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Posted on 13/07/09 2:36:22 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Pushing the limits of credulity
Apart from the third image ( a full file cross section to reveal true detail), all images have been substantially reduced to 1024 x 768 ( the first two reduced even further). The buttercups and daisies have been made into a true cut-out, as has the stone wall, and foxgloves were also added. The question is would you have been fooled had you not seen or been told of the prior preparation? Michael 
PS click the pic for bigger: 
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Posted on 13/07/09 6:58:33 PM |
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Paul 2007 thru 2010
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Re: Pushing the limits of credulity
The one with the sky in looks odd, in as much as the sky doesn't seem to fit. I think you need to accentuate the perspective a little as it goes into the distance. Also the lighting of the sky seems incongruous with the landscape. Other than that I cannot see anything that would allude to a fake in the others
You have blended the wall well with the new foreground and background. |
Posted on 14/07/09 10:55:46 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Pushing the limits of credulity
Paul, Thanks for the feedback. As far as image5 goes ( the only one with sky), I have only used it in the background, but also stitched a small section of corn and sky to the main background image vertically on the left-hand side from top to bottom, because the camera then took 10 megapixels and my current one takes 15 megapixels. I couldn't enlarge this background as it would make the corn and poppies disproportionately too large. However, if you feel that the cloud perspective is not right after seeing the original untouchedl background image, then I would profit from knowing why. Michael
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Posted on 15/07/09 08:12:20 AM |
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Deborah Morley
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Re: Pushing the limits of credulity
Hello Michael, Most of the pictures I would have been fooled. It is only the last three, where I find the background foxgloves are too tall for the angle of view, and as they are such a strong colour your eye is drawn to them. |
Posted on 15/07/09 8:07:54 PM |
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Paul 2007 thru 2010
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Re: Pushing the limits of credulity
Hmm. Well I think your adding the wall in my mind at least changed the apparent perspective of the whole image. Then the sky did not seem to fit. The other option is I am just wrong |
Posted on 15/07/09 11:03:13 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Pushing the limits of credulity
Again I'm reminded of the value of feedback, and so I thank both you Deborah, and you Paul for giving me a fresh perspective. In fresh forest clearings It's not unusual to see Foxgloves as at least as high as a man:
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Posted on 17/07/09 09:32:04 AM |
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vibeke
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Re: Pushing the limits of credulity
Lovely work, but my feeling, and it' a feeling only, I feel the sky somehow is too heavy and close, and the poppies, are to dominant. I love poppies, but somehow they just don't look right. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 17/07/09 10:15:39 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Pushing the limits of credulity
Yes, although my last but one image of the cornfield and poppies (the one just before the field of Foxgloves) is untouched and therefore original, the poppies don't look natural even though they really were there in view. Michael |