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Smuggling Oranges The Hard Way
Smuggling Oranges The Hard Way
alphonzo


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Master of Disguise (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Location: Winnipeg, MB
Date: Mar 7, 2006
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/2
Galleries: Humorous, Sports
Date Uploaded: Mar 7, 2006

 I really need to learn how to post-process better...

Adjusted levels, saturation, contrast, and cropped a little to try and cut out the vignetting. That's it.


Post-Challenge

Well I guess the creativity bonus points got me through this. For those of you who are wondering, I did in fact stuff an orange into a tennis ball (with great difficulty). The idea came from the cover of a book I saw at Chapters called "Freakonomics" that had a picture of an orange on the cover with an apple skin. A lot of international borders do not allow fruit so I was thinking that this would be a very labour intensive way to smuggle oranges.

The picture was taken on my kitchen table and I was going to set it up with an "Evidence" card in front and try to make it look like somebody got busted, but I ended up with this. Lighting was from bedside table lamps (the shame...)

Thanks for the votes and I promise I'll work on my technique.

Statistics
Place: 6 out of 117
Avg (all users): 6.5478
Avg (commenters): 7.2917
Avg (participants): 6.4464
Avg (non-participants): 6.5698
Views since voting: 3206
Views during voting: 640
Votes: 314
Comments: 34
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 03/15/2006 12:19:30 PM
Funny! Congratulations on your top 10 finish.
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 03/15/2006 09:00:14 AM
Only a truly zany individual would think of smuggling oranges.

Very well done.

I think that a bit more overall brightness and contrast would help things. Especially in the Orange/balls.

I've been trying to learn how to use USM to perk things up a bit after the resize too. Seems that bringing it down in size sacrifices a fair bit of detail.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/14/2006 09:41:40 PM
Bravo
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 03/14/2006 05:06:24 PM
Clever. Great composition!
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 03/14/2006 11:28:59 AM
I can see that u did a lot of work on this one, respect for that.
Love the idea.
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 03/14/2006 09:49:19 AM
it looks like you carefully composed the shot. good job
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 03/14/2006 12:58:00 AM
Great Concept! Really Great. I wish the light was softer. Maybe a different color background.
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 03/12/2006 11:33:02 PM
lol who would even think of this? (work on your background/backdrop- looks yellowed)
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 03/12/2006 10:57:14 AM
how'd you get the outside of the fruit to look so like a tennis ball?
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 03/12/2006 02:58:44 AM
Great idea!
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 03/11/2006 09:21:08 AM
Nice concept and well carried out
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 03/10/2006 09:29:13 PM
Very interesting
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 03/10/2006 07:17:24 PM
Clever !!
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 03/10/2006 05:48:40 PM
Good idea, a bit of work, I believe, put to fit the fruit into the ball. But I think just one ball would be enough. What do you think?
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 03/10/2006 10:29:24 AM
Great take on the challenge. Nice shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/09/2006 08:33:17 PM
This is a totally cool picture, and a totally cool and creative idea, but I was wondering where you might find trouble smuggling oranges? Everybody likes oranges!
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 03/09/2006 08:10:33 PM
Inventive!
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 03/09/2006 09:25:20 AM
8 for the shot and for the effort
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 03/09/2006 09:07:09 AM
Heeheehee, nice one and does the hard work of fitting on this challenge.
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 03/08/2006 09:09:21 PM
Ha, I love the idea. I would have liked the picture to be crisper though.
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 03/08/2006 07:34:27 PM
A very funny subject. I don't think that the composition is working for me, though.
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 03/08/2006 02:24:13 PM
Oh my, looks like this was a lot of work!!
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 03/08/2006 02:07:39 PM
I'd have liked it a touch sharper but I think it's brilliant!
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 03/08/2006 12:17:31 PM
ok
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 03/08/2006 12:05:48 PM
Awesome, this pic gets all 10 of my points :)
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 03/08/2006 09:22:47 AM
Excellent idea!
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 03/08/2006 08:32:03 AM
Very cool 9
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 03/08/2006 07:27:10 AM
Wow...
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 03/08/2006 05:31:22 AM
Clever
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 03/08/2006 05:09:31 AM
Very good idea, but technicly not so perfect...
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 03/08/2006 04:59:55 AM
well done, that's a great shot
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 03/08/2006 03:47:08 AM
Very good, you obviously put a lot of work into this.
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 03/08/2006 12:40:10 AM
wow...intersting! 9
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 03/08/2006 12:34:38 AM
Hi-larious!! It's obvious that you put a lot of thought into this!
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