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Title: Altered images
Post by: sam on 11 May, 2023, 04:34:19 am
Photos that needed a little help. These first few were taken in Trafalgar Square, that place with all the floating Yodas (unless they've been dealt with since last I was there).

(https://i.imgur.com/uhOREEk.jpg)
(Waldo in the US and Canada)

(https://i.imgur.com/zzchzdY.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/PM2sVMC.jpg)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: mike on 11 May, 2023, 11:53:39 am
Clever.  have you seen @Koketit on instagram?  (https://www.instagram.com/koketit/ )  their scribbling on photos is absolutely brilliant.
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 11 May, 2023, 02:59:04 pm
Thank you, that has inspired me. I call this one 'Beast of the belly #9':

(https://i.imgur.com/bI1DsqG.jpg)

Brian Sewell (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/19/brian-sewell-cutting-critiques-six-of-the-best-quotes) was exhumed and pronounced it "the work of a late teenager," placing me in the ranks of Damien Hirst.

Available to art connoisseurs for 0.4555 bitcoin, crowdfunding welcome.
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: T42 on 11 May, 2023, 03:49:51 pm
Guilty, m'lud:

(https://pbase.com/johnewing/image/166341956.jpg)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: IanDG on 11 May, 2023, 05:40:59 pm
Did this when jaded forgot his shoes and went to a meeting in Glasgow in scruffy trainers

(https://live.staticflickr.com/5133/5495159157_6efe50f9d8.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/MB2JoH8u52)jaded (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/MB2JoH8u52) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 12 May, 2023, 06:03:34 am
Quote from: T42 on 11 May, 2023, 03:49:51 pm
Guilty, m'lud

I like how you’ve blurred the yo-yo and made it slightly in the shape of an ellipse,

(https://i.imgur.com/dl8lcdG.jpg) (https://youtu.be/QpqzUlnhWrE)

to give the illusion of motion. That the string is off-centre, and positioned exactly right in the hand, is just bonus verisimilitude.

Quote from: IanDG on 11 May, 2023, 05:40:59 pm
Did this when jaded forgot his shoes and went to a meeting in Glasgow in scruffy trainers

There's job satisfaction in being Dr Frankenstein.

(https://i.imgur.com/95NKYuG.jpg)

A picture I grabbed off a FNRttC thread across the road a number of years ago. I don't remember the context; it must've had something to do with this lineup being disreputable.
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: Ham on 12 May, 2023, 11:19:36 am
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGD64fTNbQzVxcxeDF8x0k4iE1RLi3w30XsNbHZ-XPDBk2BntB2jZK0M-y9QEewdZpOhOl5a5SV8pE0O67RGNvH4mJk5Cko5h-K1eNnjT5SYko98SbhUkOaBcxTHCN_70nBGJ8FpzNJuT0DfmKSZFX9IfP-mgU3W7RN7Nv9uPbT0RYLMyqMU25gPZ/s624/sponge%20bob%20trump.png)

I haven't done one of these for a while, no alteration necessary.
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 13 May, 2023, 10:40:38 am
I haven't taken many pictures of politicians. This guy could at least use a pirate patch (will put it on my to do list):

(https://i.imgur.com/MFRWCc1.jpg)
Ken Livingston is lost for words as he suddenly realises the London Eye has come loose and is headed straight for him.

(https://i.imgur.com/kYwhNYn.jpg)
Ian Blackford grills me on my voting record.

(https://i.imgur.com/lzGPDtd.jpg)
Emily Thornberry patiently gives instructions on how to knit your own jumper.

Back to alterations next time...
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: Jaded on 13 May, 2023, 01:07:27 pm
(http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/976x549/p01bqsv7.jpg)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: rogerzilla on 13 May, 2023, 05:15:58 pm
Every bloke had a thing about Clare Grogan back then.
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 13 May, 2023, 09:08:25 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/TqQemrn.jpg)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: tonycollinet on 16 May, 2023, 10:28:35 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 13 May, 2023, 05:15:58 pm
Every bloke had a thing about Clare Grogan back then.

