The Tiny Dropdown Shadow Picture by ctfchallenge

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26-OCT-2007	kiki2

The Tiny Dropdown Shadow Picture

aka "Framed"

Canon EOS 20D

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Rod		05-Nov-2007 07:45
Wow our Kiki in a penthouse, very posh:-) I would imagine living in a cold winter country the weather resistant balcony's is a must so you can use them all year. You or HIM made the right choice:-)

ctfchallenge		02-Nov-2007 12:31
Well it was close. I was going for a penthouse on 8th. but the final drawings arrived just before I placed a bid, and they'd ruined it. Terribly so. So I chilled out and ended up 3 stories below, same corner. Nice view, better solutions, an extra bedroom, and "weather resistant" balconies. The wiser choice, really. Perhaps a greater god worked to my advantage ;) -k2

Rod		02-Nov-2007 06:54
Oh bugger, I thought we get rid of you when you move into your new apartment:-) What does it matter if you got the best deal or not on the new apartment as long as it makes you happy it's worth a lot more. I hope the sun shines on your new life wiv two balconies, one for photography & one for wotever else turns you on (please we don't need to know:-) I would have expected higher than fifth floor for a Goddess but I spose you're only a trainee Goddess after all. Good luck with the new apartment it sounds really exciting. Silkscreen maybe Glossy nah:-)

ctfchallenge		01-Nov-2007 18:51
Lydia, thank you :) I'll reserve time to bother you good folks here of course - not to worry ;) -k2

Canon DSLR Challenge		01-Nov-2007 16:23
Thanks, Kiki. The links show more. I hope you'll be forever happily painting in your new home. ~Lydia

ctfchallenge		01-Nov-2007 10:05
Rod, nope. I used to do artsy stuff, but after 25 it faded off. My first homepage was called "Confessions of an Art School Reject", if that counts ;) Long since gone. Like for most, my burning interest for hard cash superseded my artistic urge. Nowadays, time is always an issue. There's an old farm coming my way sooner or later, possibilities there. And I signed a bid for a new apartment yesterday. I'm still so thrilled about that, I just have to tell - excuse me lol :) I dumped the price by an equivalent of 38K US$, estimated future loss on my current condo, way the markets look. The broker threw himself into a few verbal spasms about record prices he'd recently achieved, to which I smiled nicely, enjoyed a free cup of coffee, and then I told him that if I was the seller, I'd do a backward somersault and scream with joy over my extremely good offer. He phone the owner, and we had a deal. Nice and easy. I may be the last idiot on the planet of course, but I need to get my a** our of the place I live now. The sun is gone - long story. Anyway: The new place is under construction and will have two sunny glass balconies, ample space to mess around. The most striking thing about paint is the stench! Circus horses might love it, but we goddesses have very sensitive noses. Sooooo.. next summer I'll be one step and 5 stories closer to heaven - and with room for a smelly hobby. Let's see where that takes me. I wonder if this wouldn't look better as a silkscreen print btw.. glossy would suit it. -k2

Rod		01-Nov-2007 07:53
Wow you did impress me wiv that advice to Lydia & your reasonableness makes your Nordic Goddess title well deserved:-) Do you do much painting Kiki?

ctfchallenge		31-Oct-2007 17:19
The left side is some weed stems with drying leaves, odd shapes. The right part a detail of some straws in front of a boathouse. Full versions (downsized) of the shots they were cropped from are here: http://www.pbase.com/kiki_2/image/87910377 http://www.pbase.com/kiki_2/image/87910364 I see a kind of odd white animal head with black teeth and a black jaw, barfing or eating a leg with a shoe lol. I see a few other possibilities as well :) I think they're 100% crops or a mix of 50% / 100%, so upsizing wouldn't work too well. This one was just thrown together for fun, it's a joke. I like the energy in it though, could be fun to paint it some day. As for frames, I think you're doing just fine :) Only one rule to frames.. keep it simple. Oh.. and one more rule: Less saturated than the picture, at least closest to the picture, if you use colors. Give the picture space to breath. (3 rules). Or the frames tend to stand out like sore thumbs.. (Rod, did you hear that. I'm reasonable!) -k2

Guest		31-Oct-2007 16:42
Hmmm... you folks are making me blush. grin Naked photos, indeed! What is this, Kiki? Can it get any larger, please? BTW, I like frames... I need all the help I can get on my photos. ~lydia

Rod		30-Oct-2007 07:12
You make me an offer I can't refuse & make me grovel for parental rights Kiki, just because I want to see this creation as nature intended:-) AND Doug, you have said quite enough encouraging Kiki, she will become intolerable...............I should say more intolerable:-)

ctfchallenge		30-Oct-2007 02:22
Rod has sold me that normaly frames and other computer enhancement tricks make for nice art but these challenges are for photography. In this challenge however, since the subject is vague, it is almost as much about art that it is about photography. As long as the art work doesn't overwhelm the photograph that is. In this case the frame enhances it well. -Doug

ctfchallenge		29-Oct-2007 23:11
Gerry: Thank you :) Bordermania rules! tv: Thanks.. Too much negative space here to truely qualify as cluttered I guess. I see it both as a whole and two halves (sp?) myself btw, depending on the mood. Rod: I have been thinking. Since you kind of fathered this, it's only just if I grant you some parental rights: So you may use it in the shower - but only once a week! Framed or stripped, at your convenience. No questions asked. -k2

ctfchallenge		29-Oct-2007 21:59
Yes, quite "cluttered". I should have allowed these dipthingys. Great bw tones here and I suppose the left are shadows for the faux positive negative effect. I don't think it needs a frame. -tv

mcbit		29-Oct-2007 20:06
Lovely work Kiki, almost makes me feel like putting drop shadows back on me church! :) -mcbit

Rod		29-Oct-2007 19:26
100% crops, so if I strip away the frame I will end up pixel peeping.................never:-)

jbhgmvo		29-Oct-2007 14:56
CJ ; thank you :) They are both "positives" btw, 100% crops. Originals are #2 and 3 in my tiny tiny inbox on pbase. (I'm wrestling "cluttered" on overtime and have actually had 6 viewers! :D -k2

ctfchallenge		29-Oct-2007 14:21
I like the way you've matched up the inverse b&w images Kiki. I've never done dropdown shadows - I'll have to try it just to annoy Rod !;-D CJ

ctfchallenge		29-Oct-2007 12:08
COAmature: You are my friend for life! (Where were you during my plastic bag ordeal??) Rod: Your signal-to-noise ratio isn't always the best. Way I figure it, you either like this, dislike it, forgot to soap, or are some kind of geographical wiz :) But go ahead, molest it - see if I care! -k2

Rod		29-Oct-2007 07:01
Gawd Doug don't encourage Kiki:-) I can't see the picy wiv the frame overpowering it. Only our Nordic Goddess could affect me from 12,000 miles away, I feel unclean just looking at it & have the uncontrollable urge to get back into the shower which I only left 10 mins ago:-) Naughty Goddess. I will download this so I can crop the frame off just so I can look at the picy:-)

Guest		29-Oct-2007 03:37
Very art like. The double frame with a drop shadow enhances it well. I'm liking this one a bunch. -COAmature

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