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Choose To L'oeuf, Not Hate, Your Fellow Challengers
Choose To L'oeuf, Not Hate, Your Fellow Challengers
Greetmir


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Love II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Kodak Z650
Location: My living room
Date: Feb 17, 2007
Aperture: F 7.73
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/2 second
Galleries: Emotive, Studio
Date Uploaded: Feb 17, 2007

 This image dedicated to Posthumous who taught me not to be afraid of jumping out of the box.

Three point tungsten/halogen lighting. Focal Length: 105 mm in Macro Mode.

PP = Rotate, Crop, Levels, HSL, B&C, Neat Image, Pull back on yellows, Resize

Statistics
Place: 223 out of 232
Avg (all users): 4.0939
Avg (commenters): 4.5556
Avg (participants): 3.5862
Avg (non-participants): 4.2839
Views since voting: 793
Views during voting: 299
Votes: 213
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 03/04/2007 04:08:32 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club
by strangeghost

The first three parts of this critique are written based purely on examination of your photo. "Final thoughts" is written after reviewing your score, photographer's comments, and voter comments.

TECHNIQUE
I can't find any problems with the technicals. It's sharply focused, good contrast, nice flat black background.

COMPOSITION
Hmmm. It's an egg. A little off-centered to make for a more interesting composition, but it just doesn't seem to have any purpose or logic that I can detect. It's a picture of an egg. The questions I normally ask myself when doing a critique, "is there a balance or logic to the comp?" "Is there an evident purpose?" I just don't know. I rechecked the challenge topic, "love." Of what am I to make of a shot of an egg? I really don't get it, I guess.

EMOTIONAL IMPACT
As you might guess, I'm not feeling this one. If there is a message there meant to grab the attention and hold it, I'm not in tune. No real "wow" factor, nothing really unusual in the viewpoint. Not much emotional impact, I'm afraid.

FINAL THOUGHTS
Now, in reading your title, I'm guessing that this image relies on the word play, French to English? Based on your comments, most of those who commented got the drift, since they were taking the title and the image together, which I had not done in my initial comments above (on purpose). Having now done that, I can appreciate it and get a chuckle myself. I likely would have scored this at about a 5, bearing no real connection to the challenge (other than the title) but being a technically adequate shot. Your voters were ruthless, however, a 4.0, le'ouch!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/03/2007 12:53:26 PM
I l 'oeuf this shot of an oeuf...at least it's not oof...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2007 08:24:01 AM
Well I'm glad someone explained it because it wouldn't have made any sense to me. Nice shot of an egg though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2007 04:26:30 AM
For those who don't understand the connection between the egg and love, it's in the title. "Choose to L'oeuf... "Oeuf" is a French word that means "egg." It's pronunciation is very similar to "love" except, mostly, for the "f" instead of the "v." Greetmir was being funny to the select few who would be able to understand what he was doing.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2007 01:12:48 AM
hey mate ... were you playing for the brown??? ;)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2007 10:30:17 PM
is it an egg?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/27/2007 11:47:19 AM
I am not sure how this fits in the challenge, but I like it. The background enhances the speckles. Good job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/27/2007 04:51:58 AM
Funny. And very original idea. But the endresult could have been better and sharper.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2007 06:01:52 PM
and an egg has what to do with love?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2007 04:52:18 AM
good idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/22/2007 09:24:33 AM
Haha! Cute.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2007 08:08:04 PM
Punny, and in multiple languages no less!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2007 11:38:43 AM
creative :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2007 11:35:41 AM
don't understand
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2007 03:15:16 AM
Oh la la -- quel calembour ! ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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