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Boiled Egg and Soldiers
Boiled Egg and Soldiers
SoulMan1978


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Topless...With No People (Basic Editing)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha
Location: my girlfriend's house
Date: Nov 11, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Nov 12, 2007

This is one of those pictures that looked so much better through the viewfinder than on a screen. Oh well, heigh ho...

Hardly any editing - crop, slight rotate, crop again, color balance, curves, sharpening.

If we were under advanced I'd have tidied up the shell and yolk a bit...

Statistics
Place: 41 out of 111
Avg (all users): 5.4248
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1373
Avg (non-participants): 5.5086
Views since voting: 1055
Views during voting: 337
Votes: 226
Comments: 10
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08/03/2008 03:24:08 PM
Ha, Barry, was just looking at this and reading the comments. Amazing how the concept of toast soldiers does not translate globally!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/20/2007 05:37:48 PM
I did not enter, but I was considering a hard boiled egg! Nicely shot but the color of the toast vies for attention with the nicely colorful egg. 8
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11/19/2007 12:21:55 PM
I like it. Not sure why yet, but it's interesting.
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11/17/2007 02:07:09 PM
The blue tablecloth draws my eye away from the main subject.
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11/16/2007 03:25:33 PM
Nice concept, It seems to work well, however I wouldn't have gone center frame, something more 1/3 would have been nice.
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11/16/2007 12:57:54 PM
Soldiers? Well, anywho....the boiled egg is nice and clear. The tablecloth is slightly distracting.
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11/15/2007 08:04:59 PM
I dont like the egg like that :s
11/15/2007 04:38:17 PM
the orange/yellow is a bit strong in this, I think. It does contrast nicely with the blue, though.
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11/15/2007 05:16:10 AM
Almost reminds me of Martin Parr; he has a photo of a proper cup of tea served in an English tea room, which works along similar lines: saturated colour, direct flash to remove all shadows, simple centred framing - lacking in pretension, just showing us the object as found, as seen. Arguably just documenting the item, letting us draw our own conclusions. He would work more simply still however - total depth of field, rather than using the focus to point the eye in this manner. People will call it a pointless snapshot, perhaps; and perhaps they're right - perhaps its the kind of thing that needs rather to be seen in a series, than as a stand alone image.
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11/14/2007 12:43:35 PM
Soldiers?
Didnt get that!
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