When moments como to life..final update...

[elemento]

OK, im not 100% satisfied of this, i love the concept,but i think my perspectives are not quite right,
i took the picture..ill attach the original image...see what u think.....greetings to all

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[rAyVoLvEz]

looks ok but i dont like the stroke in the polaroid.. not realistic there..

[Warmodder]

You might want to mask out the blue sky behind the tower. It's difficult, but it's greatly detracting from the realism.

[dogtrombone]

I agree with the other comments. I also have a question about the concept of a static, lifeless piece of architecture "coming to life"?
What you're depicting isn't really coming to life. Conceptually it would work better if it was a person/animal (or people or animals) initially frozen in the Poly who are breaking out of the still image?
If you're going to use an inanimate object coming to life, then somehow you need to animate it as it breaks free of the Poly.
My opinion...

[SnowDog]

elemento nice work! Great idea , but I think you need to make the poloroid a little more realistic looking.

As for the idea I see the tower growing like a vine higher and higher nothing wrong with your idea. Everyone else that does this type of picture puts an animal in it. Keep being original.

SnowDog

[elemento]

dogtrombone....now you put me to think...hmmm...well, the picture is coming to life , like want to break out of the paper,that was the idea,yea i dont know why stroke so hard the edges...(lol),ill try to mask it but its very hard...maybe il re do the hole thing, with your suggestions, i agrre in all...thank you

[jusu]

Your idea is pretty interesting, i agree with others and maybe you should work a bit with colors of sky to make them a bit more deep

[dogtrombone]

I wasn't suggesting that you put an animal in it. I was querying the underlying concept of "Coming to life". Simply making the Tower look like it's projecting up out of the Poly doesn't necessarily communicate the concept of "Coming to life" for me. If it's the actual Poly that is coming to life, I think that the Tower is way too dominating... and makes the Poly insignificant. The poly is also way too static to convey the disruption of the event. Either way, nothing comes to life for me, therefore there is a disconnect between the visual and the headline.
Maybe it's just semantics, but I'm viewing this as an art director would.
I also mean this as constructive criticism! :-)

[elemento]

im working in the sky thanks jusu,yes, thankyou dog...you are right i was thinking to curve the poly a little bit,maybe to give more movement to the poly as the tower break its way up and take away the strokes, it makes a lot of sense what you are telling me.. ill work on the slogan too......you are tough dog, but i like to improve, thanks again....

[dogtrombone]

elemento, I am an art director, and do photo-illustration work for other art directors all the time, and am giving you the sort of real-world perspective and comment that you would hear.

All images are essentially about communication of an idea. Therefore, it doesn't matter how pretty, or technically brilliant the image is, if it doesn't communicate the idea intended, it doesn't pay for its living! In your example, your statement of intent, and therefore, your intended communication, is "Moments coming to life"... and I simply feel that in its present form, the image is not communicating that intent.

My statement of intent with this thread is to leave you with the thought of how to think through your visual from the beginning, so that you can learn to consider what elements should be in the image, and how they need to be treated, in order to communicate your idea successfully.

Sorry if I'm lecturing!!! :-)