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3/3/09 d.tallakson

OOB10

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Rod 09-Mar-2009 04:38
:-) OK I should have said acting like a kid is OK, talking like one isn't................I like you too:-)
You can also blame the silly topics we get sometimes:-)
Canon DSLR Challenge09-Mar-2009 01:06
Thanks Carole. -dtallakson
ctfchallenge09-Mar-2009 00:54
Rod, who are you trying to kid - aren't you the one that takes pictures of burning newspapers, loo shots and lying on the ground as if dead! If that's not "thinking like a kid", I don't know what is! You are so full of it................ but I like you anyway! :-D CJ
Rod 08-Mar-2009 20:51
Just for fun a, it's also about learning how to take better picys & having good conversations. Kids have lot's of fun all the time, I would find thinking like a kid as an adult would bore me to tears.
ctfchallenge08-Mar-2009 18:57
You are too funny DT! I love all the different expressions of fear, surprise and dismay as the cue ball moves rapidly toward you - kind of like life (or the current economic situation) comes rushing at us! Again I could see this as a magazine illustration, maybe in AARP. Where did you learn all these PP techniques? :-D CJ
PS: Everyone needs to lighten up here - geesh - this is supposed to be for fun!
Canon DSLR Challenge08-Mar-2009 17:25
Thanks Jano. Since it's my face it usually isn't doing anything important so it's always at my disposal. ;^) -dtallakson
ctfchallenge08-Mar-2009 14:14
This must have taken a great deal of imagination (first to come up with the idea)...and to have all the images at your disposal (faces) to pull it off. jano
Guest 08-Mar-2009 02:46
Thanks tv and Troy. -dtallakson
Guest 08-Mar-2009 02:11
A job very well done! Very creative and I am one of those that likes it. Just wish I could do something like this as good as you did.
Rod 07-Mar-2009 03:29
Oh dear Lydia has swung this discussion to under me magnificent Water 6 picy:-)
ctfchallenge07-Mar-2009 03:15
Well here's my 2 cents worth even less I suppose.
DT this is cute and well thought out and executed. I'd like to give it to my brother-in-law for his wall over his pool table.
Lydia, pls don't take Rod so seriously. I agree with him that comments should be freely expressed and taken in the spirit of open dialogue. (Oh well maybe he didn't say that but I do.) Personally I prefer unconstrained comments than superficial efforts just to be nice.
All of us need to keep perspective and realize that none of us puts in the time or energy necessary to aspire to professional artistic accomplishments. What we do do is what we are driven to do to express our creative and expressive impulses, and to show our stuff and share reactions. - which is not to say that if were we so priviledged to have that extra grain of talent or drive or even just time, we couldn't also accomplish great or near great things. -tv
Rod 07-Mar-2009 03:04
Of course it's for fun DT & I had no problems having fun under your other images but seeing the seriously high praise comments like "arousing fear or awe" "redoubtable imagination and superlative skills" "artistic creativity" I felt the need to respond. We all have our strange ways & taking some things seriously is one of mine. My comments were directed to the people that made the comments not at you having fun with these images. Lydias comment was the only legit one that I thought was fair comment yet she goes off half cocked as though she was a target.
Anyhow I wouldn't like to see these sort of PS images in a normal challenge but to me this is an anything goes sort of challenge & your images are very welcome for me even though I don't like this sort of thing. I wasn't rubbishing your above picy as such but just trying to bring the commenter's down to earth. I would think you would know yourself that this sort of picy is very basic to a graphic artist or professional, hence why I reacted to the comments.
Anyhow I'm sorry to say I'm having fun:-)
ctfchallenge07-Mar-2009 03:00
Thanks sue anne! -dtallakson
Sue Anne07-Mar-2009 02:59
I like it. :)
The faces on the balls are funny and I like the motion of the ball.
Guest 07-Mar-2009 02:37
Rod, sometimes things are just for fun. They're not suppose to be great works of art. They're not submitted to win anything but a smile and perhaps a chuckle. If we can't smile and laugh ever so often it's a sad world. -dtallakson
Canon DSLR Challenge07-Mar-2009 02:15
Darn. ~Lydia
Rod 07-Mar-2009 01:55
Lydia I hope you read other texts far more carefully than you read mine as I stated below yours was the only comment that retained any semblance or reality. The other comments here were just hyperbole & that's why I said what I said. I have every right to comment on comments I don't agree with as it can create interesting discussions. As for commenting on this entry I did say it would be classed a amateurish in the Graphics world & I wouldn't have a clue how to improve this other than submitting a 100% photo, which isn't a slight on DT as he probably knows this himself & I did say below "All power to DT for doing something he really enjoys & good on him"
Don't be such a drama queen about pushing DT away from posting graphics in a photo forum, he's already replied to my post & was a good sport about it as far as I can tell. He can also stand up for himself without you stirring the pot with your inaccuracy's.
Are you trying to drive me away from the forum?
If that's your goal, congratulations..................Cos I ain't going.
Canon DSLR Challenge07-Mar-2009 01:09
Please do forgive me for my typographical error. I did mean to put in a space between "hilarious" and "and". If I had previously known that my comments were to be graded on my typing skills, I do believe that there would be many less than there are now.

