Well... I'm chopping less & less & less...
Too busy. I chopped 114 times in 2005, 47 last year, and posted only 17 entries this year.
Sorry!
So I'm back again to shear some work I produced this year.
Here's the thread about my work last year:
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5659&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

First one.
This project was my first contract with Leda & St-Jacques photographers. Very nice experience. They are really cool!
I think their regular retouchers were afraid to do that job.
First I had to be at the shooting (4 days), just to be sure that everything is going well & that the pictures
were perfect (or close to) for the manipulation... to be sure that no major problem will appear after the shooting.
I worked on 3 images. Here I"ll show you only my favorite one. The art directors estimation was 55 hours for manipulation.
I worked around 80 hours on this one. First I thought they will make a selection of around 25 pictures to use for final art.
They finally gave me 110 pictures, just to make me more confused. I certainly used 50 of them, maybe more.
I had to work on 4 files to create this image, just to be efficient & working on smaller files. The first one was the stage (1.78 GB).
When it was done, I merged it and copy & paste to another file and integrated the fans in so many layers (1.85 MB file).
Merged again to another file, the wave (1.03 GB). The last file was everything merged in 3 layers, added tons of adjustment layers
& final clean-up (2.2 GB). Last summer, that beer company campaign was everywhere downtown Montréal.

At shooting...


Final work...


Larger image...
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/Clafrance/mdry_vague_large2.jpg



Billboard...

Bus stop...

Subway...


I'll be back with more stuff next couple of days... now time to sleep!

i didn't read the whole thing i stopped at the link..... thats some nice pieces claf

cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

holy ships claf... yer famous !

Thats some great stuff... I think I just found my new role model ... sorry marco yer out!

Thanks for sharing that Claf. And the previous forum as well. You make awsum work. As a matter of fact, I don't know a good work in English that means extremely cool - because I would use it.

In the other forum you showed the wolfman transformation. It is .... [ insert that one word for ex cool ] ... and your paintings .... *sigh*

Excellent work Claude....also the link given has great works. Nice inspiring work you have done...

one more thing.

nice one mate

Just browsing through your portfolio is like being in a candystore. Found this one, and thought that it showed how great your sense of humor is. So I wanted to take a better look at it.

Click on image, and you get this.


Then you get curious about the other entries in the competition that day and you actually see the image to work from for that day:



And there it is again .... no words for it ..... other then, I love your sense of humor Claf.

Beautiful composition.

Very Cool!!!!!


oh yeah...........................

Thanks again Claude for sharing your work. I was actually hoping you would after enjoying it last year. The wave is outstanding!! That is the type work that would make an excellent coffee table book. You should consider that.
Thanks again!

Claude, you truly are a master at your craft!
Great work!!

...and that ended a good word from MArxman

i keep being killed by the werewolf....im gonna try one like this soon (ill be more easy at it than sthg like ur other works (repairing). Thx for keeping us wanting to be motivated bro

...;Anna?? you re doomed....u know he's canadian (quebequois which is more) right?

Claf owns.

Everyone should look through his portfolio to understand what good, clean chopping is all about.

Beautiful work my friend.