*ENTRY* Thread DSS #68 (Chocolate)

sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
edited January 25, 2011 in The Dgrin Challenges
Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge #68

Welcome to Round #68 of the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenges. This challenge is open to any Dgrin member.
It will run from Monday, January 10, 10:00pm PST time (GMT -8) on through Monday, January 24, 10:00pm PST time (GMT -8). Note the ending Time change

The topic ready for your interpretation: Chocolate

Smooth, Dark, Light, Milk, White, Creamy, Crumbly, Sticky, Swirly... Shall I continue?

There are no editing restrictions in this round.

Your Judge:
1 round 72 Hour Public Vote.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your entry is to be submitted directly into a SmugMug gallery. It's pretty simple, just go to the gallery link below, and follow the upload instructions at the top of the page: Remember, the basics stay the same: 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest period. Do not use a minimal save method (such as "save for web"), and your main EXIF will be embedded in your image, no worries!

To avoid disqualification, read, in full, the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge Rules, there have been some recent modifications
Sean
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  • WhatSheSawWhatSheSaw Registered Users Posts: 2,221 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    Delicious!

    My husband baked chololate cupcakes tonight. wings.gif
  • 80weeks80weeks Registered Users Posts: 97 Big grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    I've never needed an excuse to play with chocolate!! :) This should be fun.
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  • sweetharmonysweetharmony Registered Users Posts: 405 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    Now, there's a subject I can really dig my teeth into....
    Leah

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  • kwickerskwickers Registered Users Posts: 310 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    Chocolate... now... Over the last few weeks I have seen and eaten too much Chocolate! Now I'll have to do it again! :-)
    Photos.KeithWickersham.com
  • Bend The LightBend The Light Registered Users Posts: 1,887 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    Ha ... I raided the kids' toys for the last challenge - now to raid their sweeties! :D
  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    Sean--if I gain 10 pounds on this challenge I'm holding you personally responsible.
    Liz A.
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  • dniednie Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,351 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    I am officially in heaven now.
    Donna

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  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    Sean--if I gain 10 pounds on this challenge I'm holding you personally responsible.

    The idea is to photograph the theme, chocolate, not to eat it :lol

    What you do with your props after the shoot is up to you. I do know it survives being mailed really well mwink.gif
    Sean
  • JennJenn Registered Users Posts: 1,009 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    yum .. a topic near and dear to my heart, too!
    Jenn (from Oklahoma)
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  • SnowgirlSnowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    The most important food group. Yehaw! Now - to get into it. I suspect several types and packages will be sacrificed in my attempt to create an appropriate image - if I remember to take the picture rolleyes1.gif
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  • konomaniackonomaniac Registered Users Posts: 335 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    sherstone wrote: »
    The topic ready for your interpretation: Chocolate

    Smooth, Dark, Light, Milk, White, Creamy, Crumbly, Sticky, Swirly... Shall I continue?

    thumb.gif Tasty topic. Inspired by your Chocolate Rose Glow????
    --- Kono ---
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  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    konomaniac wrote: »
    Inspired by your Chocolate Rose Glow????

    Not really no. I was eating a chocolate when I was thinking I needed a new theme. that is all. :andy
    Sean
  • rteest42rteest42 Registered Users Posts: 540 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    Yum... I come from a long line of confectioners, you know...I will have to make this one count!
    ...Trish

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  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2011
    rteest42 wrote: »
    Yum... I come from a long line of confectioners, you know...I will have to make this one count!

    So do you need a handicap? mwink.gif
    Sean
  • rteest42rteest42 Registered Users Posts: 540 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    Laughing.gif!! I just can't let the family down! The pressure!
    ...Trish

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  • FrochFroch Registered Users Posts: 571 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    Hi Sean,
    Two questions....
    is generated text allowed?
    is a triptych allowed?

    Thanks,
    P
  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    Froch wrote: »
    Hi Sean,
    Two questions....
    is generated text allowed?
    is a triptych allowed?

    Thanks,
    P

    The answer to both questions is yes. For text, I suggest your image is the main focus and that the text does not overpower to a point that it's all about the text.
    For triptych you are only allowed a 1 pixel black or white separator between the images.
    Sean
  • SimpsonBrothersSimpsonBrothers Registered Users Posts: 1,079 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2011
    This should be fun ;D
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  • billseyebillseye Registered Users Posts: 847 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2011
    I find it amusing that the title of this thread begins with STICKY and ends with CHOCOLATE. My camera may never be the same after this round. :uhoh
    Bill Banning

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  • imagesofhimimagesofhim Registered Users Posts: 527 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2011
    Oh, forget the holiday weight gain---chocolate, in the name of photography, well worth another 10 pounds!!!!
    rolleyes1.gif
    Blessings,
    Marjohn

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  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2011
    Sean, this theme apparently has magical powers. I do not ever keep chocolate in the house, but UPS showed up at my doorstep a few minutes ago with a delivery I was not expecting from a company I didn't know. I open it to find it has a box of chocolates inside.

    People, just a reminder, bribes should be addressed to Sean now. :D
  • Crystal EveCrystal Eve Registered Users Posts: 46 Big grins
    edited January 13, 2011
    Ooooh! What a delightful idea. I'm doing it!
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  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2011
    Llywellyn wrote: »
    Sean, this theme apparently has magical powers. I do not ever keep chocolate in the house, but UPS showed up at my doorstep a few minutes ago with a delivery I was not expecting from a company I didn't know. I open it to find it has a box of chocolates inside.

    People, just a reminder, bribes should be addressed to Sean now. :D

    Anything to do with chocolate is magical mwink.gif

    Just to clarify I am better bribed with awesome pictures than with ingestible items. While I do like good chocolate, I certainly do not need any of it hanging around.:food
    Sean
  • red_zonered_zone Registered Users Posts: 533 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2011
    This made me think of the centerpiece down my family's table on December 25th... that's right... chocolate. It's what's for breakfast. It's also long gone by now.

    1144236439_9jUqi-M.jpg

    I'm still brainstorming, but I can tell this is going to be a fun challenge!
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    Jake
  • JR303JR303 Registered Users Posts: 135 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2011
    Gotten my entry in, can't tell you how much fun my wife and kids had with this one. Thanks, Sean for the theme.
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  • kdotaylorkdotaylor Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2011
    JR303 wrote: »
    Gotten my entry in, can't tell you how much fun my wife and kids had with this one. Thanks, Sean for the theme.

    And what a fun entry it is!! Love it.
    Kate
    www.katetaylor.smugmug.com
    "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
  • kdotaylorkdotaylor Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2011
    red_zone wrote: »
    This made me think of the centerpiece down my family's table on December 25th... that's right... chocolate. It's what's for breakfast. It's also long gone by now.

    1144236439_9jUqi-M.jpg

    I'm still brainstorming, but I can tell this is going to be a fun challenge!

    Who are those sorry place settings for on the end? The ones with the grapefruits?
    Kate
    www.katetaylor.smugmug.com
    "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
  • Bend The LightBend The Light Registered Users Posts: 1,887 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2011
    I might do a few images in a grid pattern (like we did in the 9 comp). Do I need to stick to 1px separator for those?

    Thanks
  • SimpsonBrothersSimpsonBrothers Registered Users Posts: 1,079 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2011
    Bend The Light wrote: »
    I might do a few images in a grid pattern (like we did in the 9 comp). Do I need to stick to 1px separator for those?

    Thanks
    Yes, it's in the rules.
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  • Bend The LightBend The Light Registered Users Posts: 1,887 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2011
    Thanks.
    Must have missed that one. Sorry.
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