Picspam Meme, Post #3: The Flightdeck Scene from Pressure Point (Blakes 7)

[marah_sarie]

entropy_house requested "the seduction on the flight deck couch scene" between Avon and Blake from "Pressure Point" (because this scene? IS PURE CONCENTRATED EYE SEX. I am so not kidding.) The request also happened to fit the current challenge over at picspammy ("Scenes and Sequences") so I've made an attempt at, like, a picspammy style picspam. Because that comm could

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[snowgrouse]

Oh, phew. 'cos just the other day I was going yay at you doing the Benton thingy in full-sized caps and such:). I just put a rant up on my journal about the picspam style, but wanted to let you know that it isn't me yelling at you personally, just so you know. It's because *everyone* keeps doing it now and it just makes me scratch my head a bit.

And I like your colour-adjustments--Who and B7 can be so damn flat and grayish that those adjustments are a godsend for anyone wanting to fiddle with the pics:). Which trick do you use for those? (I tend to duplicate the layer and set one to Screen and one to Soft Light over or under the Screen one and adjust their opacities, and such).

AND THE LOBSTER SUIT IS FUCKING AWESOMESTUPID. Especially, because, the trousers... you *know*. Ahem.



Yes. (And Tarrant pretends not to notice.)

[marah_sarie]

Yeah, I don't know when this collage style type of picspam became a thing, but it's certainly a thing at the moment.

For B7 and Old Who caps, especially, usually I'll adjust the levels first and then play with curves a bit. I don't really know what I'm doing with curves, but it seems like if I lower the curve very slightly around the mid-tone darks and raise it slightly around the mid-tone lights, it seems to help get rid of that kind of grayish cast and improves the contrast. Anyway, then I do the screen layer and overlay/soft light layer thing, too.

AND LOBSTER SUIT TROUSERS + BLACK TURTLENECK = WIN. It's just the lobster suit top that hurts.

[snowgrouse]

YOU SHOULD DO A TUTORIAL OF THIS CURVES THINGY WITH SCREENCAPS. I've never got the hang of them. They are bloody complicated.

And the lobster top is pain. Did you see the docu about June Hudson and her costume designs on the DVD extras? Where she said the collar originally had spikes like one of those crazy dogs' collars? *cri*