partially inspired by this week's release of "hannibal rising," and also reminded me of an emerson lake and palmer album entitled "brain salad surgery." i hope people don't find it too off-putting...
POST: I'm very excited about the response to this! Thank you everyone for the votes, helping me achieve my first 6! I had debated about cloning out the hook, but I thought there was some benefit to having something like that made it look artificial. I was worried that some people may find it too unsettling without something to remind them this was fake. Anyways, I'm excited to get a taste of a 6... hopefully this won't be my last time in this territory.
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What a amazing and very clever idea.....
Yes, it is also your highest score to date.....
Well done mate, and I really like this one.....
I am so impressed with your creation here, and pleased it scored so well for you.....
Clever idea! I would lighten up the midtones just a little more - if it didn't wash out the cauliflower detail too much. And maybe removed the clasp hook on the skull. Very cool though.
I gotta give you credit, cauliflower really does look like the chambers of the brain. Pairing the cauliflower with the skull was a good creative move and is a visually interesting photograph. But what makes the composition suffer is that the main subjects appear in dull grey tones that really does not pop off of the black background. There is no dynamic difference in the tones of the skull and the cauliflower from it's backdrop. The color tones are flat when I know that whites of the cauliflower is much brighter that how it appears here in the photograph. I have a feeling that you mayhap did just a straight and simple Desaturation from color to B&W. Problem with the straight desaturation is that most of the time you loose the dynamic color tones. Playing with the levels in the Channel Mixer or Hue/Saturation adustments are just two ways to improve on color tones in B&W. This is a good tutorial that can demonstrate the ways to improve the image //www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=43
This is a good and very creative photo but it just needs more tonal variation in the main subjects to make it pop visually. Accomplish that and this photo moves from average to above average.
Clever idea!! I saw brussel sprouts in the store when I was shopping for this challenge and thought of how I could make them into little brains... I never even thought of this!
:) Would be really cool if you could have colored the cauliflower somehow...
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