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pinebeach said:
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So here's one of mine from a photoshoot done in winter and yes it was a c c cold day but I like winter. Horse is a Gypsy Vanner and he is being led into a pasture to run around so I could get some 'action' shots too. I always include some b/w but I add a touch of blue to the photo so it doesn't appear too much on the gray scale. :)

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Horses are so gorgeous. You can just see the handiwork of God in a horse. Beautiful shot!
 
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This is my first day here. I've participated in photo and photo editing forums, so naturally I found this thread. I like to take my photos and turn them into comics or memes. These are two of the first selfies I ever took.
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This reminds of a place we visited in TN. It had all different types of birds. They all loved my hubby!! lol All the shot are of him with the birds on his shoulder or arm. Great moment for a picture!
 
Eli1 said:
How about this one?
I consider this a piece of loss of innocence too but in historical terms.
These men knew that they could die and some of them did during the construction of these buildings during that era, but they were determined, brave and hard working people.

If you try to pull that off today there would be lawyers crawling like vultures. They have turned the society into an annoying place where a lot of people are like "i'm gonna sue your mom, i'm gonna sue your dad, i'm gonna sue your 3rd cousin for not specifying the terms of my work conditions which i didn't read because i'm too lazy"
In a group of 2 people now, 3 are lawyers.

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That is scary!! I hate heights and there is no way I could do that or take that photo! o_O
 
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@YouOnlyLiveTwice
As they say, be careful what you ask for.
It's my first day, and I don't want to wear out my welcome.
I might just park myself here.
Actually, I'm doing some reading on the site and figuring out where I might contribute to some conversations.
I figure my first forays will define me as a Christian, so I want to be judicious.
Thanks for y'all's encouragement so far.
See you tomorrow...
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Oh, I want this time of year back! lol Great shots, and timing too! I think I feel closest to God out of doors and watching His creation.
 
Eli1 said:
Do the white eyes mean anything to you?
What grabbed my attention were their shadows and I immediately thought: children robbed of a childhood.
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Yeah. It's like they have had the soul sucked out of them. The white is done on purpose. They are not children anymore and robbed by adults who already have no souls...obviously not meaning no souls in the absolute context
 
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PAC-fit said:
But to that special cream of the crop whom the industry coined back in the 1970s, "The Super Realist", these were a special lot who pushed an astounding amount of paint at an expeditious pace. I happened to work with one, my friend Jos. I have him on film the day he painted two elderly portraits (3-foot tall heads) in 1:05 hrs. They called him Jos-o-matic.
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I might have seen some of those. Would have been a little underaged at the time though. There is a forum I will pass time on from time to time, 'bored panda' and they have all kinds of contributions and some really really fantastic artists including those particular to realism. I mean honestly, sometimes you can hardly tell they are art...hyper realism I think is the term coined now.

PAC-fit said:
He and I developed a facilitator to get things rolling right along. I really don't remember the ratio, but it wouldn't matter if it were water-based or oil. If water-based just us a little water in some suitable extender. If oil, then use a little 100% mineral spirits in linseed oil (preferably white refined). This is applied before and after color in the process to extend set time. Run some test through a chemical hand-sprayer providing your supplier isn't supplying you with some pretty anemic paint viscosities to begin with $$$!
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Well you get what you ask for I guess. drip drip drip LOL!

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Then came the day. they wanted to put our half-tone fields to the test. Who did they pick for this gem, yep, your's truly. It wouldn't surprise me if they were running wagers on this one, quite unusual. It was a success, a run of the mill advertisement, 10' x 40' with the exception of its field being an even transition of a bright lemon Yellow on top to a rich dark purple on bottom. I recall that day as disregarding the in-house artwork and devised my 2-foot sectional colors to be a smooth exchange as possible, as I recall obviously, yellow, orange, red, blue, purple. Those of you who have been muralist for an extended time know how to achieve an even transition, each hue has to be placed in full view by percentages. Not covering one by fogging or glazing over, you'll ruin your potential!
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Not an easy task. I've just done that on canvas. Although I've done some pretty big murals, nothing requiring that.

PAC-fit said:
I don't care if it's spray or brush, each color has to be pulled into the next, building that up as you go. But even with my handy spray bottle concoction, those bulletin colors are made as fast-setting. And do yourself a favor and get a brush/roller spinner to freshen up or clean out your 4" finishing mop to smooth out licks of the brush. I would have a 3" brush in each of the five colors.

My technique; Snap your 2-foot lines and spray 5' or 6' wide swaths, two sections down. but only lay in the sectional color 4' to 5' wide. What you want to end up with is the faintest amount of he lower hue reaching half way into the above color. I do this by crosshatch brushstrokes going from one end to the other staying on track as I make my way into the next line of crosshatch. Its exhausting at first but youth is on your side!! Depending on the quality of your paint will dictate how much spray you'll use.
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Sounds both technical and professional. I've seen some awful, as in just about hurts your eyes, murals and what have you. Everyone's an artist just like these days everyone's a photographer. sigh

PAC-fit said:
Ha! I say "no glaze", yet one day saved a botched field of over 700 sq ft. Enjoy!
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Did you have a picture with this? Don't see one?
 
Eli1 said:
How about this one?
I consider this a piece of loss of innocence too but in historical terms.
These men knew that they could die and some of them did during the construction of these buildings during that era, but they were determined, brave and hard working people.

If you try to pull that off today there would be lawyers crawling like vultures. They have turned the society into an annoying place where a lot of people are like "i'm gonna sue your mom, i'm gonna sue your dad, i'm gonna sue your 3rd cousin for not specifying the terms of my work conditions which i didn't read because i'm too lazy"
In a group of 2 people now, 3 are lawyers.

