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May 8, 2020
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Something for the Weekend - Part 92 - Going Underground.

  • May 8, 2020
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Hi

There were some brilliant ideas in last week's cabin and woods challenge. For this week though we have had enough fresh air and are going urban, specifically into the subway. I created and rendered this image in Blender 3D, and used Adobe Substance for texturing.

 

Now the scene is set, what will you do with it? What story will you tell with your edited image? You can do anything you like, just don't get mugged!

 

 The “rules”:

  • Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
  • Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.
  • There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!

To download the image below in jpeg format at 3000 x 2000 pixels and with an embedded ICC colour profile (sRGB), hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right. Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser)

 

When posting back your image – please use the Blue reply button in this first post. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.

 

Have fun.

 

Dave

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Trevor.Dennis
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May 10, 2020

I sooooo need to get some work done 😞

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May 10, 2020

Nice job Trevor. A clever reversal of the scene which fits well with the train. Weekends aren't for work though - they are for SFTW 🙂

 

Dave

Trevor.Dennis
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May 11, 2020

Dave, there are dozens of images of underground trains on Google, but I struggled to find close enough to the subway perspective.  So it was easier to flip the subway that the train and have to fix the text.  The train is still not right, but it kind of works.  When I  used to do the Friday Challenge on Steve Caplin's 'How to Cheat at Photoshop' forum he was a total tyrant on perspective.  So much so that sometimes he'd rip me a new one and I couldn't see where the issue was.  Sometimes we can see that a composited element is not right, but can't put our finger on what the problem is.  That's something that comes with practice I'm thinking.

 

BTW  I finished those committee minutes that had loomed over me making me depressed since the beginning of February, so now I can waste as much time as I like.

May 9, 2020

It's been many, many years since I've been in a city that has an "underground", but I've heard that in more recent times, you never are completely sure of where, or even when, you'll end up (queue spooky music)...

 

 

 Glenn

Dave - your work is truly amazing!!! Thanks for doing this.

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May 12, 2020

Thank you Glenn. Step forward to the next dimension

Dave

hans-g.
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May 9, 2020

Hi, first of all I too want highly commend this newly Dave's work! Thanks!

 

To me the atmosphere appears to be very cheerless, the image closely matches it! For me therefore it was logical to renovate the underpass, AND so too in order to avoid confusion because here is no underground car park. Due to the construction it is quite busy there, inevitably. ;-)))

 

 

 

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May 9, 2020

Hi Hans - thank you.

Do I detect a pattern here? You had building work in the jail and again here 🙂 I like the bizarre, collage style.

 

Dave

 

Leslie Moak Murray
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May 9, 2020

Isolated from one of my Adobe Stock photos. Subway Selfie

jane-e
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May 9, 2020

Am I remembering that this is your son, Leslie?

Leslie Moak Murray
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May 9, 2020

He's the son of a boyfriend of mine. He was 21 when I took this. He is so photogenic, one of my favorite models.

-Edit- He isn't really a hoodlum. Just for that shoot haha

Rista12
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May 9, 2020

I steam-cleaned the place for you, Dave.

 

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May 9, 2020

Haha , folk here seem determined to clean up my carefully placed grime 🙂  There must have been an excess of bleach and soap when we ran the shopping trolley challenge a couple of weeks ago!

 

Dave

Trevor.Dennis
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May 9, 2020

Did someone leave the tap on?

davescm
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May 9, 2020

I love it - great job on the water and the walls 🙂

 

Dave

jane-e
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May 9, 2020

... and great touch with the star highlights on the helmet and watch, Trevor!

#lnp

 

~ Jane

Trevor.Dennis
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May 9, 2020

That sinking feeling.  Borrowed from an idea by Alaxandra Offe's Samu Social Sinking Streets campaign for the homeless people of Paris.

 

Ussnorway7605025
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May 9, 2020

in Sydney they started turning the water systems on to get rid of them... stopped after they got busted and people un-liked them for it

Trevor.Dennis
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May 9, 2020

There was something on our news last night, about moving the homeless who sleep on New York trains overnight, off the trains so they could fumigate them (the trains, not the homeless).  That seemed pointless unless they tested everyone who got on the train after fumigating it.  I see that a couple of the White House have tested positive, and they are all being tested every day, and I don't see that ending well.  Mean while Kim Jung Un locked himself in the toilet for three weeks, and had his meals pushed under the door.  Even that was a waste of time because they have several Kim Jung Un clones, so if one them goes down with covid-19, they wheel out another clone.  They are the only people in the entire country who get to eat decent sized meals (secretly imported Big Macs and fizzy pop).  

 

jane-e
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May 9, 2020

 

Not only did your all that chewing gum make your jaw ache, Dave, but it broke my grabber and I had to use my fingernails to clean it all up. I had to do it, though, so she can be safe while she plays in the subway station.

~ Jane

 

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May 9, 2020
  • Nice job on the clean up Jane. Is all as innocent as it looks though, or is she a mugger in disguise  >:)

Dave

jane-e
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May 9, 2020

Maybe you are confusing her with Patty McCormack, aka Rhoda Penmark, Dave? Except she wasn't a mugger either — she was a murderer!

 This toddler is as innocent as she appears, and is just going off to play.

~ Jane

 

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May 8, 2020

 

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May 9, 2020

That hole in the paving needs a gate guard before the health and safety team turn up. Of course the dinosaur may have eaten teh health and safety team!

Dave

Ussnorway7605025
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May 8, 2020

davescm
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May 8, 2020

Blimey, they grow them big where you live Graham! That one on the ceiling looks menacing.

Thanks for getting us started.

Dave