I once tried to swim off the French Atlantic Coast, and if that’s where your beach is, or points north, well yeah.
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I once tried to swim off the French Atlantic Coast, and if that’s where your beach is, or points north, well yeah.
Share a pic of it?
I hear Omaha beach had a fearsome body count.
In another context, of course.
Time to add to this little collection again. This manip has been a bit of a pet project of mine for a few weeks now. A few select "critics" have seen various iterations of it. It started with the idea of a mass crucifixion on a beach, and I decided to see how far I could take that. If my count is correct this image includes about 48 figures in about 55 main layers, but some of the crux images themselves have 5-10 layers, so all in all there are likely over 200 distinct layers ultimately merged or grouped. I am just really hoping I got the perspectives somewhat right. I know some of the lighting and shadow work could use some, well, work, but sometimes you just have to let go and post something, so here it is, with a friendly note that someone might have better luck than I did finding 48-50 girls all lit from the same angle. Pretend it's a sort of cloudy day with light coming down through breaks in the clouds. I don't know - it worked for me.
For all you "mass crux" lovers out there, I give you "The Beach"
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I love it, Jollyrei!
I can't even manage three lit from the same angle, never mind 50!
It's one of those pictures that you can look at for ages and still find something new. A picture for a desert island, though the empy beaches on the island might look a bit sad by comparison....
Migoz2
Senator
Share a pic of it?
Seeing as you asked, here are a variety of views (none taken by me). The tide comes in at 'the speed of a good horse' which is one of the reasons why it is such a dangerous place.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Some beach party!
The CF annual convention took place in a beach resort?
Or were the beach lifeguards tired of getting people out of the water in a dangerous no-swimming zone, and did they made an example for future trespassers?
Your highway taxes at work. Highway beautification Project XXIV. Speeding fines doubled in work zone. Beware of loose timber and discarded nails.
Not only Yana's appearances but also those of Frantisek Drtikol's models are rare in crux manipulations. And this is surely the first time they have appeared together!Along the Via Appia (Appia version 3).
I am told that Rana (the girl on the ground) does not appear much in our manips. This is a pity, I feel. Anyway, here she is, along with a couple of others, and one of the classic Drtikol models.
The low viewpoint allows a very convincing use of the foreshortened figure of Yana at lower left. With the feet in close-up, her supine form leads the viewer into the composition, and despite the presence of the executioner, we can see along the Via Appia, far away into the distance. On the other side of this typically straight, Roman road, a grounded patibulum exploits the strong diagonal perspective, again pointing towards the centre of the picture.
Each of the girls portrays a different stage of the crucifixion procedure, introducing a dynamic aspect, evoking the 'stations of the cross'. Whilst their poses are completely different, all have raised or extended arms, in anticipation of the ordeal they are about to share. The kneeling girl is bound with her arms overhead and eyes covered, which invites speculation about how she was escorted to this location. Beyond her, Oxana, carries her patibulum with a sense of inevitability, into the middle distance, followed by her flagellator.
The relative scaling of so many inserted figures is critical in a picture which combines close-up foreground detail with distant elements, and this has been achieved very successfully. The greyscale conversion of the figures helps to disguise the fact that the sources are a mixture of photographic, 3D and screen shots. These are all blended convincingly in a desaturated background which retains a subtle hint of green where the sunlight falls on the grass and trees. And so, colour highlights the natural world, which will remain alive whilst the human element, in monochrome, presents an impending spectacle of death.
Nice work, Jolly!
Another version of the Appian Way image, newly colourized by Bobinder (he's a great deal better at that sort of thing than I am). When I did the original manip, I converted everything to black and white, with the exception of the background. Now Bob has given it a really nice "old fashioned" looking artistic colourization which is uncannily similar to the colour objects in the original. Cheers, Bob! 
Thanks, Jolly - it was fun trying to guess what colour the various components should be.Another version of the Appian Way image, newly colourized by Bobinder (he's a great deal better at that sort of thing than I am). When I did the original manip, I converted everything to black and white, with the exception of the background. Now Bob has given it a really nice "old fashioned" looking artistic colourization which is uncannily similar to the colour objects in the original. Cheers, Bob!
Nice to know I came somewhere close to the original sources!
Just hold that position, Barb - oh, you don't have much choice, do you?It’s good, except for the viewpoint which seems to be directly up my legs ...
Me too... not the foggiest without his guiding hand.
But you have to say that recolourised image is quite something!
Absolutely. It's lovely.
As I said to Bobinder, I am quite fond of Yana, as a crux model, and there are a lot of interesting poses and shots from a number of angles, which provide opportunities to the manip artist. The pictures sort of paint themselves.
"Are you cold?"
A very dramatic image, exploiting this low viewpoint."Are you cold?"
Most of Yana's close-ups from the Swamp session reveal goosefleshed skin, so yes, she was genuinely cold!
Nice work, Jolly.
Harsh Martinet
Consul
It’s good, except for the viewpoint which seems to be directly up my legs ...
Just trying to get your best side Barb
maicoldraw
Assistant executioner
Ex-girfriend crucifixion on my mind
Old photographs turned into crucifixion art
Old photographs turned into crucifixion art
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The model, Katya Clover, has been featured in several places on CF recently, not least as the character of Cassia in Wragg's illustrated masterpiece on the crucifixion of Jasmine. Wragg has very kindly left it to me to be the first to actually feature Katya in an actual crux manip, and I hope I have done the subject some justice (artistically speaking).
Katya Crux #2
Katya Crux #2