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Posted on 19/01/18 08:52:26 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
I'm indebted to Michael Sinclair for this week's starting image, which he not only photographed but meticulously cut out. It's of the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth. Can you take it out to sea? High res is here.  |
Posted on 19/01/18 10:46:11 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
When I was a boy the main shipping lines tended to have their offices centralised around Trafalgar Square. I can remember looking longingly at the wonderful six foot long models in their windows. I loved them. The son of a professional photographer I was familiar with cameras from a very early age. At eighteen I took up a three year scholarship to study photography at the London College of Printing. After two weeks of very conventional training I left completely bored and disillusioned and never touched a camera again for almost two years. Instead I went back to that boyhood love and became a professional model maker! I loved it. I was commissioned to make a model for a film and had to attend the shooting to supervise it's operation. It was this that re-kindled my love of photography and led to my joining the film industry. How much our lives are shaped by chance ........ _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/01/18 11:09:20 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Many thanks to Michael! I would have loved to have a job as model maker David - I went through a phase of making little scenarios including one of Sherlock Holmes front room which featured a rather wobbly Mrs Hudson with a tray of cucumber sandwiches! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 19/01/18 11:36:56 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
I'd love to see that! |
Posted on 19/01/18 1:58:51 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
She came to Cork Cobh/Queens-Town Ireland on her final tour. I was there, but I'll try not to Cheat 
Cork Cobh/Queens-Town Ireland was of course the last stop for the Titanic. The Lusitania WW1 was sunk near there...... history.... : : ^ |
Posted on 19/01/18 2:04:41 PM |
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Jota120
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Me too. |
Posted on 19/01/18 4:50:53 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat - Queen Elizabeth prepares for war.
Michael has given us a most unusual Queen Elizabeth. That is to say out of the water. I thought it might be interesting to find a way to use that. Upon nearing her Clydebank completion the Queen Elizabeth was moved in secrecy to New York and then to Singapore Naval Yards where she was painted battleship grey and fitted with anti aircraft guns. She served for the last years of the war as a troop ship. She was fast enough to outrun the U-boats and during those years carried 750,000 troops and steamed some 800,000 kilometres. It was not until the end of 1946 that she finally served her intended role as a luxury passenger liner.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/01/18 7:03:54 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3230 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Not to sea, but on a model shoot...  |
Posted on 20/01/18 3:36:27 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
As part of the war effort work in Singapore goes on late into the night.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/01/18 4:57:08 PM |
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Linda Eckert
maîtresse marocaine Posts: 148 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Cap Ferrat. View from my home.  |
Posted on 20/01/18 5:18:47 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Thanks for the image Michael. http://vimeo.com/252030869 
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Posted on 20/01/18 6:38:15 PM |
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Tom
Texture Technologist Posts: 401 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
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Posted on 20/01/18 9:44:02 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Tom. Ah yes! That famous liner the HTEBAZILE NEEUQ.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/01/18 9:47:43 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Um .... isn't there a ship confusion here? 
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/01/18 10:06:19 PM |
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Tom
Texture Technologist Posts: 401 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Ha ha. Didn't notice the name. |
Posted on 20/01/18 10:19:08 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Great video, Gordon. Do you have the ability to add audio clips? I find a lot of my music here:http://freemusicarchive.org And my other, assorted sound clips here: https://freesound.org Most contributors to both sites want to be given credit, hence my usual final credit slide. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 20/01/18 11:05:50 PM |
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Emy
Composition Chef Posts: 390 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
 _________________ Why not! |
Posted on 21/01/18 11:42:22 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Seeing as how you asked ... a bit dusty after 25 years (aren't we all) ... maybe the boat is a memento from one of his cases - the Gloria Scott perhaps?  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 21/01/18 11:46:22 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Love it Gordon, did it founder on Peppermint Rock by any chance? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 21/01/18 12:05:21 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Love the table made from what looks like a chess pawn!  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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