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Posted on 28/10/09 5:53:05 PM |
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Emil
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Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
As usually there are nice works. Here is mine. The photoghraph was taken from car inside through windscreen when I was going back home from Slovakia in 2004. We had very strong rains and problems with floods here.  _________________ There are most happy who have no story to tell. - Anthony Trollope. |
Posted on 29/10/09 00:09:35 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Some great interesting interpretations. Welcome new(er) guys! Just a a quick one here; (because entertaining/hosting several visitors here who only just left  ).
Maybe another tomorrow, if can. 
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Posted on 29/10/09 00:39:49 AM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1871 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
St Martin's in the Meadows
Click pic for bigger: 
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Posted on 29/10/09 01:47:51 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Variant, if you don't mind..... (cheeky RSA birds!)  |
Posted on 29/10/09 02:30:08 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Nice Meadows Michael. I get your mood Emil. (Wet, dark, here too now returned to Atlantic country). |
Posted on 29/10/09 08:24:39 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Now here is a typical Michael, well almost, it's actually on topic, just left Steve's image out of it. great work.  _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 29/10/09 09:37:46 AM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Some lovely images this week.  |
Posted on 29/10/09 2:09:24 PM |
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Pete
Body Booster Posts: 121 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Put into practice a few of the things I learned last weekend.  |
Posted on 29/10/09 2:18:21 PM |
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jwhite
Collage Critter Posts: 274 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!  |
Posted on 29/10/09 4:03:36 PM |
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Sophie
Political Parodist Posts: 595 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Excellent stuff everyone. Very rural Trevor, Michael and Deborah. Hope to have a go later today. |
Posted on 29/10/09 5:22:20 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1871 Reply |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Three different points to be made: 1. great work this week (thanks Vibeke  ). 2.. Your effort this week Pete is marvellous: it shows ability and technique! How did you "do" the trees?  3. Does anyone know if James is okay (I haven't an email address) as he hasn't appeared for a few weeks?
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Posted on 29/10/09 5:35:06 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Michael, look under problems and solutions - James has posted a problem there, which I presume is why he hasn't been able to participate. Can anyone help him? I have no idea how to do so. |
Posted on 29/10/09 10:26:30 PM |
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Pete
Body Booster Posts: 121 Reply |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Wow, thanks Michael. The trees were separated from their original skys with the background erase tool, or the blending options -> blend if, then choosing the blue channel depending on what worked better. Then I slotted them in using standard layer masks and used adjustment layers to get the colours all looking consistent. The Ivy was tricky'er to do, and I found that drawing in the ivy branches on a layer underneath helped with the effect (using a very small drop shadow on the ivy layer and branch layer to give it all bit of depth). Hope this makes all makes sense. I hadn't used the background eraser tool before, but saw Steve use it his RPS talk this last weekend and thought it worked great. |
Posted on 29/10/09 11:19:27 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Mmm....sort of what intended "last one tomorrow"(?) (Not the variant) 
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Posted on 30/10/09 09:38:27 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7052 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
It's been an outstanding week on the forum. Rarely have we seen such a uniformly high quality of work, with some truly beautiful images. I never know what's going to inspire the imagination - but it seems this old church has done the trick. First up was BigVern, with a crafty W C Fields gag - clever! And nicely composed! Placing the spire nestling among the onion domes of St Basil's was an inspired idea, and the recolouring works beautifully in tooquilos' entry. But it seems this was just one of many montages, as the animated version shows the spire taking off from its home location and travelling around the globe in a really funny series of settings. Anna, you've really workd overtime on this one - from Paris to the Eiffel Tower to the pyramids. And the romantic ending is simply glorious! Fantastic work. And good to see the enlarged second entry too! Attractive rolling countryside from vibeke- is that the real base of St Martin's you've tracked down? It's a convincing view, and the church nestles neatly among the trees. Not just the spire of St Martins, but the Post Office Tower relocated to balmier climes in Nick Curtain's entry - both set around the new home for London Bridge. Are they buying up London piece by piece? A neat idea, Nick. A very painterly approach from Ben Mills, with the church placed in a bucolic scene that Constable would have approved of. In fact, is it based on a Constable? Let me check... ah yes, Salisbury Cathedral. TinEye