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This is a redux version (kind of...) of an image I did ages ago called 'The dark place'.
For this revisit - I thought I'd turn it around and instead of a dark place - it would be a place of light and safety (hopefully!)
Strobist:x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.
A moody one incorporating a beach shot I did a short while ago.
My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.
All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality. The background here was Meadfoot beach near to me.
Strobist:x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light. Both AB's shooting through brollies.
I knew the shadows under his chair might be a problem so I just created a large soft shaded area which seems to work ok. I also had to fudge the blown highlight on his guitar. I have shots where I moved him to stop the reflection, but I liked his expression here.
The full version is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/bigpicture1966/8158252144/in/photos...
(edit) as a side note: Chris was playing all the time I was shooting. It was like having my own free concert :)
model/stock credit faestock.deviantart
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they came with the morning tide / weakened as we were by years of prescription drugs and morning television we could not mount an effective defense / soon the world was quiet again
Woods on top of the Wrekin, near Telford, Shropshire. One good thing about the rain is that it makes forest photos so much better. It was damp and overcast when this shot was taken.
I used a polarising filter to reduce glare and a tripod. It almost exposed perfectly, but I used two other exposures (+/- 1eV) and blended all three in Photomatix to make a new layer, which I selectively blended into the original. This is a tip I got from Larry Gerbrandt's Flickr page: here
If intensity has anything to do with it, this prayer is going to be answered.
This is based on a photo which I downloaded from from Stockvault under a license that specifies I cannot transfer the license or use the image in a commercial project.
It's always a good idea to believe in something greater than yourself... As the result of this type of belief we tend to give value to ideals which stimulate us to achieve greater heights as human beings... Be the best you can be. Choose to believe in something amazing..!!!
You can view the before and after comparison HERE
Another dark and gritty world for my friend and model, Sarah-Jane to inhabit. I would have loved the car to be a certain Aston Martin DB5 - echoes of Skyfall - lol. Although similar shots of SJ have been used in my earlier composites. It's very cool to now be able to create a background that matches the original vision I had in my in head when I photographed SJ in the first place.
Strobist:
x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right for main fill.
x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right both shot through large softboxes to provide kicker light.
Yann from the Bonneville Barons.
The background is a faux backdrop composited into the scene.
Yann is shot against a neutral grey background. It's all composited in Photoshop, layered and blended, with use of photo filters to give everything an overall balanced colour cast to help everything sit together.
You can see a before and after reference here:
www.flickr.com/photos/bigpicture1966/8179269876/in/photos...
Strobist:
x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right for main fill.
x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right both shot through large softboxes to provide kicker light.
Don't they look happy and proud to be out together for a walk in the park on such a lovely fall afternoon? Not a care in the world is following them as far as I can see.
282/365. Good weather is so rare in Ireland, that I decided I'd better store some in a jar for when I might need it...
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Sorry, you guys. This stuff just has to come out every once in a while. This is really a creepy crawlers cube.
I've always loved the movie Sin City, so I've I've used the visual style as inspiration and added a little more colour.
My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.
All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.
Strobist:
x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.
I INSIST on viewing this LARGE ON BLACK. If not, you will never see the hmmmr on the right ;-)
Introducing: Dickson St on Fayetteville. The Most Happening Place in Northwest Arkansas :-) and I am sure my local friends and friends who have been here will agree. One of my favorite haunts, when I am in town, that is. It is a small mile long stretch that can be quiet and idyllic on a snowy day like this, or full of fun and cheer during events like the Bike, Blues and BBQ, when 36000 bikers from all over US occupy this mile long stretch. Pride of Fayetteville, I should say :-)
This shot was taken on the same day I took "The Red Bridge", one of our favorites from me.
Have a great Wednesday! Weekend is almost there :-)
Feeling a little zapped from all the stuff going on. Perhaps I need a short vacation?
This time last year, I was contemplating perspective.
PS - thanks again to Rogey1 for the challenge of doing more image manipulation!