Did you really just use all of those words, Rod, to say that this picture "does not stir you to comment"?? Really?

I am not a professional photographer, but I do like to think that I have greater than the "average bloke"'s idea of what it takes to get a perfect photograph, since I've tried many, many, many times to get one.

I've also done some Photoshopping and can recognize, although not always accomplish, something that's realistically done. I'm thinking the "average bloke" can tell if something looks like it might actually exist.

I also do not think that calling this "adorably hilarious" and "well done" are anything that needs to be called attention to. Do you not find it at least funny, Rod? And do you not admit that it is well done?

We are almost all amateurs here. We're not perfect. But, we do our best. dt apparently enjoys doing this kind of image. He's admitted to spending hours of his time to create this specifically to enter into this challenge. Why comment at all if you can't find something genuinely wrong with the talent he is displaying for us? Just ignore it. There's no need to comment and say it doesn't lead you to comment. And if you CAN find something genuinely wrong with his talent, please point it out in a polite and constructive way, in order to help him progress in his efforts.

All I can see that you've accomplished here is to get him to not enter any more of his works. If that's your goal, congratulations.

That's my opinion. ~Lydia




Guest 06-Mar-2009 23:49
Rod, your comments are always....hmmmm....interesting. Thanks for your views -dtallakson
ctfchallenge06-Mar-2009 22:58
Rod
It's very funny really how the picy doesn't stir me to comment but the comments here just make me shudder. "arousing fear or awe" "redoubtable imagination and superlative skills" "artistic creativity" I think Lydia said it best with "Adorably hilariousand" Now I don't think it's "Adorably hilariousand" but I can understand why someone would think it is & I would think that's a fair comment. By using the above superlatives for an average graphic representation compared to what can be done in Photoshop by Graphic artists is totally absurd.
All power to DT for doing something he really enjoys & good on him but bleeding L keep some perspective. Just because you & I can't do this in Photoshop is no reason to elevate this above where it belongs in it's genre. I know art is subjective but seeing the skill levels in a work isn't & this picy would be classed as very amateur in the realms of Graphic arts. This picy would be very impressive to his neighbours & others that have no knowledge of the work done by Graphic artists & professionals. Same can be said about our picys posted here as well, so lets get a grip a.
Canon DSLR Challenge06-Mar-2009 22:33
LOL! Adorably hilariousand well done! ~Lydia
Jim B (MSP)06-Mar-2009 21:46
Another fine photo- and a good demonstration of artistic creativity.

Jim B (MSP)
Guest 06-Mar-2009 19:09
Thanks Debi, YB and Penny. Penny, it took a long time...several hours worth of camera work and Photshop work. But, I find it relaxing to get lost in the process. -dtallakson
ctfchallenge06-Mar-2009 17:33
Redoubtable - definition: arousing fear or awe. Okay, I agree, one or the other...
Good one, dt! I'm curious about how long it took you to do this and how many of your little faces you have on file - what a hoot! Nice action too.
Penny Street
Guest 06-Mar-2009 12:46
Right on cue you post a load of balls. Hope you chalked your tip, because this looks like the start of a big brake.

Another demonstration of your redoubtable imagination and superlative skills

YB
ctfchallenge06-Mar-2009 07:56
good one again -may be if the ball/cue stick had been at an angle - dont know - Debi