No... it's not really poop, it's chocolate! :) Not a whole lot of edition, just crop, shadows/highlights, hue/saturation, brightness & contrast, USM, resize, frame.
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Place: 40 out of 42 Avg (all users): 2.4399 Avg (commenters): 2.8750 Avg (participants): 2.5926 Avg (non-participants): 2.4300 Views since voting: 3658 Views during voting: 1226 Votes: 441 Comments: 74 Favorites: 1 (view)
Its all relative.. I saw this and thought "hahah-ewwwww" at the same time.. You have balls brother (thanksfully cropped out of this shit shot.
I don`t know if I could find myself calling it art, but if I recall at a DPC GTG (get together) in London, we all met up at the tate modern gallery, one of the exhibits was literally just a huge crack in the floor (see here)
however, I remember a number of us discussing it and wondering how it was art - one person said one thing, another person had another idea - but the thing is, a lot of us was standing there discussing a crack in the floor.. so surely the fact it promoted discussion amongst so many people of different backgrounds makes it art. Art is intended to provoke reaction, stimulate conversation... Mate, you ticked all the boxes with this one.. oh and yes, some of the commentors below joined me in that discussion of the crack in the floor.. go figure.
Did I find it offensive? most certainly. Did I find it funny - sure, on a base `childish` level it made me giggle in my head. Do I have respect for you posting it knowing it would get `panned` (ho ho) - totally..
I think some of those who were really offended should check out work by highly respected artists such as Tracey Emin or Damian Hirst - they have shocked in the past but are very well respected in artistic circles. (well, Not Emin so much anymore).
I voted a 1 for your shot. After seeing ALL of the comments (including yours) I feel like I was perhaps too narrow minded. I have been accused of that many times and I need to relax a bit. I applaud your compelling and steadfast defense of your entry. It is a tasteless image (I don't like chocolate) but totally relevant to the challenge.
MY OH MY!! How to answer all those comments!!!?
First of all, I want to say that chocolate can NEVER be tasteless, or taste bad! LOL
This was supposed to be a humorous picture, and I did get plenty of good laughs with some comments. However, I started getting a bit more concerned as more and more people were disgusted and horrified with the shot. I personally find war shots, where you see dead or dying people, or seriously injured, or with a missing arm or leg, much more disgusting, and usually, many war pictures are among "the best". It's important to remark that those are real injuries, or real dead people you see, however, my poop was not real, of course. This is art, this is creativity. Open up your mind and see beyond the image. Someone said it should be DQ'ed, I challenge him to report this to the moderators and let them decide. You may not like poop (WHO DOES?), but you have to see beyond it, see the whole photograph as a piece of crap, I mean, piece of art (LOL) and try to realize it's meant to make you laugh, and not to horrify you. Not long ago, I was watching an interview to Oliver Hardy, from 1950, where he was saying people were having too much drama and needed to laugh more. Well, 60 years later, it still applies! Too much puritanism going on, IMHO.
Now, I really wasn't going for the brown ribbon, I admit, but let's agree that it fits the picture! LOL Seriously, I didn't think this picture was going to do well, it was a last minute entry, I wanted to post something funny, knowing that most other pics were going to be of sexy women in lingerie or such. I wanted to post something different, something creative. Someone said it doesn't fit the challenge. Well, the general meaning of Lingerie is underwear in general, even though nowadays it's 99.9% used to mean women's underwear.
I think this picture was rated not for the picture itself (maybe a 4.50 would have been more fair), but for the FAKE poop. I wonder if people thought the blood in my Rage Against The Machine picture was real too...
Anyway, again, it was a fun week! I just can't believe I didn't get a single 7!! LOL I wonder if this is the lowest score ever!? WOOHOO, my first ribbon!!! :) Only part that saddens me is that I had worked hard to get my total average up to 5+, and this entry got sooo many low scores, my total average went back down to 4.88. Oh well, I'll have to start all over again!
Actually, we did have a shot of a dead animal in here in one challenge and people were mortified. It had been hit by a car and even though it was quite well shot, people's minds went to the "why"? The photog answered that "it's life". Ok, true enough and certainly, people of all kinds have had the type of "accident" that this photo portrays. I think that the real question is...why would we want to see it? LOL Really, how many of use would want to have a photo of these types if things? Of course, we don't want pictures of death or war either. The thing with that is, it IS "news" and photos of news are often not pleasant by any means. However, a "pooping acccident" is NOT "news worthy" LOL Most of us would rather keep that a secret and head straight for the washing machine, not photograph it! ROFLMAO!
Yeah, it took "balls" as some would say to enter this shot and yes, even I laughed at it at first. It's well...grossly humorous because most of us can relate to it. However, I think that most of us would rather FORGET these types of incidents...not photograph it! LOL
As for those who think the voters who didn't like it are "idiots"...well...I DARE YOU to ask for a print to be available of this, frame it and hang it in your livingrooms or hallways or even your bathrooms! LMAO!!! ;)
ETA: BTW...you should be happy and proud that you got 7 10's! A lot of us dont't see that many on our hardest tried and much less controversial shots LOL.
