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Posted on 15/08/26 1:38:25 PM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
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Posted on 15/08/26 10:53:40 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT DR. WHO 1) Dr. Who kept a second backup Tardis discreetly tucked away in a Victorian house in the small Norfolk town of Bungay. 2) He lived to a venerable age until his sad eventual demise tripping over his scarf. 3) Shortly before this, time travel had been invented and he was able to return and see his younger self. 4) K9 suffered from a bladder circuitry problem. 
I think fish punning has rotted my brain and this is definitely more about silliness than good photoshopping. I chose Tom Baker because costumed photos exist of him both as a young and old man and because I shot a movie with him in 1974 just at the time he was starting the first of his Dr. Who episodes and have good memories of him as an interesting man. (The Author of Beltraffio. Dir. Tony Scott) _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/26 06:17:16 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Back in the 80's I owned a Doll Shop. Dolls & window sign are from that shop. |
Posted on 16/08/26 08:14:01 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Very nice Ben. The one pushing the pram, is she one of your relativres? |
Posted on 16/08/26 09:31:41 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Thank you Michael. No relation - taken from an ad on Etsy for wicker doll prams. |
Posted on 16/08/26 10:20:12 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6467 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Ben I find that absolutely impeccable. If I did not know, I would never have guessed it was 'shopped'. The mean side of me keeps looking at it, desperately trying to find fault ...... and fails! You have also made me realise that I completely forgot reflections in my own image! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/26 10:40:31 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Very nice Ben _________________ Why is it that all the contestants in the ‘Miss Universe’ contest are all from Earth? |
Posted on 16/08/26 12:18:20 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Thanks David & Gordon. Here is one of my Doll Shoppe 1986 |
Posted on 16/08/26 5:02:19 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6467 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Ben when you say "your Doll Shoppe 1986" do you mean your image "Doll Shoppe" or do you mean the actual shop itself was yours? Either way it looks great! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/26 5:19:17 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT DR. WHO (REVISED AND UPDATED) 1) Dr. Who kept a second backup Tardis discreetly tucked away in a Victorian house in the small Norfolk town of Bungay. 2) Shortly after moving in he converted his house to a small specialised collectors toy shop. 3) He lived to a venerable age until his sad eventual demise tripping over his scarf. 4) Shortly before this, time travel had been invented and he was able to return and see his younger self. 5) K9 suffered from a bladder circuitry problem. 
This next bit is going to be long. It concerns the dangers of biting off and chewing! Having praised Ben for his beautiful entry I have spent the last few hours cursing him! No fault of his really, but his entry made me realise that I had completely forgotten window reflections! So I set out to correct it …………. ……………… and discovered I was opening a total can of worms! You’ll need to refer to my first image to understand some of this. Because the Tardis interior was the last thing you expect see in a Victorian window it needed to be clear and readable. But make it strong enough to read and the bright white circles fought against the reflections in a manner that completely cut through them making them unreadable. If I made the reflections strong enough to show they completely trampled on the interior. So I tried different interiors and reflections and found it very difficult. One thing was clear - the simpler the interior the easier it is to understand the reflections. So the first thing I did was to suppress all the white circles. Then I hit on the idea of putting back the wooden inside window that I had removed so as to see more inside. It would hide a lot of Tardis interior but give a simple background to play stronger reflections. If I could establish them clearly around the edges maybe I could leave them very faint in the middle and let the interior play though while still leaving just enough of them not to be entirely missed. So that’s what I did. It was a nightmare task of adjusting brightness and transparency with multiple masks as even the tiniest tweak would radically change the balance of the others in an endless spiral of intertwined adjustments. Once I had good clean reflections I couldn’t get away with them on the left without curving them …… more fun! So now I had something that worked technically but the empty foreground part of the window looked bizarre. So I changed the house back to a little shop so I could populate the window. Voila! The weaving of webs ............ Since I know you like type Steve the typeface for the shop is derived from K9. As far as I can tell it's not a known typeface. It appears to be a one off. I discovered some sources for just a very few letters but luckily almost enough to spell “Space Toys” The Y I had to invent for myself. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/26 5:32:38 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6467 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
By the way I am well aware that the Tardis interior is a dreadful match perspective-wise but since the Tardis was anyway a dimensional anomaly I am excusing myself ............. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/26 6:17:58 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6467 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
