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Off-Piste Photography

I had someone describe my photos as "off-piste" and not being a skier, I used Google to enlighten myself. I like it.

I have a paraffin wax bath for my hand which leads to an excessive amount of used paraffin wax.

For the past few months after removing the wax "glove" I have been experimenting with how to let it harden into unique shapes. As the wax cools it has a tendency to just lay like a drunken latex glove at 3 in the morning after the bars close. Or whatever better description you can think of to describe an abandoned flat inner tube.

Anyway, were was I. Oh, yeah.

I finally managed to capture a fragile wax form to photograph. Setup in the comments.

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Only the 'walking stick' is AI created. I also used a handheld Godex LED wand for color selection. Editing included isolating the subject the changing the photo to remove all color saturation.

Taken in my Executive Professional Photo Studio, of course.

Nice, Dean! I like this. You are quite the sculptor! He looks like his name should be Sensei Orthoptera. Have you sculpted in the past at some point?

I tried Generative Fill for the eyes for multifaceted, insect, bee, grasshopper and the results were perfectly stupid.

The form was just letting the soft wax harden while draped over a very small flower vase. No skill involved, just hope and luck.

I didn't like the original "walking stick' provided by Generative Fill, so I asked for a second modification.

Apparently, the GF provided "walking stick" violates Adobes Community Standards.

Very interesting result Dean, my fist instinct was that the subject is indeed a marble sculpture.
I used to get a similar PS message when using generative fill in an earlier beta version annoying, as I was only using to remove blemishes), but haven’t seen it recently.