to the rescue once more! Extremely clever work from brewell, who has added the spire to an old barn - and then gone on to clad it in the same wood slats as the rest of the barn. Beautifully accomplished - and the trail of monks leading up to it is a perfect inclusion. Beautiful work, Bruce. Great surrealism from laddition, with the spire now part of Stonehenge, and teetering on the edge of a waterfall. A lot going on here, as in all your pictures: I really like the restrained use of colour. I like the Eiffel Tower work in the second entry, but I'm not sure about the submarine - it seems rather out of place. Stunningly attractive work from LonnieK. I don't know where the original came from, but this is a hugely appealing piece of work. From the ground shadow to the shading on the building, to the subtle reflection in the water, it's simply beautiful. A real pleasure! It takes a lot to get michael sinclair on topic, but his spire additions to the castle of King Ludwig of Bavaria are well placed and neatly integrated. Good colour matching, subtle blending. Some good straightening and shadow brightening in the second entry - but the colour of the building seems quite at odds with the colour of the sky! Take out some of that green, Michael. A terrific cutout on the grasses in the third entry - and the bee and butterfly really draw the eye well, giving the scene tremendous depth. Now, about that missing spire.... A dark night entry from gaoxiguo, with light streaming from the louvre windows of the spire. It has been neatly separated from its base, resting directly on the ground: good lighting, I like the slight pink colour on the sides to match the sky. Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World has always been a haunting favourite, and it's good to see the spire appearing on the horizon in katew's take on it. Subtle toning, texture and colouring blend the spire perfectly into the scene. Painstaking, careful work - and it really pays off, Kate. A fire-breathing dragon causes destruction in darkdemon's entry - with truly magnificent flames. A very neatly damaged spire, too, from the cracks in the building to the falling clock face, to the tip itself plummeting through the roof of the building below. Nothing to do with the brief, of course, but a striking image anyway! A first entry from Luka, who has placed not just the spire but the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in a desert setting. Excellent lighting, with shadows on the objects away from the light source, as well as strong shadows on the ground. And a very dramatic sky to complete the scene. A great first entry, Luka - welcome to the forum! Our second new member of the week is James West, with the spire on top of a rather fine Art Nouveau dome - and then transplanted to an alien landscape. It's a good idea, and the spire fits neatly on the dome: perhaps the colours of the two should match? I like the highly stylized sky, but wouldn't such strong colours have an tinting effect on the sand as well? Welcome to the forum, James. A very strong scene from Emil, photographed through the rainy windscreen of a car - what a great image! And the ghostly outlines of the spire are just visible through the rain. Original, and dramatic work. A perfect pastoral setting from Jota120, with the whole of St Martin's neatly blended into the trees. The blue sky seems a little at odds with the lack of shadows on what's clearly an overcast day - but I really like the bird in the second entry! And I like the flooded scene in the third entry - great reflections. There's something every plaintive about Deborah Morley's parishioner winding his way up the hill. And the spire fits beautifully onto this new base, a seamless construction that makes it look as if it has always been there. Fantastic work matching the angles of view and the shading: tremendous attention to detail. Good to see Pete back - and with such a beautiful job: the subtle autumn colours, the perfect ivy climbing up the buildings, and especially the trees placed among the rooftops which place the foliage firmly within the scene. A great evening tone to the whole image - excellent, Pete! A cute ice cream entry from jwhite - good to see you back, John. A neat bit of blending there! Now if only a corner of the cone had been bitten away... A hugely enjoyable week. Terrific work, everyone. |
Posted on 30/10/09 09:46:58 AM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Thank you very much, Steve! _________________ Et je me sens, Commme un sandwich grec sans sauce, Comme l'ennuis sans la pause, Comme De Gaule sans l'Appel, Comme le Mont sans Michel, Comme un Rasta sans son splif, Comme un gadjet sans son pif, Comme Gainsbour sans Gainsbarre, Comme Renaud sans Renard. Comme un Polonais dans un bus, Comme Brassens dans Superbus. |
Posted on 30/10/09 10:12:05 AM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 681 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Thank you Steve! |
Posted on 30/10/09 11:06:29 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2905 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Thank you so much Steve..I thoroughly enjoyed this particular challenge. _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 30/10/09 11:25:22 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Many thanks again Steve and agree with your comment on the sky. I had similar thought the morning after submitted. had ideas for better solution, but ran out of time this week. Trevor |
Posted on 30/10/09 11:43:41 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 272: St Martin's in the Fields
Didn't have time to participate this week but I did wonder what people would come up with on this particular challenge. Everything was extremely well done. Congrats to all. _________________ Why is there only one word for ‘Thesaurus’? |
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