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Posted on 03/06/05 08:16:52 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Contest 48: Truck stop
I always find it weird when these guys return from a job in just their cab, having left the cargo load behind. Makes the truck look so empty. And such a waste of resources! What could this driver have been towing on his return journey? High res is here.  |
Posted on 04/06/05 8:34:09 PM |
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tabitha 1
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
Am I really the first to post this week? Looks like Steve should look where he is trucking...  _________________ "There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age." Benjamin Spock. |
Posted on 04/06/05 9:12:06 PM |
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Neal
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
It was horrible! The world's largest burger was lost, while being transported to the Burger Museum.  |
Posted on 05/06/05 12:25:11 PM |
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BobbyJo
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
Ha ha. Excellent stuff. I've been off line with flu but better now. I'll certainly have a bash at this one 
quoted] At 8:12:06 PM 04/06/05, Neal wrote: It was horrible! The world's largest burger was lost, while being transported to the Burger Museum. _________________ BJ - Image Imaginator |
Posted on 05/06/05 4:08:35 PM |
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Glen
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
Steve, you really have to stop taking these 'on the move' photos - there's just too much danger on (and by) the road  _________________ most of the lack of sunshine in our lives is caused by us standing in our own shadow |
Posted on 06/06/05 02:15:44 AM |
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Neal
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
Steve, please be careful driving on that stretch of the road. There's a pack of wild dogs hi-jacking dog food shipments.  |
Posted on 06/06/05 04:02:07 AM |
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eventer
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
Wow, these are wonderful. Glen, I love all your people from different ex-challenges, the ultimate Friday challenge poster. |
Posted on 06/06/05 10:28:23 AM |
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russ davey
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
I misunderstood "return journey" and flipped the image, but ill post this anyway! Doh! Great entries so far, great blending Glen! .jpg) _________________ "I have a different vision of leadership. Leadership is someone who brings people together" George W. Bush |
Posted on 06/06/05 3:48:51 PM |
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Dezolat0r
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
Best. Challenge. Ever. Combine all the standout characters from previous challenges and make the ultimate friday challange montage! You could use the cat, the elephant, the Adobe Taxi, the quad bike and whatever else and try to make them all fit on one image  |
Posted on 08/06/05 07:33:59 AM |
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Jeff Scranton
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
Here's mine. (Lotta great entrys this week.)  |
Posted on 08/06/05 1:07:16 PM |
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mj
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Great entries this week gang, been busy don't know if I will make it or not. Keep up the good work. _________________ -Never met a PS'er I didn't like- Will Rogers |
Posted on 10/06/05 08:59:11 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
I've always said you lot were inventive, and I've yet to be disappointed. Seems there's nothing like a stretch of empty road to make you want to fill it up. A great entry from Tabitha kicks things off, with some fine attention to detail: replacing the original truck wheels with those from the trailer, the hedgehog crossing the road, that handsome chap leaning out of the cab… great stuff. The lettering looks like it's leaning forward, though: a slight perspective problem here. There are two ways of creating this sort of perspective: either construct the entire truck side and then distort it as one (the best method) of, if you have to add elements one at a time, draw a perspective grid on the side first. Better still, of course, is to buy CS2… Neal's flying hamburger is a great gag, and the angle of the trailer shows it bouncing the burger perfectly. The shadow beneath the trailer is great - but can I see the remnants of an old pair of wheels beneath there? And shouldn't the burger have a bit more blur? I love it when people bring in stuff from past Challenges, and Glen's entry combines plenty of old stuff. As usual, it's the perfect angles and perspective that make Glen's work so appealing: all these wacky characters look like they really belong in the scene. Notice all the detail: the shadow of the quad bike matching the shadow angle set by the truck; the shadow of the mammoth on the bushes; and, of course, the perfect blending of the cyclist into the scene. Great stuff, Glen! Neal's back again, with a really great montage - dogs attacking the trailer. This is really good work: there's a real sense of moevement on those dogs, the trailer sits well on the ground (a few sparks there, maybe?) and the sack of dogfood flies through the air convincingly. Great work, Neal, as always! For those having trouble understanding Russ Davey's entry: Robert Kilroy-Silk was a Labour politician in the UK, who then became a chat show host, then started his own xenophobic new anti-Europe political party, then split from there to start another one-man-band party, which got virtually 0 votes at the last election. Phew! Biography over. Nice perspectives and movement, Russ! I really enjoyed Jeff Scranton's entry this week - heading off into the sunset with a truckload of CS2. The Adobe logos are perfectly wrapped around that wagon, just the right lighting and opacity to make the effect realy convincing. The wheel ruts are perhaps a little too hard-edged and regular, and I might have replicated some of that wheel blur on the truck wheels as well. But a charming, entertaining image nonetheless. 50th Challenge coming up soon. Should we do something special? |
Posted on 10/06/05 1:21:31 PM |
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Paul McFadden
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
What about Dezolat0r's idea - A 50th Anniversary Challenge where the object is to convincingly include as many as possible past challenge items into one montage?? _________________ |
Posted on 10/06/05 1:35:19 PM |
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Einstein D Kid
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
Why did Tabithat not get a title? _________________ Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. |
Posted on 10/06/05 2:10:45 PM |
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eventer
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Re: Contest 48: Truck stop
Sheesh...Einstein....enough already with the titles 
BTW....did I mention my new camera.....  |
Posted on 10/06/05 3:32:00 PM |
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tabitha 1
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If I were to say that it would appear on the truck side as Italics, would that help my corner? 
As for CS2, unfortunatly my budget won't stretch to that until my kids have left home... in about 14 years! _________________ "A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." Herm Albright. |