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Posted on 03/02/09 2:46:12 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 681 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
You want realism? It's England, so there must be rain! Not sure about the size of the people in this one. I can't get my head round the perspective at the moment (M.E's playing up again), so I did them by eye.  |
Posted on 03/02/09 4:34:00 PM |
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gaoxiguo
赤土陶 器战士 Posts: 114 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
没有啥创意，就叫窗口吧   |
Posted on 04/02/09 00:18:18 AM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/fungismith/Trafalgar-2.gif |
Posted on 04/02/09 03:48:25 AM |
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zapat
Audio Artist Posts: 44 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
all work without play made zapat a damn kid... away for a long time but never gone, so many challenges that i've missed... so many great works here and so many brilliant-minded people. after a long period of time that i haven't touch photoshop, this is the result... hey Steve will you please stop for a while and spot the 5 diff... i don't need your comment i need your answer ;-) lol  _________________ "the closer you get to the meaning the sooner you'll know that you're dreaming" |
Posted on 04/02/09 03:57:45 AM |
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zapat
Audio Artist Posts: 44 Reply |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
i missed the other one my friend told me that there were six diff... javascript:emoticon('  ')_________________ "the closer you get to the meaning the sooner you'll know that you're dreaming" |
Posted on 04/02/09 04:06:26 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
I hear you have had snow in London.  _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 04/02/09 10:08:40 AM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
Nick, great scene Josephine, I really like the colours, especially the balloons. Vibeke, the only problem with your snow scene, is that there are buses! (No buses running in London on Monday at all)! Great public transport. Not too sure about mine, but here we go  |
Posted on 04/02/09 10:36:23 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
It just gets better and better this week !!  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 04/02/09 10:57:00 AM |
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The Mad Lep
Four-Leafed Fantasist Posts: 323 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
I'm completely awed by the standard of creativity from everyone this week, it's been a fantastic thread to look at! Excellent work everybody!  |
Posted on 04/02/09 12:12:30 PM |
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steve hill
Brain Basher Posts: 228 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
great vibeke but to be correct you need to remove the buses as they took them all of the road around 5am |
Posted on 04/02/09 5:31:25 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
Deborah and Steve, I forgot about the buses. I grew up in Stockholm, where we had snow every winter from from November to March. We had heard of School buses being cancelled due to snow, and kept hoping, but in all my years at school, the buses always turned up.  _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 04/02/09 7:31:20 PM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
Hi Deborah Lovely work and many thanks for the kind comments Great work from everyone this week, a real joy to look at. Nick |
Posted on 05/02/09 1:37:52 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
On the premiss my first contribution was an observation and not a contribution, here is what I was originally thinking: The mirror image in reality of the model. I found it too difficult to give it reality, so remains in the mind, so this other one .. in reflection Trafalgar Squared Squared (^2).  Had to try and just share it with yous 你们 . Did it work? don't think so. I'll stand by my Congestion Charges this week 
Great creative work again from everyone else.  |
Posted on 05/02/09 2:40:40 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
I think its a great image Jota _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 06/02/09 08:40:47 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7047 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
When I set this Challenge last week, I had no idea what you'd all do with it - or even if it would produce any interesting images. Once again, I'm amazed and impressed by the ingenuity, vision and technical skill shown on this forum: there has been some truly magnificent work this week. A real pleasure to go through them all. First in was Jeepy, with a strangely prescient image - London was, indeed, engulfed by snow just the day after he posted his entry. There's a great quality to these snowflakes, and a starkness to the image that highlights the snow effect. Excellent work! And I like the retro alien invasion in the second entry. Some speedy traffic from yuvalbra, with added lighting effects and a warm overall tone. It's not what I asked for - but it is an attractive image. Meticulous, beautiful work from Nick Curtain, with an old favourite - the day-to-night scene. There's wealth of detail here: the car headlights and rear lights; the soft illumination at and near ground level' the street lights; and especially the lit class structure on the nearby roof. Totally convincing, and the gloomy sky adds perfectly to the effect. One of your best, Nick - beautiful. Ben Mills was the first to actually follow the brief - a rare occurrence on this Forum, it seems. Convincing figures, with a crowd in the foreground, make this work well: the final painterly effect unites all the elements. A good stab at the matchbox