Fotografiert im Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart
Mercedes-Benz W 198 ist die interne Typbezeichnung eines Sportwagens von Mercedes-Benz. Unter der Verkaufsbezeichnung Mercedes 300 SL wurde er in den Jahren 1954 bis 1957 als Coupé mit Flügeltüren und in den Jahren 1957 bis 1963 als Roadster angeboten.
Die Zahl 300 steht in der Verkaufsbezeichnung für ein Zehntel des Hubraums in Kubikzentimeter gemessen, die Zusatzbezeichnung SL soll die Kurzform für „Sport Leicht“ sein, andere Quellen geben „Super Leicht“ als Langform an.
Mercedes-Benz präsentierte den 300 SL im Februar 1954 auf der International Motor Sports Show in New York. 1999 wurde das Fahrzeug von Lesern der deutschen Oldtimer-Zeitschrift Motor Klassik zum „Sportwagen des Jahrhunderts“ gewählt.
(Wikipedia)
Digital "watercolor" done in Corel Painter IX.5
Levels adjusted and signature added in Corel Paint Shop Pro X.
You really MUST see it LARGE to get benefit of painting effect,
or WALLPAPER__SIZE ( Click on "button" at bottom right of first "wallpaper" image to get full size.)
ORIGINAL_PHOTO in LARGE size, generously provided to "Paint My Photo" Group by Marco.
Model: Jake Mattila
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Sesión: Artística.
Modelo: Ángel.
Por favor, no use esta imagen en los sitios web, blogs u otros medios de comunicación sin mi permiso explícito - Todos los derechos reservados © ARTISVAL Rodolfo Velasco.
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Another OOB. I am trying to figure it out as I go.
This fish was found at a Trade Days sale. I could not resist photographing her. Very colorful, I thought.
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041607 - This is photo manipulated picture, created for the Flickr Downunder Challenge.
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An exercise in simplicity for this render. Just wanted to concentrate on an intimate moment and I really tried to make the eyes 'pop' to draw you in.
The basic render was 'shopped' to add more shallow DOF and the hair was softened to try and keep the area of focus on the face in general and the eyes in particular. The tear is a small part of a blood splatter brush with various bevel and emboss styling to create a glossy water drop feel :)
I still do digital art but I don't post them as much here ;) This one's for you creative peeps, keep it up. You are what you are.
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Can't wash it all away
Can't hope it all away
Can't wish it all away
Can't dream it all away
Can't scream it all away
I can only imagine being somewhere else.
Poem by Brenvisions, Inspired by Evenescence.
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Some elements painted.
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I got the idea for "Tanked" when I learned how to make water with Photoshop. I had this image of me in the shower with my palm pressed against the glass shower door and my goal was to make this look like I was in a tank pressing against the glass. I had to "remove" the glass partition, and reflections on it as well as the tile and bathroom fixtures. The final image was made up of 15 different layers with water and lighting effects. I worked on this for about four hours!
323/365. There is a prison in a more ancient part of the world. A pit where birds are thrown to suffer and die. But sometimes a crow rises from the darkness. Sometimes the pit sends something back...
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I've Scrunched the original image on a whim.. and as usual, once in Photoshop, ideas for treatments and enhancements to the 'Relic' effect of this one-time homeplace.
I've passed it time after time.. well. 'after time' means more in this case, don't it?
Finally.. with an hour to 'execute', I pulled in right next to the 'No Trespassing' sign .. ;-)
turned on it's ears, so to speak, this double-blossom calla translates graphically well into black and white, with careful conversion techniques.
Now, of course, I can't remember just how I did that, but since the original color was a pale green, then whatever technique adds contrast to that color or color channel should help.
If I still had the blossoms, I'd probably have framed this not so tight, but I didn't have this particular image in mind when I shot it.
Advice to "shoot tight", "get closer" is best augmented, especially considering digital media and zoom lenses, by at least a frame or two shot a little looser, too, eh?
Some more mucking about with Daz 3D backrounds as the basis of another composite with Yann the man and his trusty slap bass.
This was originally meant to be a bar interior background. Every time I try to render it out - it crashes my Mac. Meh!
Yann is shot against a neutral grey backdrop. The rest is added in photoshop.
Strobist:
x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right for main fill.
x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right both shot through large softboxes to provide kicker light.
