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The Search for the Perfect Toy
The Search for the Perfect Toy
timfythetoo


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Searching (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A40
Date: Oct 7, 2007
Date Uploaded: Oct 7, 2007

 This shot is gonna tank hard I know it. I took this with my boys p&s while at Toys R Us. We were there to spend his birthday money. He is actually searching for his next transformer. But his camera was all I had. I took a handful of images with no flash and some with. The ones with flash were pretty bad. The ones without were pretty blurry. The first image I edited I somehow saved over the original. So I had to go back and find another to do. The tonemapping feel is pretty heavyhanded (not as heavy as I had originally done) so I figure I will get hit hard for that. Its not really in good focus and its another picture of my boy. Maybe a 5.5 but I wont hold my breath.

Tonemapped in LIghtroom and then mellowed out a bit in PS.

Statistics
Place: 60 out of 122
Avg (all users): 5.5105
Avg (commenters): 5.4444
Avg (participants): 5.3830
Avg (non-participants): 5.5729
Views since voting: 1287
Views during voting: 292
Votes: 143
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

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 12/12/2007 10:36:09 AM
I don't know if I have a really odd way of looking at things or not, but I LOVED the feel of this pic. It was borderline cartoonish, which is kind of the idea of a child with a wad of cash picking out the perfect toy, isn't it? It's really retro feeling to me. It could just as easily be my son (who is 31 now) picking out HIS next Transformer.
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 10/15/2007 06:04:18 AM
I agree with one of your early commentors, this defintely has a lucis filter feel to it. Certainly not your best effort recently. Your Flora/Fauna shot seems be to be scoring well so hopefully a return to form for you there..
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/14/2007 06:11:40 AM
This photo looks over processed yet it is not sharp. Good take on the challenge though.
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 10/14/2007 12:43:29 AM
Our searching little friend looks quite a bit over worked (photoshopped) for my personal taste.
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 10/13/2007 11:27:44 AM
So much to choose from! With such a busy background, it might have been helpful to choose a shirt which was a solid color... perhaps a yellow to stand apart from the background? Love the money in hand too, a nice touch.
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 10/13/2007 01:49:14 AM
I like the lucis effect with this one. 7
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 10/11/2007 02:26:26 PM
Great framing and background. Very clean and simple, even though it is busy. Good capture.
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 10/11/2007 07:05:22 AM
cute
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 10/09/2007 12:44:05 PM
Processing seems a bit much on this. You have a well composed photograph here you don't have to make it look all funky in photoshop to make it great, it is great on its own
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 10/08/2007 10:12:29 PM
Composition is good, feels overprocessed, probably going to get dinged lots for that.
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 10/08/2007 06:13:36 AM
the pp is a bit weird. or is it HDR...
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