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 03/13/2009 05:53:55 PM · #1
Here's an idea for the week of April Fool's Day. Submit an image whose sole purpose for existing is to fool the voters into thinking it's a ribbon winner. Pull out all the cliche themes (water drops, owls, bugs, boobs, etc.) and hackneyed techniques (oversharpened, oversaturated, HDR, high contrast, etc.) and let's poke some fun at ourselves. Advanced editing, please.

And I think everyone who participates should get a ribbon of some sort for their profile page.

Thoughts?
 03/13/2009 05:55:41 PM · #2
Sounds mean. :-p
 03/13/2009 06:01:57 PM · #3
I think you might need to explain this in simple terms. I am a fully qualified Village Idiot and don't understand what you is talking about!

What are clicky themes?? My camera goes clicky and a little imp inside the black box draws a picture for me. What are boobs? I make mistakes at work people tell they are boobs, so I need to take pictures of mistakes at work??

I don't have any hair left, so a ribbon isn't much use to me:)
 03/13/2009 06:11:23 PM · #4
Originally posted by bvy:
Here's an idea for the week of April Fool's Day. Submit an image whose sole purpose for existing is to fool the voters into thinking it's a ribbon winner. Pull out all the cliche themes (water drops, owls, bugs, boobs, etc.) and hackneyed techniques (oversharpened, oversaturated, HDR, high contrast, etc.) and let's poke some fun at ourselves. Advanced editing, please.

And I think everyone who participates should get a ribbon of some sort for their profile page.

Thoughts?


Oh. So you mean what I do for every challenge anyway.

Sweet!
 03/13/2009 06:32:51 PM · #5
Actually, after having just finished voting on all but three of the "Hidden Gem 1000+" photos, it's hard to think of a subject that wouldn't be a cliché.
 03/13/2009 06:44:24 PM · #6
Two years running I've handed out dnmc 1 to all the entries in a free study on April 1 (without actually scoring at all, NB). If you wish to respond to this message, please talk to my lawyer.
Any over-contrasted, oversaturated, oversharpened HDR picture of an owl-like bug with big boobs reflected in a drop of water gets 10 from me on April 1, I promise.
By the way, SteveJ says and probably thinks he's a qualified village idiot, but rumour has it he failed the final interview by turning up (duh).
03/13/2009 06:58:59 PM · #7
Originally posted by raish:
Two years running I've handed out dnmc 1 to all the entries in a free study on April 1 (without actually scoring at all, NB). If you wish to respond to this message, please talk to my lawyer.
Any over-contrasted, oversaturated, oversharpened HDR picture of an owl-like bug with big boobs reflected in a drop of water gets 10 from me on April 1, I promise.
By the way, SteveJ says and probably thinks he's a qualified village idiot, but rumour has it he failed the final interview by turning up (duh).


Exactly, a village idiot always fails:))
 03/14/2009 10:24:46 AM · #8
Of course, any fisheye view of Icelandic landscape would qualify...
 03/15/2009 01:23:51 PM · #9
Macro of a flower with "fresh" dew drops and a bee in it - Sounds like a cliché winner to me!
 03/15/2009 01:39:16 PM · #10
LOL - like you need to give L & D (or D & L) any more ideas for
as we call it here in San Francisco: St Stupid's Day???
 03/15/2009 02:19:34 PM · #11
I kind of like the idea of a cliche challenge, but I agree it's getting hard to find something that is not cliche in some way. Last years DNMC challenge was a lot of fun.
 03/15/2009 02:26:24 PM · #12
Originally posted by SteveJ:
I think you might need to explain this in simple terms. I am a fully qualified Village Idiot and don't understand what you is talking about!

What are clicky themes?? My camera goes clicky and a little imp inside the black box draws a picture for me. What are boobs? I make mistakes at work people tell they are boobs, so I need to take pictures of mistakes at work??

I don't have any hair left, so a ribbon isn't much use to me:)


:}
 03/15/2009 09:27:23 PM · #13
Cliche themes -- i.e. subjects we see over and over again on the front page.

1. Water drops
2. Owls
3. Eagles
4. Macro Insects
5. Topless Sexy Women
6. Iceland
7. Macro flower with optional bee and/or dew drops (thanks, Pascale)
8. Sunsets
9. Eggs
10. Wine glass studies
11. Frogs
12. Wide angle barn with swoopy clouds.
13. Curled colored paper.
14. Tigers/Lions
15. Silhouette cowboy/horse
16. Bridges (usually with reflection from water below, inexplicably popular)
17. Streaky car headlights on long exposure
18. Rusty cars in fields
19. Light bulbs

Any more?

Message edited by author 2009-03-27 18:24:55.
 03/15/2009 09:33:06 PM · #14
Originally posted by bvy:
Cliche themes -- i.e. subjects we see over and over again on the front page.

5. Topless Women


Umm. Please send me whatever copy of dpc you subscribe to.
 03/15/2009 09:35:05 PM · #15
sunsets!!! how can you miss sunsets!!
 03/15/2009 09:43:04 PM · #16
Do not forget the egg shots and the glasses with the colored back ground shots oh snd frogs!
 03/15/2009 10:35:52 PM · #17
What I especially like about the prospect of this challenge is that anything original is DNMC. Ha!
 03/15/2009 11:47:46 PM · #18
Don't forget the wideangle landscape with swoopy clouds and an old barn.
 03/22/2009 10:14:06 PM · #19
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Don't forget the wideangle landscape with swoopy clouds and an old barn.


Got it.
 03/22/2009 10:18:01 PM · #20
You forgot Curled paper lit with different colours..........
 03/24/2009 07:28:01 AM · #21
Originally posted by bvy:
Of course, any fisheye view of Icelandic landscape would qualify...


There are only 2 things in Iceland:

1. Landscape (usually with Northern Lights above).
2. Banking crisis.

Photos of a banking system which knowingly stole money from International investors while an inept Government reneged on it's assurance that the money was protected make for quite dull pictures I'd guess. Unless it's a picture of me extracting my money from the former Finance Minister, penny by penny with a pair of pliers.
 03/24/2009 11:58:38 AM · #22
Originally posted by bvy:
Cliche themes -- i.e. subjects we see over and over again on the front page.

Any more?


Tigers/Lions
Silhouette cowboy/horse
Bridges (usually with reflection from water below, inexplicably popular)
Streaky car headlights on long exposure

03/24/2009 12:01:13 PM · #23
Originally posted by mikeee:

Bridges (usually with reflection from water below, inexplicably popular)


Nothing inexplicable about it: there's something in the concept *bridge* that speaks to the human soul, and *reflections* likewise. Combine the two and you're in metaphorical nirvana :-)

R.
 03/25/2009 03:18:34 AM · #24
A couple more:

Rusting cars in fields
Light bulbs
 03/27/2009 06:30:42 PM · #25
Good stuff, everyone. Certainly we have enough fodder for a cliche-inspired challenge for April Fool's Day...
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