Something for the Weekend - Part 245 - Hiding in Plain Sight!

[davescm]

Hi,

Thanks to everyone who took the time to put forward an image in our previous 'Electric Avenue' challenge. The imagination in this group is excellent.

This week we have different challenge. Cellphone masts appear everywhere these days and sometimes they are bare masts but occasionally the cellphone companies disguise them with a few tree tree branches or similar. I got to thinking that the collective imagination around here could do better than that. So I bring you a undisguised mast, actually it is an an Adobe 3D asset that I textured, rendered, and added to a photograph of some trees near Loch Morlich in Scotland. How will you cunningly disguise it?

For this week can I add an additional request, when you post your response can you add just a few words on how you went about it. It may help others see the potential of different approaches, software, and tools to such a challenge.

The “rules”:

• Use the starter image as at least part of your own image entry.
• 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. This is not just for our forum “regulars”.
• The challenge is not limited to Photoshop. Any Adobe software can be used. 
• There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off your skills, or bring a bit of humor and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!
• The starter image is made available for you to use in this forum challenge only.

To download the starter image, 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 and use the 'Insert Photos' icon at the top of the reply box. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry, then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.

Have fun!

Dave

[Oh.N8]

Welcome to the community: @Yss12345 
LIke the concept. 

[davescm]

The racoon preparing to take the pictures made me laugh!
Dave

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

No caws for alarm, everybody.

[Leslie Moak Murray]

That image is really something to crow about

[Jacob Bugge]

But had it been

a smaller kind

and in a larger number

it would have been a murder

[davescm]

Very original use of the mast, Brad. I love the helmet, and armour, that go with the new beak. 🙂
Dave

[Oh.N8]

Caw! Caw! 
Very clever.

[GeekyGirlRex]

I always thought the Beijing Cauldron was the prettiest!

[AlanGilbertson]

Great idea (and nicely done compositing)!

[GeekyGirl Karin Rex]

Thank you!

[davescm]

Very nice, Geeky Girl Rex. I wonder though if it is only me that thought it would be great to put boards on that spiral and use it as a helter skelter! 🙂
Dave

[jane-e]

Pretty sure no one will ever figure out this disguise!  

Jane

[Greg_S.]

It must have been left behind by the Romans.

[Jacob Bugge]

Who had deleloped three more literae than hitherto known.

[davescm]

Haha, they'll never guess its use now. It looks like Cicero had a bad signal 🙂
Dave

[jane-e]

I forgot to add a few words about my methods, which were straightforward and simple. The cell phone is vector from Adobe Stock. All I did was change the user name and the time, then placed it as an SO in Dave's starter image.

Jane

[Leslie Moak Murray]

Haha Jane! Thanks for not using that text from me where I used bad language 

[davescm]

Thanks to all who have taken part in this challenge. The new challenge is now up and running here : https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/something-for-the-weekend-part-246-ho...
Dave