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Tired of Dead Ends?
Tired of Dead Ends?
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Challenge: Motivational Poster (Advanced Editing I*)
Camera: Olympus D-550Z
Location: Old Town, Lansing, MI
Date: Dec 22, 2003
Aperture: f4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 10/130
Galleries: Black and White, Persuasive
Date Uploaded: Dec 22, 2003

Found this painted on an old building in the Old Town district of Lansing MI. Converted to greyscale using channel mixer. Set different levels for wall, window, window sill, changed curve on window (4 layers all masked). Set brightness/contrast, resized, made a border. Duotone is made up of Pantone 449 cvc,Pantone 695 cvc each with individual curves. It's as straight as I can make it. It's a perspective problem!

Statistics
Place: 36 out of 94
Avg (all users): 5.9718
Avg (commenters): 6.1333
Avg (participants): 5.6515
Avg (non-participants): 6.1622
Views since voting: 1591
Votes: 177
Comments: 16
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/03/2004 04:47:36 PM
This one works well. The monochrome sends the "dead end" message along with the text. I think I would have liked this in Portrait vs. landscape. 9
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01/03/2004 12:19:09 PM
Excellent choice of monotone to emphasise the message. Cropping is just right. I think that I'd try the text in a smaller font to direct the eye to the image, then let it naturally move to the message below.
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01/03/2004 03:10:46 AM
Not a very good dead end. I want to see the alley way or something that has no way out.
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01/02/2004 05:56:24 AM
hehe this is funny ... who that wrote this has a sens of humor. -7
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12/30/2003 01:03:53 PM
I'm a grammar nut - so it should read "...than now!" :)
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12/30/2003 12:40:48 PM
then now?
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12/30/2003 11:13:02 AM
"Then?" Me thinks it shoulda been "than" :)
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12/29/2003 09:56:45 PM
nice photo, but i think a different border color and font type would strengthen this poster a bit
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12/29/2003 05:31:55 PM
The top of the window is trimmed a bit tight for me. The tones are nice and so is the focus. I don't like the text.
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12/29/2003 08:31:58 AM
"than" now, not "then" :) .. and i would move the text down a little bit
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12/29/2003 08:12:58 AM
The correct usage would be: There is no better time to change your path than now. Might want to get that grammar corrected before you make prints.

The message is very good and the photo goes along with the message.
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12/29/2003 07:12:28 AM
I'm sure I won't be the only person to point out the typo (then/than) but I do like this picture a lot. 8
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12/29/2003 07:05:42 AM
Interesting take - I like the image. Grammatically, though, an error. Should be "than" now rather than "then".
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12/29/2003 04:49:49 AM
This is very good.
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12/29/2003 03:30:46 AM
Beautiful photograph, but the fonts is kind of distorted and fuzzy. Also you could have given the text more space around it to separate the image from the text. Posters usually don't have borders on the edges. The middle border would have been enough. But the photo itself is great!
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12/29/2003 12:32:17 AM
I glad to se some people using "non-pretty" pictures; this is appropriately "gritty" for your topic. For some reason the inner, light border by the brick bothers me a little, maybe because it almost but doesn't quite mimic the mortar lines. I'd like to see this with the inner black border touching the bricks.
Also, you have a typo or syntax error -- the next-to--last word should be "than" (but I don't deduct for typos!).
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