Taken from the Ecola State Park looking south upon Cannon Beach, the classic Oregon coast view; but taken as a spoof of overly used Cannon Beach landscape photography and also as a tribute to our new rising star of the Cellar, Whiterook. I attempted to take the photo and process the photo to emulate Whiterook's unique quality of really bad photography. I was especially inspired by his lowest scoring photo, "Cape Cod Getting Smaller". I shot and entered this photo in hopes of getting the Brown, and bumping Whiterook from his throne of badness for just one week (he's placed last 7 challenges in a row). I thought the 'Good' challenge was a prime opportunity to shoot a really "GOOD" replication of bad photography. In post processing, I bumped up the lightness in the Hue/Sat channels (the lighting part of this GOOD image), slightly rotated the horizon even more to the right (though Whiterook almost always rotates his horizon to the left), and added a crop excess line of the rotation (the creativity part of this "Good" image). The title is a spoof of Whiterooks 2nd brown ribbon, "million dollars views". Hope you enjoy. I'd appreciate a realistic critique of how "good" this bad photo is in accomplishing the goals I was shooting for. Thanks!
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The use of effects filters (excluding Noise and Gaussian Blur) is not permitted in Basic Editing. Please review the challenge submission rules.
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Sorry, I gave you a 10, because it seemed too obvious that you were going for the brownie. I think with a less obvious title, I would have given you the 1 you so obviously deserved. Too bad about the DQ. Better luck next time.
Thanks for all the comments and the "1" votes! At the time of DQ this photo was scoring a 2.6 and I was happily heading toward another brown ribbon. Oops though. I admitted to adding a blur filter when request came for verification. Forget those pesky basic rules. Whiterook still rules the cellar of DPC!
This is outstanding. Is this someone with a lot of blue ribbons going for a smelly brown? Let me count the ways this should be a 10: exceptional creativity with cropping; excellent use of blown whites to symbolize blowing a wad of cash on property here; outstanding subliminal brown chess pieces rising from the sea of white rookness. I could go on, but am left in too much of a state of rapture created by this photo.
Hmm. So many thoughts. Is this really Whiterook's? Probably not. Is it a spoof or a tribute to him? Probably a tribute.
However, if you're going for the brown ribbon, it would help to not be quite so obvious about it.From the poorly done rotation to the blur to the badly worded title, it's just too much. If this was a sincere entry, though, then you now have a list of a few things that are wrong. :)
this is really out of focus, and I can't tell for sure but I think that it's crooked--the white areas on the top left, bottom left and bottom right corners that aren't photo? maybe next time try to rotate it so it's straight in the box and get a little bit better focus. just trying to be helpful, i'm not too good at it since I'm new, sorry
I tripod would help with the shaked picture. Straighten the horizont and a less exposure would help here. I dont know what the idea behind the rotation is.
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