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recent ex-smoker

Good for him.

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IMHO best are 3 and 5.

Also, jawline courtesy Peter Hurley:

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Y’all are smart. Y’all know what you’re doing.

Pretty big assumption in my case. I just make shiat up as I go.

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Thanks. I really wouldn’t have believed what a difference shooting in RAW and post-processing makes until I got Lightroom. Shooting a lot of landscapes when the sun has started to go down makes it very difficult for me to get a perfect exposure for both the sky and the earth. I haven’t messed around too much in Photoshop, just making some HDR shots. The picture above is all done in Lightroom.

Can’t agree more,.. always, ALWAYS shoot RAW.

Nice landscape example too.

I think all of us here have a similar conflict with real life, it tends to get in the way of making photographs. Hang tough, keep tripping that shutter.

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Nicely done. I am dealing with similar issues but I want the smaller scope for electronic tracking correction. I have to rewire my hand controller, come up with a mounting system (your post above) and then hook it all up. I’m fixin’ to go into an ‘outrage’ (so coined by my little Niece, also know as outage) which means straight night shifts, ergo I hope to have some time for astrophoto work. Then again 6 x 12 hour night shifts each week can just suck the life out of you. We’ll see. I am an optimist. I think.

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Welcome! Looking forwards to seeing your work, in spite of the fact that you shoot Nikon.

/I keed, some of my friends have the same problem.

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Excellent, gratzies Rav.

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Thanks Els, and thanks to everyone who voted. Congrats also to U-Man on his combined win.

fluffy, after rereading my last post, I feel like I may not have fully expressed my thought correctly, so just to be sure – that was meant as nothing but a compliment. My wife’s initial comment arose from the fact that she knew it was a software manipulation contest and you did such a great & realistic job that she couldn’t at first tell that it was anything other than a plain photo.

Yeah, I understood that from you’re original post. In fact after I finished with it, I had the same exact thought,.. “I wonder if this is too real?” I guess outside of a context that has a clear purpose like this, an audience might not see it as a software work or a photograph. I suppose that’s the whole point, just to see it as art.

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I put up some samples of the originals and layered steps for “Liquid Tulip” in the Tips & Tricks section:
http://www.farktography.net/index.php?module=forum&file=viewtopic&t=3877

CISS, I had a thought. Your two are reminiscent of a Boston or Kansas album cover, especially the daytime version. Two of my favorite bands from childhood through today, in no small part because of their album art.

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The essence is this . . . (lots and lots of words…)

Wow! You went the scenic route!

Honestly, it came out AWESOME.

Me? I’d have used “Liquify” and “dodge” to do the same thing. I think if we had a melt-off, though, your technique would win. It was/is an impressive shot.

Thanks Yugoboy, I did try the liquify route in the beginning but either it’s not a good tool for the job or I lack the shop-fu to make it work (more than likely this). Of the three I submitted this was by far the most fun.

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Gratzies to both of you. Glad to see some positive news for good people.

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fluffy, can you post a link to your original tulip? Your “liquify” effect is really well done and I just want to get an idea of what all went into it.

I will leave myself a note to do the uploading when I get home tonight.

The essence is this (my composition but not my technique, props to teh googles, especially http://www.itexpert.net/photoshop-applying-melting-effect-to-an-object/):

1) Photograph the (art glass) tulip in high key with a soft box to minimize shadows.

2) Run some chocolate syrup along the edge of a white card and put it vertically and at the desired horizontal angle in front of another white card, photograph in same lighting. (many takes here to get the timing right and capture “just the right drips”).

3) High contrast syrup is easily isolated in PS/Gimp (and contains the necessary reflections) .

4) Sample the tulip for color palette and apply to syrup (browns are now greens or reds)

5) Layer and warp as needed to get “drips” aligned and masked. (I used an isolated copy of just the tulip as a top layer to cover the top edges of the syrups, four layers in total: 2x syrup, 1x “tulip only” and background as the original tulip against white)

6) Drop shadows to taste.

7) Fin.

Thanks for the compliment. I was blown away by your “skylines”. I think they (and examples like what we’re talking about, orionid’s self portrait comes to mind) are a good demonstration of some points people have made here. All the “artistic” elements of photography are still very much at play, the digital trickery just adds an new vector of creativity. Like many who’ve already stated it (myself included), this was fun, a learning experience and a nice diversion but it is not why I farktograph (verb?). Call me a pragmatic purist I guess. In the end, you get out of farktography only what you put in. The rules are voluntary and stepping outside of them only hurts you.

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Late to the show but I had a thought. This reminds me of Star Trek TOS “The Return of the Archons”. For those of you non-Trek nerds (if any, I may be wasting my explanation on bigger nerds than myself) it is essentially this from WikiPedia: “The only time the people “let loose” is at the striking of “The Red Hour” (at 6:00pm), starting “Festival”: a period of violence, destruction and sexual aggressiveness which apparently is the only time Landru does not exercise control over them.”

Not that we’re repressed (since we choose the rules for ourselves and yes, another nerd reference) or oppressed or compressed or,.. wait where was I going with this?

I had fun, and I think it’s ok to let our collective hair down once every two years but I’m here and not in the PS threads because this is where I want to grow my skills (as a photographer).

Also, Rav take my advice and disconnect from the political world. I do on a regular basis. All it does is angry up the blood.

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Ahh, no, when you submit the headline, you have to submit the link. We always submit the link to the next theme from Farktography.net. But speaking of that…we always use the theme description page…if we start submitting the contest threads a week or two in advance, maybe we should set the link to the Farktography theme discussion thread instead of the regular theme description page….

That’s what I was trying to say but didn’t know how to communicate it very well.

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My bad, I was assuming that you as the mod were supplying the link.

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