dss 57 - got milk? c&c please

liflanderliflander Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
edited August 23, 2010 in The Dgrin Challenges
ok, so there's only one 'got milk?' milk mustache in the gallery so far....i tried to emulate the ad campaign pretty closely.
please let me know what you think of these as photographs as well as which one you would choose to enter.
thanks in advance! cheers! -mark

#1 - the family
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#2 - the entertainer
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  • kdotaylorkdotaylor Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    They're both great! I like the family best. Something about the pink outline of the rocker bothers me, although I love the expression and the ukelele!
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  • tinamarie52tinamarie52 Registered Users Posts: 954 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    I love the rocker. With the couch in the background, it says..."drink milk...you'll get off the couch and kick butt."

    Note: you might want to think about if this is a copyright infringement of the 'got milk?' campaign. I'm still too new in photography to know the rules about imitating another.

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  • SeascapeSSeascapeS Registered Users Posts: 814 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    Cute! I like #2. Dad in #1 has a strange expression, like he doesn't want to be there.
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  • ghinsonghinson Registered Users Posts: 933 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    Nope, Dad is just wondering if his right hand, holding the remote trigger, is in the picture or not! :)
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  • kidzmomkidzmom Registered Users Posts: 828 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    Cute! #1 made me smile, but I like #2 better. I actually really like the pink/purple fringe!! I too did a shot in this direction. I had it uploaded into the gallery and everything. I just had "Milk" in the text as I was afraid like TinaMarie mentioned of copyright infringement. I just did MILK but in that same font and I figured it would be safe. Maybe just eliminate the "got" and leave milk with the question mark. I don't know either...but #2 is cool!
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  • liflanderliflander Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    Re: dss 57 - got milk? c&c please
    Thanks for the replies. I don't think copyright is an issue here. I'm not selling the image. Also, something as commonplace as the 'got milk' slogan gets used (parodied etc) by the public and that is considered acceptable under copyright law. I'm not a lawyer, but I did take a class on copyright. The main thing is that I am not making money from the sale of the image. Can you really copyright milk mustaches and the words 'got milk'?

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  • oldtown_dreameroldtown_dreamer Registered Users Posts: 177 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    i like them both, (very cute family Mark, by the way), but there are things that bother me on both.
    on #1 dad's expression and chopped off arm are distracting.
    on #2, if you take away the "got milk?" legend, then all we have is the white mustache, which, could be anything; yeah, the milk mustache is embeded into our colective consciousness in the US, but i'm not sure it's as powerful elsewhere in the world.

    but maybe i'm just being overly analytical...
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  • liflanderliflander Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    Good points, Diana! Thanks!
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  • travelwaystravelways Registered Users Posts: 7,854 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    Fantastic photos and wonderful colors!

    I agree with the comments - the mustache on all doesn't bother me at all,
    maybe you can crop a little the left and right of the first one.
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  • liflanderliflander Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    I replaced the family shot: cropped, darkened arm on left, lightened eyes, moved text.
    Still undecided which one to enter!
    Thanks.
    Mark

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  • dniednie Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,351 Major grins
    edited August 22, 2010
    liflander wrote: »
    I replaced the family shot: cropped, darkened arm on left, lightened eyes, moved text.
    Still undecided which one to enter!
    Thanks.

    Much better! I like that one.
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  • oldtown_dreameroldtown_dreamer Registered Users Posts: 177 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2010
    i vote for the improved family portrait!
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  • AndManAndMan Registered Users Posts: 1,252 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2010
    oldtown_dreamer wrote: »
    i vote for the improved family portrait!
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  • travelwaystravelways Registered Users Posts: 7,854 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2010
    #1 works now for me too thumb.gif
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