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Posted on 12/01/21 6:20:30 PM |
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vibeke
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
 What is happening by Vibeke Friis, on Flickr
Bus inserted in one of my photos from Rome taken in 2003. I never did find out what he was filming. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 12/01/21 7:56:30 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Impressive! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 12/01/21 11:14:30 PM |
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vibeke
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Thank you David. Guess you are hunkering down and staying safe? Take care. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 13/01/21 09:20:57 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
As much as possible.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 13/01/21 10:39:45 AM |
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Ant Snell
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
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Posted on 13/01/21 11:16:15 AM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Josephine great work from last week 
I think the front perspective of the van is a bit dodgy, but if I feel well tomorrow mght fix it 
I have enclosed a still image to prove that I am able to change front perspective, but I prefer the original in the animated version 
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Posted on 13/01/21 11:52:47 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3055 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Well done Michael, but shouldn't the clouds be moving slowly? |
Posted on 13/01/21 11:56:14 AM |
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Mariner
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Posted on 13/01/21 5:10:01 PM |
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vibeke
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Michael you are giving me nightmares. Mariner, definitely a newsworthy event. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 13/01/21 5:34:45 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Well an unexpected cancellation gave me some extra time today. This is as literal and simple as can be. Not hugely entertaining. But that means it is all the more important to get the little details right. Bet Steve will find one or two mishaps ..............  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 13/01/21 7:26:24 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Thanks for the appreciation
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Posted on 14/01/21 00:10:23 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
David that's an excellent picture. And it took some time to make that bus fit in I'll bet. |
Posted on 14/01/21 04:59:21 AM |
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Mariner
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Posted on 14/01/21 09:06:32 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Thanks Michael. In both images I found it very difficult to find backgrounds to fit. There is something about the perspective of the truck that gave me lots of problems, but I really am not sure what. It's a miniature photographed from quite close but this really isn't very pronounced. On the face of it it looks as if it should be easy, but somehow, and I don't know quite why, it wasn't. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/01/21 09:13:29 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Mariner. Nice job with the lighting and reflections in the truck. A clever re-build of the camera too. I thought about that at one point but was too lazy.
I really like the one spectator who is photographing the cameraman rather than the devastation behind him. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/01/21 10:51:58 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Yes, I had very similar problems. It's because the bus is distorted. If you find the LH VP (easy) and use that to create the horizon, then use the horizon as a guide to finding the RH VP then you can use the RH VP to check out the rest of the bus. I tried straightening the bus but it didn't look right so I ended up realighning the background in my first entry.
Thanks David, it took hours.
Do you know I never noticed that until you mentioned it. |
Posted on 14/01/21 11:58:36 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5666 Reply |
Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Serendipity! He's perfectly placed in the gap in the foreground. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/01/21 9:01:26 PM |
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dwindt
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
That must be a heat sensor. Look at the sign. No bloody Covid (NBC). He's looking for high temps...  _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 14/01/21 9:07:08 PM |
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dwindt
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
Nice work everybody. This one put mud on my face. Good idea, bad execution.  _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 15/01/21 08:55:10 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 839: Outside broadcast
First to broadcast this week was lwc, with a highly topical image set in Washington. Very well executed, the flames and smoke adding a good focus. Why the black lines around the cutout people, though? A racecourse setting from DavidMac, the with the camera expertly moved to its viewing platform. The best cheat is the man in the chair, which avoided having to rebuild the rear wheel. A great story, too. Ah - so you did rebuild the back wheel, in the second entry. Very neat job; I like the opened door and the glimpse of the interior. Two very minor comments: the van could be rotated a degree or two clockwise to match the vertical of the building behind it; and the position of the join between the floor and ceiling on the van interior suggests a wider interior than is possible given the width of the van. Excellent work from GKB, with his lunar location: the strong shadow on the broadcast van is perfect. It must have taken quite a while to work out how to shade the satellite dish, though. But I have a query about the earth shadow: surely it should be shaped the other way, as it’s to the left of the midpoint? An evocative night shot - on the banks of Loch Ness, I’m guessing - from tooquilos. Very tasty. But watch the van perspective against the horizon! It’s much too low in the frame. I like the intro to the animated version with all the newspaper clippings, and the parallax mountains around Nessie work really well. The 4:3 TV-shape ratio is a nice touch. And that’s a great 3D Nessie - did you build it? I really like how we can see someone working in the back of the van. I like how Vibeke's TV van is nestled in behind the plants - it gives it a real sense of location. It might be worth rotating it anticlockwise a few degrees, so that the verticals on the van match up with those on the building behind. Otherwise, really nicely done. A cute model village from Ant Snell, I like the miniature cameraman filming the huge child. But why is the van so low res? What’s happened to it? Some serious perspective correction from michael sinclair, with the van wearing a MAGA hat. I like the animated version, but why is it bouncing like that? Also - I know you enjoy doing this, Michael, and you are good at it, but it bothers me that you do exactly the same image over and over again. The point of the Friday Challenge is to expand your skills and approaches, not always to narrow them down to your comfort zone. A great location from Mariner, perfectly inserted into the scene. I really like how you’ve moved the camera to the roof. Weren’t you tempted to rebuild that building? And what has happened to purplepoppadom? It’s no longer possible to click the image to see it bigger. Good light and shade on the van in the second entry, and turning the camera to face the other way is brilliant. But shouldn’t those flames be reflected in the windscreen? 
An extraordinary entry from dwindt, combining cave painting, vinyl and morse code - and it looks like the polar coordinated image in the middle would have been well worth seeing undistorted! An effect too far, perhaps? |
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