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Posted on 30/04/21 08:34:58 AM
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Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
I noticed this pub down a side street in Ipswich last year, and thought what a good film set it would make. Of course, you'd need a green screen at the end of the street to replace that wall and its ugly bins with… well, what sort of view would you put there?

High res is here.



Posted on 30/04/21 08:52:04 AM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Right up my street!


Posted on 30/04/21 12:22:58 PM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Is that blood on the pavement?

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Posted on 30/04/21 12:23:04 PM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Is that blood on the pavement?

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Posted on 30/04/21 3:54:35 PM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Anna, I think it's probably the reflection of those red boxes.

Posted on 01/05/21 09:44:20 AM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Mariner wrote:
Anna, I think it's probably the reflection of those red boxes.


Yes, I see that now. Thank you Michael



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Posted on 01/05/21 5:37:10 PM
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Posted on 01/05/21 6:53:46 PM
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Nice one Loyd - I just hope there’s nobody at the level crossing waiting for the train to finish going past

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Posted on 01/05/21 7:43:49 PM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
that's a great reflection Loyd. Needs lifting up a bit maybe? Think Pool shot.

Posted on 01/05/21 8:50:11 PM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Great work Loyd, love the reflection, and if anything it should be darker, IMO.

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Posted on 01/05/21 9:38:22 PM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Have another look, I worked on the reflection(s)... lifted up a bit and rotated slightly Mariner. A little darker for you vibeke. Gordon that endless train will never finish going past...

Thanks everyone for your help...!

Posted on 01/05/21 10:45:16 PM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Hate to say this but actually the reflection should be horizontal. The train is horizontal and the windows are vertical, so the reflection should be horizontal too. But it's a very funny (if mortally dangerous) idea.

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Posted on 01/05/21 10:50:04 PM
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I don't know if Steve deliberately aimed this at me, but it seems a matter of honour that I try to acquit myself properly on this one.

The hardest part was rebuilding the perspective in the second image to produce what the camera would be photographing as opposed to what we are seeing in the general view from Steve's photograph.

Needless to say I had fun with this one!






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Posted on 01/05/21 11:29:26 PM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Horizontal it is David... anything else?



Posted on 02/05/21 01:09:13 AM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Well done Loyd

Posted on 02/05/21 01:14:02 AM
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Brilliant, David. And finding a shot of the backs of the viewers' heads must have been especially difficult.

Posted on 02/05/21 09:43:17 AM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
lwc wrote:
Horizontal it is David... anything else?


Well now Loyd .... umm ......er ...... since you ask.

The reflection should be at the same height as the train - as if it had driven straight through the window. There would even be some static track visible.

The next bit is hard to judge because it is moving so fast but the reflection should be moving in the opposite direction - towards the train . I actually can't tell if that is the case here but it looks a bit as if is in the same direction.

This is all my personal opinion. Steve may well shoot me down in flames.

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Posted on 02/05/21 09:43:32 AM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Loyd, that is brilliant and particularly taking into account the puddle reflection. Fabulous.

Now that you have darkened the puddle, straightened and lifted the reflection...Im thinking here, what's missing? A moose on the loose..perhaps? something....


David, that is excellent. I love how you show the finished product. Very clever.


http://vimeo.com/544184390



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Posted on 02/05/21 09:46:29 AM
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Brilliant, David. And finding a shot of the backs of the viewers' heads must have been especially difficult.


Thank you Michael. Be a bit embarrassing if I couldn't find something to do, with this one. Finding the right pictures is often one of the largest parts of the challenge.

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Posted on 02/05/21 10:18:42 AM
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Re: Challenge 855: The Golden Lion
Gorgeous Anna. Lots of trademark flashes and sparkles. The Lion turning real and lying down is just terrific!

I found the source material particularly fascinating this time. So much more to this than meets the eye. So often it's the bits we don't really see that take so much more skill and subtlety than the obvious bits we do.

I do think I would have been tempted to hide the metal box on the left.

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