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Posted on 22/05/23 12:21:41 PM

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Re: Challenge 956: The cruel sea

David I really like your night time scene with its shadows and highlights and reflections. It's the exact opposite of stormy, but who cares?

Posted on 22/05/23 4:24:58 PM

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Mariner wrote:
David I really like your night time scene with its shadows and highlights and reflections. It's the exact opposite of stormy, but who cares?

Thanks Michael. I like it too despite it's well documented shortcomings.

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Posted on 22/05/23 4:33:15 PM

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This is one of those self imposed technical exercises I set myself sometimes when I can't think of anything better to do.

Been fiddling with it forever trying to get it right and I can't pretend it's as successful as I would have liked ............. but it's well up to presentation.

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Posted on 22/05/23 4:33:15 PM

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Double post removed.

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Posted on 22/05/23 7:41:41 PM

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Re: Challenge 956: The cruel sea

Again, very inventive David, but what I want to know is how did you get the boat through the narrow bottleneck?

Posted on 23/05/23 00:46:42 AM

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Posted on 23/05/23 10:46:24 AM

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Re: Challenge 956: The cruel sea

Great entries Loyd, love the flowing sails
Beautiful Japanese reproduction David as is the night scene and Ship in Bottle
Great detail Mariner, lovely image
Very rough seas Michael S. as clarified in Entry #3
Have to sign off now - getting seasick

Posted on 23/05/23 11:50:16 AM

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Re: Challenge 956: The cruel sea

David. I started doing a ship in a bottle but got distracted with a storm in a teacup. When I saw your entry I decided not to continue with mine.

http://vimeo.com/manage/videos/829374464

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Posted on 23/05/23 2:35:08 PM

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Re: Challenge 956: The cruel sea

ENTRY No 4

Posted on 23/05/23 2:48:14 PM

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michael sinclair wrote:
Again, very inventive David, but what I want to know is how did you get the boat through the narrow bottleneck?

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Posted on 23/05/23 2:57:01 PM

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Re: Challenge 956: The cruel sea

Brilliantly answered David!

Posted on 23/05/23 3:02:20 PM

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GKB wrote:
David. I started doing a ship in a bottle but got distracted with a storm in a teacup. When I saw your entry I decided not to continue with mine.

Sorry to have discouraged you. If its any consolation it was bloody hard.

I think " Storm in a tea cup." must relate to England's obsession with a good 'cuppa'. Here its "Une tempête dans un verre d’eau.".

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Posted on 23/05/23 4:21:20 PM

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DavidMac wrote:

GKB wrote:
David. I started doing a ship in a bottle but got distracted with a storm in a teacup. When I saw your entry I decided not to continue with mine.

Thanks David.

For your own ship-in-a-bottle try a brighter more interesting background. That should bring it to life. Try putting it on a shelf in a room.

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Posted on 23/05/23 5:37:46 PM

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GKB wrote:
For your own ship-in-a-bottle try a brighter more interesting background. That should bring it to life. Try putting it on a shelf in a room.

To be honest the interest for me was creating the glassware rather than the image as a whole. The glass is to a large extent a product of what is behind it. If I changed the background to light then the glass would start to become dark in front of light instead of the present light in front of dark and the entire bottle would have to be rebuilt. It's much harder than it looks so I'm settling for what I have!

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Posted on 24/05/23 01:05:39 AM

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Re: Challenge 956: The cruel sea

A slight adjustment for perspective and a few edits for scale...