May 2009 - 250th Challenge - The cabinet of curiosities

The brief:

I'd like you to build a museum exhibit showing as many objects from previous Friday Challenges as you're able to include. They can all be your own work, or chosen from other people's entries; the museum can be an old fashioned mahogany case, or a modern gallery space. However you choose to approach it, I'm looking for realism here: pay close attention to lighting, perspective and scale! 

No starting image this week. After all, you have 250 to choose from in the archives.

Finished work:

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May 2009 - Damien's iMac

The original:
The brief:

I was commissioned to do a rather interesting job a couple of weeks ago, and thought you might like to have a go at it. It was for a magazine feature about buying contemporary art online, and the idea was to show a computer in a glass case in the style of Damien Hirst, the British artist best known for his early work that involved sawing animals in half and pickling them in formaldehyde. So the task was to cut the computer in half and place it in a case. 

This is the starting image I used (although I didn't use the speakers). It turned out to be a tricky and very interesting job. Feel like having a go? I'll post my version next Friday, for the sake of completeness. 

Finished work:

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May 2009 - Out of the depths

The original:


The brief:
Down by the docks in Oslo, I spotted this underground channel. What kind of machine or beast could live in such a place?

The real challenge here, of course, will be to match the distorted reflections in the water's surface. Not a task for the faint hearted!

Finished work:


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May 2009 - Spinning Columbus

The original:

The brief:
Another image from my Barcelona trip. It was the home of Christopher Columbus, and there's a rather fine statue of him on a magnificently decorated column. The trouble is, when I photographed it, in order to get the column well lit I had to take the shot from behind.

Your Challenge is to find another image of Columbus, and place it on the statue facing towards us. It should, of course, match both the perspective of the scene and the existing material as closely as possible.

And please - for the sake of modesty - NO statues of me!!!


Finished work:

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