Reading Between The Pixels

Karrie McDKarrie McD Registered Users Posts: 372 Major grins
edited April 21, 2008 in The Dgrin Challenges
Okay, I have a challenge. This is a photo I made with a message. However, it doesn't do any good if I am the only one that gets the message. So I would like to know, can you "read between the pixels" and tell me what the message of my photo is? If you can, then I am on the right track. If no one gets it, then I need to...well do something different :D

I am also extending this challenge becuase I would love to see your "read between the pixels" work. I would love to see how other photogs try to get their messages out in their work. Do you have a photo with a message that I, and everyone else who plays this game, can try and figure out?




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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    First Guess!
    "The grass is greener on the otherside."???headscratch.gif

    I like the thread concept, too. I'll see if I have anything to post to it.

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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    or
    "its really not as green as they say":D
    Aaron Nelson
  • jeffmeyersjeffmeyers Registered Users Posts: 1,535 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    I can't believe our lawnmower is broken and I have to pull this grass with my bare hands!
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  • WacrerWacrer Registered Users Posts: 78 Big grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    Karrie McD wrote:
    Okay, I have a challenge. This is a photo I made with a message. However, it doesn't do any good if I am the only one that gets the message. So I would like to know, can you "read between the pixels" and tell me what the message of my photo is? If you can, then I am on the right track. If no one gets it, then I need to...well do something different :D

    I am also extending this challenge becuase I would love to see your "read between the pixels" work. I would love to see how other photogs try to get their messages out in their work. Do you have a photo with a message that I, and everyone else who plays this game, can try and figure out?

    Hi Karrie
    I like your idea:) the desaturation worked a little to well, I am unsure now as to what the "story" is? do you have any other shots with this same concept? Maybe one with her sitting leaning against the fence, and your DOF runs from just in front of her out the back and through the fence, to a greener pasture behind her. I really liked the green grass in her hand, it looks like you tried to bring the saturation back a bit in that area, a bit more would clear up some ambiguity :)
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  • Karrie McDKarrie McD Registered Users Posts: 372 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
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    DonRicklin wrote:
    "The grass is greener on the otherside."???headscratch.gif

    I like the thread concept, too. I'll see if I have anything to post to it.

    clap.gifclap

    Don


    Well, the grass is greener on the other side is a well known idea and it is what I based this photo on but "The grass is greener on the other side" is not my message in this photo...
    Maybe I need to rethink this up some more...
    Anymore guesses before I say what I was trying to get across?
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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    "ive got the green, but nobody to share with" (green as in money)
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    "enough for 2" (horses)
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    "tairs of my heart"
    Aaron Nelson
  • KurtPrestonKurtPreston Registered Users Posts: 285 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    "I'd smoke it, but it's the wrong kinda grass" ? rolleyes1.gif
  • MarkToddMarkTodd Registered Users Posts: 143 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    Karrie McD wrote:
    Well, the grass is greener on the other side is a well known idea and it is what I based this photo on but "The grass is greener on the other side" is not my message in this photo...
    Maybe I need to rethink this up some more...
    Anymore guesses before I say what I was trying to get across?


    Hmmm...that greener grass from the other side isn't real or all it's cracked up to be?
  • richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    Does it have anything to do with Walt Whitman? headscratch.gif He wrote a work called Leaves of Grass and she looks like she's reading "leaves of grass."
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  • eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2008
    She wants to know if the grass really i greener on the other side of the fence. (So, she's holding some over there. mwink.gif)

    EDIT: I would have read through before responding, but I didn't want to be influenced on my answer. :D

    Ill think a bit longer.
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  • Manfr3dManfr3d Registered Users Posts: 2,008 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2008
    Karrie McD wrote:
    Okay, I have a challenge. This is a photo I made with a message. However, it doesn't do any good if I am the only one that gets the message. So I would like to know, can you "read between the pixels" and tell me what the message of my photo is? If you can, then I am on the right track. If no one gets it, then I need to...well do something different :D

    I am also extending this challenge becuase I would love to see your "read between the pixels" work. I would love to see how other photogs try to get their messages out in their work. Do you have a photo with a message that I, and everyone else who plays this game, can try and figure out?

    Looks like she just made a big sale and the long weed is the last she has left ... I smell outsourceing nature!
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  • TentacionTentacion Registered Users Posts: 940 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2008
    KurtPreston wrote:
    "I'd smoke it, but it's the wrong kinda grass" ? rolleyes1.gif

    Laughing.gif...I was thinking the same thing.....

    or...."Can you smoke this??"
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  • Gary GlassGary Glass Registered Users Posts: 744 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2008
    A Botanist's Lament.
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  • Karrie McDKarrie McD Registered Users Posts: 372 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2008
    to funny
    rolleyes1.gif You folks are funny. I like funny. And, I asked for it right :D

    Okay, I was trying to evoke the thought that: the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. If you pay attention to it, the grass is the greenest right where you are at.
    In other words: stop dreaming of another life and notice and appriciate the beauty in the life you have.


