Chat thread Out of this world ? Weekly competition 9th July to 15th July

[wotcars]

CHAT THREAD - Out of this world ?
Dont worry you dont need to go to outer space or know a alien
Household object  but taken in such away it makes you wonder what it is
hopefully you will find this fun

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Photoshop as little or as much as you like, Picasso.

Pictures to be taken between 00.01am Monday 9th July 2012 to 23:59 Sunday 15th July 2012 .
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59pm Monday16th July 2012.
Poll will be up Tuesday 17th July 2012.
Winner to be announced Saturday 21st July 2012.

The Rules for the weekly competition are...
By entering you agree to take responsibility to
Post a topic on the Sunday following your declared win
Create an entries thread
Create a chat thread
Create a poll for that weeks comp and declare the winner on the Saturday
(If for any reason there is a problem and no subject is posted by the winner by Monday night admin will advise second place winner to post the topic asap, do the poll etc)

In case of a tie, the first entry posted wins.

Photos to be taken during the specified dates, ie Monday xx to Sunday xx

[SimonW]

Oh dear, will this rain never end? Anyway, it encouraged me to try a table-top shot.
And it took ages to put the ball back together afterwards.

[kerry holt]

good theme, plenty of scope

[Reinardina]

Have had a wee go (as Matthew would say) and played around with the shots I took. Not sure yet how promising they look; am getting too tired to see properly.

[DigiDiva]

Will have a go this week. Have a couple of ideas to try. Exciting and unusual theme TBH.

[kerry holt]

aha i got my entry already!

[Reinardina]

Suddenly realised I'm 'fully booked' for the next three days, so put my entry in now. I have been playing around with it, but this was one of the first manipulations and I like it best.

It is, as asked for, a household object 'alienated.'

The Force.

[DigiDiva]

Think I have my image...just need to pp it.

[DigiDiva]

OK, here's my entry......

Cheesy Image!

[DigiDiva]

Wotcars, your image was my 1st idea but my 'item' didn't have the good pattern yours did so I binned it!

[wotcars]

My original idea was 2 hair dryers mullfed at the rear to get the heater elements glowing so they would look like the rear end of a jet plane but my daughter decided to go away the week end so had to bin that idea and the only other idea was the one I entered

[Hinfrance]

Well, my entry is in - please excuse the obvious fact that there were no Polaroid pictures in 1952*(nor flying saucers for that matter) and that I used fingerprint and coffee splats from my own set of adornments, so they weren't taken today.

* can that: according to Wikipedia the first Polaroid Land cameras were launched in 1948, so this is definitely a genuine image after all. Oh ye of little faith



I was trying to emulate the obviously fake images of the postwar era. I had fun doing it.

The flying saucer is a glass saucepan lid covered in tin foil which I hung from a pole. I took that picture separately from the witnesses and merged them in PP. The image processing was done in Elements and Photoplus, mostly the latter.

As a point of interest (or not if you have a life) Mrs H is holding a Kinex Cadet camera which were manufactured between 1950 and 1952.

[DigiDiva]

Very clever and some interesting history.

[Beaux Reflets]

A bit rushed but in with a little relaxing fun. Yummie



updated version with more attention to painted in shadow

[DigiDiva]

There were 3 i wanted to vote for today.....grrrrrwas hard picking one