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Posted on 20/03/23 1:35:29 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
I popped out to get a shot of the window on the north side of the right hand building for anyone who might like to use it. Sorry it was shot on a rather dull day but I'm sure you can cope with that.  _________________ Have you ever noticed that all the instruments designed to detect intelligent life are pointing away from the Earth? |
Posted on 20/03/23 4:07:44 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3026 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
Anna - I can't get the link to work... |
Posted on 20/03/23 6:38:45 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5381 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
Hi Anna. I can't open your link either. It takes me to Vimeo but doesn't open anything. The Neural Restore is a beta filter. I think you need to download it from the filter dialogue. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/03/23 10:30:47 PM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2867 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
http://vimeo.com/809934584 I don't know what happened but here is the link again _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 20/03/23 10:34:43 PM |
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tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
 You know the old saying if Gordon can't go the mountain, the mountain must come to him_________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 20/03/23 10:40:05 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
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Posted on 21/03/23 10:26:51 AM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
Mr Caplin ought to have said "render a scene from modern Ditchling to an earlier time as exemplified by the faded black & white photo". Anyway, here is a "Before", an "after" and visual proof that my wheels are spinning and spinning around in the right direction. 
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Posted on 21/03/23 1:52:57 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
Didn't want to bring it up to the 21st Century but will the 1950s be OK?  _________________ Have you ever noticed that all the instruments designed to detect intelligent life are pointing away from the Earth? |
Posted on 22/03/23 12:41:17 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
The irony and difficulty of this challenge is that it contains a dilemma. The further back we go in time the "older" we tend to think of things whereas the reverse is actually the case. The further back we go the younger and newer the buildings. I'm not having a go Michael, you have done a really beautiful job but (save the modern signs) I can't help feeling tempted to suggest that, although it goes completely against instinct, perhaps the style of the two backgrounds could even be reversed. Or maybe I'm just being too literal minded again .............. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 24/03/23 05:56:08 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2926 Reply  |
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Posted on 24/03/23 09:12:15 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
First to visit Ditchling was DavidMac, with a cunning cheat (the blanked-out number plates suggest Google Streetview). The new building fits remarkably well, although pulling the Ferrari just over the pavement might have helped to break up that hard line in front. What is the old Councillor joke? I like the curiously-posed pair of models on the corner, but wouldn’t it be good to link them together? 
The use of Photoshop’s neural filters in the second entry is interesting, and certainly a good starting point. Up the contrast and you’re nearly there. The third entry was fun, with its Back to the Future elements: I like how half is in black and white (including Marty McFly), with the lightning bolt dividing the two halves. Google Streetview again from Frank, with the addition of half a dozen characters from photoshop.london – glad they’re coming in useful. I like the added car nosing out on the right, but what’s that Poison sign jutting in? Perhaps the woman on the left is rather too small. GKB's strengthened black and white version is a big improvement, although it does have the effect of greatly darkening the green tones – which means the colour second entry has trees that are perhaps too dark. I like the added elements here, though – the plane, of course, but especially the penny farthing cyclist. You really took your life in your hands with those things. And the 1950s-set third entry is hugely improved by those vehicles. But is the bus too highly contrasted for the scene? Or does it just need a stronger shadow? An entertaining approach from lwc, who clearly has a somewhat imaginative concept of how artists work. I like the subtlety of the moving paintbrush. That landscape could really do with a moose, though. It could be that the clothing-challenged artist needs a paint palette. Or at least a few paints. A terrific mix of history and future from Ant Snell, from the prehistoric to the early 20th century to the futuristic. No explanation needed here, the roundabout seems to say it all. Ingenious, and imaginatively done. Meticulous hand colouring from tooquilos, who appears to have moved the street to a mountain pass – or is that a tsunami? Perhaps the animated version will illuminate… I like the intro, and the opening book (although I will pick you up on your errant apostrophe in “its”). Small suggestion: since the book is static for so long, perhaps the shine could drift across the gold lettering? I enjoyed the party scene – what a great set of dancers you’ve found! Still a little confused about the mountains, though. Interesting to see michael sinclair’s image, and to compare it with the before shot. The sign removal is good, but I’m not sure about your fondness for that extreme HDR look (I think this is what DavidMac was talking about when he suggested the buildings in the older version looked too weatherbeaten). And combined with your passion for cluttered skies… Michael, when everything in an image is shouting at you, it’s very hard for the viewer to focus. The moving car is very cute, though, although cutting across the corner like that probably contravenes the highway code. An interesting take from Mariner, who appears to have used a Streetview image and backdated it to the 19th century. Ingenious! The added hillside is good, contributing to the sense of a gentler time. I like the Jane Austen trio standing perilously in the middle of the road. The only thing that bothers me, though, is that tarmac toad surface. How about some nice cobbles instead? I know just where to find some… 
Many thanks, Gordon, for this week’s starting image. |
Posted on 24/03/23 10:20:46 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
Thanks Steve. I agree about the contrast on the bus. I hoped to find a better image but to no avail. I couldn’t find a suitable 3D model either so made do with this bus. Well done everyone. _________________ Have you ever noticed that all the instruments designed to detect intelligent life are pointing away from the Earth? |
Posted on 24/03/23 10:31:18 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2926 Reply |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
Thanks Steve. You have done an excellent job with the cobbles. I didn't want to use cobbles as the original challenge doesn't seem to have any. So, when was tarmac invented? "Tarmacadam is a road surfacing material made by combining crushed stone, sand, and tar, patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1902.". That's a quote from Wikipedia. Well, maybe Ditchling was the first place they tried it out. Maybe. Anyway, my tarmac looks better than cobbles and was much easier to add in. So there. I did use Street View to grab my images, but David beat me to it, so I cut them up and made them fit the FC image. Very time consuming and interesting. Thanks again to Gordon. |
Posted on 24/03/23 11:50:16 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
I think those clothes are somewhat earlier than 1902! |
Posted on 24/03/23 12:23:03 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3900 Reply |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
We dress like that all the time in Ditchling _________________ |
Posted on 24/03/23 12:33:41 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5381 Reply |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
The old Councillor joke was in the title. The old newspaper headline blunder "Councillor fights erection in high street". I guess the bad old old jokes stay bad! Yes to both other comments they would have improved things. Thanks Steve and thanks Gordon. I enjoyed this one. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 24/03/23 1:47:53 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2926 Reply |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
yes, you are right. Never mind. |
Posted on 24/03/23 1:50:16 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2926 Reply |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
And that's just the men! |
Posted on 24/03/23 1:51:41 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2926 Reply |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
Steve, thanks for your link to perspective surfaces. From time to time that will come in very useful. |
Posted on 24/03/23 1:53:10 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3026 Reply |
Re: Challenge 947: Welcome to Ditchling
I saved the moose for this week...
Thanks Steve! |
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