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"Your call is important to us. Please hold..."
"Your call is important to us. Please hold..."
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Challenge: Cell Phone Mania (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
Date: Mar 20, 2007
Aperture: f 7.1
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Humorous, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Mar 20, 2007

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Statistics
Place: 18 out of 118
Avg (all users): 6.2510
Avg (commenters): 7.1429
Avg (participants): 6.0588
Avg (non-participants): 6.3032
Views since voting: 1649
Views during voting: 420
Votes: 239
Comments: 31
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 05/13/2007 12:28:25 AM
A great humor take on the challenge. I think it would have easily scored higher had the lighting been better and the crop a bit tighter
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 05/10/2007 02:17:09 PM
Love it! I've been a switchboard operator for almost 24 years. This is PERFECT!!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/27/2007 06:41:12 PM
LOL and really nice image. The hat really makes the shot. 10
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 03/27/2007 12:33:03 AM
nice idea
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 03/26/2007 07:18:14 PM
Certainly makes a statement. There must be a use for this image beyond this challenge. Well done.
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 03/25/2007 08:58:58 AM
lol! I like that :) Having phoned up enough customer care centres, I can sympathise...

I think there might be a better way of adjusting the lighting though. I'd like to see his face lit up, so I think light coming in from top right would've helped.
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 03/24/2007 08:53:35 PM
creative & funny
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 03/24/2007 06:40:49 PM
funny. i can sympathize.
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 03/24/2007 03:54:46 AM
Classic. Well done.
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 03/24/2007 02:17:31 AM
hehe, the perils of the modern age. Nice humerous idea
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 03/24/2007 01:22:08 AM
can u hear me now :) very good idea
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 03/23/2007 11:45:52 PM
Tee heee. . ..I love it! I have sooooooooo been there done that! Great idea! 10
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 03/23/2007 06:31:41 PM
OMG is this the truth... Great shot love the composition and the hat I think this is wonderfull = 10
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 03/23/2007 02:34:14 PM
Very funny! I had my boss put me on hold last week and eventually hung up; he called back 45 minutes after first putting me on hold. "He's like the thing that wouldn't shut up!" The man does not know how to get off the phone.
Picturewise, it looks like you have two lights, an overhead to the left and a window or maybe monitor on the right; this is causing the left side to look yellowed and the right is bluish. I like the highlights from the overhead, but a more even and uniform lighting & coloring would improve this a lot.
I like the composition; however in scrolling up and down I think I like it more with the top cropped so the eye sockets are about 1/3 down (cut just where the right side of the hat starts to go straight up); this also makes the overall proportions more aesthetic - or traditional/boring if you did it on purpose, but it seems too tall to me.
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 03/23/2007 10:43:42 AM
hahahaha!
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 03/23/2007 01:30:17 AM
yellow light from the bulb to the right is distracting
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 03/23/2007 12:00:22 AM
must be talking to my cable provider.
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 03/22/2007 04:33:46 PM
hahha
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 03/22/2007 09:20:15 AM
LOOOOL . 10
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 03/22/2007 01:16:42 AM
hehehe...cute.
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 03/22/2007 12:11:44 AM
great idea.. perhaps the lighting isn't ideal.. maybe should have gone with a darker background to create more contrast..
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 03/21/2007 09:51:45 PM
Yep...7
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 03/21/2007 09:05:48 PM
Clever.....
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 03/21/2007 07:13:13 PM
Awesome idea.
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 03/21/2007 05:47:28 PM
yup
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 03/21/2007 12:03:12 PM
This is absolutely PRICELESS! (so sayeth a switchboard operator)
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 03/21/2007 11:15:42 AM
made me smile - that must be worth something (in this case 7) :)
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 03/21/2007 11:10:06 AM
Haha. I like the statement made in this photo. Very interesting.
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 03/21/2007 08:41:20 AM
What a creative idea. Nicely executed and very funny. Lighting, composition and focus is very good.
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 03/21/2007 03:45:47 AM
Super shot! Extra points for humor!!!
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 03/21/2007 01:21:25 AM
ROFLOL!!
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