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To be oar not to be...
To be oar not to be...
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Challenge: Team Sports Without Players (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Kodak DX6490
Location: Weymouth
Date: May 30, 2004
Aperture: f4.50
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/750
Galleries: Sports
Date Uploaded: Jun 1, 2004

 The south west rowing champoinships (or something) were taking part in my town, but the owners of these oars were nowhere to be seen. Poor oars :(

I've cropped the picture to make it fit the size regulations, and converted then into black and white using PSP.

Statistics
Place: 31 out of 162
Avg (all users): 5.7087
Avg (commenters): 6.5500
Avg (participants): 5.4222
Avg (non-participants): 5.8265
Views since voting: 818
Votes: 309
Comments: 22
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/08/2004 09:14:01 PM
great idea, especially for the tittle.
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 06/08/2004 05:25:09 PM
Love this shot! My criticism is the pixelization of the image. Very obviously
overenlarged. Too many pixels visible. Still... I like the shot.
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 06/07/2004 04:51:25 PM
nice textures on the oars, but i'd like to see more contrast.
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 06/07/2004 03:53:51 PM
Nice repetition and lines - I like this one!
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 06/06/2004 07:13:52 PM
OOO bad pun in the title :) I like the B&W still life, crisp detail and repetitive pattern. One of my ribbon picks
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 06/06/2004 02:32:55 AM
It's really a nice black and white image depicting a difficult team sport. I must say however that your title, although catchy, makes one moan and groan.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/05/2004 08:43:51 PM
I like the abstract nature of this photo. Levels, focus, and contrast are nearly perfect. Black and white works well. Portrait orientation works well. Very little to criticize. The highlights on the rightmost oar are lost on the others. I bit stronger highlights would have improved it in my opinion. I suspect it may score a bit below what it deserves because it's not very dynamic. Good luck. (8)
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 06/04/2004 10:28:39 PM
nice shot
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 06/04/2004 10:17:13 PM
Original idea, I like that it doesn't include balls in this one, an extra point for thinking outside the norm.
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 06/04/2004 10:06:19 AM
Looks a little pixelated. Not sure, but probably overprocessed somehow.
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 06/04/2004 02:59:54 AM
Nice, great contrast, 8
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 06/03/2004 02:04:29 PM
This is a really good idea and is well composed. However, it is extraordinarily pixelated and looks really compressed. Is this from a cell phone camera? It seems in focus, but just lacks the resolution. You may want to consider using a different program to resize your work or increase the resolution on your camera. If it was really sharp and not pixelated, I would have given it a 7. However, I'm giving it a 5 because of the poor quality.
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 06/03/2004 09:52:46 AM
really effective - good sense of texture, almost abstract in a way.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/03/2004 07:51:25 AM
Nice, looks like a painting. Focus could be sharper.
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 06/03/2004 04:50:23 AM
This looks awfully pixelated, you use only 12k! If you had used the full 150k, it might have been a very good photo. 3
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 06/03/2004 04:49:25 AM
Very good interpretation of the theme.Nice Aestetic.10
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 06/02/2004 11:15:01 PM
Beautiful image. I would have liked it a bit sharper, but that could just be my crappy monitor. 8
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 06/02/2004 06:20:58 PM
Great concept and composition (the diagonal placement of the oars looks very good) ... even b & w works here but there is much compression artefacts that distract the viewing. Thumbnail looks terrific though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/02/2004 06:10:19 PM
great black and white subject, well lit
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 06/02/2004 05:57:54 PM
i think this would place very high if it wasnt so compressed
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 06/02/2004 10:21:43 AM
At first I was going to suggest cropping out the partial oar on the right, but when I covered it with my hand, I noticed that there would have been a mysterious shadow on the next one. Nicely done.
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 06/02/2004 07:29:03 AM
Image is too noisy.
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