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Flying forks

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:02 pm
by blacknstormy
mmm, playing with forks on mirrors give some 'interesting' effects .... a fork flying through the sky??? ;)

Image

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:42 pm
by Dug
LOVE IT!!!!!

it looks like it is flying.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:45 pm
by blinkblink
That's a forking good shot.


:D

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:56 pm
by Alpha_7
Awesome Rel, it really looks like it flying at you, any more real and I'd have ducked :)

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:00 pm
by Killakoala
Sweet. You could put an eye out with that one.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:24 pm
by Oneputt
Very creative Rel :D Move over Wendell :wink:

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:52 pm
by blacknstormy
 LOL - thanks guys - kind of reminds me of Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (mainly 'cos it's just bloody stupid ;) , but I loved the books - So long and thanks for the fish)

Glad you liked it

Rel

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:10 pm
by Alpha_7
Rel where are you going to find a Bowl of Petunia's and a Sperm whale ?

I love the books too :) Do you keep a towel with you when you travel ?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:26 pm
by Zeeke
Rel, find a gecko and do that!! :D

Top shot, it does look like its flying.. very clever

Tim

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:26 pm
by thaddeus
You should frame these and sell them as gifts for those who don't give a flying fork

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:27 pm
by Manta
Alpha_7 wrote:Rel where are you going to find a Bowl of Petunia's and a Sperm whale ?

I love the books too :) Do you keep a towel with you when you travel ?


She certainly does - comes in handy for diffusing flash light when photographing the ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal..

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:29 pm
by marcotrov
Very interesting and creative Rel. What's its Latin name :lol:
cheers
marco

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:03 pm
by blinkblink
Glad to see there are plenty of froody dudes who know where thier towels are.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:07 pm
by LostDingo
That is creative! 10 Points!

Very dimensional image

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:26 pm
by Alpha_7
Manta wrote:
Alpha_7 wrote:Rel where are you going to find a Bowl of Petunia's and a Sperm whale ?

I love the books too :) Do you keep a towel with you when you travel ?


She certainly does - comes in handy for diffusing flash light when photographing the ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal..


Strange, I haven't seen her post a shot of the Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

Here is a little more of what the Guide has to say about towels specifically concerning the photography of the Bugblatter Beast.....
...or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous)...

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:29 pm
by JZA70-mel
If it's on a mirror, where is its reflection? PP'ed out?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:30 pm
by Slider
Very nice Rel . :D Creativity Plus..

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:52 pm
by blacknstormy
Hey, I'm from a different planet. It's true - want to see my spaceship????

Thanks everyone - and yep, there was a reflection that was pp'd out - gotta love the clone :)

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:00 pm
by blacknstormy
And yes, I always have a towel..... it has great practical value, but more importantly, immense psychological value :) Clearly, anyone that can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is , is clearly a man (woman) to be reckoned with - :)

Boy, do I need a pan galactic gargle blaster badly !!!!! ;)

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:00 pm
by kipper
Wouldn't it be easier to use fishing line and hang the forks so that you can take a shot with a desirable backdrop. Then clone that out the visible wire, it'd be less obtrusive than a reflection. Making it easier for you to clone out.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:02 pm
by Geoff
kipper wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to use fishing line and hang the forks so that you can take a shot with a desirable backdrop. Then clone that out the visible wire, it'd be less obtrusive than a reflection. Making it easier for you to clone out.


That's just being way too clever and sensible Kipper :)

Great shot Rel :)

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:08 pm
by blacknstormy
Kipper - tried that, but the bloody clouds that I tied the fishing wire to kept on moving, and I couldn't keep up with the damn fork. And then the fishing line broke, and well, I've got a hell of a tine mark in my forehead :)

Thanks Geoff

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:20 pm
by Alpha_7
blacknstormy wrote:Boy, do I need a pan galactic gargle blaster badly !!!!! ;)


I'll shout you one and your patience hubby of yours, if I ever get to meet you :) Then you can take me for a spin in that spaceship :)

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:41 pm
by blacknstormy
Alpha, you're on - and I even have the recipe :)

Juice from 1 bottle of the Ol' Janx spirit
Combine with one measure of water from teh seas of santraginus
3 cubes of arcturan mega-gin melted into mixture (it must be properly iced, or the benzine is lost)
4 litres of fallian marsh gas

use the back of a silver spoon to float a measure of qualactin hypermint extract

drop in a tooth from an algolian suntiger and watch it dissolve

sprinkle with zamphuor

add an olive

drink.... but very carefully :)

http://video.movies.go.com/hitchhikersg ... tStreet=1&

:)

play the drinking game, is kind of fun :) :cheers:

PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:00 pm
by Dug
Pan galactic gargle blasters!!!!!

like having your brain smashed with a gold brick wrapped in a lemon slice.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:30 am
by Willigan
Top shot Rel - very creative. The fork is hanging above the Earth exactly the same way a brick doesn't :D

PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:29 pm
by BT*ist
Very clever shot indeed.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:36 pm
by dooda
Another way to do this would be to get a stock photo and composite the fork onto the sky with the cloudy background. A little cloning and you're there. Sort of like the George Lucas way of doing things.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:04 pm
by CraigVTR
No matter how you do the shot, just remember to get clearance from air traffic control first.

Great shot


Craig