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Challenge: Far Side: Gary Larson Tribute (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM
Location: South Africa
Date: Sep 12, 2006
Aperture: 4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Humorous, Animals
Date Uploaded: Sep 14, 2006

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Statistics
Place: 47 out of 80
Avg (all users): 5.8915
Avg (commenters): 5.9333
Avg (participants): 5.5167
Avg (non-participants): 5.9872
Views since voting: 10408
Views during voting: 856
Votes: 295
Comments: 18
Favorites: 0


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09/23/2006 01:11:30 PM
Hi there,
Firstly I'll suggest making it a squarer crop... pic'll look less cluttered. Also scrap the writing.. It's slightly distracting...You should probably take up the format..shown in the linky below.
Even with the white frame thing you could keep the wonky writing.. maybe you should find a font that's delibrately crazy.. you should experiment with the saturation as well.. the green's kind of overpowering..

Everything said and done :) It's still a tremendously fuuny pic and looking back at it still makes me laugh!
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09/23/2006 09:48:35 AM
I gave this a 9. I think this needs a different text (font). The tag line was fuuny. Maybe something like this here

Message edited by author 2006-09-23 09:50:26.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/21/2006 03:09:35 PM
LOL.... NICE JOB!
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09/20/2006 03:50:57 AM
LOL nice job on the target, I think text might have looked better imho
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09/18/2006 11:32:32 PM
I have seen a Far Side cartoon like this one. I think it was a deer though.
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09/18/2006 09:14:58 PM
Pretty elemental but the tag line is pretty darn funny...5.
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09/18/2006 06:20:14 PM
It may have been more obvios to put a red ring on the white part of the animal?
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09/17/2006 10:10:19 PM
I like the way you made the 'birthmark' look somewhat natural. 7
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09/16/2006 10:46:28 AM
Good picture and great caption! 9
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09/15/2006 04:41:39 PM
Great choice of strip, And it even works without the deer, I think you coulda put quotes around your title and done without the paint text though.
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09/15/2006 12:35:51 PM
Great job. Good luck. I vote a 9.
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09/15/2006 09:43:47 AM
Good choice. The coloring looks a bit "pink". :)
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09/15/2006 08:40:35 AM
I think you could have done without the text on the actual image (or improved it with a not hand-drawn font) but this fits the challenge as well as being an interesting photo on its own.
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09/15/2006 04:55:56 AM
nice idea, but contrast is too high, the childish typeface is distracting
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09/15/2006 03:46:35 AM
I actually kinda like the sloppy mousework on the writing. Almost looks like the crazy antelope has written a postcard or something.
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09/15/2006 03:13:49 AM
Rofl... oh man too much.. the poor guys...
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09/15/2006 01:10:00 AM
not quite as half as good as the Larson verson for one you didn't need to muck it up with the poor type you could've left the rather famous caption just be your title and people would've gotten it for sure. and second the target is done in kind of a hack way and the animals are not in the best pose for the situation...if you remember the target was on the front of a deer and it was red and white...the 2 deer were standing still and the one was turned with jaw open to show he was the speaker. IMO this is a poor rendition of a very funny and classic Larson scetch. you were on the right track just isn't done the level of refinement that it should be. remeber every cartoon larson did was hours of work and thought...this doesn't exactly reflect the same quolity (in photo form) as his work did (in scetch).
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09/15/2006 12:14:03 AM
O.O lol
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