Happy, happy birthday in a hot bath to those nice, nice nights
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: Jaded on 16 May, 2023, 10:47:13 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Altered%20Images.jpg)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 06 June, 2023, 09:11:01 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/BILdRKJ.jpg)

Altered in the sense that the skyline abruptly changed 8 years after I took this, about a 5 minute walk from home at the time. (https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/?p=10886)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 27 July, 2023, 05:01:55 am
The only alteration on this one, taken at the Science Museum in London, is the speech bubble.

(https://i.imgur.com/bw4ZGi4.jpg)

There is of course a long, illustrious history of faked moon shots.

(https://i.imgur.com/Q1MECyD.jpg)
Spotted here (https://awritersden.wordpress.com/tag/neil-armstrong/)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: T42 on 27 July, 2023, 08:55:56 am
A couple from Italy:

(https://pbase.com/image/113520162.jpg)

(https://pbase.com/image/113565166.jpg)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 27 July, 2023, 08:57:45 am
Those are brilliant.
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: T42 on 27 July, 2023, 09:05:54 am
Thanks, Sam. I've always loved mucking about in Photoshop.

Here's another, Midnight in the Garden:

(https://pbase.com/image/157201576.jpg) (https://pbase.com/johnewing/image/157201576)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 27 July, 2023, 09:20:47 am
You're in another league to me. I don't even have Photoshop anymore (unless Elements counts), and even then I never learned how to use it for other than very basic alterations. I use something called Sketch, which is a completely different kettle of fish.

(https://i.imgur.com/o9gCAEe.jpg)

(That one was like that when I got there.)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: T42 on 27 July, 2023, 09:35:36 am
Nice one.

I'm not as handy with PS as I was 10 years ago.  Alas, that goes for a lot of things.
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 27 July, 2023, 09:42:57 am
Just to be clear, the cycling fish is for real, a few villages away from me.

These are a bit more obvious:

(https://i.imgur.com/S2PNOZP.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/KzSpFc5.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/HjVrbma.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/ct3K6hL.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/gwowW2y.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/ij5H3tm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/qNfSre5.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/6f0dyYD.jpg)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: Salvatore on 27 July, 2023, 10:46:34 am
Sometimes a seascape just needs something extra. Often a just a gull will do, and I usually use the same gull, flipped or unflipped

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52289758325_6300f03288_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nEEFpk)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52308975235_2a47affbb8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nGnaVn)

Although in the past I've also used a heron

(https://live.staticflickr.com/4045/4265549365_d7ab7a905c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/7uW4dz)

Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: T42 on 27 July, 2023, 03:27:15 pm
Sunshine Home for little Girls and Boys:

(https://pbase.com/image/151293427.jpg)

Give them the boy when he is seven and...

(https://pbase.com/image/151293421.jpg)


Taking things to extremes:

J'attendrai... le jour et la nuit

(https://pbase.com/image/143783375.jpg)

Did all these with plugins from a bunch called Flaming Pear. Great fun.
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 31 October, 2023, 09:35:32 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/1tDY3iy.jpg)

It's unlikely you'll remember how Big Bird was stationed on a temporary 5th plinth and prodded to fly (https://youtu.be/yC6U6V3SkY8?si=p5uqbGtzUifXjhcV) (with the aid of a trampoline, also out of shot) over unlucky plinthers. (https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/arts-and-culture/current-culture-projects/fourth-plinth-trafalgar-square/fourth-plinth-past-commissions) The often horrendous results were scrubbed from public memory.

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Altered images
Post by: sam on 06 January, 2024, 07:48:25 am
(https://i.imgur.com/DprAhLd.jpg)

For a recent project, '12 Days of Love Actually'. The brief was to remove any vestiges of NSFW whilst making an impactful critique, though not of Keira Knightley as such.