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In one of my classes in university, there was a native American Indian guy (really nice guy) and he had actually done some work in construction and he said that being Indian they don't have that fear of heights so many have. Anyway, that's what he said.

These days you just about need to wear a helmet getting your mail. When I think of some of the stuff I did with my friends growing up, how free we were and ignorant of danger (there were a few time you can look back and it seems God must have protected you. Did some dangerous things.

This country does not have the term 'litigation nation' for nothing! LOL! Being Canadian, we are just so polite of course said with my fingers behind my back and crossed :rolleyes: ;)
 
Eli1 said:
How about this one?
I consider this a piece of loss of innocence too but in historical terms.
These men knew that they could die and some of them did during the construction of these buildings during that era, but they were determined, brave and hard working people.

If you try to pull that off today there would be lawyers crawling like vultures. They have turned the society into an annoying place where a lot of people are like "i'm gonna sue your mom, i'm gonna sue your dad, i'm gonna sue your 3rd cousin for not specifying the terms of my work conditions which i didn't read because i'm too lazy"
In a group of 2 people now, 3 are lawyers.

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Like 'soulsearch', a popular image from our childhoods. But it wasn't just insurance companies wanting to quell mortality rates from accidents, but surviving parents, spouses approaching reps for some sanity from this environment. A long time till industry accepted this, 70 years after that shot was taken. Up to that time you could work five ft to a hundred without connecting lanyards as I did for 13-years prior FYI.
 
pinebeach said:
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So here's one of mine from a photoshoot done in winter and yes it was a c c cold day but I like winter. Horse is a Gypsy Vanner and he is being led into a pasture to run around so I could get some 'action' shots too. I always include some b/w but I add a touch of blue to the photo so it doesn't appear too much on the gray scale. :)

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Terrific markings and fantastic image!!
 
pinebeach said:
Did you have a picture with this? Don't see one?
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No, sure don't. But do have a bunch of glazed bubbles here at my workstation,
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and then on the street. Detail is right above the L in "Less".
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Sorry, my snapshots didn't always measure up.
 
pinebeach said:
See, I could never do that kind of work. The drops are admirable. I would just get so frustrated with this :censored:
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Got that right, and I'm about to drop in on the 70yr old crowd and it would be quite amusing to watch myself try those things I did when I was 35. Patience and stamina both took a hit. Ha! But hey, the pay wasn't bad at $1.35 per sq. ft. The Lite Beer was on a nice fresh piece of vinyl, 14' x 48', ya, 672 ft. Installer came in took it away and put a fresh one up for you, and paints were supplied. You cut your own hours as long as output stayed reasonable. What frustrated me most back then was my personal fine art was going up in flames from burnout at all that grinder work. If youth is still with you and you see an opportunity come your way, don't take something that ends up consuming your artistic energies!
 
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pinebeach said:
Sounds both technical and professional. I've seen some awful, as in just about hurts your eyes, murals and what have you. Everyone's an artist just like these days everyone's a photographer. sigh
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well thank you! And how true including the glut of vinyl lettering startups, anything that empowers the individual somehow grants him enormous ability over painstaking training of the fine artisans and tradesman who labored to achieve a proven record.
pinebeach said:
I might have seen some of those. Would have been a little underaged at the time though.
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If I may, there is an excellent out of print book every mural artist may enjoy. Not so much on technique, but a gallery of a centuries worth of ad/murals before the turn of the century up to when it was written in 1980-83, shortly before old Dan's shop, Foster & Kleiser closed but featured therein called: Billboard Art* (ISBN 0-87701-167-2) is a paperback book by Sally Henderson and Robert Landau that examines the history of billboards and their connection to art, advertising, and societal trends." By the time I entered mural painting for industry, they were just then manufacturing machines to paint murals but not at our rate. Then came the three big vinyl shops in Chicago, Dallas and somewhere east. They finally made vinyl prints very inexpensive for the customer and we were given the heads up ahead of time, about two years before the axe.
 
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PAC-fit said:
well thank you! And how true including the glut of vinyl lettering startups, anything that empowers the individual somehow grants him enormous ability over painstaking training of the fine artisans and tradesman who labored to achieve a proven record.
If I may, there is an excellent out of print book every mural artist may enjoy. Not so much on technique, but a gallery of a centuries worth of ad/murals before the turn of the century up to when it was written in 1980-83, shortly before old Dan's shop, Foster & Kleiser closed but featured therein called: Billboard Art* (ISBN 0-87701-167-2) is a paperback book by Sally Henderson and Robert Landau that examines the history of billboards and their connection to art, advertising, and societal trends." By the time I entered mural painting for industry, they were just then manufacturing machines to paint murals but not at our rate. Then came the three big vinyl shops in Chicago, Dallas and somewhere east. They finally made vinyl prints very inexpensive for the customer and we were given the heads up ahead of time, about two years before the axe.
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yeah it's not always advancement..in the field of commercial, more about the $$$. Since I took commercial art before pc's took it over, I am 'expert' level at mixing colors and of course pretty good at using grids but who cares anymore. :cautious: Now it's photography. AI specialists. Ask the right questions, describe in a cogent way and voila! enough to make Vermeer think he's wasting his time.

I do really like the way very rich people used to have their rooms painted with beautiful murals. Trends were a thing even back then.
 
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Well here's a photo, adited in LR (light room). AI used only on getting rid of my signature with my real name. This is roseate spoonbill, native bird of FL. They get their color from what they eat....like flamingoes for instance.


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pinebeach said:
Well here's a photo, adited in LR (light room). AI used only on getting rid of my signature with my real name. This is roseate spoonbill, native bird of FL. They get their color from what they eat....like flamingoes for instance.


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THEY EAT FLAMINGOES?? lol crazy
 
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