Goodnight Mr. Edison... Going Green!
Governments around the world, are setting targets to phase out the use of Incandescent light bulbs, in favour of more energy-efficient fluorescent sources of lighting, effectively “sunsetting” one of the most ubiquitous inventions of the 20th century. Thomas Edison created the first commercially viable incandescent light bulb in 1879. Little did he know how much his invention would contribute to the energy crisis that dominates the 21st century!...
(This is my first attempt at Digital Art, so I’d love to hear your comments, criticisms, suggestions, etc. I’ve started with a picture of a red lightbulb and used PS CS2 and most of the techniques in this tutorial for the water reflections. Unfortunately, it looks like it has since been removed)
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sonjas
Good Morning Mr.Tesla. Great image. Love it.
monocotylidono replied
LOL – great retort! :
D Thank you very much :)Shelly Hiebert
George, I LOVE this! The composition is is great, and I love how you have this set up as your interpretation of the end of incandescent lighting…..brilliant thinking and I absolutely love your digital art work. BRAVO!
Shelly Hiebert
Oh, and PERFECT title :) I am big on a good title ;)
monocotylidono replied
THANK YOU Shelly! You know how much I respect your views and your talent, so I really appreciate your comment and I’m happy you like it. And thank you so much for favoring it to! :
) :)andreisky
Cool
monocotylidono replied
Thank you! glad you like it! :-)
kostis
πολυ καλο φίλε…
monocotylidono replied
Thanks Kosti :-)
kalaryder
Great work, it is most effective
monocotylidono replied
Thank you Kala, I’m glad you like it :-)
Dean Mullin
George – frickin awesome! – is that criticism enough?
monocotylidono replied
Thanks mate, you’re a star! :-) and thank you for favoring it!
JKKimball
OK! This is outstanding work my friend!
monocotylidono replied
Thanks John, glad you like it! :-)
Karen Scrimes
Wonderful work, both photographic and digital art wise!! Thanks for posting the tutorial!! I’ll give it a go!
monocotylidono replied
Thank you Karen, I appreciate your comments! If you try it, I’ll be keen to see what you come up with :-)
Vikram Franklin
I see another HP coming up!!
I had to ‘see’ the tutorial to confirm that it was digital art – fantastic work George!
I love that your work has so much thought behind it – on the surface it’s a fantastic pic, but when your side note is read – it adds another dimension to it that takes it beyond that top 5%.
monocotylidono replied
Thank you so much my friend for the compliment! The technique is quite impressive and soooo…. beyond my current understanding of PS, that it took a few attempts to figure out what the instructions actually said… But I’m happy since I got the result that I “saw” in my mind originally. :-)
Johanne Brunet
Fantastic work, George! At first I thought it was real liquid, and I thought that you had been quite reckless playing with electricity and water that way! Then I started to get the feeling that I had seed those ripples somewhere before… or something similar! LOL!! Great, great job!
monocotylidono replied
LOL – Thanks Johanne, I am staying safe, I promise! ;
) Thank you very much for pointing out the tutorial! It was your picture that gave me the idea in the first place. I’m glad you like it. :)Johanne Brunet
Oh boy! Now I’m seeding things instead of seeing them… LOL!
monocotylidono replied
LOL – I didn’t even notice it. But since you mentioned it, you definitely seeded the idea of the water reflection in my head… :-D
Earthmonster
Congratulations, a wonderful piece of Unconventional Artistry!
monocotylidono replied
Thank you very much! I really appreciate you featuring it in the group! :-)
Ursula Rodgers
Fantastic, creative work George. Congrats on the feature too!!
monocotylidono replied
Thank you very much Ursula :-)
Spidermike
wonderful work!
lallymac
Very cool – I love it!
jewelskings
I would like to Congratulate you on being featured in the Globes, Spheres and Curves Group! Yeah!
03-20-09
monocotylidono replied
Wonderful news! Thank you very very much I really appreciate it!
sendao
Great work,congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!
erika15
Wow, this does honor to Edison himself. I love it!!!
Kimberley Davitt
monocotylidono replied
Thank you very much Kim :} I really appreciate it. Now, where did I see this banner before? ;-)
Colleen Milburn
FANTASTIC work, mono… the water is perfect – and thanks heaps for the link to the tutorial!
monocotylidono replied
It’s a pleasure Colleen! I found about it from my RB friends, so it only makes sense to pass on the knowledge… Thank you very much.