GREAT PHOTOGRAPH! LOVE THE REACTION OF THE VOTERS IN THIS. LOTS OF PEOPLE WITH NO BALLS IS WHAT I'M SEEING. GLAD YOU DID THIS AND I'M HAPPY YOU'RE TAKING THE NEGATIVE (IDIOT) COMMENTS IN STRIDE. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MORE FROM YOU. :)
This pic has a load of potential. Added color would have helped your score I think... it could have been as easy as throwing in a few kernels of corn. Holes in the underwear would have helped to tell a story too. Think it thru!
219 ones, man, you are a force to be reckoned with. Albeit a somewhat incontinent force... Congrats on getting on the page one of the Lowest Rated Photographs section, that's a hard page to get onto! Can't honestly say I like the image, but you had every right to make it and enter it - possibly the subject hit too close to home for a lot of people, it's tough to avoid having at least a momentary negative reaction to the sight of it. That and the fact that your shot probably followed a hot chick in a bra in the queue so many times - imagine how deflating it is to see this right afterwards, eh? :)
And you don't know how relieved I am to know that's chocolate...
Sorry buddy, you still have no sense of humor. And please stop saying I have no class or telling me to grow up when you don't even know me, ok? You only saw a humorous (not for many puritans, evidently) photograph I posted, that's "all" you know about me...
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." H.L. Mencken
Anyway, enough with this. I'm here to amuse myself, not to argue with people. Any comment is welcome, even bad comments, but please refrain from being offensive. Thanks.
People, people... I like Connie's comment "I was immediately disgusted and laughing at the same time". I think that summarizes what this picture was meant for. It caused impact, good and/or bad, but it did, and that is art, whether you like it or not. If this is funny for an 8yo kid, but not funny for an adult, it's because unfortunately too many adults grow up to be too susceptible and get horrified by minor natural things. If an 8yo kid laughs at this, it means there is nothing wrong with it. This is something completely natural that could happen to anyone, and no one would scream in horror. Wars are not natural, and if war pictures teach, I think people are not learning the lesson. I see 219+ horrified voters, but I wonder if those same voters are also horrified when they vote for a pro-war presidents, for instance. I'm not saying this is a pleasant image, I know it's rather shocking, but creative. You go through other pictures in this challenge and most of them are all the same: young female models wearing sexy underwear. The challenge was clear when it said to capture a picture in a creative photograph. I find zero creativity in many photographs here, however, they are pleasant to the eyes. I also see how some men posing in their photographs were freely insulted and disrespected by other peers, just because they were not young "in shape" girls. That's the kind of society we live in, and that horrifies me MUCH more than poop, be it real or fake poop!
So, then again, I think my photograph was rated by its unpleasant impact (since I can see that most people don't have any sense of humor), and not by its creativity, or by its technicality (which wasn't too good, anyway).
Yes, this is a public forum and I don't think I broke any rules. Once again, I challenge people to report this picture and let the moderators decide.
Some of you telling me to grow up need to grow up yourself and realize this is nature. And, talking about growing up, you will find yourself in this situation more and more as you get older... I hope you don't get this horrified everytime it happens to you FOR REAL, or you may end up killing yourself...
People, people... I thought there would be more open minded people in a site like this.
In the meantime, please keep making comments. Some scare me, but most of them make me laugh! Awwww isn't it good to laugh...!? (some of you may not know, unfortunately)
People, people... I like Connie's comment "I was immediately disgusted and laughing at the same time". I think that summarizes what this picture was meant for. It caused impact, good and/or bad, but it did, and that is art, whether you like it or not. If this is funny for an 8yo kid, but not funny for an adult, it's because unfortunately too many adults grow up to be too susceptible and get horrified by minor natural things. If an 8yo kid laughs at this, it means there is nothing wrong with it. This is something completely natural that could happen to anyone, and no one would scream in horror. Wars are not natural, and if war pictures teach, I think people are not learning the lesson. I see 219+ horrified voters, but I wonder if those same voters are also horrified when they vote for a pro-war presidents, for instance. I'm not saying this is a pleasant image, I know it's rather shocking, but creative. You go through other pictures in this challenge and most of them are all the same: young female models wearing sexy underwear. The challenge was clear when it said to capture a picture in a creative photograph. I find zero creativity in many photographs here, however, they are pleasant to the eyes. I also see how some men posing in their photographs were freely insulted and disrespected by other peers, just because they were not young "in shape" girls. That's the kind of society we live in, and that horrifies me MUCH more than poop, be it real or fake poop!
So, then again, I think my photograph was rated by its unpleasant impact (since I can see that most people don't have any sense of humor), and not by its creativity, or by its technicality (which wasn't too good, anyway).
Yes, this is a public forum and I don't think I broke any rules. Once again, I challenge people to report this picture and let the moderators decide.
