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10-Mar-06 Traveller

Out Of The West (A Work In Progress) * Traveller

I know I need to do a lot of clean up on this...and I also need, I think, a young Amozonian Girl with a large Python on the left center of the frame. But I am having trouble getting her to be emerging from the water. So, diner now, and I'll try again tomorrow. Best Wishes, Traveller

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Canon DSLR Challenge20-Mar-2006 05:37
Thanks for the kind words, Michael. Life has imposed some new burdens on me that need badly to be attened to...and so this must slip a little to the wayside. My apitite is often bigger than my ability...and yet, I'm having fun. Often I start a project just playing around...as here. Can I extract the train from the heavy folliage? If extracted, then what sky? Oh, step out side and shoot one...lol. What to do with perspective? Why not a blurred morning tide and rocks? So it's just really a game as I wait for a phone call or an appointment.

I posted it because I thought I could finish it. I like the way the waves sort of lap to the right side...I worked on that. Well, in the end, I learned some stuff...that's all you get...lol Best Wishes, Traveller
Guest 19-Mar-2006 16:12
Fun idea, traveller. I like Cindy's link to the National Geographic...adding some shadows to the individual pieces could be a nice simple way to finish this off. -Michael
Canon DSLR Challenge18-Mar-2006 20:33
Traveller,
Kind of looks like of of those scenes of southpark, where they make the pieces "look" pasted on. you know how the cartoonists were all trying to make everything really lifelike and then this cartton comes out and gets back to basics and everyone loved it. I think maybe you were trying to do the same thing?, anyway if you were not I have offended you, and well no worries you can take it, and all I can say is to make it more realistic remove the tracks completely and bring the water / smog up to half way around the wheels. What to do about the obvious painted on grey next to the green I do not know, but I like the effect of the obvious, rather than the not so obvious, in this case anyway.
Richard Adams
Canon DSLR Challenge18-Mar-2006 05:58
There's a message in this. I just know it.
It's hard to blend train tracks and water but you mustn't give up so easily. Sleep is secondary. :} ~kt
Canon DSLR Challenge16-Mar-2006 16:42
Another option would be to exaggerate the cutout look - make it literally look like a paper cutout. See the July 2005 National Geographic Zip USA 20812 on Glen Echo Maryland.http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0507/feature6/multimedia1.html

Cindy
Canon DSLR Challenge15-Mar-2006 22:46
Dear Cindy: The spirit is willing & the imagination is there, but the talent is wanting. And yet, it is only through experiments like this that I'll ever make any progress. If not this one, then the next one. It is all a learning curve. Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon DSLR Challenge15-Mar-2006 15:44
I like your "train" of thought here Traveller :) Some practice with blending modes, opacity, and using a soft brush for the erasing or masking - whichever - will help you through this. Nicely composed and dreamed up! Great colors. Cindy