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Challenge: Misquotes (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Emeryville, California, USA
Date: Aug 22, 2010
Aperture: 6.30
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/318
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Aug 22, 2010

 This is a saying often attributed to author Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), but is almost certainly something he never actually said or wrote.

-Handheld, manual mode
-RGB Curve
-Channel Mixer in monochrome mode
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-Crop from right to 3:2 aspect ratio
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 276KB

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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 08/31/2010 11:13:50 AM
interesting looks like a direct quote of a mangled expression by twain...but i like what you did with it 6
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 08/31/2010 11:10:33 AM
Great composition and B&W processing.
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Nikon Z7II
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 08/30/2010 08:19:17 PM
Been there; done that.
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 08/28/2010 02:28:17 AM
A wonderful misquote.
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