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Posted on 29/03/22 10:31:43 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Anna, David, Gordon -all nice work - I was started on a similar theme but decided to change course when I saw your entries - again, all great in my opinion. Liked the runny egg twist Gordon. Ant, nice job on the high rise, hope the poor fellow makes it. I went with a slightly more elaborate complex for Steve's new museum. (however he has had a few escapees)  |
Posted on 30/03/22 09:39:13 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5666 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Oh that's really splendid Frank! Having been the recipient of a few suggestions this week I'm going to put the shoe on the other foot. I love your grey egg and cup but I do think they could perhaps benefit from being much darker on the street side (see bus) and having a little warm glow from the windows on the other side. Speaking of windows, the way you have used the silhouettes of people to help shape the letters is really inspired. They don't jump out at you at first viewing ....... they need to be discovered. I really like that! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 30/03/22 11:54:33 AM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Thanks David, agree. I put on touch of glow on the sidewalk in front of the entry and agree a touch could be used on the Egg Cup BusStop. Another forest thru the trees moment. |
Posted on 30/03/22 12:01:42 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
David, something for you in the straight photography section 
The first image from which I created the new building in the second animated image is called the the "New Ludgate Building" Please note: the new building is NOT the "How to Cheat in Photoshop" museum! That contraption follows very shortly (after 5 seconds) is the Photoshop museum 
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Posted on 30/03/22 1:18:06 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Start from the top and work your way down I say   _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 30/03/22 5:37:40 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Took me a moment to appreciate the hole in the roof. 
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 31/03/22 10:55:34 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
I experimented with egg cups and stands but they all looked awful so a hole it was 
Glad you spotted it _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 31/03/22 2:35:50 PM |
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Mariner
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Posted on 31/03/22 3:20:37 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3999 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
So I dropped the egg into the composition but then thought "well how did that get there? Surely the chicken must be there first? So I dropped the chicken in before the egg. But hang on, where did the chicken come from?   
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Posted on 31/03/22 3:25:20 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Michael, that's a much tidier Oxford Street  _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 01/04/22 03:36:58 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Yes, Gordon, on Sundays and Bank Holidays Oxford Circus is deserted. I was once there on August Bank Holiday Monday and I didn't see a soul. |
Posted on 01/04/22 08:36:21 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
First to build the museum this week was tooquilos, with a splendid eggcup design - complete with windows and what looks like a rather grand entrance. I like the spinning sign on top as the museum is apparently replicated around the world, and it’s really good to see so many different angles of view. The Tokyo entry with its Japanese sign is particularly entertaining. A glorious museun from DavidMac, which has even got me in a suit I’m sure I don’t remember wearing. The eggcup design is beautifully integrated into the street. I like the detail of the added glass panelling and handrail, but I have to point out that of course John Lewis must align with the other buildings on the street. Why the jaunty angle? A boiled egg complete with toast soldier from GKB - now that’s the right way to serve it. I like the dripping yolk, even the slightly implausible way it’s dripping over the building next door. That’s a rather tiny spoon, though. The chickens in the animated version are truly terrifying - so good they haven’t got to the pecking stage yet. I like the winking action in michael sinclair’s adaptation of David’s entry, especially the slight mouth twitch that goes with it. But like David, I don’t agree with the treatment of the background; lowering the contrast like this loses visual interest, and starts to resemble the early days of HDR when photographers would push it too far. I like the real entry, though, with the portable lavatory museum popping into view. Couldn’t it do with a label, though, rather than relying on your explanation in the accompanying text? Good to see Ant Snell’s selfie from The George, and even better to see this towering museum. Not sure about the brutalist architectural style, but I do like the banner on the front. The man surfing the balloon looks like he’s having trouble holding on. A fantastic architectural excursion from Frank, with the HotChiPs name picked out in the shape of the windows. A brilliant idea, very neatly executed. I see you’ve saved yourself some time by reusing the letters - those identical museum visitors in the Os are a bit of a giveaway! The glow at street level is particularly impressive. And I like the egg. A glorious Fabergé egg from Josephine Harvatt, being lowered into place. The hole in the top of the building is immaculately created behind that scaffolding, and gives the egg a real destination. Splendid. A neoclassical design from Mariner, with neatly straightened-up buildings. I stared at this for some time, trying to work out of the dome should be viewed slightly more from above, before I noticed that you had removed all the people. Even by your standards, Michael, this is an astonishing feat. Shuttering the shops was an ingenious solution, and replacing the trees makes much more sense than trying to edit out the people from inside them. I will take issue with your sky, though: you wouldn’t get that sort of cloud so close to the horizon. Looking forward to the 1000th Challenge! |
Posted on 01/04/22 09:14:36 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Thanks, Steve. Glad you like it.
Yes, I had a problem with that, too, but thought I could get away with it! |
Posted on 01/04/22 10:02:59 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5666 Reply |
Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
I was well aware of the anomaly but it's easy to think up all sorts of architectural excuses. Roof garden handrails can often be set back from the buildings boundary walls for safety reasons. There is no real reason for them to necessarily follow its contours. Or the building could have an angled corner like the corner of the adjacent building in the right of frame. Or.... or ..... or ....... I could go on forever. Truth to tell, sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to find and I was too lazy to search any further.
This is sometime in the near future Steve and, after all, as I said in my text, it is opening day. Best schmutter! Thanks Steve. Glad you liked your museum. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 01/04/22 10:03:05 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Thanks Steve. The video was started more because I had finished all the other jobs around the house so I started playing; next thing I knew I had finished it so I just posted it for a laugh. Well done everyone. _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 01/04/22 10:03:39 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
_________________ Always remember that you are unique - just like everyone else. |
Posted on 01/04/22 10:11:04 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5666 Reply |
Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
When I start playing it's usually to avoid jobs around the house! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 01/04/22 10:24:51 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Exactly. |
Posted on 01/04/22 10:51:32 AM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Thanks Steve, I thought about changing some of the replicated letters but then I think that thought flew out the window in the end. Hopefully will find time for next weeks as I'm changing internet providers this week, e-mails ,etc. |
Posted on 02/04/22 4:00:56 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 900: The HotChiPs Museum
Thank you! I thought it deserved something a bit fancier than a plain boiled egg _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
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