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Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:03 pm**

Half of our erstwhile admin duo captured during the Hunter Vintage weekend earlier this month. There's something about this image that appeals to me compositionally. Am I mad or do you see it too (and please no snide remarks about my taste in subjects :wink:

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Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:12 pm**

Needs more USM Peter, there's no halo! Right Leigh? :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:33 pm**

Peter, I like it too. The composition and pose, combined with the expression give the impression of a soldier making a big decision in the heat of battle. I doubt it was something so serious Leigh was pondering on.

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:38 pm**

it's a dramatic portrait in the likes of the best communist posters.
it's inspirational
although the tone is quite gloomy

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:38 pm**

Yes you are mad... and yes I see it too.

Next Question?

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:00 pm**

Wendel hit it on the head. Statuesque. A good image. Very Eastern bloc type image. The peoples hero.

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:03 pm**

if Leigh leads i shall follow blindly

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:23 pm**

wendellt wrote:if Leigh leads i shall follow blindly

Lenin reincarnation in Australia? I have to start looking for another place to live :arrow:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:12 pm**

I agree that with the 'Statuesque' comment, sums it up nicely.
He's almost got a Mona Lisa smile happening too. :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:45 pm**

peter.. i think the shot is great.... hope you don't mind me playing with the image a bit.

if it's offensive to anyone out there let me know and i'll remove it.

cheers

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:03 pm**

Damnit Xerebus... I just got a new avatar!!! :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:06 pm**

Nnnnsic wrote:Damnit Xerebus... I just got a new avatar!!!

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:06 pm**

Mark,
You brought up something new for our admin!
Are you seeing he's one of the "cold blood" comrades of CCCP? :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:14 pm**

Mark, priceless :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:32 pm**

LOL Mark, fantastic! :lol:

The new Che, soon to be seen on an Arts student's t-shirt near you! :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:23 pm**

Mark
Thanks for the laugh. That is great!

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:32 pm**

Sweeeet.

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:09 pm**

Hmmm ... I took a slightly different view

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:10 pm**

Wow!!!!!

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:19 pm**

I think Leigh needs a robe. Roman style
Jethro

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:48 pm**

sorry peter.. didn't mean to get the thread hijacked... :oops:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:54 pm**

LOL - fantastic Mark = mmm, what can I come up with next - ahhh, the next challenge should be a standard photo, that everyone has to interpret in some way in PS and change ....

and it goes to show that we need to 'get lives'

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:56 pm**

blacknstormy wrote:LOL - fantastic Mark = mmm, what can I come up with next - ahhh, the next challenge should be a standard photo, that everyone has to interpret in some way in PS and change ....

and it goes to show that we need to 'get lives'

perhaps start a new thread and post a royalty free image so that Peter's post can get back to normal

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:59 pm**

Don't you guy know that he was "born to lock" and he's a super locker on this forum.
Pls. don't dare to hijack his thread. :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:10 pm**

blacknstormy wrote:LOL - fantastic Mark = mmm, what can I come up with next - ahhh, the next challenge should be a standard photo, that everyone has to interpret in some way in PS and change ....

and it goes to show that we need to 'get lives'

Love to try it. Leighs head on Pammy Andersons bod, Che, etc, but I don't have a clue how to do it in PS....

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:12 pm**

ok - bounce the ball back to you Mark -
Leigh is David

(Quick and dirty sorry)

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:17 pm**

Apologies Peter :oops:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:00 pm**

Guys

What have you done to my finely wrought image (and you in particular Rel - a naked Leigh I did NOT need)

Well done all of you. My pick is the wings, but the David comes bloody close.

Before you all cower in fear my sense of humour is well and trully intact. This thread will not be locked (yet, mwhahahah)

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:06 pm**

stubbsy wrote:Before you all cower in fear my sense of humour is well and trully intact. This thread will not be locked (yet, mwhahahah)

excellent!

another quick and dirty.. house is on

cheers

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:08 pm**

Shit Mark - I'm going to have nightmares now !!!!

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:17 pm**

Comic book guy: best thread ever.

Rarely do threads make me laugh as much as this one.

I need a random avatar code. :lol:

Keep em up, come on then! :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:38 pm**

Stubbsy - I know I said I was finished, but Leigh asked for it

(and Alpha suggested it)

TA DA - I now present, the MONA LEIGH

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:51 pm**

Wow, defacement of art with the Mona Leigh-sa... :lol:

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:53 pm**

And may I say, with the greatest respect Leigh, that you make a very ugly woman !!!!!

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:05 am**

This thread ....

is exactly what this forum is all about. Who gives a damn about photography: let's all deface my son!

The gloves are off, and let the photoshop games begin!

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:26 am**

If you had that face, you'd scream too. :oops:

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:51 am**

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:49 am**

I thought of captions etc.....

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:09 am**

Nnnnsic wrote:

Freud would have a field day with this and your Munch interpretation you have of your face Leigh. Good job the shrinks don't hold as firmly with his views these days.

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:36 am**

That Gentileschi painting is one of my favourite paintings of all time!

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:44 am**

Nnnnsic wrote:That Gentileschi is painting is one of my favourite paintings of all time!

I've never seen it before, but from the slightly butchered version here I can see why. It has the most amazing tonings and a lovely subtlety to it.

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:01 pm**

Oh dear ....

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:23 pm**

Quick and nasty... me and Lennon!

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:44 pm**

I'm addicted.

Hans Holbein

and

Jackson Pollock

(And yes, it's in there.)

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:45 pm**

Leigh

Jackson Pollock is inspired, but Hans Holbein I don't get. PS What sort of a monster have I unleashed :shock:

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:33 pm**

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:08 pm**

This is fun, My turn;

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:15 pm**

Is this the new Hoff or Chuck Norris?

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:26 pm**

cheers

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:27 pm**

Stubbsy:

Hans Holbein's "The Ambassadors"

The original:

My one:

Holbein painted the skull so that you physically had to put your head down on the canvas and look up at it to see the skull within the right dimensions.

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