Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Photoshop, surely?

If not, that's incredible!

Don't think they'd need to photoshop - Bull Sharks are known for feeding in shallow water, have been spotted in main streets in Australia during floods and have even been found hundreds of miles up rivers (Mississippi, Zambezi, Amazon & Ganges to name a few). They're also quite aggressive, I'd be staying put there till the waters subsided.

Thanks Rod.

I'm pleased it is for real, but still can barely believe that. I do, of course, but jeez......

[ShatnerPants]

Sorry to be a pooper, but this site suggests those shark pics  are fake....

 

But there are some pretty fine shots that they think are real...

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/sorting-the-real-sandy-photos-from-the-fakes/264243/#.UJAnyVNACA8.facebook

[tikay]

Sorry to be a pooper, but this site suggests those shark pics  are fake....

 

But there are some pretty fine shots that they think are real...

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/sorting-the-real-sandy-photos-from-the-fakes/264243/#.UJAnyVNACA8.facebook

No need to apologise, it is well worth it just for the link, some wonderful stuff there, I've been searching all over for Hurricane Sandy stuff, as I can't quite get my head round how bad it is in relative terms.

It's the way the internet works these days, when you see something odd, or unusual, be it a thread on a poker forum, or a photo, you have to first ask yourself "is this real?"

I must add that this sort of thing (below) really makes me cross. It's not "proper" photography, it's cheating, quite clearly.

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Rest assured, when I take photos & upload them, they are the real deal, no cheating or editty stuff like what I have seen some folks do. Proper snapper me. 

[AlunB]

Not much conceptual difference to me between using pre and post filters.

[tikay]

Not much conceptual difference to me between using pre and post filters.

Exactly.

Only photo-snobs would claim to notice any difference.

People that use all this editing suite stuff should all be shot.

[tikay]

The bait has been cast.....

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[AlunB]

Not much conceptual difference to me between using pre and post filters.

Exactly.

Only photo-snobs would claim to notice any difference.

People that use all this editing suite stuff should all be shot.

Not sure if serious...

I meant I don't see much difference between using lights/flash/reflectors/whatever when taking a pic and using photoshop for the same effects afterwards.

[Rod Paradise]

Sorry to be a pooper, but this site suggests those shark pics  are fake....

 

But there are some pretty fine shots that they think are real...

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/sorting-the-real-sandy-photos-from-the-fakes/264243/#.UJAnyVNACA8.facebook

Bugger, annoying because bull sharks in flooded towns is entirely feasible and here are a few reports from Australia including one of a bull shark spotted in a flooded McDonalds.

[AndrewT]

Bugger, annoying because bull sharks in flooded towns is entirely feasible and here are a few reports from Australia including one of a bull shark spotted in a flooded McDonalds.

Ordering 500 Fillets'o'Fish

[ripple11]

Bugger, annoying because bull sharks in flooded towns is entirely feasible and here are a few reports from Australia including one of a bull shark spotted in a flooded McDonalds.

Ordering 500 Fillets'o'Fish

I really did lol

[Rod Paradise]

Bugger, annoying because bull sharks in flooded towns is entirely feasible and here are a few reports from Australia including one of a bull shark spotted in a flooded McDonalds.

Ordering 500 Fillets'o'Fish

I really did lol

me too

[hector62]

Afternoon Mr T. I take part in a lot of psychology studies at the local university and yesterdays was particularly interesting. It was a study to help people suffering from prosopagnosia, this is an inability to recognise faces even of your parents. The study consisted of looking at pictures of people and being able to correctly spot people you had already been shown. Not as easy as it sounds as they change the profiles of the pictures and even turned some of them upside down. All the people in the photos wore swim caps to hide their hair as this is the most recognisable feature that humans have.

In all the studies I do my competitive nature comes to the fore so I am trying loads of different techniques to remember the faces but it is tough. A chins head-on profile is totally different when looked at from the side. Eyes and noses upside down looked just weird. After a while though I cracked it and found the best way to remember a face, and I found it quite interesting. The feature that I had almost total success in remembering a face, that worked upside down or in profile was - the eyebrow ! How strange is that.

Eyebrows were curved, slanted, straight. Joined at the middle. Bushy, plucked. One would be bigger than the other and around 30% of the people had one that was higher than the other.

Next time you are opening a banana the correct way spare 5 minutes to look at your eyebrows - you may just surprise yourself.

[kinboshi]

The bait has been cast.....

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Good photo of a tiger shark tikay.

[Machka]

Have you heard of Self Healing Concrete before tikay?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20121303

[ShatnerPants]

The bait has been cast.....

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I'm no fisherman.

But shouldn't someone tell him he's put his reel in the wrong place?