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She said she wanted a bottle of bubbly for Valentine's Day, turns out she meant champagne...
She said she wanted a bottle of bubbly for Valentine's Day, turns out she meant champagne...
SoulMan1978


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Challenge: Misunderstanding (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
Location: Sara's table. (Whittlesey)
Date: Feb 17, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1.3 secs
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Feb 17, 2008

 Another one of my patented last minute entries.

Wanted to find a bottle that said "bubble bath", but they were surprisingly hard to find. Only one I could get was "Matey" which many Brits of a certain age (me included) remember from when we were kids. Not right for this though.

Editing, colour balance, saturation boost, straightened, blur of background, selective softening and sharpening, cropped, resized, usm. There was a table at the bottom which was skew-wiff, so I cropped it to the minimum, only 10-15 pixels at the bottom, then cloned it out.

Ideally, I'd do something about the haloing around the pic, plus the writing on the back which is coming through, like some extensive cloning, but it's beyond my expertise and my patience.

For the record, Sara loves the smell of this, and I did buy her a bottle of vintage Rose Cava on Valentine's day.

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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 02/23/2008 05:08:51 AM
lol, nice idea
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Nikon D70
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6D ED
 02/20/2008 08:26:22 PM
I'm not "feeling" the blue background, but technically a good picture.
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Canon EOS-7D Mark II
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 02/20/2008 12:54:04 PM
Funny outtake on the challenge, shot is nice and sharp but there isnt a WOW factor I think

Good luck
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Panasonic DMC-FZ8
 02/19/2008 11:44:00 PM
Aww, cute idea :-)
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Nikon D50
Sigma 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0 EX DG Aspherical HSM for Nikon
 02/19/2008 10:14:47 PM
I really like the photo. But without the title- there really is no misuderstanding. It ends up being a really nice photo of bath soap. Nicely shot, but try to allow the photo to speak the challenge through it.
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Apple iPhone 7
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 02/19/2008 09:57:41 PM
I don't know, that bath soak is lookin' pretty good right about now. ;)

That would be a good understanding, I would think. I like the contrast with teh background
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Nikon D700
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
 02/19/2008 01:23:34 PM
Typical male misunderstanding ;-)) Great colours.
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Nikon D50
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 02/19/2008 12:25:52 PM
Good use of contrasting colors and great lighting.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 02/19/2008 10:48:43 AM
Technically it is a good photo. Some artifacts/halos, possibly from sharpening or perhaps the background. However, if you have to 'explain' your shot with the title, it falls short in the presentation. If you had just called it Bubbly and/or added a champagne flute the meaning, as you intend it, would still be there. JMHO
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 02/18/2008 07:24:19 PM
Nice vibrant colors, good idea, 7.
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Nikon D700
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 02/18/2008 05:06:40 PM
I like the background color.
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 02/18/2008 02:17:53 PM
great example of communication break down, I hope she didn't drink it!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
 02/18/2008 10:23:15 AM
wouldn't work without the explanation in the title
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Sony DSLR-A700
Sony DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Aspherical ED
 02/18/2008 04:53:57 AM
How is this misunderstanding?
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