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11 December 2008

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I'm doing pictures similar to these for my photo final.
They're due tomorrow.
I pumped out two sub par pictures and I need a last one and I'm completely out of ideas. I'm having a really hard time matching the look and feel of the original three (hence calling the others I've done since then sub par).

Help?

post by: CitrusFreak12 at: 22:50 | 22 comments

Good Year Blimp or the Blue Angels.

Or Loch Ness monster coming out of water.

posted by LoriFLA 11 December | 22:53

Something vertical and spiky.

posted by occhiblu 11 December | 22:56

And red.

Red, vertical, and spiky.

Scary robot Santa Claus?

posted by occhiblu 11 December | 22:57

I like the idea of a sort of steam punk dinosaur for riding. So, like a loch ness monster tied to the dock waiting for the boy.

posted by richat 11 December | 22:59

A large pair of salad tongs coming down from the sky?

posted by MonkeyButter 11 December | 22:59

Big whale about to eat them
Just a giant's boots
A supersize cat
UFO

I really like these by the way.

posted by typewriter 11 December | 23:00

I really like these by the way.

Me too!

posted by occhiblu 11 December | 23:01

me three!

Maybe a pirate ship at the dock end and the dog can wear an eye patch and the boy a sword.

posted by MonkeyButter 11 December | 23:03

Jesus. Jesus walkin' by on the water and a-wavin'.

posted by jrossi4r 11 December | 23:12

For the "back in my day" theme going along with the other images... Dinosaur in the water looking up at a huge meteor hurtling down from the sky?

posted by taz 11 December | 23:20

Thanks guys. The ones I probably wouldn't/couldn't use made me laugh.
It's uncanny how similar some of these ideas are to ones I thought of. Something fishy and huge is the obvious answer, but I really wasn't expecting anyone else to think of giant red robot or just the feet of something.

I've walked away from the computer and gotten myself a smoothie, so the cogs are slowly turning again. Here's hoping I think of something soon, as it'll mean several hours of work ahead of me.

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Taz I think that meteor ideas might be just what I needed to differentiate it from the other dinosauresque ones. I like that.

posted by CitrusFreak12 11 December | 23:22

I like the idea of a sort of steam punk dinosaur for riding.

This sounds awesome.

posted by gomichild 11 December | 23:27

Brain storming with a good friend of mine has lead me to make the decision to do more than just creatures. Limiting myself to animal type things was making this impossible. Shortly after lifting that restriction, we came up with a couple of ideas for two different photos.

Here's what I did with the picture.
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The colors are really ugly and muted online because I had them in Adobe RGB instead of working RGB. Trust me, it's super colorful in photoshop. Anyone know if there's a way I can fix it so it appears that way online too?

posted by CitrusFreak12 12 December | 02:38

D'oh! Fixed the problem but screwed up my URL!

Here it is!
≡ Click to see image ≡
Bright colors and all!

posted by CitrusFreak12 12 December | 02:42

I love the colours (^_^).

posted by gomichild 12 December | 03:32

Awesome!

posted by typewriter 12 December | 04:46

Those are all great! The rocketship is my favourite.

posted by Specklet 12 December | 06:39

OMG that is GREAT, CitrusFreak!

posted by BoringPostcards 12 December | 09:39

Thanks guys. I think this one is my favorite too.

posted by CitrusFreak12 12 December | 10:02

That's great. Wonder if you could submit it to APOD? :)

posted by lysdexic 12 December | 10:39

Very very cool!

posted by occhiblu 12 December | 13:12

Love love love these! The rocket ship is the bestest! I even dumped the penguins to make it my desktop wallpaper.

posted by deborah 12 December | 17:04

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