    Guess, I have to go back to the drawing boardne_nau.gif

    Okay, who's got the next photo? My turn to guess the message.
    "Whether you think you can or you can't, you are right."
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2008
    Karrie McD wrote:
    rolleyes1.gif You folks are funny. I like funny. And, I asked for it right :D

    Okay, I was trying to evoke the thought that: the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. If you pay attention to it, the grass is the greenest right where you are at.
    In other words: stop dreaming of another life and notice and appriciate the beauty in the life you have.


    Guess, I have to go back to the drawing boardne_nau.gif

    Okay, who's got the next photo? My turn to guess the message.


    so i was right my first try......:D sorta...
    Aaron Nelson
  • Frog LadyFrog Lady Registered Users Posts: 1,091 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2008
    Karrie McD wrote:
    rolleyes1.gif You folks are funny. I like funny. And, I asked for it right :D

    Okay, I was trying to evoke the thought that: the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. If you pay attention to it, the grass is the greenest right where you are at.
    In other words: stop dreaming of another life and notice and appriciate the beauty in the life you have.

    Guess, I have to go back to the drawing boardne_nau.gif

    Okay, who's got the next photo? My turn to guess the message.

    I noticed that the pastuer grass was greener on the side she was on, but she was holding the greenest grass on the other side of the fence, hence most of us (at least I did) thought of the orignal parable.

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  • Karrie McDKarrie McD Registered Users Posts: 372 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2008
    clap.gif
    AaronNelson wrote:
    so i was right my first try......:D sorta...
    "Whether you think you can or you can't, you are right."
  • Karrie McDKarrie McD Registered Users Posts: 372 Major grins
    edited April 1, 2008
    Aahhh, by having her hold the grass on the other side I was trying to make it seem like she was comparing her grass with the other sides. I see now I have only confused things.
    This little game is very helpful!

    Frog Lady wrote:
    I noticed that the pastuer grass was greener on the side she was on, but she was holding the greenest grass on the other side of the fence, hence most of us (at least I did) thought of the orignal parable.

    C.


    THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND HINDSIGHT!!!
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  • dawssvtdawssvt Registered Users Posts: 413 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2008
    I really like the idea of this thread. I would like to see some pictures with hidden messages.

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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2008
    dawssvt wrote:
    I really like the idea of this thread. I would like to see some pictures with hidden messages.
    Like 'subliminal Advertising'?

    Just kidding.

    Actually that can be the point of a whole genre of imaging.

    Looking forward to some other examples.

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  • cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2008
    Looking closely, it appears she might have two clumps of grass, one in each hand. I think the angle of the shot confuses this, and to me, seeing her comparing the two clumps a bit more easily would have helped.
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  • Karrie McDKarrie McD Registered Users Posts: 372 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2008
    dawssvt wrote:
    I really like the idea of this thread. I would like to see some pictures with hidden messages.


    15524779-Ti.gif Who is next?
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  • BPerronBPerron Registered Users Posts: 464 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2008
    Karrie McD wrote:
    rolleyes1.gif You folks are funny. I like funny. And, I asked for it right :D

    Okay, I was trying to evoke the thought that: the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. If you pay attention to it, the grass is the greenest right where you are at.
    In other words: stop dreaming of another life and notice and appriciate the beauty in the life you have.


    Guess, I have to go back to the drawing boardne_nau.gif

    Okay, who's got the next photo? My turn to guess the message.

    I like your message...I did not quite get it...but I think if you showed more grass on the "other side" that shows it is not the same color you might get your point across better...

    I also do think that you have gone a tad deep in your message for a photo. If it were the grass is greener on the other side or the grass is not always greener on the other side, you could get that message across, but saying the grass is not greener on the other side, but is the greenest at this moment in time, is fairly deep and hard message to get a across in a photograph. That is just my thoughts, maybe I am way off...
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  • marrummarrum Registered Users Posts: 9 Beginner grinner
    edited April 5, 2008
    greener?
    Is the grass REALLY greener? Lets find out.
  • anwmn1anwmn1 Registered Users Posts: 3,469 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2008
    Message---
    Here is a very easy one-

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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2008
    Yes they are. Many will say, especially when their team is losing!


    Blind, that is!

    Don
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  • summerzsummerz Registered Users Posts: 494 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2008
    You got that right
    DonRicklin wrote:
    Yes they are. Many will say, especially when trir team is losing!


    Blind, that is!

    Don

    Laughing.gif I hear ya.rolleyes1.gif Same can be said for some referees.rolleyes1.gif :cool :giggle
  • MoniMoni Registered Users Posts: 245 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2008
    summerz wrote:
    Laughing.gif I hear ya.rolleyes1.gif Same can be said for some referees.rolleyes1.gif :cool :giggle
    There is an NHL referee with the last name of McGough...pronounced McGoo.
    I thought that was appropriate. mwink.gif
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