|
| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Reply |
Thanks Denise. Gee, if you were cleaning out your folks house, I bet there were all kinds of Steampunky things there. My husband and I go to estate sales often to get items for the Steampunk lamps and artwork that we make as a hobby. Everyone else is looking for nice things but we head straight to the rusty old quirky stuff. :-) |
Feb 9th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Comment |
Your composite is charming Helen. You and your grandchildren will all look back on it a few years from now with fondness. You did a great job of making her hair hang away from her head to help sell the levitation concept. For submission to your club, it might look even cooler to make her hair really long to take up some of the space beneath her. Steve's suggestions of feathering the edges of your cutouts and blurring the hedge will help a lot. The shading you added on the under side of her body is good and could be even darker in my opinion. I always do the same thing Steve does and add a completely new layer just for painting in the shadows near the end of my workflow; sometimes I even add more than one shadow layer if some will need to be darker than others. I applaud your experimentation and creativity with your composites. Keep up the good work! |
Feb 9th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Comment |
Your decision to make the background black was spot on Denise. Both the ballerina and the powder are greatly enhanced by using black. I like Steve's idea of a small border, although I might have used the blue at a reduced opacity so it was less eye-catching but still gave the piece a boundary. Just to nit-pick, there seems to be a bit of a halo remnant from cutting her out of the white background right at the back of her head. Also, I think the bit of blue brush stroke that's on top of the skin of her left arm would be better eliminated or made to look like she was throwing the powder around her by adding it to the insides of both her hands. As I said, just nit-picks. Very lovely image! |
Feb 9th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Comment |
This is really creative Georgianne. The neon red chair literally jumps off the screen and the retro feel of the image is very appealing. At first I wasn't a fan of the loss of detail in the pillar and pier deck, but the more I looked at it the more I liked it. If you hadn't simplified those areas down to high contrast basics as you did, it wouldn't have had nearly the impact that it does. Well done! |
Feb 9th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Comment |
This is cool Candy. I like the sepia tone of your original shot, the blue monotone, and Alan's b/w. My only suggestion would be to clone out or use the magic eraser tool on some of the distracting light bits of stuff to the left and under the window. Im sitting here listening to the rain on my roof and your image fits the mood perfectly! Well processed. |
Feb 9th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Reply |
Good advice Steve. I'll give that a try! |
Feb 9th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Comment |
You always seem to be able to bring out so much detail and expression in your subject's eyes, Steve. This guy is pretty creepy, but I certainly like your treatment with the painterly background. I do agree with Denise's comment about the light areas. My only nit-pick would be to eliminate the dark lines on both sides of his head -- I guess they're the roof lines from the original. My eye went to them before I noticed the grim and interesting line of his mouth. Your Goth guy portrait evokes a lot of expression. Well done. |
Feb 8th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Reply |
Oh boy, would I ever love to be there this weekend (except for the storm). Hope you get lots of fab photos! There's a Steampunk convention here in April which I'll attend. But I have a hard time drumming up the courage to ask people to pose for me because it always takes me a long time to pull it off. And if I just quickly snap a shot, I feel like I'm sneaking a photo without their permission. Maybe this convention will be a chance for me to practice a technique somewhere in the middle of those two scenarios! :) |
Feb 8th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Reply |
Cool -- I look forward to seeing your rusted hull composite! |
Feb 8th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Comment |
Hi Alan. Welcome to the group. Your image is a great example of surrealism. The color combo of red, black, and white is very nice, and helps to bring the various parts into harmony. My initial reaction was the same as Denise's and Steve's regarding the need for consistent shadows, but from your comments, I see your decision was artistically intentional. Since it's a surreal image, it might be striking (and more obviously intentional) if the various shadows were waaaay different from each other? I applaud you for learning to use the pen tool; I've gotten frustrated trying to get it to do what I want it to, so I've found that the rectangular marquee tool is a super quick way to select a door (which then works with the Transform/Distort process to open the door). I enjoyed your first image and look forward to seeing more! |
Feb 7th |
| 34 |
Feb 19 |
Reply |
Thanks Steve. Actually the background was pretty quick and easy. It's just one gear, placed on the black background, resized three or four times, and then I just duplicated the layers a few times and moved them around haphazardly to give it a scattered look. |
Feb 7th |
6 comments - 5 replies for Group 34
|
6 comments - 5 replies Total
|
