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Hallucigenia
9901 - score: 4 out of 10
God Among Lice:
Let's start with
the photography. I'm not sure who ce- is even after perusing
the memberlist, but I didn't enjoy looking at his/her photos.
Jpegs are simply a lousy way of presenting this kind of
photography as art, and the low quality saves make this
painfully obvious. The sunset becomes a garbled mess of
blocks and the snowy forest a glob of white and gray. This
is really defaming nature, not exalting it (which the original
photos may have successfully done). The black and white
photos from Pisces 3D and Insequi are more effective, since
they focus on simpler aspects of form and composition, and
grayscale images make it easier to convey more accurately
the detail from the original photos. Another better way
to use photos in digital images is to try some photomanip
like Fire From Heaven has done in this pack. Maybe not one
of his best, but I like the way the jobless men from the
FDR memorial look as though a bucket of blue paint has just
drenched them entirely.
Goatgirl's shark-surfing caveman
made me laugh, and was excellently drawn, to boot. Etana's
mice are kind of cute, but talk about light subjects...
In the drawn toon/anime department, colored picture easily
wins over line drawings once again in a unanimous decision.
Optik Nurv: what are you doing?? To all other people in
this group creating bland, bizarre, effects-driven drivel:
what are you doing?? There's too much of it, and I don't
plan on smoking anything just so I might be able to appreciate
it. Actually, the strange thing is, I find tm-anger.jpg
to be somehow honest and effective. Maybe it's the simplicity
of the message and visual elements.. and the color. Whatever.
In short, there are some decent
pictures in this pack, but also a whole lot of computer
artwork that looks like stuff I saw people making during
the first few weeks of learning Photoshop in a class I had
in high school (I was one of those people too :) ). I'd
like to see more photography, but not landscapes and subjects
that need to show a lot of visual detail. If there is a
nice photo with detail to it, then at least give it the
respect it deserves when saving the jpeg. Leave the low
quality saves for the Photoshop playthings.
score: 4
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