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We're anything but ordinary!
We're anything but ordinary!
KiwiChris


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Challenge: Extraordinary (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G5
Location: Dining room table.
Date: Jun 27, 2004
Aperture: F/8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/6th
Galleries: Humorous, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jun 27, 2004

 A bit of a cop out for this challenge really, but I couldn't think of anything extraordinary, and I've got a busy week, so shooting something before Tuesday was looking a bit hopeful. This was done Sunday night.

I don't subscribe to the 'don't enter unless you've got something good' theory that some folks apply to dpc obviously.

Shot on a large sheet of white paper under two flouro desk lamps. Custom white balance taken off a gray card to compensate for all the blue in the shot! :-).

Tripod mounted, using timer to avoid the shakes as I was using F/8 for max DOF. Still came out a bit soft at the ends of the focus range in the original image, but at 640x417 it's not too noticable.

Post processing in the gimp was USM, scale, crop, sharpen, add border, and save to fit 150k rule.

Hope you find this amusing, although I've seen a few 'plastic toy still life' photos get shot to pieces on dpc, so we'll see how it goes.

For the record, the smurf collection is not mine, it's my wifes....

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Kodak CX6200
 07/06/2004 12:37:40 PM
extraordinary amount of these little blue critters!!!
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Olympus C-720UZ
 07/05/2004 08:12:41 PM
that's a whole lotta nomes!!!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-300D Rebel
 07/03/2004 07:35:35 PM
nice....i used to have some of them too =P
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 07/02/2004 06:24:15 PM
shiney objects are a hard thing to shoot. You've done very well shooting these but the glare is overwhelming. Also I don't really see these as extraordinary seeing that they are just kids toys. maybe a black background would have been more affective causing less shadows.
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Canon EOS-30D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 07/02/2004 10:35:39 AM
Wow, I find it extraordinary that anyone would still have a large and relatively clean collection of these little blue guys...

I remember collecting these when I was a kid... They were a serious fad back then.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 07/02/2004 02:07:00 AM
smurfs extraordinary... maybe to some I guess. An interesting shot though.
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
 07/01/2004 11:11:01 PM
Oh my...Someone has a Smurf fetish... LOL :o)
That is DEFINITELY something you don't see every day!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-10D
Canon EF 35-80mm f/4-5.6 III
 07/01/2004 12:59:08 PM
I used to have some of those!!! I wonder what happened to them!?!?!?!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 07/01/2004 12:52:09 AM
nice and colorful
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
 06/30/2004 08:34:46 PM
Smurf-a-rific!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
 06/30/2004 07:18:26 PM
Oh noooo, just when the nightmares had stopped!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-20D
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Canon
 06/30/2004 03:41:53 PM
Whoa, i'm more surprised at the amount of dolls than the type of doll itself.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Minolta DiMAGE S414
 06/30/2004 02:33:59 AM
I love the smurfs...still watch them on Television with my son sometimes...Fun picture..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 06/30/2004 12:27:13 AM
Great collection! Brings back fond childhood memories!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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