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Challenge: Road Signs Re-revisited (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Douglasville, GA
Date: Jan 20, 2004
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Rural
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2004

 This sign is located on a little one-way country road with all of one house on it. It's a rather new sign, first time I saw it I had to take a double take at what it said... as I've never seen one of these signs before and it gave me a little giggle for some reason.

I know it's a little soft, tried to sharpen it up best I could. Rotated slightly to straighten sign and cropped, USM, Adjusted levels & curves and desaturated all colors but yellow. Added border and resized.

Statistics
Place: 129 out of 202
Avg (all users): 5.0081
Avg (commenters): 4.5833
Avg (participants): 4.6818
Avg (non-participants): 5.2721
Views since voting: 1086
Votes: 246
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 06/24/2005 05:41:27 PM
Road Signs was a difficult challenge this time around. Perhaps it always will be...such static subjects are hard to render with interest. You knew it wasn't the best quality image when you entered, so what can I add that would "instruct" you? Nothing.

I like signs. I like signs that make you do a "double take." Hard to put them in context for sure but you did tickle a number of voters. Isn't it nice to know that your concept was one that touched others?

Thank you for playing "closest to 5" today.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/27/2004 11:22:00 AM
B/W ?
 01/26/2004 10:02:36 PM
Blurry, put in B&W and Do a gaussian blur of 2.0
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 01/25/2004 11:03:00 PM
Do they have to live in the woods there??!!! Why that's no fair! :-}
 01/25/2004 08:44:05 PM
Another one of my favorites, well done
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 01/24/2004 09:19:37 AM
The quality of this shot is not the best. It's slightly blurry, and I wonder if this was taken in a speeding car. The sign has humor value, but the background is too distracting and 'close' to the sign. Compositionally it's fine.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2004 11:06:39 AM
Funny sign. Image seems a bit out of focus though. Could have benefited from cropping at top also.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2004 02:29:22 PM
Now this is funny!
 01/21/2004 11:47:40 AM
good idea, great subject, bad exposure
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2004 11:09:14 AM
Had a bit of motion blur in this picture. It may be interpreted as I´m turning in to blind, or that you take it with a lowest shutter speed than need. The overall is comic.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2004 08:40:16 AM
Great sign. Focus appears off though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2004 05:12:20 AM
Photo seems a bit blurry
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 01/21/2004 03:26:41 AM
if they were able to see, i don't think they'd like what they'd see with all that dead forest.


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