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Posted on 06/04/11 11:56:21 AM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
I had to make some improvements: body position, reflections and glare.  _________________ Is it necessary? Does it work? |
Posted on 06/04/11 12:38:41 PM |
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Daniel
Poser Professor Posts: 192 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Thanks Deborah … I am just taking my daily dosage of Cesium (eating Sushi) while I am writing this message ...  |
Posted on 06/04/11 1:04:46 PM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
One of the great benefits of this forum for me has been the wide range of material to recycle. I save everything. _________________ Is it necessary? Does it work? |
Posted on 06/04/11 8:38:48 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/fungismith/spacesuit-prime.gif |
Posted on 07/04/11 00:46:22 AM |
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zombie67
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Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
James, you are Terry Gilliam and claim my £5. Nice work! |
Posted on 07/04/11 04:36:53 AM |
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Marty
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Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
First Annual Nasa Rodeo  _________________ Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye |
Posted on 07/04/11 07:36:43 AM |
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oddjob
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Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Alpha cen'taurus' perhaps? _________________ "I think I could turn and live with animals, They are so placid and self contained... I could stand and look at them long and long...." Walt Whitman |
Posted on 07/04/11 08:00:05 AM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Apologies for reposting but thought it was all too much in focus.  |
Posted on 07/04/11 08:41:36 AM |
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Sophie
Political Parodist Posts: 595 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Very funny James! |
Posted on 07/04/11 4:16:21 PM |
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LonnieK
Diorama Dreamer Posts: 238 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Lunar poker party  _________________ Lonnie |
Posted on 07/04/11 5:49:27 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
That's great Lonnie! I really like the blank faces, which I guess you do in poker.... (and more before) |
Posted on 07/04/11 7:29:35 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Lunar poker party - that's quite a tongue twister! |
Posted on 07/04/11 8:58:31 PM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
James it is fantastic entry I like it. Great entries from everyone as always. _________________ I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. - Franz Kafka |
Posted on 07/04/11 9:07:12 PM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
 _________________ For me the creative process is more one of discovery than creation. - James Lee Burke |
Posted on 07/04/11 10:32:21 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Sophie, James, Emil. Thank you for your aknowledgments. And all the works are wonderful. As allways. |
Posted on 08/04/11 00:16:25 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
"Nice" one Emil. A late one from here, maybe similar thoughts, but more art-ish than FC. Very Sorry Steve off brief again, but late entry. We are mostly carbon, so once exposed we return....  |
Posted on 08/04/11 00:35:36 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Sorry for the repeat - but I just HAD to add the "AD". Loving each and every entry......kinda wish I had thought of them first! What an incredibly talented group of people........... Joey  |
Posted on 08/04/11 05:58:07 AM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Thank you Trevor and yes we got similar thoughts. I am always very busy so I catch the very first idea which emerge to my mind and after I spend with it max. 2-3 hours in Thursday evening. Sometimes it works and sometimes ....... . All the best. Emil _________________ There are most happy who have no story to tell. - Anthony Trollope. |
Posted on 08/04/11 07:22:39 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7072 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
First off the launch pad this week was Ben Mills, with a rather touching homage to David Bowie - and there he is, sitting in a tin can, ready to take his protein tablets - and the papers still want to know whose shirt he wears. Nice one, Major Ben. A strong image from bjansen, with a cool reflection of the Lunar Lander in the visor. The added Segway is a fantastic idea - what a great fit! Not sure about the direction or length of the shadow, but it's a great composition. I wasn't sure what was going on in zombie67's post at first, but it seems to be someone showing a child how to throw a pot... in space... well, as you say, the pose works! A new member this week, and oddjob has a great idea: Tommy Cooper in space, complete with fez, top hat and rabbit. I like the shake on the leg, but I'd have been really impressed if you'd stuck the rabbit in a spacesuit as well! Welcome to the forum, Kath. A glorious ad pastiche from Josephine Harvatt, with the space suit beautifully turned into a stark line drawing - I love the fact that he's smoking a pipe in there. Is the lawnmower supposed to be floating in the air? And - watch the leading on that headline! It could really do with tightening up. Great to see the bubble car from a few months ago making a reappearance in brewell's entry, with a terrific reflection in the visor - and I like how he's gripping the squeegee. A driver inside the car would have really made this one! I like the amendments in the second entry, which add a lot of subtlety to the image. But still no driver! How to cheat in space, from PDelavigne - and there's Bogie in the suit. But surely his head is rather too big? I can't imagine where his shoulders would go! A cute bulb bug, though. Interseting image. A rather neatly constructed Bob the Spaceman from Nick Curtain, with perfect colouring and some nice shadows. But is the background just a little too plain? It's a long time since I've watched Bob the