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Posted on 26/01/18 10:08:53 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
I was privileged to attend an event in the Speaker's Apartments in the House of Commons this week, and very magnificent they are too, restored (at great expense) to their Victorian splendour. One of the rooms contains, rather bizarrely, a large four poster bed - and it turns out this is the bed in which the monarch traditionally spends the night before their coronation. Odd, then, to have two tables of eight seats each in the same room; to have a screen which, being made of glass, offers no privacy whatsoever; and to have no washing or bathing facilities. Can you prepare this room for when King Charles needs it? High res is here.  |
Posted on 26/01/18 11:52:05 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
A hangover from the days when Monarchs held levees (and only bathed once a year whether they needed it or not) perhaps? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 26/01/18 1:13:56 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
I'm posting this now... I have a tendency to fiddle with these things until I ruin them. Work with me here, the room is a step or two down from the bath.  |
Posted on 26/01/18 1:53:21 PM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
For something you threw together in under 4 hours, Loyd, that is really very good! |
Posted on 26/01/18 2:45:50 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
The following quote comes from the site of Humphries Weaving who provided the silk woven fabrics for this suite. "The Speaker’s State Bed is situated in the State Bedroom and was originally intended for the monarch to sleep in on the night before the Coronation. This is a state room often used for receptions and entertaining, with the grand state bed acting as focal point." Like Josephine's 25 year old model this is open to interpretation ........  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 26/01/18 3:35:22 PM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Thanks Michael - I appreciate your kind words. I knew from the start what an animation might look like. I might as well apply the same thinking to complete my work for the week. 
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Posted on 26/01/18 6:00:06 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Loyd it has now become apparent you are an "accomplished Photoshopper": you're no beginner! Your animated entry is both consummate and perfect: it's the "gold Star" for you my laddo. 
I downloaded your Photoshop banner Gif and looked at the three images, and I could hardly detect any difference in the propellers: so subtle, yet so effective for realism.  |
Posted on 26/01/18 8:51:53 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Thanks Mr. Sinclair - I'm glad you like the animated version... thinking about it after the fact, I could have made only the one. The propeller bit is something I learned a long time ago... the old three frame illusion trick.
Trivia: The airplane is a Riley Rocket (modified Cessna 310), the first small plane I ever had a ride in. |
Posted on 28/01/18 12:24:20 PM |
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Ant Snell
Specular Specialist Posts: 496 Reply  |
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Posted on 28/01/18 2:35:19 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
CAUTION! EXTREME POOR TASTE ALERT! PARENTAL GUIDANCE ADVISED. 'Inspired' by the quote from the weavers of the tapestries: "This is a state room often used for receptions and entertaining, with the grand state bed acting as focal point." With apologies to to Poussin, Wtewael, Couture, Ricci, Corinth, Van Haarlem and Delacroix. 
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/01/18 2:45:10 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Awesome... and to think all of that is going on and I can't see any cocktails anywhere. Nice one David - |
Posted on 28/01/18 6:39:48 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3723 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Well, bang goes your knighthood then. _________________  |
Posted on 28/01/18 11:50:44 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Order of the garter perhaps ......... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 29/01/18 08:20:58 AM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 767 Reply |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
"I knight thee." So that's what it was called in those days. "You're not going to put THAT on my shoulder!" Gives a different meaning to "hood" in Knighthood. Enough now Dennis. Work! _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 29/01/18 4:25:10 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Steve you must be psychic: how did you know that this is my favourite kind of entry? 
UPDATED got the two far left hand propellers moving. 
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Posted on 29/01/18 5:42:25 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Gotta' love those propellers... well done!  |
Posted on 29/01/18 7:36:47 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Posted on 29/01/18 7:41:21 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1752 Reply |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Thanks Loyd, as you can NOW see in both your quote and my entry that I have fixed the far left-hand side propellers to move more realistically. However, your propellers are much better than mine: that is to say better, and more realistic.  |
Posted on 29/01/18 8:56:16 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply |
Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
You're comparing apples and oranges... it is very difficult to make this illusion work with the background moving, or any other animated object in the scene. Getting the timing right is key, note that mine is on a very static background. It's a matter of compromise. You had to make the propellers and the sky work together... mine is timed only with the propellers. |
Posted on 30/01/18 10:10:31 AM |
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Sue.Martin
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Re: Challenge 690: The monarch's bed
Thanks to everyone who gave me a shout out of welcome during the last challenge. I say, have the posting rules been relaxed? Maximum 500-600 pixels along the longest edge and 122.88KB?? I wouldn't mind puffing mine up a bit to show more detail. The first one who can name all the faces gets an A+ in American politics, and a bottle of aspirin!
 _________________ Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. |
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