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Landed on a golf course dangerously low on fule!
Landed on a golf course dangerously low on fule!
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Challenge: Newspaper (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z
Location: Langaholt, Snaefellsnes, Iceland
Date: Jun 19, 2004
Aperture: F6,3
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/170
Galleries: Travel, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Jun 21, 2004

Taken when camping with friends from work, my boss came for a visit on his private plane. He wasn't realy out of fule but he landed on the golf course (hole 7).
Post editing:
Auto contrast
Levels and hue/saturation
USM and Resized

Statistics
Place: 69 out of 232
Avg (all users): 5.4941
Avg (commenters): 6.1111
Avg (participants): 5.1429
Avg (non-participants): 5.7134
Views since voting: 993
Views during voting: 340
Votes: 255
Comments: 10
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/29/2004 05:57:46 AM
I hope that really didn't happen! Anyway, personally I think that an angle more from the front would have created a more effective shot. Perhaps even from the other side to get rid of some of the empty space (not sure what was on side you were shooting from obviously so that may not have been an option).
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06/28/2004 10:53:28 PM
Wow, did this really happen? I don't know how you could stage this photo!
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06/26/2004 02:38:21 PM
Very interesting but the building and the people ruin the shot a bit. CLone them out perhaps. I like the flowers in the front. If you laid down in those flowers and pointed the camera up, it would be a picture as if the plane was in the air!
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06/24/2004 10:22:02 AM
I have to take points off for spelling and grammar in your headline, but this image meets the challenge sufficiently. More people around the plane or on the course might have benefited the image.

EDIT:
In this particular contest, the headline is an important part of the challenge. If English is not your native language, I would rather you wrote the headline properly in your native tongue than write a nonsensical headline in English. We had plenty of time in this challenge to formulate a strong headline. As it stood, your picture was not strong enough to "fly" without a solid headline, and your headline was too befuddled to make up for the ambivalent photo. A newspaper photo should make the situation obvious, the headline is more like the title of the article than a description of the picture.
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06/24/2004 02:58:19 AM
So is that really a golf course or did you put a flag at the end of a grass runway? Either way the photo works fairly well. It would have been nice to have a couple of golfer putting on the green.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/23/2004 04:37:06 PM
I think you got fule spelled wrong. Anyway, composition could've been better. I would've taken it at an angle instead of a 45degree shot from the side.
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06/23/2004 04:23:05 AM
nice picture but needs a better headline
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06/23/2004 03:24:22 AM
Very nice colors in this image. Cropped a tad too tight for my personal tastes (getting all of the plane would've made me happier) Good headline. Might I suggest "Low Fuel Forces Emergency Golf Course Landing" (I'm guessing english isn't your first language. Very good attempt at this challenge regardless.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/23/2004 01:58:53 AM
Haha! Have you seen the movie casino?
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06/23/2004 01:43:51 AM
everithing good, color, sharpness, and nice place
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