Fantastic post, JK.

Thanks!

Except the joke is on us - she posted them backwards. She actually started skinny and gained a bunch of weight.

Sorry if already posted.

I pushed a guy into a pool when he was wearing a beeper, and he wasn't too pleased.

Where's the beef ?

Dear god. I've never been at the top of the page.

haha, nice recovery :)

I spent a lot of quality time with those magazines.

The Elle MacPherson era was a golden age for my ding a ling.

Thank you for taking me down memory lane with the Elle Sports Illustrated. I think that was the first swimsuit edition I got after my dad finally relented and paid for a SI subscription when I was in high school.

No Mans Land Fort
















German WW2 Flak Tower

Rubal Khali Sand Dunes


WOPR cousin


Made out of recycled metal




(maybe posted here already?)


Unfinished mosque in Turkey

A bunch of NSFW pics for JediKooter. My stash is growing too large and I need to clean some out.

Kathy will always be my favorite SI girl and to me that was the golden age of the super model. I remember taking one of the magazines she was on the cover of on the road when I was playing basketball. By the end of the night the magazine had literally fallen apart due to being passed around so much.

I haven't said 'wow' that many times in a row, in a long time. Thank you.

I think Cundiff would have missed the field goal here too.

Not sure if this has been in this thread already:

From Failbook: Scarred For Life - EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic Fail Funny Pictures

I LOL'd.



Side note, I'm getting tired of seeing some of these HDR photos. I've been able to take some great shots, and I never post-process. Though it's still art, it's a different form...I think they should be identified as such.

/tk

Wow. Just wow. All that after dating for a little over a week. Too funny.

would like it more if I believed it

Yes, it's a hoax. It's also very funny.

It is a different art form but they are deceptive if they're passing them off as landscape photographs instead of digital art. While I think the master landscape photographers of the past would appreciate the artistry, they do take away from the work needed in the field and training the eye for light and exposure. The real genius is taking a scenic photograph exceptional composition, light and exposure that would need minimal non-digital post-processing.

Yes, this is exactly what I was trying to say with fewer words. :D

Back in the film days, there was an art to the film development just as much if not more than the shooting.

In the day of digital, I really try to get my shots to be great in camera, without work in post. I rarely succeed. But I always get frustrated when people compare it to something that's been HDR'd (and often HDR'd in camera without people having to think about optimal exposures). I think HDR images are beautiful. But wish that more people knew what HDR is...

/tk

Says the dinosaur.

Cameras can't capture the full range of color, saturation and contrast that the human eye can; what HDR allows is for a camera in addition to software to assemble images that come much closer to what the human eye, connected to the brain, can see.

HDR can certainly be overdone, and just like with a non-HDR picture, skill in composition, lighting & exposure still matter - HDR isn't going to turn a mediocre picture into a great one.

By itself, no, but digital processing software is also used for removing and adding objects, not to mention cleaning up flaws in a scene. I never heard of anyone being able to remove a telephone wire across a scene in the pre-digital age (those would have been tossed). Even I can remove something like today if everything else was good in the scene. Can we just agree to call it digital art?

See this is a failing many of us have. Clinging to "it was beeter when" ot "there was an artistry to it"

Blacksmiths used to make amazing tools, weapons and everyday items, there was an artistry to it, and just like with photography, technology has found a way to diminish the need for that much time, effort and stufy to become proficient at making teh same things happen.

I can appreciate then all. I don't think that makes any one better or worse than the other and it certainly doesn't mean people are trying to deceive anyone with what they do.

That old blacksmith made an amazing horse shoe.

That factory makes 20,000 a day and you know what? they're just as good, useful and beautiful ;)

I guess I really appreciated the work that someone did in the field (like Galen Rowell, John Fielder) and what they did to get a photograph, whether it turned out exceptional or not. I also really appreciate the craft of digital artistry, which I have done a little of, sitting down at a computer and creating something really nice.

We have the technology to recreate Rowell's "Rainbow over the Potala Palace" without ever setting foot in Tibet, and you wouldn't know the difference. Both would be art but there is a difference, which is my only point.

Funny that so many of us remember the MacPherson Swimsuit SI. That was the first one I got when my parents got my a subscription too.

Korean baseball has cheerleaders. Cheerleaders! Just over a month until opening day. :D Oh, yeah. And $2 beer.

This picture is awesome.

Ansel Adams would have been able to do it in the pre-digital age. He would be one of the biggest proponents of Photoshop if he were around today.

Just because before it would take various chemicals and negative alchemy to create "art" doesn't mean that things in the "pixel age" can't be considered equivalents.

Exactly. This idea that pre-digital photography was some kind of pristine art form is hogwash - many great photographers did as much of their work in the developing room as they did behind the lens.

And yes, things like telephone wires were removed from photos in the pre-digital age - skill with an airbrush was highly valued.

Guess I must be old, 'cause I vividly remember the Kathy Ireland covers too.

FWIW, I posted the pics because they look cool. I know fuck-all about the techniques used to make them or why they are more or less valid as art than other shots.

*shrug*

Worst. Book. Ever.

Sorry Ksyrup, just playing devil's advocate (with a bit of bias against deceptions in general). I am thinking of getting into HDR sometime and see what I can do with my original photographs since my best ones have been digitized.

Less talking and more COOL pictures...

Korean girls are so much hotter than Japanese girls.

a cool image is a cool image, IMO.

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Why thank you, don't mind if I do.

Looks like it's time to put another load in...


I'll be here all week folks. Try the veal and don't forget to tip your waitresses.

She told me detergent costs too much to waste it on a load as small as yours. :p

Those of you talking about models of yesteryear might like this pictorial on NBC.
Supermodels: Then and Now | NBC Chicago

She shouldn't be the only one.