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Posted on 10/12/20 1:52:00 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5666 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
Ah yes. I missed one or two back then. Moving home and struggling with cowboys builders.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 10/12/20 7:01:42 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
 _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 11/12/20 08:25:46 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
Simple and very effective Vibeke. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 11/12/20 08:51:19 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7023 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
First to bury the Saxon this week was lwc, with a neatly extended background. Burying a body in a shallow grave so close to the river, though? Not worried about seepage? I’ve been waiting all week for something to move but nothing yet. A very evocative scene from DavidMac, beautifully set in a stone circle. Fantastic lighting and shadows, David. I really like this one. A self-deprecating intro to the second entry, but it’s splendid - highly entertaining. I like how his shield is being used as a tray. Something curiously bipedal about that dog, though. A misty scene from JimH, set among castle ruins. Very good matching of saturation, and I like how he’s putting a sword into the grave. Is he wearing a face mask? Cute! GKB is definitely channelling Mariner in his perfectly neat entry - you must both buy your grass seed from the same garden centre. Beautifully done, though, with great shadows. I like the pile of earth, and the new helmet and shield for the corpse. I enjoyed Josephine Harvatt’s woodland setting, and its contemporary caption (great choice of font, by the way). The ferns in the foreground frame it beautifully. And I see from your avatar that it’s nearly Christmas. So michael sinclair is “far too preoccupied with 2021 to seriously deal with a dead man in a hole” – well, fair enough. I’m not sure of the provenance of the soldiers - I know they’re not Roman, but I couldn’t pin them down to a continent. I like the way the chap in the foreground only notices them at the last minute. Amazing work from Mariner, whose mourner is now plunging a stake into the heart of the zombie in the coffin. There’s so much distracting background going on here – the reflections, the curtains, the wall painting – that it took me a while to realise that the Saxon seems to have been rebuilt piece by piece from the original in order to change his pose. Brilliant. A partly filled grave from tooquilos, with a mound of earth curiously identical to the one waiting to go in. Very nice, but I’d lose the jug (it’s at the wrong angle). And I see from the animated version that it’s Pete Marsh! I remember when he was unearthed. A good story - but shouldn’t Pete’s head be on the corpse, rather than the man doing the burying? A hugely evocative scene from Vibeke, the location moved to a cave interior. I like how the toning of the foreground matches the background perfectly. Composition-wise, though, it could do with a lamp or burning torch as a focal point. |
Posted on 11/12/20 09:18:06 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3055 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
Thanks Steve. It was hours of fun. I found the Saxon on the web. |
Posted on 11/12/20 10:10:14 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5666 Reply |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
Delighted to hear it. I was very unhappy with it. Putting the scene together was fine but when I decided to set it at nighttime I came unstuck. The stone circle already had all sorts of existing shadows both on the ground and on the stones themselves that had to be eliminated before I could create my own. On the left side they had to be completely reversed with light coming from the opposite direction. Not the cleverest thing to try. It proved a monumental and only partially successful task with multiple masked tonal and colour adjustments for each stone. Of course, with the wisdom of hindsight, I should have simply cut them out one by one and flipped them. 
Yes there is. I went back and checked on his source file. It's a very dodgy cut-out on my part. Seems I inadvertently performed an amputation. Can't believe I missed it! Duh! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 11/12/20 12:25:49 PM |
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JimH
Image Imaginator Posts: 74 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
Thanks Steve, you couldn't be too careful even in medieval days with the dreaded lurgi going around, hence the mask!! Thanks for your comment David only just seen it!! Lots of great pics from everyone!! |
Posted on 11/12/20 3:34:42 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3218 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
Ha! Nothing is ever going to move in that one, but I made up for it with the wine cellar. Thanks Steve... |
Posted on 11/12/20 4:59:34 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
Thank you Steve, quite right about the lamp or torch. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 12/12/20 11:20:40 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
Thanks Steve - I thought it was about time I changed! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 17/12/20 00:20:24 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 835: A grave business, part 2
Thank you Steve  _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
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