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    1st ANNUAL MEDUSA CHALLENGE

    What is the first annual Medusa challenge? The 1st annual Medusa challenge is an opportunity for the finest photographers among us to pull their singularly most hideous shot from the archives. Yes this is going to be a little different, and as always we'll be operating on the honor system. The Dusies are dedicated to those photographs so bad that we've kept them from the light of day out of pure shame. They are sufficiently repulsive to turn those who gaze upon them to stone.
    The only requirement of this challenge which ends at midnight March 31st, 2010, is that they be legitimately horrendous photographs, that you took while trying to produce a good ones. In other words no fake bad pictures, we deal here with the worst photography that occurs only through the serendipitous nature of Murphy's Law.
    Yes friends, here is the golden opportunity for your best ever photograph to shine by comparison. Here's your chance to rid yourself of the millstone of humiliation hanging around your neck that only you can see. Here's where the catharsis takes place, and you proudly say, "yes, I admit it, I have taken awful pictures, what of it!pith

    P.S. THERE'S A VERY GOOD REASON I DON'T DO PEOPLE PICTURES. MY WIFE CLAIMS I EXCEL IN EXECUTION STYLE PHOTOGRAPHY, BUT STILL WHO DO THEY COME TO WHEN THEY NEED PASSPORT PHOTOS? THE MOTHER IN LAW BELOW...



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    "Outside of everything, there's no evidence of anything."

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    Well, pith, now I'm gonna hafta save 'em. Up to now, I've always purged those baddies from the flashcard as soon as I saw 'em on the camera's LCD.
    Editing and cropping defined:
    You know what to leave out, and less will often communicate more.

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    oy...I don't save my bad pictures.....this could be a difficult one.

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    I got a PM from 'Pith threatening that if I didn't enter this challenge he'd bring down all sorts of horrible things on me (frogs, boils, darkness, water turning into blood, death of my firstbor)..... Hey! Wait a second!
    I remember reading about this stuff somewhere else.
    Still, you never know what kind of powers and abilities far beyond those of Mortal Men someone like 'Pith has, so I guess I'd better enter, just to be on the safe side.
    Will a self-portrait suffice?
    I shoot with film. That's film. F....i....l....m. You remember film. It was in all the papers.

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    Sure, as long as its badpith
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fotolopithecus View Post
    Sure, as long as its badpith
    With a face like mine, how could it be otherwise?
    I shoot with film. That's film. F....i....l....m. You remember film. It was in all the papers.

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    Red face

    UHG! Pith is using blackmail on all of us.

    Here's mine.......I never went through this folder to look at the pictures thoroughly, It's the time I had a wedding to shoot, MC races and the 4th of July. This is one from the 4th of July.


    Um I'm embarrassed.
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    Here's a link to a very cool website. I've learned so much from it already and barely scratched the surface.
    http://strobist.blogspot.com/

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    http://sharnaleephotography.com

    I belong to a community called Model Mayhem where I've been practicing my off camera lighting if you'd like to check out some of my work you can do so here.
    http://www.modelmayhem.com/SharnaLee

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    Hey Sharna, Can you shoot another one just like this of Pith??? Maybe we could talk him into using it as his avatar and greatly improve the esthetic appeal of the PopFurums.

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    It takes a special photographer to make a prom queen look like the wicked witch of the East's ulgy sister.

    I wouldn't even post this but I don't think anyone would recognize her. She is the one in back btw.
    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

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    Oh man, this is starting off better.....i mean worse, than i dreamed possible.
    :dpith
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