Since I'm not familiar with all these themes, I am just looking at this as an every day shot and I LOVE it. One of the most fabulous and creative abstracts I've seen and a fav.
@digitalrn Thanks Rick! Oh, it's unique alright! @sangwann Thank you Dione! @cimes1 Thank you Carole! Thank you so much for the fav- you are too kind!! WWYD stands for What Would You Do. The host of the challenge posts a non-descript photo and challenges everyone to do something creative with it in any way, shape or form they choose. The base photo of this shot was a statue (in very muted colors) seen from across a river. I enlarged the statue and played around with the coloring, tilted the picture, merged the photos of the mannequin and penguin, and then put it through that effect in Ribbet that makes it look like a bunch of shots put together and changed the background color to compliment the funky colors in the original shot. The final step was to add the text and play around with that until I got the contrasting colors I was looking for. I didn't set out with this goal in mind. The only concrete idea I had in mind was using the statue as a backdrop for a "model". The mannequin is actually on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the penguin came from the New England Aquarium. He's there to fill space and definitely adds some humor to a picture that should definitely not be taken seriously!
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Thank you Henri and Bev! This was a real mish-mash of photo editing, but I'd promised Chrystal I'd give it a go if she extended the due date. It still wasn't exactly what I thought might be good, but she liked it!
September 25th, 2012
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Thank you Kerri, Cathy, Damon, Jackie, Karen and Laraine! Glad you all are liking it- crazy as it is!
@sangwann Thank you Dione!
@cimes1 Thank you Carole! Thank you so much for the fav- you are too kind!! WWYD stands for What Would You Do. The host of the challenge posts a non-descript photo and challenges everyone to do something creative with it in any way, shape or form they choose. The base photo of this shot was a statue (in very muted colors) seen from across a river. I enlarged the statue and played around with the coloring, tilted the picture, merged the photos of the mannequin and penguin, and then put it through that effect in Ribbet that makes it look like a bunch of shots put together and changed the background color to compliment the funky colors in the original shot. The final step was to add the text and play around with that until I got the contrasting colors I was looking for. I didn't set out with this goal in mind. The only concrete idea I had in mind was using the statue as a backdrop for a "model". The mannequin is actually on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the penguin came from the New England Aquarium. He's there to fill space and definitely adds some humor to a picture that should definitely not be taken seriously!
Thank you Henri and Bev! This was a real mish-mash of photo editing, but I'd promised Chrystal I'd give it a go if she extended the due date. It still wasn't exactly what I thought might be good, but she liked it!