Feb 06 Contest Discussion

[byRo]

Add your comments, questions or general discussion about the Feb 06 Contest entries as well as the contest itself here.

This is also a great place to share your techniques or ask others about theirs.

Rô

[NancyJ]

You're an evil man byRo

Just one question you say

Portrait Retouch - make this into a great photo, but without altering the subjects.

Does that mean we have to keep both subjects in the picture? Because that seems in conflict with

This is a Restoration and Portrait Retouch: The final imge should look like it was shot yesterday, by a professional photographer, straight out of the camera

The poor lady is missing half her head, now I'm sure we've all done a bit of transplant surgery on a missing body part - but half a head it going to be very noticeable Particularly to the lady in the photo

[byRo]

Evil, me?
Nah, if I was evil I'd say "That's your problem. Deal with it!"

..well come to think of it I am going to say that - but in a rather more educated way (of course).

Yes, you are stuck with (less than) half of the mother's face. You can't take it away completely, nor can you complete it. Should be interesting to see how folks get around this.

OK, so I am evil after all.

Rô

[twinkissed]

Oy!

That's about all I have to say about this one. lol

[TwinbNJ]

This is a challenge to say the least!

[NancyJ]

so... we have to make it look like a professional photo, with the mothers head chopped off - thats more than a challenge.

Its gonna take more than a crate of beer to think outside the box on this one...

[TwinbNJ]

Nancy -


Or a case of wine!!!

[NancyJ]

I think the only solution is enough absinthe to see Kylie as the absinthe fairy (Moulin Rouge reference )

[TwinbNJ]

LOL - I hear ya!

[Peter S]

Ro

You say we are stuck with half a woman, ?
But in the rules you say

3. Your final image size must be exactly 800 by 600 px, in either orientation.

I would take this to mean we could crop to 800 high by 600 wide. If we do we must loose some of the picture, can't that be the Mother??

Peter


I agree with the others you are showing your nasty side with this one

[byRo]

Originally Posted by Peter (and all)

I agree with the others you are showing your nasty side with this one

Don't worry, T will be back soon. It's just to make you miss her even more.

If we do we must loose some of the picture, can't that be the Mother??

Well, you could - but then the guys that didn't just might discount that come voting time.

Beer? Wine?? Absinthe??? Ladies please! No need for this.
Nothing that a couple of "caipirinhas " wouldn't fix.

Thanks to the reigning champ Robin for kicking off.

Rô

[TwinbNJ]

Thanks Ro! the caipirinhas did it! Just the inspiration I needed.

Fixing colors is not something I am good at, that made this more difficult than just keeping both subjects in the picture!

[NancyJ]

Originally Posted by byRo

Beer? Wine?? Absinthe??? Ladies please! No need for this.
Nothing that a couple of "caipirinhas " wouldn't fix.

Bit chilli for that round here, 12.4 degrees c right now.
My god you people are quick, I've barely even investigated it. I think that blue channel is going to give me nightmares

[Doug Colwell]

Maybe the instructions should be amended to read 'by a drunk professional photographer' ? Anyone else having problems opening Robin's pic in photoshop? I get a 'could not open the document because of a disk error' message. It opens fine in the windows image viewer so it's not a big deal, but would like to know if the bug is in the file or in my photoshop app.

[NancyJ]

Originally Posted by Doug Colwell

Maybe the instructions should be amended to read 'by a drunk professional photographer' ?.

I think mine will probably end up as 'by a drunk professional photographer with his cell phone camera