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Posted on 10/12/07 6:07:10 PM |
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Pierre
Constructional Confabulator Posts: 637 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
LOL! I'm at lunch break and I've been looking at this for about half an hour and now I am late. This is great stuff. You should all make a book and sell it! Like "Where is "xxx" series (in french it is "Where is Charlie" but I know it is someone else in other languages). If you don't mind I'm going to print these and use then to entertain the kids at Christmas (sorry, Neal, I won't be able to do that with yours...  )
I'll try to find the time to do something as well, but no promises!! Great Challenge Steve! That should cheer you up!  _________________ |
Posted on 10/12/07 7:44:22 PM |
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CharlotteBabb
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Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Late and maybe lame. Been working on the perspective issue, so mine are not hidden very much.  |
Posted on 10/12/07 9:54:59 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2152 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
I have already been entertaining my grand children with these images, and they are looking forward to more. |
Posted on 12/12/07 1:27:36 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Neal, It would be nice to know how you create those movable covers. |
Posted on 12/12/07 3:02:26 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 676 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
You can lose anything in my living room! 
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Posted on 12/12/07 3:20:57 PM |
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gaoxiguo
赤土陶 器战士 Posts: 114 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
 像小时候的藏猫猫游戏! |
Posted on 12/12/07 8:40:37 PM |
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jwhite
Collage Critter Posts: 274 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Hidden by fear.  |
Posted on 12/12/07 10:47:45 PM |
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powerslave
Custom Cobber Posts: 136 Reply |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
As a Hi-Fi gear lover I like your tweeter speaker Katew Good idea |
Posted on 13/12/07 02:51:26 AM |
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dave.cox
Marquee Master Posts: 518 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Here is my attempt. 
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Posted on 13/12/07 03:19:08 AM |
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Neil O
Cartoon Contractor Posts: 389 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Nice job Dave!  Found your passport though!
Neil _________________ "If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward".... Thomas Edison |
Posted on 13/12/07 09:55:41 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3733 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Nicely hidden passport Dave |
Posted on 13/12/07 4:07:44 PM |
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Markey
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Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Nice hiding Dave, Being a book o'phile  I had to read all the book titles first. lol |
Posted on 14/12/07 01:16:29 AM |
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dave.cox
Marquee Master Posts: 518 Reply |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Thanks. I was actually worried it was too obscured. |
Posted on 14/12/07 04:22:32 AM |
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Atomicfog
Virtual Visualizer Posts: 238 Reply  |
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Posted on 14/12/07 08:40:43 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6842 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
I think this has been my favourite Challenge of the year - at least as far as the write-ups go. Glad you all seem to have had so much fun with this one! First up was vibeke, who just goes to show well you can hide a laptop while keeping it plainly visible. This technique of adding something appropriate to the screen is one that several of you used, and it's highly effective. Took me a while to find the camera! The items may not be very hidden, but Tom's entry is a thing of beauty: not least for the stunning texturing and lighting added to the objects. The passport has a distortion that matches the bottom of the pool perfectly, and the shadows on the camera are wonderful. Looks like a pretty cool place to hang out, too. Is this your back yard? Given the huge amount of stuff going on in tooquilos' entry, it's interesting how the wrong perspective on the laptop makes it jump out - for me, anyway. Although the toy theatre is a great use for it. The brooch and the camera showed up in time, but I confess that I had to resort to the hamburglar to show me the passport! And what a great way of revealing the secrets. A stunning entry from Wayne: that passport wallpaper is beautiful. I showed this to a couple of people, and they all had difficulty finding the camera, which I found amusing. Plain sight, indeed! The cunning display on Neil O's laptop makes it bend in well, and the passport is neatly tucked away. It took me the most time to find the camera in here - good hiding job! And a most intriguing set of bookshelves, with a great collection of objets. Extremely clever stuff from Neal- I must admit, it took me a while to realize you could move objects around. This isn't Flash, though - it seems to be written in Javascript. What did you use to create this image? Did you put it together from scratch, or is there a tool that does this? Most intrigued by the technique. I've read the Javascript source but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me - can you explain it? I had a lot of trouble spotting everything in brewell's entry - that camera in the cornice is especially well hidden! I do like the passport wallpaper, and is that the laptop on the man's cufflink? And the brooch in the carpet is a piece of genius - both the concept, and the fantastic texture that matches the original perfectly. Excellent. A first entry from ashawthing, with a well integrated passport, brooch and especially laptop - windows on my Mac, good gag! And I like the way the camera's worked into the moss on the stone wall, but you need to look at the perspective here: the lens is