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Teenager's Shocking Bathroom Nightmare
Teenager's Shocking Bathroom Nightmare
samchad


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Challenge: Personification (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot Pro1
Location: Home, New York
Date: Oct 8, 2005
Aperture: 2.4
ISO: Auto
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Candid
Date Uploaded: Oct 8, 2005

 Well, it's raining REALLY hard outside and so to cheer myself up I thought I'd do a comedy shot. So this image is to personify a teenager waking up one morning to find that a spotty monster looking back at them in the bathroom mirror!

Not expecting this one to score, at all, but just thought it would be funny, that's all.

I did this with one Target cushion I got at a PS1 party in New York a month ago. I brought home 4 of them for cushions on my balcony, but also thought the pattern looked like a spotty face..and thought this challenge would be the only possible opportunity I could ever share it!

Getting the light right in the bathroom was almost impossible...especially with the mirror, as I have no funky lighting rigs. I turned all the lights on possible and shot with no flash, otherwise the face went bright white.

Hope it made you laugh.

Statistics
Place: 187 out of 204
Avg (all users): 3.8475
Avg (commenters): 4.0833
Avg (participants): 3.4943
Avg (non-participants): 4.0051
Views since voting: 832
Views during voting: 462
Votes: 282
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 10/19/2005 09:25:43 AM
It seems that very few viewers got this one. I thought it was very funny myself. You are right. I needed to make the fact that it is a bathroom clearer! Just my bathroom is very small!! But that's great feedback mesmeraj. Thanks.
 10/19/2005 08:59:25 AM
great idea, but not exciuted in a way that most viewrs would "get it". It is not obvious it is in a bathroom and it is a reflection (at first i thought it was two lids). SOme extra props like cosmetics or pimple cream would have helped tell the story you were trying to convey.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/18/2005 05:14:18 PM
nothing has been personified...use a dictionary
 10/18/2005 04:14:10 PM
So cruel :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/16/2005 08:22:32 PM
I'm not sure what you were trying to personify, but it's not coming across to me as a viewer. The red circles remind me of the Target department stores.
 10/16/2005 05:07:55 PM
Okay, I can see it.... Interesting idea. It's a bit of a stretch!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/16/2005 04:37:00 PM
I cannot make a personification, either physical or emotional, out of this image.
 10/16/2005 04:27:14 PM
Took me a minute to realize targets were pimples. :) Interesting angle and crop. Good luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/16/2005 04:23:36 PM
Sorry...I don''t get it.
 10/16/2005 06:47:55 AM
Bumped this up on the second pass. I can't find the dof focus, everything looks a little out of focus. Still bumping it.
 10/14/2005 08:33:01 PM
LOL, this is great!
 10/12/2005 03:31:51 PM
I don't understand how this meets the challenge, what is being personified?
 10/12/2005 12:48:14 PM
cannot tell what this is and does not convey the emotion the subject is giving
 10/12/2005 08:46:49 AM
dont get it? target?


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