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Booze, Fag & Sex
Booze, Fag & Sex
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: All Things Being Equal: Three (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-1000D Rebel XS
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka
Date: Mar 29, 2010
Aperture: F/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/8 Seconds
Galleries: Emotive, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Mar 30, 2010

I guess this might upset some of the viewers, but frankly I was not able to think any other '3 subjects together' that blend well.

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Blend opacity to 80% for duplicate layer
Slightly Desaturate
Unsharp Mask (couple of times)
Added 2 pixel Blue'ish Green border
Added 10 pixel medium grey border
Added 2 pixel Blue'ish Green border
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Statistics
Place: 59 out of 92
Avg (all users): 5.2549
Avg (commenters): 6.7000
Avg (participants): 4.8723
Avg (non-participants): 5.4245
Views since voting: 1054
Views during voting: 293
Votes: 153
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0


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04/21/2010 07:56:40 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club,

I haven't done one of these in a while, but here goes.

your shot is certainly interesting. The three things (actually 4) do go together well. You scored 59 out of 92, which isn't too bad, but here are possibly some reasons that it scored this way.

First off your title. It would have read better if it had said, Booze, Fags and Sex. In America (I am sure other places too) fag does not mean ciggie, so that right there could have knocked a point or two off for those not understanding what you meant.

Your crop is good, but everything is tilted. People don't do tilted much on here unless it is extreme. You are sharp and crisp with your shot. A little more contrast could have helped you here with the lighting , the lighting hitting your subjects is fairly flat, but you have a wonderful light going on in the background. Bringing that lighting to the front would have helped. You also have a blur of blanket in your front right corner which is distracting.

Maybe having the condom in its packages would have helped with the squeamish voters. Even though this is a set up shot, not many people can relate to smoking a ciggie after it has condom juices all over it. Does that make sense. Also, you would expect the vodka to have been drunk a little before you unwrapped the condom.

It is all about telling a story, versus setting up a scene.

Please email or PM me if you have any questions!

Cheers Juliet
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04/17/2010 07:57:37 AM
I am extremely happy with this. Avg of 6.7 from commenters. :)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/11/2010 05:40:27 PM
Careful with the slang. Fag means something else to us Yanks and it changes the meaning of the image quite a bit!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/10/2010 02:26:43 PM
agh my three favorite vices
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04/10/2010 12:46:42 PM
This is a good shot and meets the challenge well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/10/2010 03:15:58 AM
Sounds like a Tuesday night on the town to me!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/09/2010 12:33:54 AM
Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/08/2010 08:43:45 AM
I gave up Alcohol, Ciggies and Sex.........it was the worse 2 hours of my life.........

Great shallow depth of field in this.........good placement of items to ensure equal emphasis even though they are very different sizes.......
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/07/2010 04:20:16 PM
Bold, i like i.
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04/07/2010 11:25:22 AM
good clear shot...just doesn't wow me...sorry
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/05/2010 07:29:30 PM
This one made me chuckle a bit. Too bad it wasn't titled "Booze, Fags and Sex" ;)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/05/2010 11:00:45 AM
Just about everything a man needs? :)
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04/05/2010 06:09:49 AM
hehehe,,,, great idea,,,,, what more can i say ????
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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