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Creative => Photography & Graphics => Topic started by: Duckman on September 12, 2014, 11:38:27
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A sailor,
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went to sea
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sea
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Sea
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to see what he could see,
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see
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see
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but all that he could see
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see
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see
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Those pictures were gorgeous! Very well done! :)
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was the bottom
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(http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/Ak0MzkNk0hZcOM/8985170.0/800/p/DSCF0394_%282%29.jpg) (http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/Ak0MzkNk0hZcOM/8985170.0/1200/p/DSCF0394_%282%29.jpg)
(http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/Ak0MzkNk0hZcOM/8944456.0/800/p/DSCF0417.jpg) (http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/Ak0MzkNk0hZcOM/8944456.0/1200/p/DSCF0417.jpg)
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of the deep blue sea
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sea
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(http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/c2iDkYkJYM0MM0/8950239.0/800/p/DSCF0391.jpg) (http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/c2iDkYkJYM0MM0/8950239.0/1200/p/DSCF0391.jpg)
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sea
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Amazing photos, brilliant concept ... and sad ending!
But especially the amazing photos.
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Great pics indeed - though I'm not fond of unhappy endings...
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I was scrolling down the pictures and thought: "Now just a shark is missing."
You thought of everything....
Very cool pictures!
Cheers,
HDL
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Beautiful, and touching. :clap:
And such great photography and locations and details in the scenes. Wow!
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Great pictures and story. ;)
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Great photos I like the one of them on the beach and the underwater shtos are really brilliant pefectly showing of fthe sebaed and the detail on the boat :), I hope the Klickies were alright after their ordeal :( ;)
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What a wonderful and original idea :love:
Beautifully photographed and told, simple yet incredibly effective :)
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Absolutely brilliant! Really great pictures. I would have had a hard time putting any of my playmobil at risk, but the results are amazing.
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Wonderful photos. I was getting concerned about the boat in those waves and then there it was under water. I agree the shark is the perfect touch, and nicely posed. Great little story
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Hi,
and thanks everyone for your very kind comments.
It didn’t start out as a story just a go at underwater photography, the story just sort of developed but in reverse with the underwater shots being done first, the shortcomings of doing that way became apparent later when we came to do the photos in the sea, in fact to get the whole sequence presented a number of challenges.
1 Sinking the boat; this required removing the polystyrene floatation from the inside the hull, which is where we discovered that Playmobil had done something very unusual, They’d used glue! So although the polystyrene is just slotted in, the cargo hold that keeps it in place is glued in to the hull. To make the boat sink to the bottom we had break up the and remove most of the polystyrene.
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2. Photographing what you can’t see; short of holding your breath and sticking your head underwater for as long as you can, the only way to take the pictures is to point the lens in roughly the right direction press and hope for the best. Even when photographing from above the reflective water and screen make seeing what‘s in frame and in focus impossible.
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3. Toward the light and in the clear; the camera we use is the camera of a thousand settings, all of them rubbish, that is except for one, bright sunlight in sunlight it works great so you wait and wait for a gap in the clouds and then snap away like a crazy fool, but don’t disturb the water or what you get is!
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4 The locals; everyone loves having their photo taken and sooner or later the local inhabitants appear and make a grab for the spotlight.
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5. All at sea; turns out it’s really quite tricky to float a very small boat on a very big sea especially if that sea is usually used for hurtling surfers towards the beach and you’ve removed the floatation aid and all the screws that hold the deck to the hull which would at least keep some of the very big sea from endlessly sinking the very small boat. It was a bit like watching Titanic but on fast forward! Boat goes in water, first wave comes, boat fills with water, boat at bottom of sea, empty and repeat… However with some Blutack, endless repetition of emptying of sea from inside the boat and with only the loss of a silver storage box, a non Playmobil grappling hook, a broken mast support, broken rope holders from top of both masts and a good soaking for me the sea photos were finished.
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6. Faking it; Only after getting back from holiday and looking at the pics we’d taken we noticed that there was a bit of a narrative especially with the photo where the boat is about to capsize for the millionth time. The only small hurdle to completing the story was that we were now 298 miles from where we’d taken them. So a little subterfuge was called for. We took the pictures of them floating gently out to sea at a local pond and the beach pictures taken at a disused Quarry.
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One final photo. Last shot of the evening where the sea photos were taken.
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So interesting - 'behind the scenes'.
and with only the loss of a silver storage box, a non Playmobil grappling hook, a broken mast support, broken rope holders from top of both masts and a good soaking for me the sea photos were finished.
'And with only'...!!
Amazing patience as well as amazing photos.
And I love the seahorse. ;D
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Well done! And what an original idea! Reading your 'behind the screens' part then yes, you must have lots of patience.
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The seahorse made me laugh out loud! :lol: interesting behind the scenes tour. Sounds like it definitely took a lot of patience.
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It's good to see you back, Duckman, and what a comeback with excellent photos and a very original story. Bravo! :wave:
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Thanks for the behind the scenes. That was as interesting as the story and some of the photos were just as good. It does seem like a lot of effort, but the results were worth it.
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And the sailor even missed the mermaid ?
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I LOVED THIS!! :love: :love: :love:
:clap: :clap: :clap:
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Well done on those photos the behind the scenes bit makes you relaise how many trials had to be overcome and how much work goe sinto it but, all good fun getting wet right? ;D ;) Some of those shots are really beautiful like the ones on the pond, I like it when the wildlife decides to come see what you're doing adds another dimension to the photo and besides they don't know what we're doing trying to take photos
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Wow!! That was really great!! Excellent idea with amazing pictures!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!!
George. :)
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Fan of the blue atmosphere. And photography-wise some of those are a piece of art.
Can't wait for a sunken city photo project. ;)