"DOG n SUDS"
November, 2004
This won 2nd Place and a Jury's Pick - Gold Star.
I had a difficult time gaining inspiration for this photo.
CONTEST CHALLENGE
Use part of this photo to create a new and interesting image.
I used this photo..
"Tornado"
FINISHED ENTRY PHOTO
"CLOSED - Tornado Alert"
This took hours to complete. I 'tweaked' the color in both images, to create the eerie lighting that sometimes comes with a tornado. Direction of light source has changed, cars are gone, shadows are changed, sign has changed. What else can you find that's different?
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CRITIQUES BY OTHER MEMBERS
wingbat says:
"Nice lighting effect. Color saturation gives it a surreal look. Pretty cool."
flondo says:
"not bad - Your close cutting needs work - particularly around the sign circle
And the whole thing could be desaturated to give it a gloomier look - it's a bit bright for tornado weather. MM?"
robster says:
"very well done!"
Budmulla says:
"wow that pretty cool might be abit better if ya had some things flying in the air!!"
advertizatt says:
"Great idea and I love the color composition. Good job"
Ravenge says:
"nicely done"
sktzofrenic says:
"First of all AM stations are always whole numbers (1180, 1260) while FM stations are decimals (97.9, or 99.3). Second the tornado looks like a cloud thats just errantly wanders onto the terrain."
m000ch says:
"nicely done."
Beetleb says:
"Nice color work"
xke4de says:
"Very nice, like the work"
DJDave says:
"Great minds DO think alike.. LOL good job!!"
I REPLIED
MystyMoon says:
"Flondo.. MM = YES How did you know?
Thank you for the critique. I'll take a closer look at the close cutting. As for the color; I kept adding to it until it matched a photo of a tornado we had here in Penn. two years ago. The sky looked just like that. Very eerie."
"Budmulla...Look at the 'full view' there's stuff flying around down closer to the twister."
"sktzofrenic... I'm feeling VERY BLOND at the moment... LOL
That's a real twister. View the source photo url I added with the entry."
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