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In a Toddler's Home
In a Toddler's Home
Shan2112


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Challenge: Unexpected Find (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Kodak DX4900
Location: Upstate NY, USA
Date: Jun 4, 2006
Aperture: 3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/15s
Galleries: Humorous, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jun 5, 2006

 If you have a toddler, you can find little things like this in strange places all the time! This actually did happen one time where she put "Duck" in the fridge - but I actually did it this time for the challenge. Duck is my 3 1/2 year old's FAVORITE comfort item, she's had him for 2 years now, sleeps with him and takes him most places with us. She thought I was "so, sooo, silly" for taking pictures of him in our fridge.

Finding him in the fridge was neither fortunate nor unfortunate so I'm hoping I don't get too many DNMC. I didn't really do anything to the organization of the fridge - this is how it looks - though I did remove a pizza box from the bottom shelf for the shot.

I had a very colorful version of this submitted for a couple of days before I decided to see what it would be like switched to B&W. I think that the B&W version is better as far as the duck standing out more, also my noise on the logos is a lot less. B&W just seems a wee bit classier if that's even possible. I also debated about which crop and angle to use, should I have shown more of the fridge? with the door? I don't know...

Whatever the score, I really hope I receive lots of comments on this one!

Editing in ACDSee & PSP7: rotate, crop, switch to B&W, gamma, blackpoint, sharpen, despeckle, re-size and border.

Statistics
Place: 56 out of 163
Avg (all users): 5.6414
Avg (commenters): 6.4615
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AuthorThread
 06/14/2006 09:18:25 AM
Wow I really thought this would have scored higher!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 06/13/2006 05:53:11 PM
Funny, but seems a bit busy. The black and white doesn't help. The ducky gets a bit lost in all of it.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM II
 06/13/2006 05:28:42 AM
it would have been nice to see the duck colored yellow
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Canon EOS-650/T4i Rebel
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
06/12/2006 03:32:39 PM
very subtle and nice
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Canon EOS-30D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 06/12/2006 09:14:03 AM
I'm sure that black and white makes this picture look a lot better than the garish colors would have.
But the duck is very lost in there.
It doesn't stand out enough.
A good idea though.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 06/12/2006 05:23:16 AM
Hehehehe...least it was only a toy!
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 06/10/2006 10:32:10 AM
lol. aint that the truth. we have the dora yogurt too, and gogurt tubes, uncrustable peanut butter sandwiches., string cheese, grapes. :) love the beer in the photo, not for the toddler but still a nessecity. ;) 9
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 06/10/2006 09:36:48 AM
Doesn't look to happy does he?
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Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Panasonic DMW-LTZ10 1.5x Teleconverter
 06/09/2006 04:51:24 PM
This is a small image, maximising to 640 on the long side would really help this image with creating a better impact for the viewer.
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Fujifilm FinePix S7000
 06/09/2006 01:06:20 PM
cute, very creative, makes you look for it but when you see it it's adorable!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 06/08/2006 02:46:50 PM
Looks like my families fridge.
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Canon EOS-20D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 06/07/2006 10:10:51 PM
LOL, I can relate! :)
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 06/07/2006 03:12:48 PM
Ha that's cute and I can see that happening (even though I don't have kids myself).
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 06/07/2006 04:42:29 AM
That's the tidiest fridge I've ever seen!! WOW
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