When this Challenge was announced - this idea was the one that kept "popping" into my head. A few weeks back I saw some Pop Rocks candy on display at a store and had no idea it was still around. I thought it had faded out years ago. The toe tag in the background was my husband's idea - it's also his toe - thanks honey!
Editing:
in ACDSee - slight desat. and hue, blackpoint, gamma, despeckle.
in PSP7 - salt & pepper, edge preserver, unsharp mask, re-sized, border. Also - removed the "Classic" from the Coca Cola Logo (that wasn't in the 80's - was it?) and a few glare spots on the candy package.
Statistics
Place: 19 out of 101 Avg (all users): 5.9073 Avg (commenters): 6.9286 Avg (participants): 5.7857 Avg (non-participants): 5.9427 Views since voting: 1753 Views during voting: 410 Votes: 248 Comments: 37 Favorites: 0
It is most unfortunate that e301 was critical of the subject matter, just because HE didn't get it. Perhaps is was a US thing. While I appreciate all the good things about the global participation on this site, nothing in the wording of the challenge, or rules, suggest that a photographer should research the scope of understanding of the subject matter. Almost anyone in the US who can remember the 80's would remember this urban legend. For more info on it, see //www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/poprocks.htm
It took me less than a minute to put the elements together, and my reaction, like many others, was LOL. That urban legend, and few others, are very much a part of the 80's that I lived through.
from the far side of the pond of the Critique Club
From first viewing, and not until I'd read way back in this image's comments, did I have the slightest idea what this image refers to. The mention of the aspirin and coke thing do I get a certain idea. Whether that's because it's massively us-centric (which I suspect), or whether I just have a gap in my memory I cannot say. Certainly very surprised to see the score on this.
Without that important bit of knowledge, it's the most bizarre collection of unrelated items - some form of chilrend's sweet, a dead person, and a can of coke. What is this? Something about the evil qualities of processed sugar? In an 80's challenge? I suspect, for a large number of the voters here - those from the rest of the world, that is, you've scored way below this average, out of simple confusion.
Your composition is pretty straightforward, the technicals are OK - no more than that, i think - and lighting is pretty much non-existent - I find those window reflections on the coke can particularly nasty: all the more so in an obviously posed photograph. If you're taking so much trouble over the set-up, whay not put a bit of effort into lighting as well? A bit of soft fill light, even simply using a piece of white paper to reflect fill light from the right would help the overall feel opf the coke can enormously - and a sheet or something stuck across the window would produce a much more even soft light, and deal with those horrible reflections. Often times, the difference between the winners and the rest is not so much in the idea, or the moment, or the thought, but actually in the lighting.
very funny! LOL! LOL is often typed.....I truly laughed out loud. Very Creative! The overall compositioni is very good but it bugs me to see the corner of the wall (or whatever is creatinig that shadow).
Rofl:)) Second image to make me laugh out loud!! Certifiable:)) I loved that stuff - only I think it was called something else in the UK? I remember our headmaster banned it at school....god I fel ancient...........
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