11-23-11 – Triptych Portraits

To everybody with the nice comments about sticking with the more difficult theme, thanks right back. I’m glad it seems to be working out.

But I’m in the same boat as a few of you. I pretty much suck at this right now. Like rav describes, there’s just a lot of stuff going on. I think the options for change have some sort of exponential mental twisting ability.

I’m not happy with anything I have yet……yet. 🙂

No problem with B&W and/or color. Have at it.

I’m just glad for a contest where photoshop skills count for something
😉

I gave up on Elements. My PS-foo is weak, but I have strong Roxio-foo, so I’ve been using that (for the first time in ages). 😕

Don’t get me wrong, U-Man I’m loving the theme, it’s just a lot of work. But then, if I want to be a better photographer, and make better compositions, then it stands to reason this exercise is worth the effort. And it is an effort. Frustrating, compelling, tedious, enthralling–there’s a lot of stuff going on here. I’m lucky that I didn’t work today, nor will I tomorrrow, so I can do my best-est.

FWIW, this is about my favorite theme ever since it’s a combination of taking focused photos, constructing a composition based on those images, and involves Photoshop/GIMP type work to pull it all together. So I certainly hope we can do more like this in the future, especially since “real life” has reared it’s ugly head and made it impossible for me to get out an take photos. So unless I get extraordinarily lucky, have a chunk of free time, and find something that fits in my archives, I’ll be reading/voting only this week.

Adding my +1 (ELEVENTY!!!11!!) for this theme. I’m quite happy with what I got, but struggled with it until the last minute (out of time at this point). I’m going sit back and try to enjoy this feeling a little while before you guys post yours and blow me out of the water. Looking forwards to seeing what ya’ll have done.

And it’s from Microsoft Office, so you know it’s got to be easy enough for a field grade staff officer to figure out.

I hope you guys are smarter than Navy nuclear puppets. I mean officers.

Of course I am smarter than a Navy nuclear officer. I’m smart enough to know that job sucks. I’m also smarter than a field grade officer. I’m an line officer.

I did have to do some tweaking to PPT to get it to work like I wanted, but when I do the assembly for the second time, it should come out better.

I also shot all new pics last night, but it’s hard taking macro-self-portraits. And using the laptop as a remote doesn’t make it any easier.

I don’t think I have the authority for an end-all answer. But, given the somewhat processed nature of this type of photographic presentation, I would be inclined to allow all sorts of borders. I made my first one last night and didn’t even think twice about placing three pics on a blank background and then painting the background black – resulting in a wide border.

So, my input is that borders of all sorts are allowed for this theme. The photos should still be the important part though.

Elsinore? Kes? NBD? Anyone else?