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Posted on 13/12/19 08:27:08 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
At our Christmas meet-up this week I complimented Josephine Harvatt on her co-ordinated hair and clothing. She pointed out that she wasn't satisfied with the colour her hair had ended up, as it's seen as an 'old lady' colour in her native Whitstable; she'd wanted it to be pillar box red. Here she is in paparazzi-avoiding pose. Can you oblige with a change of hue? Or do you have a better suggestion for how she might style her hair? High res is here.  |
Posted on 13/12/19 09:09:36 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
Sorry Josephine, I’m going to have to do this   ... not to mention 
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Posted on 13/12/19 1:49:28 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
Quite frankly anything will be an improvement so fill your boots folks! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 13/12/19 2:56:01 PM |
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Ben Mills
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
Well you did say "anything"  |
Posted on 13/12/19 5:28:40 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
Oh Jo!! What have you let yourself in for? This one is incredibly obvious .... but I've never been shy about that. A little footnote on Dame Edna. Plain Edna Everage (the Dame was to be added later) started in Australia in the sixties as a stage sketch showing her holiday snaps (taken by her husband Norm) in a slide show. The name Everage with an Australian accent is of course a word play on 'average' as, in a different way, is her unseen husband 'Norm'. In the mid to late sixties it was decided to change the slide show to home movie. Barry Humphries came with his producer to London. As a young cameraman I got the job of doing the filming. I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I was asked, with no explanation as to why, to come to the job dressed in shorts and a short sleeved shirt. The reason soon became apparent. I was given a 16mm Bolex camera and put among the crowd simply as another tourist from where I would take our holiday movie. There was no crew. Just Barry and I and his producer. Nobody in the public realised what was going on and simply thought 'Edna' was a tall, bizarre, laughable woman with a 'ballroom' hair do and this rather diminutive man taking holiday pictures of her. She perfectly fulfilled every British prejudice concerning Aussies. It was a one day job. Barry arrived in the morning already in Edna persona and left that way in the evening. I never met or saw him as his real self. I had no idea what he looked like until years later when I saw him on a TV programme. It should have been an entertaining and funny day. But, sad to relate, Barry was incredibly grumpy and miserable and, one way or another, a very unlikeable character. I have later heard the same from others who have worked with him as well. Pity.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 13/12/19 6:36:53 PM |
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srawland
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
Jo, you are brave. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 14/12/19 03:57:39 AM |
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tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
I think Ill enjoy this one  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 14/12/19 11:30:32 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
Only problem is I need to apologise with each post. 
Red as desired (or maybe not quite) ......... 
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Posted on 14/12/19 2:21:11 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
It was tempting but:  |
Posted on 14/12/19 6:28:01 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
Sorry Josephine .... well, actually, if truth be told
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Posted on 15/12/19 09:06:11 AM |
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tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
To see how Josephine's hair turns out, you need to watch the video
http://vimeo.com/379523440 David, it was interesting reading your experience regarding Dame Edna. I guess a diva like quality goes with the territory? Your hybrid of Edna and Josephine is brilliant. I recognise the hair on your 2nd image..Im pretty sure it belongs to Frances Conroy from American Horror - Coven.  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 15/12/19 5:22:01 PM |
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srawland
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
And I thought that this was one image that couldn't be animated. Thank you, Gordon and Anna, for proving me wrong. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 15/12/19 7:45:58 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
I couldn't make my mind up on the best improvement.
By the way, I have "fixed" Eva's unflattering pose; you can see it in Announcements 
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Posted on 15/12/19 7:50:32 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
Thank you. It really dropped straight into place. It is interesting that I worked with Barry when he was still unknown outside Australia and then only as a stage performer. The diva times were yet to come. But some actors seem to have it built in - especially the stars who aren't quite ............
Could be. I truly have no idea. I just did a search for 'red clown wig'. I love your psychedelic hair transforms.
Poor JO ......... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 15/12/19 7:53:12 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
I was too lazy to get rid of those hands. I should have done. Nothing but problems. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/12/19 1:05:33 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
You rotters!
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Posted on 16/12/19 3:57:11 PM |
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Mariner
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Yakatakki!
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Posted on 16/12/19 4:42:53 PM |
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DavidMac
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Yakatakki!
That's great Michael! What a neat idea!_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/12/19 4:45:04 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 786: Josephine's hair
Oh, Josephine what an unkind thing to say! Just when I made you so glam!  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 17/12/19 03:24:49 AM |
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Mariner
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Yakatakki!
Thanks David. It's the position of the hands which prompted the idea. By the way, your Edna haircut was spot on. You reminded me of a time when I had never heard of Barry Humphries and I was on business in London, staying overnight in a hotel. I woke up at about 6 in the morning and turned on the telly to see this scruffy middle-aged Australian chauvinist pig being interviewed by a very young and inexperienced girl who was obviously out of her depth. He seemed to be quite drunk, slurring his words, and was being very sexist and insulting towards her. I was horrified. When he left the look of utter relief on that girl's face has stayed with me forever. Brilliant! |
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