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Posted on 25/08/11 9:04:05 PM |
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Emil
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Re: Challenge 365: The Empty Room
Super entries. Here is my try:  _________________ I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. - Franz Kafka |
Posted on 25/08/11 10:39:10 PM |
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Jota120
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Re: Challenge 365: The Empty Room
Maybe pushed the boat out too far this time. 
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Posted on 25/08/11 10:51:13 PM |
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Ben Mills
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Posted on 25/08/11 11:40:47 PM |
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Jota120
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Posted on 26/08/11 08:36:11 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 365: The Empty Room
First to decorate the room this week was Stewart Scott, with a very well-conceived photographic studio - great placement of all the objects, very good interpretation of the perspective of the scene. I like the blue tint, too, which gives it a very cool feeling. Just one small point: with two obvious light sources, surely the tripod should be casting two shadows? Most amused by jimbean's entry, with its multitude of references to Friday Challenges gone by - you've really trawled the archives to dig up some of these! Very nice work, Jim, and a terrific idea. A watery theme from tooquilos, with plenty of interesting objects. But having gone to such lengths to construct the perspective, don't you think your horizon is a little high? Good to see the whole thing come to life in the animated version. I was really hoping that swordfish would leap off the wall! A touch of politics from brewell, with Obama, Merkel and Sarkozy choosing from a variety of economic engines. I like the poses, especially the Sarkozy's - is that his real body? And what an interesting collection of "engines". Very neat bookshelves from Josephine Harvatt, which really fill the space well. When compared to the size of the door, though, those books on the back wall look enormous - but the overall effect works nicely. I am going to have to mention perspective, of course. The sofa is too small, and too low in the scene for the angle at which it has been shot. And that woman must be enormous! Another bookshop, this time from Garfield72. A very well chosen selection, with all the books fitting the perspective and occupying the space well. Just one thing: the poster on the back wall is much brighter and more saturated than the rest of the room, which makes it jump out too much. Amazing work from Deborah Morley, who must have put a huge amount of effort into this one. Terrific consistency - the colour of the seating and wall decorations, the matching waiters, the use of perspective - painstaking and convincing stuff. I'm not sure about the location of all those shadows, though; darkening the floor might have helped! I like the reflections in the second entry, but they shouldn't bend down like that - the line needs to be exactly the line set by the original lights. A rather splendid nursery scene from puffin31939, full of good ideas and content. A couple of pointers: the top of the blackboard is almost exactly horizontal, which can only occur when it's on the horizon - so this object needs to be moved up in the scene in order for it to make sense. Similarly, the diagonal stripes in the window need to follow the stripes of the floorboards, as if it continued through the window - and the horizon on the view outside needs to come down a little. But it's very close! Ingenious work from michael sinclair, who has extended the room to become the deck of a liner - clever! Great matching of perspective, and congratulations on resisting the temptation to blow it up. It takes a certain kind of mind to look at an empty room and think "what that really needs is a robot playing the trumpet". And yet Emil's entry does work rather well. I like the point lighting, but if you're going to do this then you really need to add strong shadows on the left of the robot so that he matches the scene. Talking of certain kinds of mind... Jota120's internet café includes a rowing four (strangely, without a boat) and a scuba diver outside the window. I kept thinking there must be some kind of perverse logic to this, but have come to the conclusion that there probably wasn't. An interesting second entry - but why have you left the skirting board in place? Shouldn't the floor run through the rest of the scene? A nightmarish scene from Ben Mills - I take it you're not a cat fan? Great textures, and a real sense of terror to this one. Nice work. |
Posted on 26/08/11 08:50:26 AM |
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Emil
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Re: Challenge 365: The Empty Room
A certain kind of mind :-)))? I have just read an article about robots, so that was the reason I filled the room with robots :-). Yes the shadow on the left. I saw it when I posted it but I was too tired to correct it. Thank you for your comment Steve. Have a nice weekend for all. _________________ For me the creative process is more one of discovery than creation. - James Lee Burke |
Posted on 26/08/11 09:02:27 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 365: The Empty Room
Thanks Steve - I knew there was something wrong about the sofa and/or woman but could not quite get my eye in to correct them. The back shelf is, of course, the oversize section _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 26/08/11 09:29:10 AM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 365: The Empty Room
I found this interesting image as a two for one.  _________________ Onward and upward! Excelsior! |
Posted on 26/08/11 11:30:02 AM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 365: The Empty Room
Many thanks Steve. I will try darkening the floor (and do the light reflections) when I can bear to look at the image again. Have a good weekend all. |
Posted on 26/08/11 11:46:04 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
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> I kept thinking there must be some kind of perverse logic to this, but Maybe inspired by Hawkwind, the Internet Cafe provides, not only internet and gym/swim/row/diving facilities but also Orgone Accumulators .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone#Hawkwind . That's fine then, glad I cleared that up..  cough. Even Kate Bush got involved ..
The women's' scull runs very deep in the water, err.. choppy floor, viz 
Also liquid wood is less dense than water For the second, the shop is being dismantled, really empty, to restore Melbourne traditional arcade. Extending the floor decking like Michaels would have been an interesting idea, thanks. I would only have had to further change perspective a bit more, currently ~+0.7m off floor. Thanks again Steve. |
Posted on 26/08/11 1:46:44 PM |
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Jimbean
Sparky Shopper Posts: 105 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 365: The Empty Room
Hi Steve thanks for your comments. I had a lot of fun deciding which challenges to include, I really needed a bigger room!!!!! |
Posted on 26/08/11 4:43:01 PM |
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puffin31939
Montage Mariner Posts: 383 Reply  |
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Thanks, Steve. 'Very close' is much better than I had hoped. I will try and re-do the picture to incorporate your suggestions. However I have to admit that the stripes on the window weren't intended to be anything to do with the floorboards (I hadn't even considered a reflection). I had simply used Plastic wrap to try and make the windows a little more realistic! _________________ Man cannot change the direction of the wind but he can adjust the sails |
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