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Post-Challenge: No worries! The substance truly is peanut butter. No matter how desparate I am for a photo...nothing but real food is coming anywhere close to my lips or one of my subjects.
This is my brother-in-law, Michael! Great personality! Very laid-back with a rye wit about him because he loves to tease just as much as I do. When I explained the challenge, he was right on it...ready to pose at the very suggestion. (His daughter, KEA, is going on two in a couple of months. My little girl, Shanna, turns five in September.)
Between us we've changed a small mountain of dirty diapers (like any other modern father) so nobody needs to worry that we would ever actually misunderstand the difference between peanut butter and poopy,...Brother! :}
The truth is...Misunderstanding is the story of my life. The only time I am really understood is when I speak, like a lawyer in a jury trial, but by the time I get to the end of my thought...whoever I'm talking to...is asleep.
But on the upside, My Voice is listed in the Pharmacist's Bible as a tranquilizer... :}:}:}:}:}:}
My wife, even says that when we were dating at Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, that she used to tune in the college radio station for my 11:00 PM show, and she would go right to sleep! :)
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As a parent I connected immediately to the photo and the humor - after I got past the gross part (I guess being a parent helped with that too).
The concept fit the challenge quite well IMO, and I think many of the commenters recognized the connection as well. Could be why roughly 10% of the voters commented, and they scored it 1.5pts above the end average.
So what happened? I think either a number of people didn't get it and voted it low, however I think maybe a larger number were just plain grossed out by it and gave it a low score.
Kind of shows how subject matter can be a factor in how well or poorly an image does in challenges here. I could be wrong (often am). :-)
Outside of subject I don't see that much out of place on technical grounds that would drag the score down on this photo. There's a little bit of glare from the flash (tongue & peanut butter), but barely. The photo does seem just a tad dark, but yet the white of the diapers seem about right exposure wise. Compositionally I think you placed the objects correctly with a nice triangle formed between the hand, diapers, and face. One consideration...the border adds to the dark feel of the image and blends in with the darker areas. A border with a single black pixel, then white, (or vice-versa) would be interesting to try (to see any difference in overall feel).
Hopefully I'm not way off base, and this has been helpful in some manner for you. If you have any questions, or would like clarification, please feel free to send me a PM. Thanks.
It took me a little while to figure out what was going on partly because the diapers are cut off. A little wider frame might work better. I also don't like that the top of the head is cut off and the larger frame would help there as well.
Gross gross gross, but one of the few pics in the challenge that manages to get across humor and a technically strong shot...Laughing and cringing at the same time here
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