a whole boatload of etsooi going on here... this started as a rather random shot of a light fixture in a parking lot... taken during the day...
processed for darkness...
added light rays using brushes from here: http://www.gavtrain.com/?p=2802 ...
added the bird from another shot (said bird is actually a seagull... inverted...)...
added some gradients in LR,
and then some theme colouring in PS and...
uhm... yeah...
Thank you for my get pushed challenge and I accept it!
My challenge to you is from a story about photographer Ernst Haas found in an old photography book of mine.
Haas tells of being a young boy in Austria during the German occupation. Every night families gathered in secrecy to listen to the BBC broadcast for news of the Allied progress. The broadcast always opened with the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony - da da da dum.
“It was a very important symbol,” he recalls, for the BBC was the only source of non-propaganda news. As a photographer in Vienna, Haas found he was constantly taking pictures of three items in a row and the fourth lower than the first three: three standing lamp-posts and a fourth one bent over from a bomb, three birds perched and the fourth flying down and away.
Suddenly he realized he was unconsciously photographing da da da dum.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to replicate Ernst Haas’s style of da da da dum.
@farmreporter Do you mind if I have a go at this... not to muscle in on the get pushed challenge (sounds far too competitive for me!) but because your story had prompted an idea.
May I muscle in on Wend's get pushed challenge to you? Not to be competitive (I prefer collaboration to competition) but because its given me a silly idea!
)
@yrhenwr I think both Northy and I would welcome you to give this challenge a try. I am really looking forward to seeing your idea!
And please do not think that the get pushed challenge is too competitive. On the contrary, it is quite friendly with people at all levels and often it is the newbies who win.
Get pushed is an awesome challenge that I highly recommend to everyone, no matter what your level or skill. It is the opportunity to pair with others who tend to follow you throughout your whole project even after the week is over that makes this challenge so positive.
Here is the link that will tell you all about it: http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/26946/get-pushed-faqs
@yrhenwr go for it! i can't wait to see what you come up with :) i also have a silly idea to try - although i'm not sure i'll be able to make it work :) @farmreporter
My challenge to you is from a story about photographer Ernst Haas found in an old photography book of mine.
Haas tells of being a young boy in Austria during the German occupation. Every night families gathered in secrecy to listen to the BBC broadcast for news of the Allied progress. The broadcast always opened with the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony - da da da dum.
“It was a very important symbol,” he recalls, for the BBC was the only source of non-propaganda news. As a photographer in Vienna, Haas found he was constantly taking pictures of three items in a row and the fourth lower than the first three: three standing lamp-posts and a fourth one bent over from a bomb, three birds perched and the fourth flying down and away.
Suddenly he realized he was unconsciously photographing da da da dum.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to replicate Ernst Haas’s style of da da da dum.
)
And please do not think that the get pushed challenge is too competitive. On the contrary, it is quite friendly with people at all levels and often it is the newbies who win.
Get pushed is an awesome challenge that I highly recommend to everyone, no matter what your level or skill. It is the opportunity to pair with others who tend to follow you throughout your whole project even after the week is over that makes this challenge so positive.
Here is the link that will tell you all about it: http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/26946/get-pushed-faqs
@farmreporter