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Classic Tackyness
Classic Tackyness
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Challenge: Postcard II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM
Location: Hollywood, Ca
Date: Nov 19, 2006
Galleries: Landscape
Date Uploaded: Nov 19, 2006

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Statistics
Place: 230 out of 266
Avg (all users): 5.0588
Avg (commenters): 5.0625
Avg (participants): 4.8621
Avg (non-participants): 5.2762
Views since voting: 839
Views during voting: 330
Votes: 221
Comments: 19
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 11/28/2006 06:57:00 AM
I thought this was pretty funny. I know you can find one for sale like this. And gum smackin' teeny boppers from Des Moines buy it to show their friends. Kitch is cool. Should have done better but you know DPC voters... :)
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Nikon D300
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
 11/26/2006 08:40:00 PM
Your title says it all!! I love it!! Is that Paris up there stradling the "Y"?
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Nikon Z6II
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
 11/26/2006 05:52:18 AM
you are right about the tackiness, although the thoroughbred tacky postcardmaker would have worked harder on the trees
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 11/26/2006 01:48:33 AM
Love this. It is the perfectly cheesy Hollywood postcard! The pink is great.
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Sony Alpha a7R II
Pentax A 50mm f/1.4 MF
 11/24/2006 06:42:28 PM
Perhaps a night shot would have been more compelling for this classic subject?
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Pentax K10D
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 11/24/2006 02:44:34 AM
Your title nails it! However, the muted tones of the landscape don't quite sell the cartoonish nature of your premise. IMHO brightly satured colors & slightly askew aspect (Free-Form Skew setting in which the top two corners are pulled up & out of the frame) would certainly "scream" tacky-ness. But that suggestion was not intended for a challenge since that much artistic effect doesn't score points on DPC. Yet I like it! :)
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 11/22/2006 12:55:04 PM
Whoa, ugly color for border and type.
Wouldn't buy your card. Sorry.
I like the idea though.
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Apple iPhone 12
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5
 11/21/2006 10:27:10 PM
"A" for effort! It looks like a little more contrast... nah, you got it right - tacky postcard.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR
 11/21/2006 05:54:41 PM
nice crop
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Nikon D50
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6
 11/21/2006 05:40:55 PM
I like the mix of the added text with the sign to make the full phrase, but that pink.... eww! :P Very clever.
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Canon R50
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
11/21/2006 04:27:42 PM
Oh my. That pink is just too obnoxious for my taste. And the photo is kinda flat. But I guess your title really says it all.
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 11/20/2006 08:05:18 PM
I'll give you a 7 for using such a tacky color for the border.
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Canon EOS-40D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 11/20/2006 11:37:24 AM
yeah, too tacky for me ;)
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
 11/20/2006 10:33:40 AM
not sure the pink is working for me
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 11/20/2006 10:26:37 AM
Use of Light: 1
Focus:1
Composition: 1
Creativity: 1
Achieves Challenge: 2

Tacky is right. Well done postcard - just one I wouldn't buy!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
 11/20/2006 08:56:11 AM
text is much to large, colors could be more saturated
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 11/20/2006 04:46:03 AM
I will be there in a fortnight! woo hoo...

great tackiness, yes!
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Nikon D70s
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 11/20/2006 01:13:16 AM
HEHEHE! That is soooooooooooooooo funny! Are you trying to say something about cliche entries? He he. You are for sure bold! I would actually buy this post card if it was real, just because of how tacky it is. I am still laughing! And grinning! You get a 7 just for being so funny.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 11/20/2006 12:27:28 AM
eww, I think pink is a terrible choice of border color, even if you're trying to be tacky
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