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Challenge: Cardboard Box (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
Date: Jul 25, 2008
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Jul 27, 2008

 The "heroin" is flour stuffed into small ziploc bags. Shot with one 400w strobe off to the rear left behind the scene.

I’m sure this will get hammered by the voters that disagree with the subject matter or feel that it is immoral. I don’t really care. I take photos and submit them based on the ideas / set-ups I like, not on what I think the voters will drool over. If this gets at least one 8, 9, or 10; then the image has impacted someone else and has made its statement.
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Post Challenge: I wasn’t going for "shocking." My intention here was to simply show a “slice of life,” albeit a darker & unseen slice of life for most people. I work in a field where I see the effects of substance abuse frequently. There are a ton of people in the U.S. and across the world that are addicted to drugs. A surprising number of which are adolescents and young adults from middle class & upper middle class families. Waking up and shooting heroin or snorting a line of coke is as normal to them, as waking up and brushing your teeth is to you. A darker slice of life viewed through the looking glass. It is what it is, nothing more, nothing less.

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Statistics
Place: 81 out of 95
Avg (all users): 4.9016
Avg (commenters): 5.8750
Avg (participants): 4.9623
Avg (non-participants): 4.8769
Views since voting: 727
Views during voting: 335
Votes: 183
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/03/2008 09:52:31 AM
This is somewhat disturbing - but it definitely meets the challenge criteria.
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 08/02/2008 02:31:00 PM
cool 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/01/2008 12:24:18 PM
Love the realism in this...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/31/2008 04:06:09 PM
The thing here is, someone tried a shocking drug image a while back, but they pulled it off with aplomb, it caused some controvery on the site, but personally I thought it was a great shot.. this one however is very poorly executed. It just doesn't work on a shock level or an artistic level..
 07/31/2008 02:39:35 PM
B&W would have given this more of a photojournalistic feel.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/28/2008 01:39:48 PM
I just imagined like some horrible parent discovering her daughter's crack collection: "Now you are going to sit here and inject ALL of that heroin until you've learned your lesson!"

The image is a bit too well-lit and saturated for such a serious subject. It looks like she's just sitting down to her breakfast cereal. Not to say she doesn't do this every morning, but "mundane" isn't the feeling one should get from this.
And, as I hinted at earlier, that IS a awful lot of drugs, just sitting in front of her as if she's going to work her way through the box.
Best of luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/28/2008 01:15:57 PM
A scary image, though the table and wall appear too clean and perfect for the dark concept being conveyed.
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 07/28/2008 12:37:11 AM
Think this is against the site rules. Fear not, however, I'll give it the vote it deserves on the merits of the photo alone.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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