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Posted on 30/05/19 1:38:40 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2630 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
I had made up my mind not to post another image, but was inspired by the St. David discussion in 'straight photography and off-topic', and put it together this morning.  |
Posted on 30/05/19 4:10:41 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1752 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
PLEASE SEE NEXT IMPROVED ENTRY. |
Posted on 30/05/19 5:13:59 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2630 Reply |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
If your intentions were to give someone the 'creepy crawlies', you did a great job in my case Michael... nice one!  |
Posted on 30/05/19 5:39:04 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
One of your best Michael. Love the animations within animations, secondary levels of movement. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 30/05/19 8:30:21 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1752 Reply |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Thanks Loyd, and David for you kind comments
I have updated and improved my entry, so here it is again--sweet dreams. 
[b]NB: please wait for the Gif animation to appear! 
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Posted on 30/05/19 10:07:19 PM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1576 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Nice job Michael  |
Posted on 31/05/19 05:43:33 AM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
I have to admit this was a difficult challenge for me. Dead things floating in jars make me feel queasy. It took me forever to complete the brain in a jar exercise from the book. I should have been done with this yesterday. Animation: http://vimeo.com/339481478 
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Posted on 31/05/19 07:59:26 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6835 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
First to place the octopus this week was lwc, with some companions that perfectly match the colour and lighting. But not the perspective, sadly; either straighten out my octopus jar or distorted those behind it. Some weird foodstuff in the second entry - are those real things that you can buy? Pickled pig snouts? Really? I like the third entry, particularly the rat’s reflection in the jar. But I’d flip the top left rat horizontally for a more pleasing composition. Much better perspective on this one! A fun fourth entry, with the Pirates of the Caribbean theme. An interesting take on distortion and infrared photography in the fifth entry - but that jar needs to be at least part above the horizon for the top perspective to work. A glorious creation image from DavidMac, and the fact that it was built for another website 12 years ago only adds to its vintage quality. Very splendid - and I recognise that monk. Entertaining work from Ben Mills, with the octopus simmering nicely. It always amazes me how Nigella Lawson managed to combine food and sex to such a high degree on mainstream TV. Some great labels in GKB's animated entry - I think Sharkus Big Pointyteethus says it all (and it’s good to see the Pichi in there too). Your own Hitchcockian appearance is startling and beautifully done - so much so that it entirely distracted me from the weird combination of perspectives going on in the background. Octopus-drying from Ant Snell, with a particularly live-looking critter attaching itself to that poor woman’s hand. She looks a bit like you cut her out with a pair of scissors, though - Quick Selection Tool not behaving itself? Oh, and the perspective issue could easily have been fixed by raising the horizon a couple of inches. Or indeed, by virtue of the second entry - that solves it! A packed room from tooquilos, full of arcane goodies - much like your house, in fact. Some terrific boats in the animated version, and I like how it jumps from the storm-tossed ship to the interior view. That’s a remarkable flailing octopus! The rolling skull could perhaps do with a shadow. But it’s the octopus’s story… very entertaining. Astonishingly good work from Frank, whose octopus is helped to escape the jar by another octopus lifting the lid. Everything here blends together really well - the sharks, the fish, the treasure chest, the two octopus (octopi? octopuses?) - and the poses are spot on. Excellent, Frank. What’s worse than finding a maggot in your apple? Finding half a maggot in your apple. I think Josephine Harvatt’s octopus in a pickle jar comes close. Perfectly squeezed into the jar, by the way - I really admire the way it slots in there. An escape scene from Mariner - out of the jar, into the crab claws? I like the way the octopus is fuzzier when seen through the jar, but I wonder if you should have a little distortion at the edges where the glass is thickest. For me, the crab is too saturated for the underwater location; I’d tone it down somewhat so it doesn’t jump out of the picture. A pickled mermaid from Eva Roth, with the octopus nicely woven around it - and some very good distortion on the head and arm. A little perplexed by the way it wraps in front of the label, though; surely anyone labelling a jar would put it on the outside, not the inside? Ingenious work from michael sinclair, whose pulsating octopus is pushing the lid of the jar up. There’s something really mesmerising about this image. I wonder, though, about the rigid cutout; not sure why you framed the animation inside that mask. A museum setting from srawland, opening with a still showing the jar on a plinth. Terrific fish movement in the animated entry, and I particularly like how they’re integrated into the plant life at the bottom. The suddenly-fished octopus is splendid, and I like the out-of-focus woman walking past. Very expressive soundtrack. Of course, all you have to do to fix the perspective of the plinth is flip the top vertically: 
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Posted on 31/05/19 08:32:17 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
The monk came from a now long gone commercial picture library called PhotosDotCom. They sponsored a monthly challenge on graphics.com in which the top prize was three months free membership and downloads. Over a period of several years I won about eighteen months. I have a huge personal library of downloads from them. Very useful. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 31/05/19 09:25:06 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2817 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Thanks, Steve. Mostly I agree. I did think about adding extra distortion to account for the refraction of the glass, but couldn't guess if glass underwater would show any (refraction). |
Posted on 31/05/19 09:44:30 AM |
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Eva Roth
Luminous Liberator Posts: 269 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Thanks, Steve. The mermaid was added to the jar already containing octopus and label… |
Posted on 31/05/19 09:46:02 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3723 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Thanks steve. I'm so glad that you got so distracted that you didn't see what you said you didn't see.  _________________ Always remember that you are unique - just like everyone else. |
Posted on 31/05/19 10:29:28 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Thank you Steve - there was a fortuitously vacant space in the original image - perhaps the octopus was eating his way out? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 31/05/19 10:38:51 AM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1576 Reply |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Thanks Steve, appreciate the remarks. |
Posted on 31/05/19 12:09:52 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2630 Reply |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Quite real. More info here for additional options... enjoy.
Thanks! |
Posted on 31/05/19 12:15:19 PM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6835 Reply |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Errrr… think I might give them a miss. Seriously, does anyone find this appetising?  |
Posted on 31/05/19 1:28:14 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3723 Reply |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
It's nothing to be sniffed at. _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 31/05/19 3:04:00 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2630 Reply |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Not me... my intent with the fly in the original was to show how unappealing the thought of feet and snouts might be. This won't help any either... 
Sorry, I was overcome with an irresistible impulse. |
Posted on 31/05/19 4:15:51 PM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6835 Reply |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Ha ha ha ha |
Posted on 01/06/19 04:00:28 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2800 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 757: Darwin's octopus
Thank you Steve! _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
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