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Posted on 06/01/06 09:54:31 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Contest 78: Eco footprints
This is a job I was given yesterday, and I thought it would make an interesting challenge. It's to accompany a piece in the Daily Telegraph about eco footprints: all about how much land we all 'use' in terms of farming space for the food we consume, landfill sites for our garbage, and so on. It was a tricky one to illustrate, so I ended up with the idea of a boot (footprint, geddit?) turned into a gas-guzzling car, with various wasteful consumer products added. The boot I used is here; image courtesy of PhotoObjects.net. I may post my own attempt at the end of the Challenge, as long as none of you show me up too badly!  |
Posted on 06/01/06 3:33:55 PM |
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chris
Photo Parodist Posts: 138 Reply  |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Steve I was wondering about the work you do for the national press. I would of thought that the large national newspapers would of had in house Photoshop teams that deal with retouching the photo's before print and headline making and special effects etc, if so why do the papers not ask them to create images for their storie? (not that I am trying to put you out of work or anything! god forbid). Just wondering really. |
Posted on 06/01/06 3:47:35 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
All newspapers have in house designers, of course, some of whom can do basic retouching in Photoshop. mostly working with PS 6 or lower. But, thankfully, they still hire illustrators to do the illustrations! Partly, it's a question of time; you need to be doing montages all day to get up to any reasonable speed, and when a job's on a tight deadline - I did this one in a couple of hours - it's a lot easier for them to outsource it. |
Posted on 06/01/06 4:17:54 PM |
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chris
Photo Parodist Posts: 138 Reply |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Thanks for that explanation Steve. When is your montage appearing in the Telegraph? |
Posted on 06/01/06 5:21:56 PM |
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Eggbox
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Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Well here's my first post in the Friday Challenge and wondered if the gas guzzling car could be bigger? Ted  |
Posted on 06/01/06 5:23:58 PM |
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Lexus
Persistent Pixellator Posts: 623 Reply  |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Nice One Eggbox! _________________ 3 Radio Visit http://www.3-radio.co.uk and listen! You will love it! |
Posted on 06/01/06 6:45:38 PM |
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BobbyJo
Image Imaginator Posts: 250 Reply  |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
That looks awesome. Nice one  _________________ BJ - Image Imaginator |
Posted on 06/01/06 11:29:36 PM |
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DaltonX
Raster Reanimator Posts: 259 Reply |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Nice one eggbox.... a lotta work in that one....and ya got it posted really fast... great work 
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Posted on 07/01/06 00:09:00 AM |
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Tom
Texture Technologist Posts: 401 Reply  |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
eggbox, that is nice. Very consistant light and shadow. |
Posted on 08/01/06 05:30:40 AM |
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G. E. Sutton
Visual Virtuoso Posts: 35 Reply  |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Here is a friend of mine taking the boot for a spin. I hadn't noticed before how damaging his footprint can be. 
Click here for the high res version. |
Posted on 08/01/06 07:12:25 AM |
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DaltonX
Raster Reanimator Posts: 259 Reply |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
another good one there G.E.! ...excellent work!....and thanx for postin the Hi-Res one too  |
Posted on 08/01/06 7:42:00 PM |
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daltonxxx
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Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
I'd like to post my pic here... but it says there's a 100kb limit on attachments..... so how do I upload a bigger file? 
edit: searched the forum... and kinda found out how to do it.... geezzzzzz. save for web.... duh! lol |
Posted on 08/01/06 8:11:50 PM |
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daltonxxx
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Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
ok..well.... I still dunno why I can't log in with my original name.... but I wanted to try and post my first Friday Challenge pic.... my book doesn't arrive till next week.... so I'm not sure wut techniques are used ...so I just went with wut I already know
link to Hi-Res Pic http://img286.imageshack.us/img286/7353/ecopicbigger9ep.jpg |
Posted on 08/01/06 8:35:25 PM |
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chris
Photo Parodist Posts: 138 Reply |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Great image Daltonxxx. Ecellent effect of the holes in the boot. Blimey might be scary what you'll be able to do when you get the book!!!  |
Posted on 09/01/06 03:10:06 AM |
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mguyer
Incisive Incisor Posts: 799 Reply  |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Iwas not sure of where to go with this and do not have the talent to match the previous submissions. I hope this imparts some feeling of visiting the areas where attempts are made at some preservation of nature.  |
Posted on 09/01/06 3:42:04 PM |
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Eggbox
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Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Thanks for the generous comments and thoughts. Love the fun in the pictures. The eco friendliness of GE's forest with both a giraffe and a brown bear...and dalton's flying boot. I did laugh with mguyer's very eco awareness of walking boots in places of natural beauty. I'm not sure whether the HiRes is posted at the time as a norm or not. Sorry if I should have done so at the time but it is at: http://homepages.enterprise.net/tedeggs/fc/fc78 |
Posted on 09/01/06 5:01:06 PM |
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mikewheatie
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Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Nice montages so far everyone. mguyer, I especially like your 'eco friendly' two left feet. |
Posted on 09/01/06 7:56:20 PM |
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mguyer
Incisive Incisor Posts: 799 Reply |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
it goes with being left handed. see my entry of last week. Actually do you see 2 left feet or 2 right feet and is the original that we were given a left or a right? |
Posted on 09/01/06 9:24:34 PM |
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Eggbox
Ovoid Opportunist Posts: 797 Reply |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Having looked at the original again I think that what we see is the arch of the foot relative to the flat of the sole thus it would be a boot for the left foot. I have to say I hadn't studied the boots for their left or right handedness. 
Ted |
Posted on 09/01/06 9:39:33 PM |
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Whaler
Visual Viking Posts: 330 Reply  |
Re: Contest 78: Eco footprints
Symbolically speaking, the more industry we have, the land and resources we tread upon. That's the idea of my picture. All of the scenery and the boy comes from the file "sweatshirt.psd" on the book CD. The shoeprint and the factories come from various internet sources. Free transform, probably apparent, was frequently used to achieve this result  _________________ In general, never generalize |
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