*zeo Posted April 2, 2009 Author Posted April 2, 2009 Discovery's Universe Declares War Scientists Invent Healing Goo, Horrifying Name Explosion Over Virginia Was a Russian Rocket First Look at the Spacecraft That Will Take Humans to Mars Honda Links Your Dirty Thoughts Directly To ASIMO Robot 6 Astronauts Subjected to Brutal Psychological Experiment in Preparation for Mars Mission Texas Officially Makes The Universe Ageless Redoubt Volcano Rains Ash and Spreads a Stink of Sulfur Over Alaska A Cure for Heart Disease That Lurks In Your Own Stem Cells Batteries That Feed on Blood Quote
*zeo Posted April 2, 2009 Author Posted April 2, 2009 Rainforests may pump winds worldwide Sweet dreams are made of geomagnetic activity Drug-free memory erasure could lead to spotless minds Natural mechanism for medieval warming discovered Robot scientist makes discoveries with no human help Cultivated ear cells may lead to cure for deafness The five ages of the brain: Gestation What would it look like to fall into a black hole? New Theory Of Autism Suggests Symptoms Or Disorder May Be Reversible Source Of Major Health Benefits In Olive Oil Revealed Quote
Super Existence Posted April 2, 2009 Posted April 2, 2009 Dang. That Hawking documentaries something I might be working on supplying the cameras for the green screen stuff and the firm doing the CG is run by a mate of mine. I love those satellite pics of the volcano. I'd love to see some high res versions. Quote
Super Existence Posted April 5, 2009 Posted April 5, 2009 Check the video here this gun is awesome! http://www.gizmag.com/aa-12-combat-shotgun...utomatic/11393/ D30 the magic material http://thefutureofthings.com/video/6580/sm...human-body.html Some beautiful steam age sci-fi concept artwork http://www.alexbroeckel.com/menalto/main.php?g2_itemId=150 Quote
*zeo Posted April 7, 2009 Author Posted April 7, 2009 3D Laser Scanners Capture and Translate the Alhambra Fortress's 10,000 Arabic Inscriptions Glowing Cuban Tree Frogs Have Invaded Southern Florida NASA Testing Next Generation Firefighting Gear for Fires... In Spaaace! Japan Pledges To Land Humanoid Robot On Moon By 2020 http://i.gizmodo.com/5197083/tiny-4mm-telephoto-lens-implant-is-one-step-closer-to-being-in-your-eye Happy Birthday, Horrifying Japanese Child Bot: You're Two Mini Hydro Turbine Concept Turns Drippy Faucet Into Energy Source New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD! Newly-Discovered Meteorite From An Otherworldly Rock Formation The New Victim Of Obesity: Galaxies Quote
*zeo Posted April 7, 2009 Author Posted April 7, 2009 GM, Segway To Unveil New Two-Wheeled Urban Vehicle, and This is How the Segway/GM PUMA Pod Flies Down the Street, then GM-Segway PUMA: First Ride Genius Locks Herself Inside Car, Calls 911 To Save Her Defenseless Elderly Woman Held Hostage by Maniacal Scooter Google Street View Gets Ticket, Captures Self Getting Ticket On Google Street View Lego Rock Band to Brick and Roll This Year World's Fastest Kettle: Steam Supercar to Break 170MPH Barrier LED Bubble Gun Looks Fairly Wicked at Night Man Burnt to Death by Exploding PC James Bond Museum Permanently Blows Bond's Cover Demon Motorcycle Helmets: A Cheap Way To Terrorize Motorists Quote
Super Existence Posted April 18, 2009 Posted April 18, 2009 Real life Micro Machines! I want the diablo! http://www.carandsuv.co.nz/news/8125/smorv...ghini/gallery/6 Quote
*Jess♥ Posted April 18, 2009 Posted April 18, 2009 OMG!!! that is teh coolest thing ever!! is that real though? or is it just some kids mucking about in photoshop? Quote
*zeo Posted April 20, 2009 Author Posted April 20, 2009 They're Real, they're inspired Body Kits for Mercedes’ miserly smart. So basically just body shells made to look like smooched versions of other famous cars. . . Quote
*zeo Posted April 20, 2009 Author Posted April 20, 2009 Miss. woman survives being shot in head, makes tea How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats 50 Photographers Worth Checking Out MI5 searches for a real-life Q to lead hi-tech battle against terrorists I'm Officially a Fan of 'Light Art Performance Photography' London Bar Pumps Gin and Tonic Into The Air: Please Breathe Responsibly Laptop Kills Woman AT-AT Walker X-Rayed: It's a Dinosaur! New PIN Crackers Make Card Skimmers Look Small-Time Spock's Backstory Revealed in the Special JJ Abrams Issue of Wired Quote
