Entry Number 2
19 images in all.
Cut out all the subjects required.
Placed subjects in position.
Blended subjects.
Shadow/Highlight
Levels
Curves
Blend Modes
Gaussian Blur
Dodge Burn
Vignette
USM
Resize
Sharpen
Post challenge - Thankyou so much everyone. I started really low early in voting and slowly crept up to over 7 by day 3. I stayed there until the second last day where I dropped to 6.91.....grrrr!!!
Just to clear things up. This image is 19 images in total. I used a smoke machine to create the clouds...the graves are real...the bats are plastic bats, the castle is a toy castle I have used in previous challenges for props...the Michael Jacksons are all my daughter, Kita. The ground was a hill I photographed. There is no clip art or drawing in this image. It was all above board and to the rules. I started photographing at 9-30am the day after the challenge was announced and finished photographing and editing and uploaded it 10-30pm (or thereabouts). The next morning I uploaded all 19 images (about 3 hours to upload them all) before I left on holidays a few hours later. I have not been back to the office since.
Statistics
Place: 5 out of 75 Avg (all users): 6.9939 Avg (commenters): 8.8333 Avg (participants): 6.5714 Avg (non-participants): 7.1382 Views since voting: 5095 Views during voting: 508 Votes: 165 Comments: 31 Favorites: 6 (view)
The photo is a real masterpiece, could easily have won; I think the model looks like Slash more than MJ! Or isn't that how he looked when he played the scarecrow in the Oz remake? Nice job.
Whoa! This is just phenomenal! I truly hate what I think of as that 2nd-to-last day troll curse. I get it too in almost every challenge. This is just brilliant, no matter the score tho.
Judi, this was a lot of work, it came out great! Whos is playing the perfect MJ?! I wish I had your creativity. Congratulations on the great score and finish.
When I saw the challenge was Expert Editing I expected to see lots of stuff like this but there is surprisingly little. Under the circumstances I'm giving you 10 for putting the effort in and producing a decent picture. Good luck
Holy crap. That took some work. Great image. Love all of the accompanying shadows. Great job. Michael would be dancing around smiling, knowing all the work people put in. I think he was a misunderstood soul.
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