You can see a before and after comparison here:
www.flickr.com/photos/bigpicture1966/8214151988/in/photos...
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Jim Rhodes was sick and tired of playing nursemaid to Tony Stark's sorry, drunken ass. Did the Man think he was the only one to come out of the 'Nam with nightmares? Rhodey had been there too..and you didn't see him crawling inside a bottle everytime some little thing went wrong. Goddamn hard to be a bodyguard when the boss was his own worst enemy!
"Invincible Iron Man"! What a load of bookoo bull.
He'd just about had it up to his armour plated butt playing corporate flunky; a flying Mr Fix-it kitted out in Stark's admittedly hardcore War Machine armour....
Here he was jetting his way across the damned ocean on his way to smooth over Stark's latest drunken blunder. For Christ's sake, while wearing the Iron Man armour he'd crashed into a Goddamned civilian airliner! Splashed it too!
What the hell Tony!?
Sure, boozehound or not, he'd still been enough of a hero to use his repulsors to cushion the fall of the wreckage..land most of it on a nearby island...so at least there were survivours. Then he'd wobbled off into the skies. Talk about hit and bloody run.
Later, he sent Rhodey back to 'Deal with it.'
Just how was he supposed to do that anyway? Stark had already made the problem 'go away' at the corporate level. He'd shovelled a shithook load of money onto the weird little private foundation that turned out owned the island.
Why send Rhodey at all then? Tony had muttered something about, "Insurance" and sent him off without so much as a by-your-bloody-leave.
Helluva thing.
He just knew none of his other ol' 'Nam buddies put up with this kinda crap. Betcha damn ass they were all pulling in big money flying commercial heavies themselves; none of this covert para-military shit for them, no sir!
Christ. With his luck maybe one of them had been piloting the bloody Oceanic plane...wouldn't that be a kicker!
Easy Jim.
Coincidences that big just don't happen.
As the clouds slid by Rhodey thought about his 'Nam bros.
A-Number One pilots all. Austin, MacReady, O'Niell, Colonel Blackhawk...even that Looney Toons madman Murdoch and his tech Sgt. with the Bad Attitude, Bosco Baracus. (Awesome mechanic!)
Hell, they'd never believe what old Rhodey was up to nowadays....
Shoot, all Rhodey wanted to do, all he'd ever wanted to do really, was fly.
Leastways he could still do that.
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I could easily have called this one "Rhodey's Ramble!" or indeed, "All Rhodes Lead To Chrome".
I promised myself I'd do a flying pic with an Iron Man figure and after doing the night shoot with Galactus I wanted to do something daytime outdoors. It was time to show the impact that "Irony Man's" drinking was having upon his friends, and I'd only just got the War Machine Marvel Legends figure so 'figured' the mojo was right...
In the Iron Man saga, the long suffering James "Jim" Rupert Rhodes was a U.S chopper pilot in Vietnam who helped rescue Tony Stark from the jungle after the latter had his 'Origin'. After the war, Tony hired Rhodey as his pilot and bodyguard. At one stage Rhodey started wearing Stark's War Machine combat-optimised armour, which led to Rhodey's character getting his own spin-off book...
Rather than photoshop the figure against a skyscape, I just took Rhodey outside, placed him on a piece of wire (later digitally removed) and took shot after shot until I got the right angle on the light and the right cloud and sky combo in the background.
Oh, I'm afraid I had to use that silly arse socket that's built into the figure for its flight stand to fit into. Sorry Rhodey!
The thruster burn and camera flares (all six of 'em!) are all photoshopped, and I've also done a little work around Rhodey's eyes to highlight them more.
Funny, the sky started out socked in with grey clouds, not particularly good flying weather! I was actually okay with that, it suited Rhodey's bitter mood and the text. Then, the sun came out and sang to me and War Machine looked so damn fine in the light that I went for the Knight In Shining Armour look instead.
Turned out 'ol Sol knew what I wanted better than I did. The soaring lightness is a wicked contrast to the text and underlines Rhodey's hellwithit, least I'm flyin' summation. Now that's Irony, Man!