[Volantangel] Playing Cards + Photography

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Re: [Volantangel] Playing Cards + Photography

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volantangel wrote:Thanks guys ! When is it your turn to have your own thread ?
sh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!t....... I can't compete with that... :lol:


Very VERY nice work...
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Heres one for the day, by far the most time consuming and difficult photo yet.
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A little support for my fellow Singaporean designers =)
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Those are great volantangel!! Nicely done :)
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volantangel wrote:Heres one for the day, by far the most time consuming and difficult photo yet.
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Just Wow, volantangel!

My crappy cellphone camera is a big reason why I almost always post my "grid" scans rather than photos. (with scans, the subject is almost always in focus).

Thanks for sharing both your hobbies and your obvious talent with us.
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Thank you for the complements ! =)
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A little something to get the week started !
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Wow, that is one masterful photo! Well done on the lighting :)

Would be slightly better without the cello though...
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MagikFingerz wrote:Wow, that is one masterful photo! Well done on the lighting :)

Would be slightly better without the cello though...
Thanks tom :) hahah I tend to crack my decks open slowly, not all at once. Interestingly, I think it's the cello that made this photo work though, as the light was reflected from the back of the black artisan onto the face of the white, so the cello helped to reflect.

Also I tend to keep the bottom of the cello on the deck to protect it, and it's a pain to take it off and put it back on :? :?
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This one is for Jackson, the brick I received from the best decks contest =)
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You just happened to be carrying around a brick of decks at a summer resort or is that your backyard? Haha


That's some phenomenal photography, nice work!
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Eoghann wrote:You just happened to be carrying around a brick of decks at a summer resort or is that your backyard? Haha
Looks like the UPS guy dropped a delivery while trying to sneak a dip in the pool!
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Eoghann wrote:You just happened to be carrying around a brick of decks at a summer resort or is that your backyard? Haha


That's some phenomenal photography, nice work!
Haha thats sort of my "backyard" I guess? I stay in a condominium =)
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Something new for today. Flowers and Leaves ? (ok not quite leaves but yea =p)
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Finally Paul's turn, i was struggling to find suitable props to work with the themes of Paul's decks. Hence I attempted something different with the first photo, not the best but i tried :D
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I love that first photo, Volant! (the second was not too shabby either!)
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RSLancastr wrote:I love that first photo, Volant! (the second was not too shabby either!)
Thanks Bob, i was going to recreate a photo i did in the past, and this came up completely out of the blue.

I was trying to recreate this:
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Well then, it was a beautiful failure to recreate the older one. ;)
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Heres one for the weekend. On a slightly different note, I declare next week Uusi Week !
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No worries Bob, everyone gets carried away once in awhile. Ok im gonna start the week early with this picture. I really want to say that the Bohemias are my favourites but the fact is I really cannot decide !
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Superb!
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REALLY showing us up with the photography, buddy: I love it! April should be a Pagan month, I'm thinking...
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Thanks guys ! A photo a day for this week, i promise ! Actually the photos have already been taken just feeding you guys a little at a time XD
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One for the day !
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Nice, VA! That RO QH just might be my favorite Uusi card yet! :)

The BB Joker was my favorite Uusi card until I got my RO Limied a day or two ago.

(The way the geometric shapes in the RO courts fool the eye into seeing movement is great, and nowhere in the deck better, I think, than on the QH)

Will there be a card I like even better in PAGAN, "Hotcakes" or the upcoming Sixth Uusi deck? Time will tell!
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Thanks Bob ! I really like the variation in style provided by Uusi, they are simply so talented.

The old and the new Blue Bloods !
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Nice job on the Uusi decks :D
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volantangel wrote:Thanks Bob ! I really like the variation in style provided by Uusi, they are simply so talented.

The old and the new Blue Bloods !
Nice again, thanks for posting these!

I don't have the Redux - are its courts the same as those in the original?
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@Bob some courts have been altered from the previous version. The pips are different as well.

Heres one for the day ! Who else has a post card from Uusi ;)
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