Good idea Zac. The texture and whatnot on the wall as well as the pattern, color, text, great.
ONLY one thing man, the fire hydrant. Maybe you didn't blur for a reason......?
Good idea Zac. The texture and whatnot on the wall as well as the pattern, color, text, great.
ONLY one thing man, the fire hydrant. Maybe you didn't blur for a reason......?
nice image zac...i agree with everything phix said. Neps, you're up mang!
We only make new mods when we need them and only for the forums in which they are needed. Since this part is all pretty much up to fate, member 'seniority' isn't always the only factor. I would say there are a number of people who 'deserve' to be a mod, but there has simply been no need for another mod on the forums that focus on the topics related to their area of expertise. :)
For anyone interested, mods aren't appointed based on time spent on the boards alone. Attitude towards and interaction with other members is a key factor in the selection process. If anyone has it in their head that they want to be a mod then the best thing they can do is to be helpful, friendly and tolerant in all their dealings with other members. This behavior will not go unnoticed by the mods...who are the ones who decide who becomes one or not. Keep in mind also that there is at least one mod that makes it his personal mission to ensure that no one is elevated to modship that might abuse his/her position and/or power. (yeah, that would be me) All it takes is an example or two of bad posting behavior...which is easily obtained through a quick search through your posting history...and the member in question is quickly filtered out of the mod candidate pool.
So if any of you have it in your head that you want to be a mod, then here are some things that you can do that will probably help you achieve that.
1) Be helpful
2) Be nice
3) Be consistent in handing out the two above. :angel:
4) Oh yeah, you also want to avoid posting videos of yourself singing painfully bad karaoke. (Just kidding with that one!) :D
looks like the cat's out of the bag, lefteye...
Zac, I like the idea, and the simplicity of your volley. And the blur line is very close, maybe if you would have loosened it up around the hydrant (which IS in the field of view if you line it up...) it would have help together better. Still nice job.
damm...i got slammed in 2 forums :D.
nice way to work that in there rush..lol :thumbsup:
Hahaha...you're still the man, Lefty! :hug: I just couldn't resist... :p
The image... the left side of he image keeps sticking out to me. But I like the urban feel that it has, and the position of the moon is just right... I'll be working on an interesting piece thanks to a fine volley. Nice work Zac!
Thanks for you feedback guys. My idea was to bring the hydrant into focus and have the area behind it immediately out of focal length to strengthen a feeling of depth. I think my execution is just off and that's probably causing the conflict. I'll work on it for a while. Good luck nep, let me know if you want some stocks.
Nice idea Zac.
So... when is lefteye getting his bold letters?
And basically what rush is saying is that Im too much of a power hungry ***** to be mod :D
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You're one of my absolute favorite people on this board, Nats. :hug:
Alright kids get a room. JK... I'm just jealous because I want to join in on the hug. Maybe I'll catch the next one.
Alright Nep, you're not allowed to give me hell and then take this long. Let's get movin big guy. :D
Here it is fellas. Sorry for the delay... I wanted to get the blending down.... took me a while to get to where I wanted it.
Peace.
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/3...realismwc1.jpg
Fantastic image. You did a great job with the blending. I like that the lady bug really 'pops', but I think it's because it has much more pixel information than the leaves it sits on. The blending of the road and the previous volley as well as the the other textures really rocks. Very creative. I'm constantly overwhelmed by the towering mountains in the background (in a good way). They almost give me a tingling sense of vertigo.
I think your color pallet works well and your texture overlays are handled well. Your concept of a tree growing through the asphalt doesn't seem contrived in any way as I would see something like that in almost any other image. But I think that sort of goes along with your ever creative approach to the visual arts. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
edit: OUCH. A bunch of mixed feelings, nep. The image seems be a bit more balanced now without the tree yet I feel it lacks as much personality. Now it looks sort of "corporate".
LOVE the colours, love the almost "painted" feel.
Where did you find this stock?
Yep, interesting style. Almost like blurred vectors. Having the road slightly skewed actually seems to give an impression of motion. Nice one, nep! :thumbsup:
On this piece I didn't really do a lot, just skewed the road a bit and blended a couple of images, I actually have to apologize for I edited my post a couple of times. Zac I think saw the initial image. I promise I will not post and edit after I post.
The stocks are the following:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/634568,
I can't remember what was my search criteria for the the other two images, I know one was of the Bonsai tree and Mountains, they're all were found in google... shoot...
Sorry Nats, I will make it a point of keeping track of the images from now on, but there were three images, originally there were like 5 or six.
peace!
blended. nice nice nice!
really cool one nep, ill try and get to work soon
Beautiful image Nep. I wouldn't mind seeing a background-sized version...
Understated and creative way of sliding the element in there.