I am beginning to realise that that was a stupid question. Photoshop wasn't invented until 1987 and was only released in 1990. I thought you were a photographer/supplier of photographic equipment. How did that fit with antique dolls? ("Shoppe" somehow implies older collectors dolls and when I zoom into the image that is the impression I get). _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/26 8:27:57 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3725 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
I know nothing about Dr. Who... I had to google Tardis just to find out what it was.  |
Posted on 16/08/26 9:39:37 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6467 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
The oldest and longest running SCI FI series on British TV. Since, I think, the very start of the sixties. That's over sixty years. Whilst the series has become 'immortal' the cast are not and so the lead character, Dr Who, has had many incarnations with many different actors during the years it has run which, as far as I know, it still does. The Tardis, on the outside, was an everyday police box (a special public phone booth from which anyone could call for police assistance - long disappeared now) but on the inside became a big futuristic control room. The Doctor also had a robot dog called K9 (say it out loud if you don't get it). The series was also well known for its theme tune played on the, then futuristic, Theremin. There's not a Brit a here (and probably our various ex-colonials) who didn't grow up with this! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/26 10:08:31 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3725 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Interesting David, I had no idea. We only had a few British programs available here in Oklahoma, then only on the Public Broadcasting System and usually only late at night. Benny Hill and then Monty Python are the only ones I can recall. British films were often shown and many of them are still among my favorites from the 50s' and 60s'. |
Posted on 16/08/26 10:15:22 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6467 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
As an aside to this, British movie and stage crews use huge amounts of working slang and all sorts of specialised equipment have slang names. This electrical junction box (I can't even remember it's proper name) is known universally as a K9. 
 _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/26 10:26:31 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Loyd, living in Oklahoma you have missed out on an amazing selection of programming from the BBC including comedy, wildlife, travel and drama to name just a few. Benny Hill and Monty Python are just the very tiniest tip of the iceberg. Pure world-class entertainment. _________________ Whatever you do in life do it with the enthusiasm of a 4-year old in a Batman suit. |
Posted on 17/08/26 00:02:45 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
DavidMac - I thought you were a photographer/supplier of photographic equipment. How did that fit with antique dolls? ("Shoppe" somehow implies older collectors dolls and when I zoom into the image that is the impression I get). Hi David. I started taking photos professionally in the 60's aged 15. I worked at Athol Shmith Studio in 1965. My 1969 I was self unemployed doing industrial, antique furniture & the odd wedding. When colour photography started to boom we manufactured our own darkroom equipment, eventually finding a market with other photographers in Australia and overseas. In 1976, now married with a second child on the way I purchased a somewhat derelict fruit shop with adjoining residence. I restored the building including the shop. My business had purchased a two story building just up the road from Kodak so didn't need the shop for business. My wife had taken up making porcelain dolls from pouring to final firing. We opened the Doll Shoppe later that year. I continued manufacture and training customers to colour print. In 1987 I sold the manufacturing business and travelled Australia for 12 months. On my return I started importing from around the world including ZBE Digital Photographic printers. Following Photokina 2012 I retired. I started Photoshop after buying HTCIPS CS4. |
Posted on 17/08/26 3:28:49 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 6467 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Thanks for that Ben. I love to learn more about the people here. I wrote a reply and realised it was getting very, very long. I have already hogged far too much time in this challenge for asides so I am sending it to you as a private message. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 17/08/26 3:36:41 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4212 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1118: Shopping in Bungay
Count Binface starts the opposition to Nigel Farage's right wing REFORM PARTY by getting rid of some of the rubbish on bin day. 
For those of you not familiar with the current British political scene, Nigel Farage (in the bin) is a Trump wannabe who resigned recently in order to avoid scrutiny over a £5 million "loan" which he ought to have declared to Parliament but didn't. He was under a parliamentary investigation for his actions. In order to save his nether regions he resigned as an MP then immediately stood again for re-election. The mainstream parties refused to put up any candidates in protest but one individual, dressed as a dustbin, stood against him gaining one third of the vote in a right wing constituency. Farage 'won' the election but now finds himself not only still under investigation but also being embarrassed by a dustbin gaining so much of the popular vote against him. Methinks that the UK is going the same way as the US of A. _________________ Why is it that all the contestants in the ‘Miss Universe’ contest are all from Earth? |
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