*zeo Posted April 20, 2009 Author Posted April 20, 2009 Prosciutto-Wrapped Air Hose Cuts Through Steel, Cucumber Version Proven Inferior From the Archives: Wired's Bionic Quest for Boléro 5-Year-Old Amputee Fitted with High Performance Carbon Fiber Legs Grope the Medigenic Keyboard All You Want, This Sucker's Built to Get Dirty How It Feels To Walk With Honda's Cyborg Legs Asteroid Splashdown Won't Kill Us... Immediately Titanium reveals explosive origins of the solar system Polar 'bugs' may explain how life survived snowball Earth Black hole jet brightens mysteriously Transformers: Protecting pedestrians from killer cars Quote
*Jess♥ Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 I'm a bit dismayed with hte so-called photographer list... I don't consider image compositing to be a form of photography. photography is the art of capturing an image that you see with your eyes. it's about framing, and colour balance tone etc. compositing is not photography. it's digital art of another type. called photo manipulation. and i hate those ones where they set up a scene. this also is not what i consider photography. this is installation making. yes it is taken with a camera, but a lot of the work has gone into hte set up of the scene. you would not be able to go out and see this. Quote
*zeo Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 Interesting, so you don't consider artist real photographers? Mind you that photo retouching has been around for over a century, my father use to do it when he took photography classes. Back in the day when the only option was film and I wasn't even a glimmer in my mother's eyes The digital age has just made it easier. . . But really, photography in all its forms is just another form of art. And there isn't just one way to do art, whatever form it takes. So I wouldn't agree that what they do isn't photography, just another way of expressing the artform of photography. It's just not the realistic form of photography, but few actually practice real. Everything from raw adjustments to taking multiple shots for increased dynamic range or collaged paranoramics are also all forms of image manipulation that is regular applied to so called real shots. There really isn't a pro-digital photographer who doesn't use manipualtion of some sort in their shots, if for nothing else than to make it look its best. Quote
*Jess♥ Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 i consider anyone a photographer if they want to be, no matter what their skill level is, but the question is about photography as an art from. the focus on hte camera and taking the photo. retouching is a technique to bring thephoto to what you originally saw. not the same as manipulation. i never saw manipulation of any kind to be pure photography. it's manipulation. once it has been manipulated, you cannot appreciate the original shot. so it ceases being photography. to call somebody a phtotographer, I think that you ought to be considering how they can capture an image. what perspective they used, combined with how they reproduced that image with their equipment. if they aren't reproducing what they saw, how can you judge their perspective and reproduction technique? how can you judge their photographic skill? instead, the emphasis is on the arrangement of the installation, or how they can collage. Quote
*zeo Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 So you don't think using techniques to express what the artist/photographer envisions as being valid if they had to do something to help create the image? Isn't that like a sculptor telling another sculptor that because they don't work on the same raw materials that the other really isn't a sculptor? I think to many photography is a method of expressing ideas and concepts. Either to capture the beauty of nature or express an idea or emotion. Since beauty is a concept just like ideas and emotions then don't you think they should have equal footing if they more or less use the same medium to express themselves? And what if some of those images weren't created with manipulation? Some amazing shots have been set up in certain studios, just like Hollywood using a painting for a background, or putting people into costumes or using props and makeup. The shot would then be just like you taking a picture, just of a subject that was directed. But as you would say this is just my opinion but I like to be fair about these things and that's my 2 cents worth. Quote