Some of you telling me to grow up need to grow up yourself and realize this is nature. And, talking about growing up, you will find yourself in this situation more and more as you get older... I hope you don't get this horrified everytime it happens to you FOR REAL, or you may end up killing yourself...
People, people... I thought there would be more open minded people in a site like this.
In the meantime, please keep making comments. Some scare me, but most of them make me laugh! Awwww isn't it good to laugh...!? (some of you may not know, unfortunately)
To those that say this is not art. Your wrong, this picture tells a story, that of a youngish man who thought he had it all, he was carefree and careless, he farted and followed through and now he paying the price. He studies the consequences of being over confident and ponders the meaning of it all and finally he wonders has he got a clean pair or should he just scrape the worst off and put them back on.
If art is creating something that has no purpose other than to provoke a reaction then this picture has it in bucket loads. Much more so than half the crap pictures seen on here including my own.
This photo is the funniest thing I have seen on DPC in years. The comments and reactions of voters are even funnier.
Congratulations for doing something different.
Congratulations...be it that it's not related to photography but rather providing me with laughter going through the peopel's comments and reaction to your picture. If DPC was a house with a front door and a back door, you just broke a hole in the wall on the side and gave a whole new meaning to "door". I cant get to like your pic sorry, but Oh the reactions... Sorry to hear that you are starting over with your building to an above 5 score...:( Looking at that 219 1's its a scary thought.
No, I disagree with you. There's no art in this. The idea can be humorous, but making people look at a scene like this is just tasteless, classless and offensive. Grow up; this is a public forum. As for your nonsensical justification re: war pictures. War pictures have value -- documenting the horrors of war in an attempt to teach mankind to avoid it. Not applicable here. To enter this picture was not well thought-out on your part. It was inconsiderate.
MY OH MY!! How to answer all those comments!!!?
First of all, I want to say that chocolate can NEVER be tasteless, or taste bad! LOL
This was supposed to be a humorous picture, and I did get plenty of good laughs with some comments. However, I started getting a bit more concerned as more and more people were disgusted and horrified with the shot. I personally find war shots, where you see dead or dying people, or seriously injured, or with a missing arm or leg, much more disgusting, and usually, many war pictures are among "the best". It's important to remark that those are real injuries, or real dead people you see, however, my poop was not real, of course. This is art, this is creativity. Open up your mind and see beyond the image. Someone said it should be DQ'ed, I challenge him to report this to the moderators and let them decide. You may not like poop (WHO DOES?), but you have to see beyond it, see the whole photograph as a piece of crap, I mean, piece of art (LOL) and try to realize it's meant to make you laugh, and not to horrify you. Not long ago, I was watching an interview to Oliver Hardy, from 1950, where he was saying people were having too much drama and needed to laugh more. Well, 60 years later, it still applies! Too much puritanism going on, IMHO.
Now, I really wasn't going for the brown ribbon, I admit, but let's agree that it fits the picture! LOL Seriously, I didn't think this picture was going to do well, it was a last minute entry, I wanted to post something funny, knowing that most other pics were going to be of sexy women in lingerie or such. I wanted to post something different, something creative. Someone said it doesn't fit the challenge. Well, the general meaning of Lingerie is underwear in general, even though nowadays it's 99.9% used to mean women's underwear.
I think this picture was rated not for the picture itself (maybe a 4.50 would have been more fair), but for the FAKE poop. I wonder if people thought the blood in my Rage Against The Machine picture was real too...
Anyway, again, it was a fun week! I just can't believe I didn't get a single 7!! LOL I wonder if this is the lowest score ever!? WOOHOO, my first ribbon!!! :) Only part that saddens me is that I had worked hard to get my total average up to 5+, and this entry got sooo many low scores, my total average went back down to 4.88. Oh well, I'll have to start all over again!
If there was a zero, this would get it. If this was humor, it missed the mark. I am surprised that the moderators haven't removed it from the challenge.
IMO you can't possibly be serious with this submission. It doesn't fit the challenge on so many levels, I don't know where to start with a critique. I'll have to accept it as "freedon of speech".
EWWWWWW!!!! Didn't need or want to see this!!! LOL Either you are going for the sarcastic metaphorical middle finger approach to these challenges or you are a character who thinks this is humorous???? LOL One way or the other, I guarantee that people are going to spend a moment to give a comment (good or bad) or, just scratch their heads, wondering WHY LOL.
Yup been there. You know the ol'e saying "never trust a fart". As far as the photo goes, unfortunately it is tack sharp, technically very good. I think perhaps, that you may be going for the "brown" on this one. Good luck.
Ok, here it goes, is not the brown that bothers me, trust me, I have a baby in the house, so I see browns all day long (LOL), I think is the lack of aditional elements to make the picture interesting and then get people to see it the way you intended, as a joke, imo
If you can take a look at this video, you'll see what I'm talking about beer video
Not an aesthetically pleasing photo by any means, however, technically it's not to bad. I would have gotten rid of the table cloth or whatever it is though.
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