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Phone Booths
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Challenge: Remember Those? (Basic Editing)
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3
Location: New York City
Date: Mar 14, 2009
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/5
Galleries: Interior, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 17, 2009

 Remember when if you wanted to call someone and you were out in public you had to find a dime and go sit in a phone booth while you talked to them? Then it became a quarter, and then a dollar, and then a bunch of dollars, and then cell phones came along, and it became a quarter again.

Shot this over the weekend when I was in NYC for work. This is in the basement of the NY Public Library. Handheld with my P+S Lumix at 1/5 second. Some big heavy USM (something like 167/17.6/0 if memory serves) to make it look all grungy and old. Would have loved to have some old codger sitting in the booth making a call, but the only one around was behind the camera. :-P

Phone-Booth1-P1010711

Statistics
Place: 35 out of 169
Avg (all users): 5.8303
Avg (commenters): 6.6000
Avg (participants): 5.4923
Avg (non-participants): 5.9739
Views since voting: 985
Views during voting: 314
Votes: 218
Comments: 5
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/23/2009 02:32:57 PM
Looks like a drawing, which is nice, but if it looked more like a photograph it would have scored higher for me.
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 03/20/2009 09:19:47 PM
Very nice photo with great detail, might be an optical illusion but doesn't seem to look quite straight... 9
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 03/20/2009 09:16:09 PM
hmmm hadn't thought of that....nice B&W good tones
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 03/20/2009 07:51:45 PM
Nice processing.
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 03/20/2009 04:40:06 PM
Like the subject. Don't see how the wall behind and above the phones adds to the story and would have liked more detail on the phones themselves.
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