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Urban Legend
Urban Legend
Shan2112


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Challenge: The 80s (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Kodak DX4900
Location: Upstate NY, USA
Date: Feb 19, 2006
Aperture: 3
ISO: 1/10 s
Shutter: 200
Galleries: Humorous, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Feb 19, 2006

 When this Challenge was announced - this idea was the one that kept "popping" into my head. A few weeks back I saw some Pop Rocks candy on display at a store and had no idea it was still around. I thought it had faded out years ago. The toe tag in the background was my husband's idea - it's also his toe - thanks honey!

Editing:
in ACDSee - slight desat. and hue, blackpoint, gamma, despeckle.
in PSP7 - salt & pepper, edge preserver, unsharp mask, re-sized, border. Also - removed the "Classic" from the Coca Cola Logo (that wasn't in the 80's - was it?) and a few glare spots on the candy package.

Statistics
Place: 19 out of 101
Avg (all users): 5.9073
Avg (commenters): 6.9286
Avg (participants): 5.7857
Avg (non-participants): 5.9427
Views since voting: 1657
Views during voting: 410
Votes: 248
Comments: 37
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 09/23/2006 05:08:28 PM
WOW..what a message, good idea by your husband ! That stuff kills !
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 03/02/2006 11:39:21 AM
It is most unfortunate that e301 was critical of the subject matter, just because HE didn't get it. Perhaps is was a US thing. While I appreciate all the good things about the global participation on this site, nothing in the wording of the challenge, or rules, suggest that a photographer should research the scope of understanding of the subject matter. Almost anyone in the US who can remember the 80's would remember this urban legend. For more info on it, see //www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/poprocks.htm

It took me less than a minute to put the elements together, and my reaction, like many others, was LOL. That urban legend, and few others, are very much a part of the 80's that I lived through.
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 03/01/2006 06:35:55 PM
from the far side of the pond of the Critique Club

From first viewing, and not until I'd read way back in this image's comments, did I have the slightest idea what this image refers to. The mention of the aspirin and coke thing do I get a certain idea. Whether that's because it's massively us-centric (which I suspect), or whether I just have a gap in my memory I cannot say. Certainly very surprised to see the score on this.

Without that important bit of knowledge, it's the most bizarre collection of unrelated items - some form of chilrend's sweet, a dead person, and a can of coke. What is this? Something about the evil qualities of processed sugar? In an 80's challenge? I suspect, for a large number of the voters here - those from the rest of the world, that is, you've scored way below this average, out of simple confusion.

Your composition is pretty straightforward, the technicals are OK - no more than that, i think - and lighting is pretty much non-existent - I find those window reflections on the coke can particularly nasty: all the more so in an obviously posed photograph. If you're taking so much trouble over the set-up, whay not put a bit of effort into lighting as well? A bit of soft fill light, even simply using a piece of white paper to reflect fill light from the right would help the overall feel opf the coke can enormously - and a sheet or something stuck across the window would produce a much more even soft light, and deal with those horrible reflections. Often times, the difference between the winners and the rest is not so much in the idea, or the moment, or the thought, but actually in the lighting.
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 02/28/2006 03:09:28 AM
Great idea. ONe of the original Urban Legends ;)
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 02/27/2006 05:18:02 PM
loved it....I gave it a 8. DEFINATELY fit the challenge!!!! That was some Urban Legend!
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 02/27/2006 10:46:53 AM
You conjured a very nice image here. Very creative. Congratulations on your top 20 finish.
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 02/27/2006 04:26:49 AM
Ha! Luv this take on the challenge subject. BEnt and original!
Congratulations on making the TOP 20!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/26/2006 08:12:06 PM
Funny!
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 02/25/2006 11:32:41 AM
very funny! LOL! LOL is often typed.....I truly laughed out loud. Very Creative! The overall compositioni is very good but it bugs me to see the corner of the wall (or whatever is creatinig that shadow).
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 02/25/2006 01:39:46 AM
Wow I forgot all about this. Awesome work!
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 02/25/2006 12:03:12 AM
Hahahahah....well done!
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 02/24/2006 11:35:17 PM
Like your originality and creativity
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 02/24/2006 06:28:03 PM
Great picture
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 02/24/2006 09:40:20 AM
great idea!!
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 02/23/2006 12:16:45 AM
LOL, BLUE RIBBON, NOW!
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 02/22/2006 12:18:05 PM
Great idea
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 02/21/2006 11:34:28 PM
Wow, I can't remember back that far. Is the urban legend still alive
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 02/21/2006 11:13:51 PM
Hahahahaha. I remember this legend. Was it a painfull death? Remember the other one about asprin and coke? Good shot.
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 02/21/2006 09:15:01 PM
clever idea. would have liked to see a bit more pop out of your colors.
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 02/21/2006 07:00:55 PM
This one got a great chuckle out of me. Clever!
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 02/21/2006 01:38:21 PM
This is hilarious! Very creative, great use of DoF.
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 02/21/2006 10:09:48 AM
HAHAH.. i realy thought that one was true!
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 02/21/2006 09:32:30 AM
Too funny! I love this one. :)
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 02/21/2006 09:31:45 AM
I remember this very well.
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 02/21/2006 06:09:01 AM
What's up with the dead guy/gal in the bed ?
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 02/20/2006 11:14:42 PM
LOL! Very cute! Love the idea and well done overall! The lighting is lacking though for me, just a bit more "POP" if you will! :) A 7
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 02/20/2006 10:23:01 PM
god this is funny...
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 02/20/2006 10:21:27 PM
hehe... fun / clever entry.
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 02/20/2006 07:38:46 PM
great idea
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 02/20/2006 01:02:11 PM
cute idea
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 02/20/2006 11:33:27 AM
Yummy!
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 02/20/2006 08:02:30 AM
I really don't get this, overdose Coke / Rocks ? or mixing the two together?
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 02/20/2006 07:34:10 AM
brilliant and funny
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 02/20/2006 03:24:19 AM
don't try this at home.
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 02/20/2006 01:33:01 AM
ROFL How clever. I forgot about that. ha ha ha ha ha 9
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 02/20/2006 01:18:05 AM
Rofl:)) Second image to make me laugh out loud!! Certifiable:)) I loved that stuff - only I think it was called something else in the UK? I remember our headmaster banned it at school....god I fel ancient...........
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 02/20/2006 12:52:26 AM
lolololol, you know Myth Busters split that one wide open! Great shot, very clever. 8
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