LPS#11: thinking machine

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited September 2, 2007 in The Dgrin Challenges
"AB" for "Automatic Fire"

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Thoughts, comments, snide remarks? :thumb
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  • davevdavev Registered Users Posts: 3,118 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2007
    I have no idea what this photo is, or what it's about. Sorry.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2007
    davev wrote:
    I have no idea what this photo is, or what it's about. Sorry.
    Thanks Dave! thumb.gifrolleyes1.gif
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  • pemmettpemmett Registered Users Posts: 507 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2007
    I can see that it's a automatic rifle (me thinks), but the image seems like it has some camera shake. It may be a little too abstract.ne_nau.gif
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  • imaximax Registered Users Posts: 691 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2007
    Perhaps a shot of ithe barrel as it fires a few shots would demonstrate it quite nicely...........................


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  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2007
    I like the lighting. I think it could use more context, though. Without your title, I never would have figured out what this was. ne_nau.gif
  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2007
    Beautifully captured. I love abstracts, but for the challenge I agree with the others that it needs context.

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2007
    Thank you guys and gals!
    I guess this is the cultural background difference at play.
    I prolly not gonna submit it, since it's obviously way too vague for the 99% of the dgrin audience.
    So I'm also gonna open my secret: this is a closeup of the middle section of the AK-47 assault rifle, arguably the best one there is, at least ROI-wise.
    I was thinking the submachine gun in full auto mode is a fine concept of a "machine". Back home in ex-USSR this would fly just fine, I think, but here in US, military firearms exposure is obviously much less that I though it would be.

    Thank you all once again! thumb.gif
    Onto the next idea...headscratch.gif
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  • mwaltersmwalters Registered Users Posts: 119 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2007
    Maybe less vague if you could capture a casing be ejected. A nice flash of brass against the black background.

    Matthew
  • HoofClixHoofClix Registered Users Posts: 1,156 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2007
    Well Nik, FWIW, I recognized it immediately. And yes, even those of us on this side of the pond knew that their light saber was better than the one we were issued!

    The image did also strike a sort of mood in me, but I'm not sure I would have associated it with the theme, though it IS a machine..
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2007
    Matthew,
    mwalters wrote:
    Maybe less vague if you could capture a casing be ejected. A nice flash of brass against the black background.

    Matthew

    Thanks, but it still looks like too far fecthed for the judges..:-)
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2007
    HoofClix wrote:
    Well Nik, FWIW, I recognized it immediately. And yes, even those of us on this side of the pond knew that their light saber was better than the one we were issued!

    The image did also strike a sort of mood in me, but I'm not sure I would have associated it with the theme, though it IS a machine..
    Yay! Thanks! thumb.gif
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  • DJTHEMACDJTHEMAC Registered Users Posts: 70 Big grins
    edited September 1, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    I guess this is the cultural background difference at play.
    I prolly not gonna submit it, since it's obviously way too vague for the 99% of the dgrin audience.
    So I'm also gonna open my secret: this is a closeup of the middle section of the AK-47 assault rifle, arguably the best one there is, at least ROI-wise.
    I was thinking the submachine gun in full auto mode is a fine concept of a "machine". Back home in ex-USSR this would fly just fine, I think, but here in US, military firearms exposure is obviously much less that I though it would be.

    Thank you all once again! thumb.gif
    Onto the next idea...headscratch.gif

    I knew what it was thumb.gif

    And I think it is the best entry i have seen for LPS 11 in a long time! :D
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2007
    DJTHEMAC wrote:
    I knew what it was thumb.gif

    And I think it is the best entry i have seen for LPS 11 in a long time! :D
    Thanks man! Appreciate it! thumb.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2007
    What the heck
    Time is running out, no other ideas worked out, so I'm going with this one:-)

    "Lord Of War"

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    And a couple of shots from making the "Lord Of War":

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  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2007
    Nice entry Nik and thanks for posting the 'making of' shots. Love to see how everyone does the lighting.

    Good luck to you.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2007
    dlscott56 wrote:
    Nice entry Nik and thanks for posting the 'making of' shots. Love to see how everyone does the lighting.

    Good luck to you.
    Thanks, Dave, same to you!thumb.gif
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  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2007
    I like your entry a lot. There is enough more detail than you had in the first version to give context to it. I love the textures and the "feel" of the photograph.

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2007
    Flyinggina wrote:
    I like your entry a lot. There is enough more detail than you had in the first version to give context to it. I love the textures and the "feel" of the photograph.

    Virginia
    Thank you, Virginia! I like the way the texture worked out:-)
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