pointing up, when it should be pointing down. Select just the lens, and flip it vertically, then the viewing angle will be just about perfect. A great first entry, though - welcome to the forum! A first entry from Markey, too - and a detailed scene that seems torn between Christmas and Halloween. I found the laptop and the brooch, and what I think ay be the passport - but the camera still eludes me. But why is the image so small? Did you have trouble using Save for Web? Welcome to the forum, Markey. A packed scene from Abby-Helen Artfield, with a nicely integrated passport, a well tucked-away laptop and brooch and camera. Your method of creating shadows for all the items on the ground, though, isn't the right one here: these kinds of shadow need a wall behind to fall upon. It's unlikely you'd get anything but the faintest of shadow in these lighting conditions, but what there is should be painted beneath the base of the objects to ground them on the floor. And do be careful of perspective: we're looking down at the lower bookshelves, but straight-on at the fountains which are even lower. The solution here: make the fountains larger, so their tops line up with the horizon line in the image. I think the inspiration for powerslave's entry must have come from the brooch, which makes a perfect new hubcap for the Ferrari. The laptop fits nicely in there, as does the passport - but it looks as if someone in the crowd has already nicked the camera! Who needs to hide things when zapat has such fearsome guard dogs? Reckon that brooch and camera are safe for the time being. And I don't know who'd go for my laptop, with so much computer equipment lying around. Took me a while to spot the passport: when you distort it into a side view like this, you really need to add some pages to give it thickness. A coincidental cur from GKB looks even more fearsome - bit of a rabies alert here, Gordon. But I really like the burglar reflected in the sunglasses. What;s that stain on the carpet behind the dog, though? Not a shadow, surely, since nothing else in the room is casting one... An enjoyable entry from james - and, as ever, the animation adds a fun extra element. Found the passport, laptop and brooch quickly enough, but the camera took longer - although once you see it, it jumps out. I think I'd have moved it to the left a little way, tucking it behind one of the glazing bars of that cupboard. What a great shop, though! A great scene from Charlotte Babb - and there's Charlotte herself, we assume, getting technical with the swatch books. The brooch certainly seems to appeal to you, and pops up a couple of times here. Great perspective on the passport, and I really like the reflection of the camera. The only perspective issue, really, is with the laptop, and this could have been solved by moving it higher in the scene - on a couple of books, perhaps. I love the passport as a Christmas card in katew's entry - although I think resting all that technology on the laptop's keyboard may void the warranty. I'm still looking for the camera! Is that it peeking out from behind the cards? Most intrigued by your paintings, though. Who are they by? What's the story here? Great hiding, in a minimalist room, from gaoxiguo. I tried to translate the Chinese caption, and got the intriguing choice of either "Likely childhood Tibet cat cat game", or "Like a child's possession猫猫 game". Automatic translation has a way to go! I like the placement of objets, but the laptop's keyboard seems to have been cut in half! A perfect solution from jwhite: why hide when you can protect? This certainly looks like a kitchen to avoid. The perspective on the laptop is a little short, though: place it on a book or two to lift it up to the horizon line. I like the technique dave.cox has used to hide the laptop - very Magritte. But, of course, it needs to be a couple of shelves higher for the perspective of the keyboard to work. A neatly extruded brooch changes the viewing angle nicely, but the passport has me beat - unless that's it right at the bottom? No, that doesn't seem right... this is really bugging me! A beautiful view from atomicfog - and there's the brooch in the sky, and the passport painted on the wall. I think that might be the laptop wrapped around the nearest corner to us - but the camera still escapes me! Great entries from everyone this week - and it's taken me twice as long as usual to write this up, having spent so much time gazing at the images. Fantastic work! |
Posted on 14/12/07 09:37:28 AM |
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powerslave
Custom Cobber Posts: 136 Reply |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Thanks Steve I been trying to convince Tooquilos all week its not a Hubcap its a wheel....my efforts are futile now
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Posted on 14/12/07 09:38:42 AM |
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Atomicfog
Virtual Visualizer Posts: 238 Reply |
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Posted on 14/12/07 09:49:10 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3733 Reply |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Thanks Steve, There is just the one shadow from the arm of the sofa. It's a hard edged one because of the flash. I couldn't decide whether to put the dog's shadow in to match it or not. In the end - I did! Disapponted that you didn't mention that I have the painting from an earlier Challenge still hanging on the wall. Some really devious work from everyone this week; thoroughly good fun. Gordon |
Posted on 14/12/07 10:43:19 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2805 Reply  |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Thank you Steve. I enjoyed this challenge very much. Some terrific work..some more challenging than others but ALL very entertaining. Dave Cox...please put me out of my misery and tell me where the passport is??????  |
Posted on 14/12/07 11:49:13 AM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 676 Reply |
Re: Contest 176: Hiding in plain sight
Steve, the camera is in front of the book to the left of the mug. The paintings are by my husband, David - the wet clothing fan! The wet one is a fairly old one, and the street scene is in Bath, painted last year, and was actually featured in my Wilkey International reception for the challenge where we had to remove the lift and stairs. I agree about voiding the laptop warranty!!
Thanks for the feedback! |
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