 05:01:00 PM
Perhaps if this looked like a poker game it would have sold this a little better, sorry just seems somewhat unorganized.
05/21/2002 04:46:00 PM
focus looks a little out, good colourful subject
05/21/2002 04:06:00 PM
Nice pic... a little off focus though? Or intentional? Nice eitherway...
05/21/2002 02:26:00 PM
I see the cards and money, but I have to admit I wouldn't immediately think Poker without the title -- gambling maybe. There are an awful lot of compression artifacts -- and I notice your file size is about half what it could be. You might want to save at a higher resolution. The focus on this could also be a little sharper, and the color seems to have something of a green tint -- as if you shot under florescent lighting. Try a levels fix in your image editing program.
05/21/2002 12:05:00 PM
The money seems out of foucs on my screen.
05/20/2002 04:53:00 PM
Bye Abe. :( Goodjob
05/20/2002 03:57:00 PM
Did you make that $5 on your HP?
05/20/2002 01:25:00 PM
This is a fine idea and a good try. I would of liked the cards more disorganized, a little too staged here. Money [paper] is all right side up. It's not bad at all!
05/20/2002 12:49:00 PM
Seems too scattered/cluttered to have any large effect. I think a nice stack of cards, a nice stack of cash, and a few stacks of change would've have a larger effect.
05/20/2002 10:41:00 AM
This looks oversharpened, and also doesn't invoke "poker" with me w/out reading the title. Maybe a hand of cards and the money in the pot in the middle would've been better.
05/20/2002 09:34:00 AM
Nice colors!
05/20/2002 08:05:00 AM
last i checked, this is not how poker is played.


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