Builder... ...who resurfaces almost immediately in tooquilos's entry, holding a pack of aluminium foil to repair the satellite. A great idea, Anna. And a terrific 2001 reference in the animated version - I like the way the tools all float out of his toolbox, and the rear view has been cunningly constructed. Nice work. But when he turns to face away from us, shouldn't the restraining pipe still be coming in from the right? GKB makes a Hitchcock-like guest appearance in this week's entry (unless that's Dick Cheney - a striking resemblance). So that's NASA, Toy Story and Fireball XL5 all in one image... couldn't you get Thunderbirds in there? I'm glad to see Daniel has weathered the natural disasters in Japan for long enough to create a fantastic Poser-based entry, cunningly portrayed as an ad for Omega watches. Beautifully achieved, Daniel: the lighting on the face is perfect, and that's a great angle on the suit. I like the female version in the second entry, too - with a spectacular reflection! Lost in Space from munchonu, with our man now a mere skeleton drifting through the cosmos. The skull is perhaps a little big for the body size, but it's a great impression - the Curves-based shine on the suit works well. What's that fizzing around the planet, though? Space dust? A tasteful DVD box from puffin31939, with a cool reflection and a very fine choice of typeface. It's all so nicely achieved I'm reluctant to point out the misspelling of 'video' at the bottom, but I can't overlook these things... A great pair of spacepersons from LonnieK, who seem to be performing some sort of 18th Century quadrille. Great lighting on the face - it really belongs in there. Shouldn't those silhouetted figures in the background be wearing iPods? The reflections are almost great, but for both figures the near leg should be lower than the far leg: you need to split the figure into individual legs to make this work. I like the second entry with the poker players - very neat work, with excellent poses from all of them. The only thing that goes wrong here is the viewpoint of the stacks of poker chips, which is from too high an angle. And do people really drink sherry when playing poker? A first Friday Challenge entry from joeysala, and it's a nice idea: a rose in a bubble, being presented to a rather bizarre (but clearly female) alien reflected in the visor. Excellent lighting, with subtle coloration that really blends the figure in neatly: and I recognise those spaceships! Glad to see they came in handy. I really like the addition of the florist delivery logo in the second entry - suddenly it all makes more sense! Star Wars, of a sort, from Garfield72, as the Lunar Lander prepares to, er, Lunar Land while the astronaut is under attack from some sort of satellite. The shadows need a bit of attention: the one from the flag is going in a rather different direction to all the others, and the distant shadow of the Lander is just too far off - it makes the moon surface look tiny, in a curious way. A good repurposing of old space suits from laddition, as nuclear protection clothing - and that's quite an explosion! A very powerful image, Véro. Like it. I have no problem with BigVern's spaceman being upside down - and I like the added texture on the clothing. But why all the pits? Has he been floating around for so long he's been battered by space debris? Very fine treatment of the visor, though. A nice reflection of the earth in the visor from Emvee, against a strongly coloured background. A slight raggedness to the cutout, especially between the legs: do you have the Magic Wand set to anti-alias? Refine Edge could have helped a hot here. "Why me" indeed, from JmarcP, as a single baby space figure is pulled out of a stack of identical versions. The only thing that concerns me here is the lack of perspective: if they're standing up, they need to recede into the distance; if they're lying down, then they're all lying on each other's legs. I'm glad to see Deborah Morley has made full use of one of the chapters in 100% Photoshop to build her communication device - a cool piece of kit! Always good to see a different approach to the problem. But is the spaceman highly scarred? Or is he wearing a web on his face? That's a very fine planet - all Photoshop? An interesting notion in the second entry - was it all too in focus? Actually, I'd sat it wasn't. It depends on what we're looking at. I'd assumed it was a screen, in which case it would all be at the same distance from us; but now it looks more like a window. Having said that, we're at such a distance from it - it's obviously a wide window - that I'd have thought it would all fit within the same focal depth. I think we need a photographer to advise! Wonderful work from James, who really has taken a Terry Gilliam approach to this week's entry - it's amazing how much fun can be had from a pair of moving eyes. The mouth twitch as the wasp lands on his nose is priceless. Just one thing: when he bursts out of the space suit, shouldn't we be able to see inside the suit? An extraordinary effort from Marty, who has somehow managed to fit the spaceman onto the back of a bucking bronco (is that a bronco? Or just a bull?). Some great extra touches here - the belt, the cowboy hat, and the way the boots are visible beneath the chaps: and turning those arms around must have been tricky! A subtle but powerful image from Emil, with - if I'm reading this correctly - a smashed visor, through which we can glimpse a deceased spaceman. The man is particularly nicely made, as you don't see him until you go searching. A very well judged, emotive piece. It's Bride of Frankenstein meets The Exorcist from Jota120, as a female astronaut cracks up... literally. It's certainly a strong image, but while her mouth is screaming her eyes don't show terror: wider open, perhaps? I like the solarizing effect. |
Posted on 08/04/11 07:51:04 AM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 345: Space suit
Thank you very much Steve! Je précise ici que je n'ai pas voulu faire de l'humour déplacé, mais bien imaginer ce que serait le tourisme dans ce joli pays après le drame actuel.... _________________ Mais je me connais, je lâcherais pas l'affaire.... Je vais piquer de grève comme on pique une colère... Plus têtue que tous les vieil homme et la mer... Pour que continue le combat ordinaire! |
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