Two exposures taken in same location with same light (sunlight through window) of my wrist and hand / PC board from my broken cordless headphones transmitter.
Cut, rotated and pasted PC board onto exposure of my wrist and hand ... Noise Reduction with 100% colour noise reduction, Dodge and Burn and Blur edges of PC board and my skin, Burn "shadows" on outer edge of PC board, USM, resize to 720X, Post.
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I think the blurred edges of the circuit board make it hard to buy into. If it were sharply defined and sunk into the skin, or at least looked so, I think it would have done better. Good concept and shot, just that last little bit of tweaking!
Neat idea. For me, to make the circuit board part work, you would need to mould it more in 3D, because at the moment the board does not match the curvature of the arm, and so it is difficult to believe in. The part where I find this most evident is the bottom right of the circuit board, where the curve should be fairly large. Perhaps if you do not have the tools to mold the board in that way, then you could "cover" the board with some skin in the areas where it should be folded. (So what I mean there is to not have the skin uniformly square around the board, but use more of a "cloud".)
I may also have gone for more of a "claw" like position with the hand, fingers closer together.
I think you did a good job on the electronics insertion. I wonder if there is a way you might be able to use Bevel and Contour to create the inset effect. Maybe you could have done that manually. They use screen and multiply on the edges to create the bevel. I find the watch and even the ring distracting and out of place. Noise reduction could be used to give the skin a little more plastic/artificial look.
I love the intent, great idea. I think the static background doesn't work for this subject (too much black for me). Maybe a different angle would have worked better (done the length of the arm...). Still I thought it was innovative and the post skills are way above my own. I voted you a 6 in the challenge.
I like what you were going for here, which to me was more of a "normal human with some electronics implanted" rather than a "futuroid humanoid robot type guy." If the former, the ring and watch are perfectly in place (unless we're to assume your implant tells you the time), as you're just a regular human with some bits added. This is likely to be the first kind of cyborg in any event (they already exist: people with pacemakers still wear watches).
For the image itself, I would have liked to seen clearer boundaries on the box, as I would think it wouldn't be integrated too much into the person (ie, with the skin growing onto it), or else it would be difficult to deal with if things break. On the other hand, if it is just the box that is "in-grown", then it might actually be easier to deal with replacement of the components, and in that case the softness works well.
I think this may have been a little too realistic for the challenge, which was looking for shiny and silvery, and not, what will humans look like in 20 years. But I like it, in case you couldn't tell.
I think it's a great concept. But the watch and ring don't add anything to the image, if anything they look out of place (ie - why would a robotic humanoid require a watch ?)
The softness and shadows around the edge of the PC board is on purpose ... I used that effect to try to make the board look inside rather than on top of the skin.
Great Idea! The circuit board looks a little soft around the edges, but the rest of the photo looks sharp. The colors, lighting and background look great.
Fun idea, yet, the elements I don't feel are put together strong enough. I would see a straight arm/wrist as apposed to this angled version here. Also, The skin edging you created, doesn't give me a feel of robotics here. Classically this type of thing is created with torn flesh or straight edged box type of covering. The edgeing here, just doesn't seem to hold out enough depth for me. Also, I would see more mechanical functions in the wrist than electronically, lots of joints and stuff that need to move. but thats just my personal opinion.
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