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Posted on 26/09/25 08:45:49 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 1073: The theatre box
Last week I went on a site visit The Grand, a former music hall in Clapham, London, that was built 120 years ago. It's a magnificent venue, and I was particularly intrigued by this view of the stage with the box to the side. Abraham Lincoln? Statler and Waldorf? What springs to mind when you think of theatre boxes? High res is here.  |
Posted on 26/09/25 12:43:00 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
The box was an interesting phenomenon as, of course, it was not about seeing but being seen. In fact the view of the stage from a box is appalling, with around a third of it completely out of sight. I know it's not your fault Steve, but the truly brutal lighting on this is going to pose some interesting challenges in itself. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 26/09/25 2:48:56 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
I know this one will be controversial to some. I tried the new Nano- banana (Gemini Google) in PS Beta to create sections of the image and then applied masking to achieve the end result. Is this cheating or just taking advantage of a new PS futuristic tool To aid in searching?  |
Posted on 26/09/25 3:35:43 PM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
I couldn't say Frank, but your Muppet version is better than the one I just uploaded.  |
Posted on 26/09/25 3:47:30 PM |
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lwc
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Frank, my version uses no intelligence of any kind, artificial or otherwise. 
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Posted on 26/09/25 3:50:47 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
Loyd : |
Posted on 26/09/25 3:59:06 PM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
Frank - A challenge within a challenge. Let's see your minion version, here's mine. 
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Posted on 26/09/25 4:23:12 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
Will try if I get time - busy week. |
Posted on 27/09/25 06:29:12 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Posted on 27/09/25 10:36:08 AM |
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Ant Snell
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
First thing that came to mind for me: We often go to Buxton Opera house, this fantastic Victorian theatre in the heart of the Peak District. Venue to some fine Bands (despite its name, it's not all Opera). At the beginning of this year, we went to see the comedian Dave Gorman and had front row seats on the side. Unfortunately, when we arrived at our premium seats, the view was completely obstructed by a tall speaker on the side of the stage. If you know Dave Gorman, you will know that much of his act is based around a PowerPoint slide show that was not visible to us at all. I had a quiet word with front of house staff and we were moved to the “Royal Box”, we then had a fantastic night, but couldn’t help thinking that most of the night the audience had eyes on us, trying to work out who the celebrities in the box were.  |
Posted on 27/09/25 11:04:19 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
Abe Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth 
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Posted on 27/09/25 2:00:31 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Posted on 27/09/25 2:06:41 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
I see that Ben has featured Barry Humphries' Dame Edna amongst the royalty. So here's one of my vaguely, sort of relevant, off topic ramblings. Dame Edna's beginnings were as far from the celebrity superstar persona as you could possibly get. She started life (in the very early sixties, I think) as a stage show. She was just plain Edna Everage then. Barry conceived her as the archetypical stereotype of an average suburban Melbourne housewife. Pronounced with an Australian accent the name 'Everage' is a word play on 'average'. Her show was a monologue of a rather 'blinkered' view of Australia and the world. How many of you remember the dreaded nineteen sixties slide show? Sitting in the darkened living room of your friends' or neighbours' house watching dreary colour slides of their holidays. One of the feature's of Edna's show was a slide show, showing the audience her holiday snaps with, of course, suitably Edna narration. The slide show a was huge success, so Barry Humphries decided to try extending the idea into home movie. I became involved with this when, as young novice cameraman in his mid twenties I was contacted by Barry's producer who wanted someone agreeable to working completely alone without crew or support. On the first day of the job I was picked up by the producer and taken to outside Buckingham Palace. There I was introduced to a very tall slightly odd looking woman called Edna. Frankly I thought she looked a bit like a man in drag but had absolutely no idea that that was exactly what she was! Bear in mind that Barry and 'Edna' were completely unknown then. Especially outside of Australia. I was given a 16mm Bolex camera and a dozen reels of film and told to lose my self in the crowds of tourists and film Edna without drawing any attention to myself. Edna went about being the naive tourist from Oz astonished at all the historical sights. She fell into step with the guards and even attempted to engage them (unsuccessfully) in conversation. At no point did the other tourists realise they were watching an actor. They were vastly amused by this odd looking slightly batty lady and I filmed all their reactions too. We repeated this all over London for two days. On both days Barry arrived already in his Edna persona and left the same way. I only ever saw Edna. I never saw him as Barry and in all probability wouldn't even have recognised him if I did! If any one ever asked me "How was it working with Barry Humphries?" I would have to truthfully reply "I don't know I never met him!". The home movie show on stage back in Australia became a huge success. Later of course Edna moved from stage to television and the rest is history as she became a Dame known in more and more countries and moved herself up the social ladder. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 27/09/25 2:26:51 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
I see that Ben has featured Barry Humphries' Dame Edna amongst the royalty. Quite an experience David, any of the footage still around?. I did have the good fortune to meet Barry, absolutely no similarity to Edna. I lived about 2 kilometers from where Edna supposedly lived, in fact today the street is Everage Street. Also with Edna is Barry sitting upstairs (the Barry i remember) and downstairs, listening to another character - Sir Les Patterson - political attaché. I couldn't find any images of Sandy Stone. |
Posted on 27/09/25 5:08:58 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
Wow lots of entries already. And all very different. I found this one very hard for some reason. So i've sort of cheated and ignored the box completely and gone instead for the nineteenth century theatre. Well somebody had to do the Phantom .............  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/09/25 11:46:18 AM |
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Ant Snell
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, pray silence if you please! For tonight, we have with us a performer whose legs alone could keep you entertained from supper ’til Sunday! A gentleman of infinite jest, of curious contortions, So, prepare yourselves for titalation, for wonder, and perhaps for just a touch of the unexpected… as I bid you raise your voices, stamp your feet, and welcome — with the loudest cheer this hall can muster — the one, the only… MR MAX WALL”  |
Posted on 28/09/25 5:32:39 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5848 Reply |
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Ant. The spiel is spot on!! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 30/09/25 00:15:15 AM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 1073: The theatre box
Production has started on a remake of the 1962 film 'Gypsy', this time staring Miss Markle... 
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Posted on 30/09/25 12:09:25 PM |
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GKB
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Hi Loyd You might not know about this where you are but here in England I am getting a ‘Content available in your region’ message for your video _________________ Why is it that all the contestants in the ‘Miss Universe’ contest are all from Earth? |
Posted on 30/09/25 12:37:15 PM |
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lwc
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Thanks Gordon... not sure why that happens but I have found that when it does, if I reset my modem it returns to normal working order. One of the weird things about the internet I guess. There is little else I can do on my end, it appears as it should here in the USA. I've noted some other strange things happening lately as well... it's a wonder that anything works with as many servers that it must travel through to get to Europe.  |
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