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I'm sure it makes sense to someone...
I'm sure it makes sense to someone...
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Hate (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
Location: Street outside my house
Date: Feb 20, 2007
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200s
Galleries: Urban
Date Uploaded: Feb 20, 2007

I hope that international viewers recognise a GATSO for what it is! I guess I'm also hoping that people hate them as much I do :). The deliberate strange perspective and skewed horizon along with the selective desaturation is trying to conjure up the sense of an alternate reality where speed cameras are actually a good idea...

Doing the selective desat in basic editing was a pain, lots of hue/saturation and levels layers to nail it down to just the camera itself. Finally, resize, sharpen and save for web.

Fully expecting this to bomb but I like to enter every week :).

Statistics
Place: 115 out of 132
Avg (all users): 4.4716
Avg (commenters): 4.8421
Avg (participants): 4.1633
Avg (non-participants): 4.5556
Views since voting: 806
Views during voting: 381
Votes: 229
Comments: 20
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/25/2007 02:08:09 PM
tricky but good thinking
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/24/2007 11:37:20 PM
i can smell what you're cookin'
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/24/2007 10:18:01 AM
fixed speed camera? nicely framed, and i share the hate!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/23/2007 02:03:53 PM
nothing about this except the title conveys the idea of "hate."
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 11:42:40 PM
What: An orange light? Sorry: it doesn't make sense to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 08:39:33 PM
Traffic camera that writes speeding tickets? I hate those too!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 05:49:58 PM
Photoradar?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 05:32:29 PM
Makes sense to me! It used to be a nightmare trying to cross the road to walk the children to school when they were small as it was really dificult to judge the speed of cars - now they all stick to 30 or below, and it has made the road much safer!
As to the technical merits of the photo - I wonder if the focus might have been better on the speed camera itself? As to the tilted composition, I am unsure - I don't hate it, but nor am I conviced by it; the same with the selective desaturation - as a rule I dislike its use, but it works reasonably well here - nice touch keeping the belisha beacons yellow, too. Basically, this is a photo I am ambivalent about - nothing about it makes me want to view it again. sorry......
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 04:22:54 PM
It doesn't make sense to me... what is this?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 01:31:16 PM
My only 10
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 12:52:29 PM
not to me
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 11:25:11 AM
a radar trap! hate them, too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 10:52:31 AM
:( I don't get it!. Interesting angle though
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/22/2007 06:17:14 AM
Ahhh good ol England - Bringing me back to my days bombing around the country slamming on the breaks every few yards! - Nice pic.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 04:47:26 PM
Not to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 12:28:17 PM
I dont really understand how this relates to the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 12:24:43 PM
actually no it doesnt i dojnt get it at all
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 12:00:43 PM
it definitely meet the challenge!
very nice desaturation.
I just have corrected the leaning horizon (is it done intentionally?) and the focus depth.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 10:54:23 AM
Isn't this selectively edited for the desat?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/21/2007 09:31:22 AM
what is that? sorry, I don't get this ...
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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