idea in the second entry - and I think it's clear just how tricky this effect is to achieve. A future Challenge here, for sure! I really liked michael sinclair's approach, moving Trafalgar Square to the seaside. It's a convincing and compelling montage: the added seagulls add interest, and the one closest to us brings in a much-needed foreground element. The only change I'd have made would be to skew the buildings slightly so the spire on St Martins in the Fields (that's the building on the right) would be truly vertical - it looks a little odd at that angle, especially when set against the straight horizon. Removing the traffic and replacing it with pedestrians has been cleanly and effectively achieved, but the real skill in Hope Leslie Laust's entry went into the choice and positioning of the background image. The view is, more or less, what you'd see looking east from Trafalgar Square: seamlessly integrated into the foreground, it's totally convincing. Fantastic effort, and well worth a title for you. I think Scenery Supremo is most fitting for this entry! There's a real sense of danger in brewell's entry, with the colour of the buildings blending well into the green-grey rocks beneath. But shouldn't we see a little more destruction on the edge? Parts of the building falling over the precipice, perhaps? An interesting approach from Jota120, positioning the model in front of the building itself. But there's a lot here I don't understand: what's the Primavera doing in there? Why is it obscuring the woman's legs behind? And why do the buildings have a fuzzy outline? All is redeemed in the striking second entry though: very tasty work, the buildings nestling into the bizarre surroundings. Hmm... perhaps the concept of removing the traffic didn't come across in my original brief... I like the third entry! Charming work from Josephine Harvatt, who brings a serenity and calm to the city centre. Good to see St Martins in the Fields back in the fields, where it hasn't been for a couple of hundred years! A lot of work has gone into creating the sunny day effect - adding the green to the domes, the blue to the skylights, and an overall warmth to the whole image. This is meticulous, inspired work, with a terrific end result. Top marks. Converting the road into a runway was one thing - but it's t..he added model plane in Steve Hill's entry that adds the fun here. Too bad you weren't able to finish building the model first - I think GKB must be having air traffic control nightmares over this one... A fine merging of world cultures from tooquilos - now, a canal would certainly enrich the area. I have a particular dislike for the Dean Martin song used in the flash version, so I'll stick to the gif animated entry instead. It's a great attempt - but there's a real problem trying to make boats go around corners! Is there any simple solution to this? If you had the Extended version of CS3 or CS4, you could use a 3D model instead, which could be viewed from multiple angles... I liked the rainswept entry from katew, which has many interesting touches - all the people in rainwear or carrying umbrellas, the regular paving, and especially the bollards at the end of the street. The perspective is a little unwieldy - those people would be enormous - but it's a great effort. Hope you get back to normal soon, Kate. A very stylized entry from gaoxiguo, with an interesting new background - both rocky mountains and a new tower block. The window frames it neatly, but we could do with some reflective glass in there! Great pedestrian action from james - I especially like the dancing man on the right hand roof. The pigeon is a very convincing foreground element, with a great flying action - and an attractive seaside background! A tricky Spot the Difference from Zapat. I managed to see three differences, but the final two eluded me - until I copied the image into Photoshop and overlaid the two. Cunning work! And good to see you back. A very apt snow scene from vibeke, beautifully realised: the out-of-focus snow on the nearby roof is perfect. Fantastic detail, such as the footprints and the skidding tracks of the taxi on the left. Bit of an abrupt join with the cloud on the right, though - a touch more scenery needed! I don't know which is more threatening in Deborah Morley's entry - the massive reconstruction of London going on in the distance, or the attack of the supersized pigeons in the foreground. Those things are the size of buses! Help! A lovely join in the distance, though, with the line of barriers. Best of all - almost so well done that you miss it entirely - is the new paving, which blends in immaculately with the scene. As Nick said: "Great work from everyone this week, a real joy to look at." My sentiments exactly. |
Posted on 06/02/09 08:52:50 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
Thanks Steve, I had trouble getting inspired for this one, and then found the snow harder than I had expected. Have a nice weekend. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 06/02/09 09:09:45 AM |
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Jeepy
Modeleur Mystique Posts: 174 Reply  |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
Thank you Steve. I think I'll be clairvoyant today or weatherman. |
Posted on 06/02/09 09:27:24 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
Cheers Steve, much appreciated. Nick |
Posted on 06/02/09 09:36:39 AM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
Hmmm, foreground pigeons a tad too big then. What's a bus? At least I got the paving right! |
Posted on 06/02/09 09:46:46 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Contest 234: Trafalgar Squared
Thank you Steve, I put a lot of thought into it so I am glad you think it paid off. _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
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