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Challenge: Acronyms (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix F30
Location: Home
Date: Feb 25, 2007
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/105
Galleries: Emotive, Floral
Date Uploaded: Feb 24, 2007

 The rose was a lovely present from my flatmates, now sadly getting past its prime.

Editing: contrast, hue, saturation, darkened the background, USM, neat image.

***Post-challenge:

Hmm, forgot to take into account cultural differences...

'OAP' stands for 'old age pensioner', which in Britain is an extremely commonly used abbreviation (up there with 'DIY' and 'lol' in its obviousness). Hence the old rose with the walking stick was meant to be a quirky representation of the meaning of the acronym, which I expected everyone to know. However, for voters from, say, the States or Australia, that doesn't really work... I did like the guesses people came up with though :)

Statistics
Place: 182 out of 201
Avg (all users): 4.6691
Avg (commenters): 4.0000
Avg (participants): 4.3750
Avg (non-participants): 4.9200
Views since voting: 970
Views during voting: 235
Votes: 139
Comments: 6
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 03/12/2007 09:55:11 PM
*Critique Club*

"OAP" is defiantly an acronym that I did not understand but I do live in the States. So after reading your comments it makes a lot more sense. I thought maybe it was a DPC joke I had missed in the forums.

I like that your were shooting with a soft feel for the rose, I think that works well. I think also that your lighting is extremely good, the background looks very deep and black. I think maybe if the focus was a little stronger it would have helped with the overall score. Honestly I wasn't really sure what the object on the bottom of the photo was until till I read your description. Overall the idea was very creative I wish more of us had known what OAP meant.

I hope to see many more entries from you!
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 03/02/2007 12:13:38 PM
Old And Pretty... what's that candy cane?
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 02/28/2007 11:50:39 AM
Oddly Artistic Photograph

Things I Like: Soft focus on petals and leaves works for me. Contrast between stem, petals and background works well.

Things I don't like: I don't like the candy-cane looking thing at the bottom. I don't like that I see dodgeing in the background around the leaves and stem. I'm not too crazy about the composition.

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Sony DSC-R1
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6G ED
 02/28/2007 06:57:35 AM
think a differnt coulourd background would have shown the leaves a bit better but that is omo, good luck
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/28/2007 02:45:29 AM
Old Age pensionner?

If thats the acronym then this is very funny!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS II USM Lens
 02/26/2007 07:56:27 AM
???
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