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 04/19/2005 06:31:27 PM · #1
Tacks? Rubber duckys? Rocks? Paper? Scissors?.... . Jewelry? I'd even have to buy an abandoned building so I could enter the property without trespassing. After buying a 20D, disposable income is at a minimum. I don't know anyone who would loan me their diamond necklace. Does anyone else find these challenge topics economically frustrating?

All hail the Free Study

Message edited by author 2005-04-19 18:33:22.
 04/19/2005 07:17:09 PM · #2
No diamonds required. There are lots of interesting jewelry possibilities. Got any lady friends?? Got a high school ring?
 04/19/2005 07:22:56 PM · #3
It's advertising! Who says you actually need to show jewelry to advertise it?
 04/19/2005 07:30:16 PM · #4
Originally posted by movieman:
It's advertising! Who says you actually need to show jewelry to advertise it?


Sadly the challenge descriptions says something like 'see how well you can photograph jewellery.'

I too can't afford diamonds (or at this point even their cheap and nasty cubic zirconia counterparts). So given that I'm a little rusty when it comes to cat-burglary I think I'll have to sit this one out too :).

My failed exercise in rubber ducks broke the bank completely.
 04/19/2005 07:32:51 PM · #5
You can probably buy plenty of costume jewelry at a second-hand store for a buck or two ... or they'll just let you photograph it in the store.

It should be a great AD, but it doesn't have to be great jewelry.
 04/19/2005 07:57:44 PM · #6
One word: Cubic Zirconia. ;-)
 04/19/2005 08:02:27 PM · #7
Originally posted by samtrundle:
Originally posted by movieman:
It's advertising! Who says you actually need to show jewelry to advertise it?


Sadly the challenge descriptions says something like 'see how well you can photograph jewellery.


Oh, well that blows. I obviously didn't read the description. Still, for me anyway, as long as it's an advertisement for jewelry, it'll for work for me. It kind of sucks they limit it so much in the description.
 04/19/2005 08:05:28 PM · #8
Well it's a consumer culture. I guess we have to live with it. :) I did have some Bling from an old Halloween costume, a big Dollar sign necklace. But I threw it away.

Message edited by author 2005-04-19 20:08:40.
 04/19/2005 09:37:52 PM · #9
Originally posted by nfessel:
Tacks? Rubber duckys? Rocks? Paper? Scissors?.... . Jewelry? I'd even have to buy an abandoned building so I could enter the property without trespassing. After buying a 20D, disposable income is at a minimum. I don't know anyone who would loan me their diamond necklace. Does anyone else find these challenge topics economically frustrating?

All hail the Free Study


Maybe it's just a Canadian thing, but there are plenty of free rocks around here. Perhaps I should start an export business =)
 04/19/2005 09:41:09 PM · #10
It could also be costume jewelry. Everyday stuff or even kids things.
 04/19/2005 09:42:52 PM · #11
Originally posted by justine:
It could also be costume jewelry. Everyday stuff or even kids things.


My point exactly. Everyday stuff. Everyday stuff I don't have. :)

Message edited by author 2005-04-19 21:47:49.
 04/19/2005 09:44:39 PM · #12
Originally posted by BeingClever:
Originally posted by nfessel:
Tacks? Rubber duckys? Rocks? Paper? Scissors?.... . Jewelry? I'd even have to buy an abandoned building so I could enter the property without trespassing. After buying a 20D, disposable income is at a minimum. I don't know anyone who would loan me their diamond necklace. Does anyone else find these challenge topics economically frustrating?

All hail the Free Study


Maybe it's just a Canadian thing, but there are plenty of free rocks around here. Perhaps I should start an export business =)


Just bring back the Pet Rock...
//cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=30&item=5969291620&rd=1

Message edited by author 2005-04-19 21:46:04.
 04/19/2005 11:18:08 PM · #13
Originally posted by nfessel:
Tacks? Rubber duckys? Rocks? Paper? Scissors?.... . Jewelry? I'd even have to buy an abandoned building so I could enter the property without trespassing. After buying a 20D, disposable income is at a minimum. I don't know anyone who would loan me their diamond necklace. Does anyone else find these challenge topics economically frustrating?

All hail the Free Study


Buy some cracker jacks and hope for the cheap plastic ring?
 04/20/2005 09:17:07 AM · #14
Originally posted by NathanW:
Originally posted by nfessel:
Tacks? Rubber duckys? Rocks? Paper? Scissors?.... . Jewelry? I'd even have to buy an abandoned building so I could enter the property without trespassing. After buying a 20D, disposable income is at a minimum. I don't know anyone who would loan me their diamond necklace. Does anyone else find these challenge topics economically frustrating?

All hail the Free Study


Buy some cracker jacks and hope for the cheap plastic ring?


I already got the license just waiting on the ring.
 04/20/2005 09:36:59 AM · #15
I tend to like the more open themes than the material item ones, but it's a double-edged sword. The literalism-wackos on the site will dissect a general theme into a rigid definition and vote with all kinds of goofy rules. In a "tacks" contest I think there's a lot less vigilante voting.
 04/20/2005 09:51:19 AM · #16
Originally posted by cghubbell:
... literalism-wackos ...


I'd prefer to adopt the term "Semantics Police."

:-D
 04/20/2005 09:55:30 AM · #17
So far this is the most expensive challenge for me. Spent right around $45-$50. But their is alot into even before attemtping a shot so we will see if it pays off.
 04/20/2005 09:57:09 AM · #18
Originally posted by nfessel:
Tacks? Rubber duckys? Rocks? Paper? Scissors?.... . Jewelry? I'd even have to buy an abandoned building so I could enter the property without trespassing. After buying a 20D, disposable income is at a minimum. I don't know anyone who would loan me their diamond necklace. Does anyone else find these challenge topics economically frustrating?

All hail the Free Study


I find them somewhat challenging, hence the name of the site.
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