Lps#9: Yabw

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited July 23, 2007 in The Dgrin Challenges
Yes, yet another barbed wire :lol3

Although, giving my history with the barbed wire images, it comes as no surprise I decided to take this route.

At the moment this is the current version which I submitted. But since there is still a few days, I can tweak the post or even reshoot.

Anyway, without any further ado:

Libertad!

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C&C welcome! :thumb
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Comments

  • VisualXpressionsVisualXpressions Registered Users Posts: 860 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2007
    I like it... Looks more like an illustration than a photo, don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing for the contest... It isn't a wall hanger IMHO, but I would definitely wear it as a silk screen on a T-shirtthumb.gif

    Winston
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  • pyroPrints.compyroPrints.com Registered Users Posts: 1,383 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2007
    It's good, but for the contest i would not process it that way. Don't get me wrong, I've used the threshold function fairly often, but I don't think it applies here.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2007
    VisualXpressions wrote:
    I like it... Looks more like an illustration than a photo, don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing for the contest... It isn't a wall hanger IMHO, but I would definitely wear it as a silk screen on a T-shirtthumb.gif

    Winston

    Thanks, Winston!
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2007
    pyroPrints.com wrote:
    It's good, but for the contest i would not process it that way. Don't get me wrong, I've used the threshold function fairly often, but I don't think it applies here.

    I't a bit more complicated than a threshold lol3.gif

    Thanks for looking! thumb.gif
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  • pyroPrints.compyroPrints.com Registered Users Posts: 1,383 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    I't a bit more complicated than a threshold lol3.gif

    Thanks for looking! thumb.gif

    I figured considering the amount of colors, but i didn't want to get into it =c) I still would like to see the original =c)
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2007
    pyroPrints.com wrote:
    I figured considering the amount of colors, but i didn't want to get into it =c) I still would like to see the original =c)

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  • LiquidAirLiquidAir Registered Users Posts: 1,751 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2007
    Graphically I like the composition, the layout and the colors here, albeit I think you need to give the hand a bit more room before you fade to black at the top. However, I am not too fond of the very digital look of this image. I can see the effects you are using here working well at 1200 DPI, but at 72 DPI they make me think more of 1980s computing than of a liberty poster. The era you are evoking for me with this image is really the social revolutionary period of the late 1960s and for that I'd suggest a silk screen or lithograph look rather than the cheap fax machine.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2007
    LiquidAir wrote:
    Graphically I like the composition, the layout and the colors here, alibeit I think you need to give the hand a bit more room before you fade to black at the top. However, I am not too fond of the very digital look of this image. I can see the effects you are using here working well at 1200 DPI, but at 72 DPI they make me think more of 1980s computing than of a liberty poster. The era you are evoking for me with this image is really the social revolutionary period of the late 1960s and for that I'd suggest a silk screen or lithograph look rather than the cheap fax machine.
    I am indeed gooing for the late 60-s - early 70-s era.
    Thanks for comments & suggestions! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2007
    I don't mind the processing. The only thing that bothers me about the way the photo is currently is the large area of black at the top. I'd be tempted to crop some of it.

    If you were going to play around with more of a "photo look" then I'd try working in a sky with clouds into the background. Or, instead of a digitized look, I'd try playing around with some grain.
    Linda

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  • jdryan3jdryan3 Registered Users Posts: 1,353 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    I am indeed gooing for the late 60-s - early 70-s era.
    Thanks for comments & suggestions! thumb.gif

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2007
    Linda,
    richtersl wrote:
    I don't mind the processing. The only thing that bothers me about the way the photo is currently is the large area of black at the top. I'd be tempted to crop some of it.

    If you were going to play around with more of a "photo look" then I'd try working in a sky with clouds into the background. Or, instead of a digitized look, I'd try playing around with some grain.

    Thank you!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2007
    jdryan3 wrote:
    Where is Che when you need him?
    Amen:-) :D
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2007
    Rare version
    I'm not sure about it, but I thought I would at least share :-)

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  • leaforteleaforte Registered Users Posts: 1,948 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2007
    For me, the blood gave it a goth feel.
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  • pyroPrints.compyroPrints.com Registered Users Posts: 1,383 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2007
    not crazy about it =c/
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 23, 2007
    Thanks, guys! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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