Alsjazzeras 2016 TP 52 WEEK 52 CELEBRATE/CELEBRATION ADDED

Allan, this really is a brilliant photograph, perfect for the theme, no more words needed.
 
Hi Allen.

Very Very cool photos/ideas love them all and could not crit them. I need to keep watchng your thread and learn your fab lighting skills.

Gaz
 
Love it! That's all.
 
posiview said:
When the theme is done I'd like to know how ya did it :thjumbs: Composite....or not :)

Cheers.
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It's a composite image 2 pictures one of the trunk and one of Janes hand holding on to a breadboard, the trunk is in a confined space white wall to the left and bed to the right, took out the white wall, the bit of bed you would have seen and a metal object I used to prop the trunk open with.
Combined the picture of the hand scaled it moved it into place and used a layer mask and then forgot to take the highlights off her nails as you do

purplepleaser said:
Allan, this really is a brilliant photograph, perfect for the theme, no more words needed.
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Thank you

cargo said:
Hi Allen.

Very Very cool photos/ideas love them all and could not crit them. I need to keep watchng your thread and learn your fab lighting skills.

Gaz
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I don't think you will benefit much from my lighting skills as I have just remembered some portraits of dogs you posted which were exceptional, that was you wasn't it

Emja said:
Fantastic lighting again and a very unsettling mood to this. I think I'd prefer a less central composition as well, though.
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I think I made the point earlier that I was including all the trunk In the pic, I don't know what you mean by less central

XenosElaine said:
Love it! That's all.
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Thanks Elaine
 
Old - a cracking Image for the theme and a great way to kick the challenge off, so zero crit from me.

Metal - fits the theme, I think the crop is a bit to tight for my tastes. however I find the composition works very well.

Captive - bang on the theme nicely taken, well done :)
 
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Sorry Allan - I hadn't seen your comment earlier in your thread - I don't always have time to read down everyone's whole thread before commenting. I was talking about the central positioning of the band, but I can see you had your reasons. It's all subjective - as I said I think it's a very powerful shot.
 
Pinkbikerbabe said:
Old - a cracking Image for the theme and a great way to kick the challenge off, so zero crit from me.

Metal - fits the theme, I think the crop is a bit to tight for my tastes. however I find the composition works very well.

Captive - bang on the theme nicely taken, well done :)
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Thanks Mandy

Emja said:
Sorry Allan - I hadn't seen your comment earlier in your thread - I don't always have time to read down everyone's whole thread before commenting. I was talking about the central positioning of the band, but I can see you had your reasons. It's all subjective - as I said I think it's a very powerful shot.
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No need to apologize, we all have different views and all are valid
 
Liking the captive shot - good use of negative space to emphasise the hand and the lock - suitably creepy and a fab interpretation of the theme.

Really liked your metal shot too - really graphic in shape and composition which suits the subject matter perfectly.

Cheers

Spooks
 
susiejb said:
Hi Allan .....I loved this as soon as I saw it, super shot....not sure about removing those highlights I think it would maybe make it look a bit flat o_O
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Thanks Susie interesting view of the highlights

Dark Knight said:
Hey Allan :)

I'm really liking your Captive, a very creepy idea to which the complete dark nature of the image works very well, just enough light to see the outline of the trunk, well executed mate (y)
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Thanks DK

Spooky said:
Liking the captive shot - good use of negative space to emphasise the hand and the lock - suitably creepy and a fab interpretation of the theme.

Really liked your metal shot too - really graphic in shape and composition which suits the subject matter perfectly.

Cheers

Spooks
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Thanks for looking in
 
Brilliant Allan. Simple, effective, dramatic - what else is there to say. Maybe Bravo.
 
I agree with the comments above - excellent shot. Love it's simplicity - tells many spooky stories
 
Hi Allan, I don't think I'd take out the highlights on the nails completely as they are a great focal point as they drag the eyes straight to it, just soften them a little maybe? Great idea for Captive though, tells a great nmber of stories :clap::clap::clap:
 
Bruja said:
Hi Allan, I don't think I'd take out the highlights on the nails completely as they are a great focal point as they drag the eyes straight to it, just soften them a little maybe? Great idea for Captive though, tells a great nmber of stories :clap::clap::clap:
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Thanks
 
LC2 said:
You're a sick puppy Allan ;)
Love it... That must have taken a fair bit of work in PP.
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I have been called worse o_O
not to hard took about 10 minutes once I understood what I was doing it was the research that took about 4 hours

susiejb said:
Some fascinating shots coming on here this week ...nicely done Photoshopping Allan and I really like the processing.
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Fascinating....thats one way of describing it :ROFLMAO:
 
I'll try that again and post in the right place this time :D

Thats Kinda weird Al, but a clever concept nicely taken and thought out (y)
 
Oh yeah, that's nice Allan. Particularly like the cracked paint-like texture which gives it an aged parchment look. :clap:
 
Cracking! glorious colour too.

The babies are ... erm ... funny. :D

And I find the the whole thing inspiring.
 
Captive - Great Picture bang on theme.
Miniature - So wrong. clever but very very wrong
 
Emja said:
Oh wow...bizarre, dark and quite brilliant! I think the processing works very well indeed to add to the surreal nature of it.
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thanks

Cobra said:
I'll try that again and post in the right place this time :D

Thats Kinda weird Al, but a clever concept nicely taken and thought out (y)
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Glad to see you are finally getting familiar with the rules :p It is kind of weird :oops: :$

Carl Ayling said:
Oh yeah, that's nice Allan. Particularly like the cracked paint-like texture which gives it an aged parchment look. :clap:
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Thanks Carl

De88ie said:
Very clever, love the colours and aged effect.
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Thank you

d00d said:
Cracking! glorious colour too.

The babies are ... erm ... funny. :D

And I find the the whole thing inspiring.
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The Babies are indeed funny, please don't be inspired to put babies in soup :cautious:
 
JasonGlyn said:
Nicely done Allan. Great idea. I'd maybe minimise or loose the texture on the soup, but that's only a minor crit from me
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I do know what you mean, the reason the whole thing got this dirty looking was to hide the placing of the babies which for me wasn't working

Phil Bennett said:
Excellent work Allan, great stuff.

Phil
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Thanks

wallyboy said:
Are they souped up jelly babies:D,
some nice pp going on here, really nice and effective, only minor detail is the loss of shadow on bottom, other than that the BIZ:)
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Thanks

Naka said:
Horrid but good!! :)
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glad you liked it

minx said:
Captive - Great Picture bang on theme.
Miniature - So wrong. clever but very very wrong
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I can only apologise :sorry:
 
This is at once compelling and disturbing and I very much wish I could stop going back to look at it.
 
Thats soooooooooo out of the box.It's great :-)

Gaz
 
Erm... creepy! Looks like a really good poster for a horror movie or book. I would pick it up! lol.
 
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