Another Day at the Castle for Frank and Igor - DavidMac (DavidMac)
| Description: | This is total nonsense ..... but my God it was FUN !!!!!. As usual a 2D PhotoShop composite with lighting effects created in Photoshop also. A serious raid on photos.com was required for this image. The joy of compositing for compositing's sake ........ Not too be taken too seriously. |
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From: ragman2001 (ragman2001)
(Mon Oct 15 16:49:02 2007)
DavidMac! Holy crap! What can I say ... ? This is ... this is ... dang. It's magnificent ... I love the sense of 'bright foreboding' and can virtually hear the maniacal laughter reverberating from the stone supports ... Where'd you hide Gene Wilder ... ?
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From: rensor (rensor)
(Tue Oct 16 05:36:46 2007)
Just what I like - a fun image with no hidden depths or meanings.
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From: Barbara Garber (thebags)
(Tue Oct 16 06:28:48 2007)
Muahahahaha ... I throw my head back and cackle ... my evil mad scientist within loves this.
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From: Siggi
(Tue Oct 16 09:43:31 2007)
is this where gene wilder got his curls then!!!! LOVE IT!!!......soooo real that i thought that brain moved there just now??aaaahhhhhwwwaaa.......i am away.....getting ready for halloweeeeeeen!!!!
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From: LoupGarou (LoupGarou)
(Tue Oct 16 16:06:55 2007)
Awesome image! I love the way the light shines through the bottles and on the apprentice's face. I wonder about the poor girl in the background - could that be her brain? Yikes!
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From: Michael Andrews (MikeAndrews)
(Wed Oct 17 13:45:11 2007)
Truly awesome. The complexity and balance is just wonderful. Great job.
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From: Eftelibra
(Wed Oct 17 18:07:50 2007)
Fascinating. There's always so much to find in your images. It does look very real. I don't know how many different images this is composed from but its put together seamlessly.
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From: DavidMac (DavidMac)
(Thu Oct 18 13:13:03 2007)
I didn't know either so I went and did a rough check. About eighty images used and about a dozen more hand painted. Gosh .... sounds more like work than fun.
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From: Dalibor (Dalibor)
(Thu Oct 18 13:39:46 2007)
I always have impression that you really enjoy working on your pictures, so many details (parts) and lot of things happening around. Very funny expression of the central figure.The only thing I do not agree with is bright red part of the machine on the left; whenever I look at the picture, eye is attracted by that color, but, again, this is only my impression and, as you are expert in these things, maybe this is a way to gradually lead the eye over the whole scene. Anyway, this a very good example of photo manipulation
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From: DavidMac (DavidMac)
(Thu Oct 18 16:02:53 2007)
Oh damn Dalibor ... you've identified a real weak point! I have been so intent on cultivating the individual trees trees that I missed the whole forest. In literal terms the red machine, called a "Wimshurst Generator", (It's for generating high electrostatic charges - you really wanted to know that didn't you?) is backlit by the electrical discharge and would glow red as it does. As is so often the case my love of studying and reproducing the behaviour of light can lead me to interpretations which would on occasions be better served by a more figurative and less literal approach. In my defence I will say only that this is a cinematic folly and not an image which has any pretences to creativity or art. But .... actually ..... you are quite right. ;^))
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From: lucdesaulniers (lucdesaulniers)
(Fri Oct 19 11:18:11 2007)
Totally wild and crazy. Love it.
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From: GMLehmann
(Sun Oct 28 00:29:10 2007)
I don't think I can add much to what's already been said. This is an absolutely brilliant and fascinatingly fun image to explore.
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From: re (retpm)
(Thu Nov 1 07:58:45 2007)
I like this composition. So inusitated and funny!! Nice job!
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From: Edgar Ortegon (pandataxi)
(Mon Nov 5 08:42:26 2007)
Congratulations David!
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From: lucdesaulniers (lucdesaulniers)
(Mon Nov 5 09:01:47 2007)
Bravo David. Probably your best (if not funniest). Curious: how much time did you spent on this one?
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From: Dalibor (Dalibor)
(Mon Nov 5 09:43:27 2007)
Nice to see you here again, congrats
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From: DavidMac (DavidMac)
(Tue Nov 6 03:27:24 2007)
Luc - short answer is too much ;^)) Got back to Brussels from shooting abroad on the 6th Oct. First PSD draft is date stamped 8th Oct. JPG copy for entry was made on the 15th Oct. So that leaves eight days. I would have spent quite a good few hours each day on the image - say 5 or 6 - that would make 40 - 50 hrs total. There's nothing particularly difficult or challenging in the image ... just an awful lot of it. The "Wrong Bottle" image, by contrast, was thrown together in a day.
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From: alex preiss (alex4444)
(Wed Nov 7 02:51:59 2007)
Congratulations on your success.
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