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Challenge: Say Cheese! (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-D30
Lens: Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Kitchen table
Date: Dec 10, 2005
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200 sec
Galleries: Humorous, Studio
Date Uploaded: Dec 10, 2005

 I was thinking of a good image to make with cheese. Had a bunch of ideas in my head but most of them were too difficult to execute. Like carving a camera out of cheese...Then this idea hit me. I walked over to Walgreens to pick up a pair of mouse traps (1.40$) made my mouse hole in a piece of paper with a black Sharpie and tore a few bits of swiss to lay out a trail.

When converting to raw I tweaked the temperature, sharpness and a few other settings. Then used curves to get the look I wanted.

I really like this photo but I have a prediction that I'm going to get dinged on 2 points that I see as almost irrelevant...
1. "You cut off the mouse trap"
2. "The mouse hole is tilted" or "Your horizon is tilted"..Mice aren't engineers and the tilted horizon is actually an optical illusion because of the crooked mouse hole.

Statistics
Place: 30 out of 107
Avg (all users): 5.5583
Avg (commenters): 6.7333
Avg (participants): 5.2105
Avg (non-participants): 5.6460
Views since voting: 920
Views during voting: 421
Votes: 283
Comments: 18
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 12/21/2005 08:40:38 AM
Robbed, you got robbed!

Seriously, returning for a second look, and I'm amazed that you did not place higher than you did.

I will go along with the crowd and admit that it's over-exposed, but only ever so slightly... not by much at all.

Depth of field was perfect, in my opinion, but a tiny bit less exposure might have made the cheese foot prints a little more obvious.

As for the composition that you were concerned about, I think its perfect too. No need to see more of the mouse trap, we know what it is. The composition adds interest, in my opinion.

If I could give it another 10, I would.

Keep up the great work.
---Andrew
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/20/2005 09:55:43 PM
funny 9
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 12/19/2005 05:11:50 PM
Funny. A bit too overexposed (note merges with floor)
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 12/17/2005 09:35:46 PM
Very funny!
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 12/17/2005 09:01:37 PM
finanlly! one shot with composition and tatse
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 12/17/2005 01:39:16 PM
This is just a great photo. The scene is just so whimsical and cute. The sharpness and detail are incredible. This photo tells a story, and even if it is a comedy instead of the moody dramas preferred by DPC, I love it. 10!
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 12/16/2005 09:36:15 PM
ive got a mouse in my house like that. nice pic. may have been better w/ a different color note on the trap.
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 12/16/2005 09:10:38 PM
Too much bright white. It almost hides the trail to the mousehole
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 12/16/2005 03:12:28 AM
well done this is a cracker entry 10
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 12/15/2005 05:52:47 PM
This is one of the funniest yet! Refreshing spin on the mouse trap idea.
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 12/15/2005 12:26:34 PM
good one! i love it.
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 12/14/2005 11:14:06 PM
Too funny, but I wish the mouse hole was in focus.
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 12/14/2005 04:52:19 PM
good idea, but i think it's a little over exposed, don't you?
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 12/14/2005 01:27:15 PM
LOL. Clever! I think you need either a higher contrast for the cheese trail, and/or a little deeper depth of field.
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 12/14/2005 10:29:52 AM
Very creative, wish it wasn't over exposed because the pawprints (?) or trail of cheese is really hard to see.
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 12/14/2005 09:46:15 AM
What I love about this is how cheese is inferred, though I think the DOF is working against you in this instance. What I am guessing are cheese remnants reads difficult against the white backdrop as it is, and the DOF makes it less clear.
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 12/14/2005 03:44:06 AM
difficult to criticize this title "say cheese" which in the dictionary called for photography "small smile"
 12/14/2005 03:09:50 AM
great, simply great
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