fish in a light bulb

Loving that. :)
 
Looks cool, needs some tidying up on the lower left edge of the bulb (y)
 
Snap!!

Goldfish in Bulb.jpg

:)

I did this a while back and enjoyed it - well done with your version. Interesting to see two different takes on the same exercise.
 
Same lightbulb & same fish! Was this from a web/magazine article which supplied the original files for you to play with?
 
mark4183 said:
hardly, its still creative
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Ok my thoughts were wheres the creativity? You didn't create the images, you used the images created by someone else and and you followed a series of instructions as to how to achieve it, hence an identical image produced by someone else.

Now thats fine as a learning exercise, but it was passed off as something you created which was stretching it a bit?
 
Please excuse my "attack"/rat in a corner mode but in defence of the above ...

Byker28i said:
Ok my thoughts were wheres the creativity?
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We're both learning techniques and I'd have thought that the fact we've both come up with similar but different interpretations shows some sort of creativity even if someone has been kind enough to give us a good idea on how to create this subject and given us links to the files we're allowed to use and how to use them creatively.

Jase said:
but it's not creative when you're painting by numbers
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And what's wrong with painting by numbers if we're learning different techniques on how to use Photoshop? Surely, painting by numbers is how we learned how to draw and use colours when we were young, and then later on progressed to using our own imagination. Surely the same sort of learning and method applies to Photoshop, the program being a very complicated "animal" to learn?
 
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EdwardL said:
Please excuse my "attack"/rat in a corner mode but in defence of the above ...


We're both learning techniques and I'd have thought that the fact we've both come up with similar but different interpretations shows some sort of creativity even if someone has been kind enough to give us a good idea on how to create this subject and given us links to the files we're allowed to use and how to use them creatively.

And what's wrong with painting by numbers if we're learning different techniques on how to use Photoshop? Surely, painting by numbers is how we learned how to draw and use colours when we were young, and then later on progressed to using our own imagination. Surely the same sort of learning and method applies to Photoshop, the program being a very complicated "animal" to learn?
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Honestly, please don't take this the wrong way, it's not meant to be a criticism just an observation. It's not a problem with the exercise, the learning, the techniques. We've all probably followed tutorials to learn, it's a great way to do it.
The tutorial is here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnzGFtUevts


What we haven't done is post the result in a Creative Photography thread without mentioning it's from a tutorial with stock images.
It's taken someone elses idea, their final image, copied it exactly with the exact same images, perhaps with slight variation through processing not exactly the same as the tutorial. Now if the idea had been copied but the images had been taken by yourselves, that would have been different, perhaps changed, surfer on a wave, beach. Otherwise where do we stop? Look at this great image by someone I've turned monochrome, put a filter on it?

As I said above, for me I find the writing etc on the bulb quite messy and distracting, other than that it's a great composite image, one of the better fish in a bulb although I quite like this one
https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/22025485647937211/
 
EdwardL said:
Please excuse my "attack"/rat in a corner mode but in defence of the above ...


We're both learning techniques and I'd have thought that the fact we've both come up with similar but different interpretations shows some sort of creativity even if someone has been kind enough to give us a good idea on how to create this subject and given us links to the files we're allowed to use and how to use them creatively.


And what's wrong with painting by numbers if we're learning different techniques on how to use Photoshop? Surely, painting by numbers is how we learned how to draw and use colours when we were young, and then later on progressed to using our own imagination. Surely the same sort of learning and method applies to Photoshop, the program being a very complicated "animal" to learn?
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I think you are missing the point, the OP has added the thread with no detail that it was a tutorial or exercise making people think it was all his own work. It really only need the additional words of 'its a youtube tutorial which gives links to the stock images to use' in the first place so as not to confuse anyone.
I like it and think its cool BTW.
 
EdwardL said:
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We're both learning techniques and I'd have thought that the fact we've both come up with similar but different interpretations shows some sort of creativity even if someone has been kind enough to give us a good idea on how to create this subject and given us links to the files we're allowed to use and how to use them creatively.
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It would have been more creative if, having learned the techniques, you applied them to something original.

Photographs of statues are often dismissed as photos of someone elses artwork, and this is in the same category.
 
With the watermark and title I 100% thought the image was entirely created by the OP.

When I saw the other one I was a little shocked/surprised.

So yes, I agree the title and image is missleading given the information provided.

No offence to the OP just saying how I felt at the time of reading and viewing for the first time.

:)
 
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it's a really good tutorial and I enjoyed watching it (and I loved his accent!)

I don't think the OP intentionally meant to deceive anyone, but I do agree that he might have said it was from a tutorial.
 
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