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Posted on 20/11/14 1:56:04 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3063 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 531: Arrrr, Jim lad
I just love that stormy picture Michael. |
Posted on 20/11/14 5:47:35 PM |
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Garfield72
Montage Manceau Posts: 353 Reply  |
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Posted on 20/11/14 5:55:46 PM |
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darrenandcolleen@telus.net
Serene Synthesist Posts: 119 Reply  |
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Posted on 21/11/14 05:02:03 AM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 531: Arrrr, Jim lad
I've been under the weather all week. It's not up to my perfectionist standard, but it's the best I can do right now. 
_________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 21/11/14 08:15:42 AM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 531: Arrrr, Jim lad
Garfield - that looks really good. |
Posted on 21/11/14 08:32:26 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply  |
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A colourful entry from shaneworth71 starts this week's entries, with a bright blue sea and a neatly out of focus background. The skeleton crew are excellent, casting their shadows neatly on the deck, and that's a great skull and crossbones flying at the front. I particularly like the recoloured ropes in ghostly blue. Excellent work, and good enough to earn you a title. I think Meticulous Montagist sums up your strengths! Impressed by Darren's model boat, especially photographed from just the right angle... now if I'd known you were working on that, I'd have set a challenge to finish the model. A fun-packed entry with some extreme leisure going on - including lying in a hammock and swimming with dolphins. Spectacular drama from Ant Snell, with the crew frantically battling with the waves lashing the bows and a skeleton riding the bowsprit. (Hope you're impressed by my random selection of nautical jargon). A real sense of action here - very good work. A fine trio of Jack Sparrows from Frank, who seem too busy grinning at the camera to fend off the marauding seagulls. Three captains and no crew - who's going to drive the boat? I like the distant fog, and those are some neat shadows. Looks like the entire cast of Pirates of the Caribbean from GKB, neatly interspersed behind the rigging. I particularly like the surf produced as the boat cuts through the water - very convincing. And a glorious second entry, with the ship wrecked at the bottom of the sea. Great sunken bones and treasure, and that shark is a very good addition. But the lighting needs to be the same on all the elements - and that means the treasure as well as the sea bed, and the boat should match the colour of the surroundings. A funny entry from Wörn, whose marauding octopus is carrying off one of the boat's crew in its tentacle. And the joke, of course, is that the other is lying with her face covered, feeling just the tickling of another tentacle on her legs. Beautifully conceived, and immaculately realised. Excellent work! A splendid barnacle-encrusted underwater scene from tooquilos, with a passing angel fish and a pirate skeleton half buried in the deck. I especially like the barnacles rising up the ropes - great attention to detail! I wondered what the hand marks were, until I started watching the animated version and found it was all set in an aquarium. Terrific wobbling jelly fish and rippling flag, and I like the way the kids dodge out of the way of the shark. The crack in the glass is a splendid touch. Magnificent! A very fine steampunk entry from DavidMac, with a superb array of costumes complementing the modified ship, which is itself a fantastic achievement. A great contrast between the foreground and background, and some very neatly added turrets in the cliff face. Exceptional attention to detail, David - looks like you really enjoyed this one. A colourful scene from Emy, whose ship is doing service as a decoration inside a fish tank. I like how we're looking up at the water surface, and the way the bubbles are springing out of the ship as well as from the treasure chest. Perhaps a little less opacity on the bubbles? And should the boat be tinted bluer as it's underwater? A different ship entirely from michael sinclair, of course, but a very neat storm scene nonetheless (although can lightning strike water?). Very dramatic, Michael; but I would have been interested to see what you could do with the original photograph, to level the playing field. I like how brewell's monkeys have taken over the ship - very neatly placed amongst the rigging, and I especially like the one reading the map. Is there a reference here I should be getting? Googling San Simeon didn't produce any interesting results... A nice pun from Josephine Harvatt, who has filled the ship with pilates practitioners. Neatly done! Although I have to take issue with the perspective of the mats on the left... easily fixed by trimming them to follow the direction of the front edge of the platform. What, no musclebound instructor for them to drool over? Glad to provide Deborah Morley with a chance to get her new-found hose technique back into play... and very pleased to see the Carmagnolle diving suit making a guest appearance. The perfect combination! A bit of a storm from Garfield72, with a couple of pirates strutting their stuff on the deck. Is the ship too red and too saturated for this night scene, though? I think toning down the colour and adding some blue to it would make for a more realistic image. A quartet of female pirates from srawland - now that's a refreshing change! With the horizon where you've put it, though, the ship would have to be tilting at a remarkably steep angle. Sorry to hear you haven't been well. Oh, and before I forget - excellent cutouts from everyone! |
Posted on 21/11/14 10:14:59 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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No time to to correct the perspectives, or put in muscleman instructors I'm afraid, by the time I had cut out the rigging - fiddle fiddle fiddle!  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 21/11/14 10:48:08 AM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply  |
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The boatbuilder misspelled Simian. He's only a monkey, you know. _________________ The journey of a thousand hours begins with a single layer. |
Posted on 21/11/14 10:52:51 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply |
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Aaargh.... |
Posted on 21/11/14 1:45:47 PM |
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Emy
Composition Chef Posts: 390 Reply  |
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yes, you are right! Thank you Steve. _________________ Why not! |
Posted on 21/11/14 1:48:36 PM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1749 Reply  |
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Thanks Steve -- that's a government boat - all bosses and no workers. |
Posted on 21/11/14 2:02:42 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply  |
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Thanks for your kind comments Steve. Yes I did enjoy this one. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/11/14 2:02:43 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 531: Arrrr, Jim lad
Thanks for your kind comments Steve. Yes I did enjoy this one. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/11/14 4:19:24 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 531: Arrrr, Jim lad
Thank you, Steve. In my febrile state I was unable to see the angle. It turns out I have pneumonia. Thank God for Obama. At least I can see a doctor now. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 21/11/14 5:25:06 PM |
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darrenandcolleen@telus.net
Serene Synthesist Posts: 119 Reply |
Re: Challenge 531: Arrrr, Jim lad
Thx Steve, I would be happy to send you a pic of the ship I am building for a challenge. How should I send it? Thx again D |
Posted on 21/11/14 5:25:09 PM |
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darrenandcolleen@telus.net
Serene Synthesist Posts: 119 Reply |
Re: Challenge 531: Arrrr, Jim lad
Thx Steve, I would be happy to send you a pic of the ship I am building for a challenge. How should I send it? Thx again D |
Posted on 22/11/14 02:08:04 AM |
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shaneworth71
Meticulous Montagist Posts: 27 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 531: Arrrr, Jim lad
thank you sir! |
Posted on 22/11/14 06:42:28 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
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Thank you so much Steve!  _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 23/11/14 9:24:00 PM |
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wörn
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Re: Challenge 531: Arrrr, Jim lad
Thanks for your nice comment. It only can go downwards after such a rating. This time I really had a hard time cutting out the rigging. So I rebuilt it. |
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