*Jess♥ Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 well let me say this, anyone can take a photo of an installation that has been set up. if i go to an art show, and take a picture from front, does that make me the creator of the art piece? what if i take somebodies photo and manipulate with other photos, who is teh artist then? what are we looking at here, the photo or the manipulation? what is left of teh original photo that we might appreciate the work that went into hte use of the camera and the light? the comparison of the sculptor. if both artists are sculpting teh material and present the fiished piece, then they are both indeed sculptors. however, if one of teh artists paints a still life that happens to have a bust in it that they sculpted, then is the resultant piece to be considered a painting or a sculpture? but i can bottom line it if we're still not clear... if i want to look at a photograph on deviant art , i go into hte photography gallery and i get exactly what i consider to be photography. if i want to look at what i am describing as photo manipulation (not photography) i go into hte photo manipulation gallery, and so on. Quote
*zeo Posted April 22, 2009 Author Posted April 22, 2009 the comparison of the sculptor. if both artists are sculpting teh material and present the fiished piece, then they are both indeed sculptors. however, if one of teh artists paints a still life that happens to have a bust in it that they sculpted, then is the resultant piece to be considered a painting or a sculpture? Actually I would liken it to one sculptor using different color clays to colorize the resulting sculpture versus someone who just uses a single raw material. Or a photographer using black and white film, or infrared film, double exposure, kirlian, using mirrors to reflect ghostly imaged into your shots, or the use of various color filters. Where does your idea of photography end and manipulation start? . . . You don't have to change your opinion, but just consider that the camera is just a tool for artistic expression and art is in the eye of the beholder as they say. . . Besides, those guys also do plenty of regular photography work and even regular photos can be trippy. . . The Photographer King Needs No Tripod Disclaimer: No photo manipulation was used in the taking of this image, it's just an insane lens reviewer trying to get a hernia Or this one of Tokyo... Taken by Flickr user heiwa4126 using an ultra-wide fisheye lens. Btw, for those interesting in practicing caligraphy... Touchscreen Calligraphy Tablet Concept Helps Perfect Your Korean Definitely doable with today's tech and could be a definite boon to those wishing to learn Kanji and Kana as well as other calligraphy based writing styles. Quote
*Jess♥ Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 I don't think i'm making things especially awkward. I'm not being especially picky about things, I mean, I adjust some of my photos in order to get what i saw, I lighten some areas and darken other areas etc. those two images you posted are most certainly photography in my view. there is no reason to say they aren't. also, using infrared filme etc is certainly photography. even in the film industry you see the definition used. the person who controls teh camera and lighting is called the director of photography. anything done afterwards is referred to as compositing and effects. this following image for example, is not an example of photography in my view the artist may have taken hte original images, but the resultant product is not a photograph. it is a manipulated image. it is a fabrication. you got to draw teh line somewhere and this image has gone way past that line. even if the line was quite vague, this is clearly past that line. Quote
*zeo Posted April 22, 2009 Author Posted April 22, 2009 Well I guess we have to agree to disagree on this one, though that guy who did that image primarily does do regular photography work. Just check his portfolio... http://www.davidlindseywade.com/#/portfolio/portfolio/ Quote
*Jess♥ Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 that's really nice work. perhaps the presentation of the news article could have been changed? Quote
Super Existence Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 I agree. there's no craftsmanship in the same way some gobo who gets a picture of you and uses filters in PS is an artists. This isn't something from nothing it's somethign from something. Same if he'd made a book full of pages of the greatest writers in the world doesn't make him a great writer, they're just organisers. I've seen artists like this guy before who create made up scenes of drama for stills. I must say I don't like the guys lighting at all it's harsh and way too contrasty it looks a little bit amatuerish actually. His Victorian people are a bit better though. Quote
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Toku Warrior Posted August 13, 2009 Posted August 13, 2009 Planet Orbits the Wrong Way. This does seem interesting for those of us that like astronomy. Quote
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