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Posted on 27/04/19 11:13:20 PM
dwindt
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
DavidMac wrote:
dwindt wrote:
What's happening under the left light though David? The enlarged image isn't big enough to identify?


Not sure I understand the question Dennis. The taxi is unchanged from the original except reflections. The image is small because the best background match I could find had terrible JPG artefacts so I had to keep things small ...... and, let's face it, the image is far too dull for me to get lost in trying to remove them all.


I think it's just the light on the front right wheel that's throwing the orientation out a bit. Nothing serious. It's a grand idea. Your second image is amazing. Perfectly composed. Well done.




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Posted on 28/04/19 00:45:09 AM
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Re: Challenge 753: Taxi Toys...
... for the idle rich.

This guy must have had a bad taxi experience... at least he can fire it from his smartphone.



I can't add sound effects... yell BOOM when you watch it.

Posted on 28/04/19 04:08:04 AM
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi

Thanks Anna, David. My solution was so obvious I had to get it in quickly before the competition.
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Posted on 28/04/19 04:13:37 AM
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi

lwc wrote
I can't add sound effects...

Loyd, why not have a word with Anna or Gordon. They are masters of sound effects and, I feel sure, would be glad to advise you.



Posted on 28/04/19 08:33:10 AM
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Re: Challenge 753: Taxi Toys...
lwc wrote:


I can't add sound effects... yell BOOM when you watch it.


http://vimeo.com/332918654

Here you go Loyd..3 booms for you!!


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Posted on 28/04/19 10:43:40 AM
DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
dwindt wrote:
I think it's just the light on the front right wheel that's throwing the orientation out a bit. Nothing serious.


Ah! I see what you mean now. Yes its a splash of sunlight on the tyre from the original which, in this context, looks a bit as if part of the wheel is missing. I should have darkened it.

Twenty twenty hindsight ........

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Posted on 28/04/19 10:59:49 AM
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Re: Challenge 753: Taxi Toys...
lwc wrote:
yell BOOM when you watch it.


BOOM!

Baron Munchausen (phone in hand) tries out his new Uber Express dispatching service.

Love the stretch taxi in the background. In Vegas or LA they'll stretch anything. I was once met at LA airport by a white stretched 1950's Rolls Royce complete with the classic high radiator - totally and ludicrously outrageous! Vegas has stretched vans complete with disco and pole dancer! They get so long that the chauffeurs have to have a special driver's licence for long vehicles.

In the light of such follies your image starts to look almost plausible .............

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Posted on 28/04/19 11:48:25 AM
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
Michael, Anna stepped right up with a 'BOOM'. Sound effects, when added to a gif, forces one to change it to a video. I guess I'm just hopelessly 'old school'. As for Gordon, he has had his hands full trying to teach me infrared photography.

Anna, I love it. all three are great. I think I like the second one best because of the crispness of the sound, more like a 'POW' than a 'BOOM'.

David, when I searched for a stretch limo image, one that came up from Google was a stretch Chevrolet Camaro... totally weird.

This was one I made for the 'sound effect'. I had trouble choosing between the two, obviously I chose the other one.




Posted on 28/04/19 11:56:22 AM
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
'The taxi ran amuck into a private garden disrupting a photo-shoot'... this also carries with it my apologies to Gordon and all other real infrared photographers.



I made this faux/IR for the heck of it and did not intend to post it... but then why not?

Posted on 28/04/19 12:05:27 PM
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Posted on 28/04/19 12:23:49 PM
tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
Glad you liked it Loyd. Sound does take it to the next level. You realise that later versions of Photoshop do support video and sound. Failing that you can alway import the gif into Hitfilm (which is a free program) and add sounds, music etc in that.

http://freesound.org This is where I get most of my sound effects from. I also have an account with Pay Play http://payplay.fm . Most albums are $2.00 and each track is 20c.

Really funny entries this week. The catapult one just cracked me up! They could use that in this season of Game of Thrones!

I had a lot of time this weekend but will be quite busy during the week so Im posting it early.

http://vimeo.com/332931828




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Posted on 28/04/19 6:41:05 PM
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
Nice one Anna, great music choice!

Posted on 28/04/19 8:07:42 PM
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
So I thought 'what on earth am I going to be able to do with a worm's eye view of a vehicle?' ...

http://vimeo.com/332967695

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Posted on 29/04/19 12:34:02 PM
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
GKB wrote:
So I thought 'what on earth am I going to be able to do with a worm's eye view of a vehicle?' ...




Posted on 29/04/19 1:52:28 PM
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Posted on 29/04/19 3:33:05 PM
josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
Hahaha Anna - I love the sound effects!


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Posted on 29/04/19 3:36:47 PM
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
Gordon - that was a bit too realistic

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Posted on 29/04/19 8:45:40 PM
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Re: Challenge 753: Call me a taxi
Ant. HDR Norman Rockwell. Very evocative.

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Posted on 02/05/19 03:40:27 AM
Mariner
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Dada?


Posted on 02/05/19 06:35:28 AM
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Dada?
Mariner wrote:
Dada?


Very much so! Love it.

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