POWER!!! Need a bit of help to select...

Paul Iddon

This Thursday night sees the handing in of Round 2 at the camera club competition.

The set theme for Round 2 is "Power", so I set about trying to think of something that will have impact cos that is what makes judges score you highly.

I figure someone else at the club may well use similar props, so I hope my take on these will create enough of an impression to out-do anything similar. I also suppose we will see the photos of wind turbines and power stations etc.


Anyway, I did 4 versions, hence I posted this in Photo Sharing, but I would appreciate which of the the image reaches the maximum impact point.


They move down and as it gets to number 4, the most processing is done (although the nearer to the last sees small extra additions which you'll have to look for to pick out the changes) from number one the least. But is number 4 the one, or does 3, 2, or 1 do it for you.


Do any do it for you?

Anyway, let me know if you will.




1) - just the one battery connected



2) - one plug & 2 batteries not connected




3) - only the frontmost 2 not connected



4) - All connected






Thanks.


Paul.

Richard

Cool effect. I say go whole hog and connect them all. I'm not too wild about the reflections, though. Shadows might work better.

Flyjets1

very cool.. but I think a darker, "stormier" background would do it justice. That pure white background makes one have to concentrate on the "lightning" to find all of the connecting points...
well done tho'

reese.leblanc

I like the final one.

Your circuit is wrong though... You have + hooked to +. . Only kidding.

Reese

Paul Iddon

The negative reaction (doh!) about the plugs made me have one more attempt... so...


I went for one more bash at my idea and changed the plugs for more batteries and then went with the one lightning bolt from the front battery to the bulb. I then selected the lightning and in a new layer inverted it to try and create a reflection, and then boosted the bolt in the original layer a touch, hoping this makes it look more natural (and I know it's all fake, yeah yeah... lol).

As a final bit I burned in the numbers on the neck of the bulb to give that part a bit more interest.

this is what I am gong to enter, for better or for worse.






Paul.