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Weee effects!
The point is there is NO effects numbnuts.
I cant explain #12 #17 #1...bizzarest
#1 horrible building
#3 car for retards
#4 seems fishy
#5 "artistic", in other words, created to be fake since start
#7 is just a special mirror
#8 another "artistic", just a horrible waste of money
#9 pretty odd, fishy
#10 this one is easy, is just those laser 3D projectores, they are cool
#11 only retards wearing that
#12 another "artistic", nothing special
#16 again
All the rest is pretty OK, nothing "amazing" to me
#1 is actually a construction method called 'top-down construction' which is different from the more common bottom up construction you guys often see. Civil engineers and those in the construction industry would know this.
Picture:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2696112284_ef20481d0c.jpg
#17 Bulb shot?
#1 is called 'top-down construction' - a method of constructing buildings that is very different from the conventional bottom up construction. Civil engineers and those in the construction industry would know this.
Pic:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2696112284_ef20481d0c.jpg
The building in the picture was actually being disassembling rather than constructed and, for whatever reason, they started from the lower floors. Since all the strength of newer buildings is in the centre I don't suppose it really matters whether you start de-constructing at the top or the bottom since the outer walls don't provide any of the support.
#4 is easy. The light source has a cutout of a man's shadow on it. Think Bat-signal.
I would speculate more like, "think skylight." I think it's a guy standing on a skylight.
@anonymous. yea, nothing amazing, because you've probably seen it all because you're just that fucking awesome. what is it that makes dickholes like you post these "i'm not impressed" comments anyway?
Top-down construction is sometimes used when those commissioning the building are concerned that they will be told to finish up construction short if funding runs short mid project.
The building in photo #1 used to stand in Leadenhall Street, London EC4. It was in the process of being demolished from the bottom up a couple of years ago when that picture was taken. I saw it "in the flesh" (if you'll pardon such an expression on Sankaku!) from across the street on a number of occasions while waiting for a bus.
#17 is easy. In a field with heaps of glowsticks, spinning ain circles.
I can't see any effects in it...
These pics really makes my day
do a barrel roll!
On-camera effects like multiple exposure and long exposure had to be used on some. Others are art or strange weather (the orange mars like one is Australia).
That Australia one was last year wasnt it?
it was like "DUST DAY, YEAH!"
and we were all walking around wearing scarfs and swineflu masks.
You mean SARS masks :\
#13 THIS IS THUNDAGA!!
I'm from Singapore, Photo #4 is real and I've seen it often...
#4 is legit. The airport by my house has taxiways over the (car) tollway through the center. These do exist.
#4 is not legit. While the airport by YOUR house possibly has something to that effect, I live in the country that picture is based on and I am calling #4 as 100% FAKE
I dont know about the wheather a A380 has been at CAN(Guang Zhou Bai Yuan Airport) airport, but that taxiway is definitely real.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=23.379496,113.295157&spn=0.03,0.03&t=h&q=23.379496,113.295157
anon #2 is a dumbass. I live there too and its totally real. It's directly on the road to the airport and it just looks like another highway above you but its actually part of the airport's taxiway. It's rare but I've had a place drive over me on that road before. It's Changni airport in Singapore. Totaly legit.
yeah I was there too...
Not to mention that the interstate system in the US was actually designed for emergency plane landings, which is why this didn't surprise me in the least. What surprised me more was that other people mentioned it was a taxiway :X
2 from bottom looks painful
more like it gave me a hard on >_>
You got a boner from a duck???
Second from the bottom would be the gymnast, genius.
Is that you Captain Obvious? Cuz I'm pretty sure my earlier comment was laced wif sarcasm =D
I lol'd.
ExtrovertedOtaku needs to lern2sarcasm 'cause I'm pretty sure his comments were laced with idiocy.
I'm trying real hard to believe but a small few of them seem way to unrealistic to be real.
#19 is HDR: not Shopped, but not what your eyes would see either.
Still tricked with technology therefore. ‘Haha, I didn't use Photoshop, I used something else to change it!’ And a lot of the others involve real life human trickery. It's like pre-Photoshopping the image before you take the picture.
#19 is an actual type of cloud formation, just an exceedingly rare one. It's called mammatus.
cool, i want to see those places in real life
Some of those are quite bizarre.
The first building is in London, it was demolished but due to the way the floors were held up from the top and not the bottom, they had to de-construct it from the ground up.
well, this quiet something
that battleship is pretty cool. BOOM!
It sure is crappy powerpoint email in here.
Trippy especially the people
Lol that A380 on the bridge is real. It was on the news in Singapore.
Indeed.
In fact, the taxi runway for airplanes go OVER the highway leading to the airport, hence the bridge.
I drive on that highway often, pretty impressive when a 200-ton plane taxis overhead...
I think Indianapolis had an airport like that. Might be some other southern US city though, can't remember which city it was but south west.
I think that either the new or old airport in Denver is like that.
Stapleton used to be like that (over I-70). DIA (the new airport) is too far away from any highways.
Stapleton used to have a taxiway over I-70. DIA's the new airport.
Atlanta has a runway over the freeway to.
Is that truck with back weels on the wall is in some surreal item gallery exposition?
What's this http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-iv/not-photoshopped-but-looking-very-much-like-it-012.jpg if it's not p-shopped ?
its a metal frame. artsy stuff really. it also looks liek this from slightly more angles if not all.
Microsoft paint-ed
Aaaah, that explains everything!
It's a wire frame with the sky as a backdrop. I saw that one on Cracked already, lol
some is real ..
What the hell is the trick to 12, is the whole background a painted wall or what, i am wigging out here
number 12 is a metal sculpture. it only looks like that from the right angle.
Yeah that can't be real except if the crass and tree are painting in a wall also.
http://thegrip.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/neil-dawsons-horizons/
Love the first pic. Really shows how important proper building design is... and how crazy it is that engineers were doing it for so many years before they had a computer to do the maths for them, buildings like the Empire State Building all based on hand calculations. Fucking crazy shit.
Are the blastwaves of a marineship THAT powerfull?
It's an Iowa-class BATTLESHIP...
The 16-inch shells weigh as much as a Volkswagen Beetle and can fly 20 miles... Apparently when they fire these boomsticks, all crew must go below deck, otherwise they'll get deaf before they become liquified by the shockwave...
Too bad they were mothballed...
Any ship with > 16" gun could be that powerful. Sadly, Iowa is one of the battleship from WW2 still remain today. Yamato could be same power.
Yamato had 18" primary cannons with a 26 mile range. Just as a point of reference, even from a point of view 100 yards up from sea level, that shot would still be an over the horizon shot (~22 miles for LoS at that height).
Wait... so UFO's are real? (17)
Its a long exposure time photo of someone spinning around while holding a light.
Of all the photos in this gallery, it is the closest to an actual fake.
Some of them must be photoshop or at least CG reconstruction. That battlecruiser is the Japanese Yamato and it was sunk during WW2.
Actually, it is not the Yamato.
It is one of the American Iowa class battleships that remained in use all the way into the early 1990s. You can see the helicopter landing pad on the stern (circle area) and the box shaped missile launchers amidships around the smoke stacks that are for Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles.
To tell it exactly, it is the USS Iowa firing a full broadside (9 x 16", 6 x 5") near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico on 1 July 1984.
Wait... so ... 2D is real? (12)
>27
Haters gonna hate
Impressive. A lot of them do look genuine, as many of the effects shown on the pics are reproduceable in RL. I just takes a lot of thought and probably a lot of time and/or patience as well. Oh and money too in some of the pictures.
Examples,
#04 Could be a pic of the delivery of A380 to the airport before first commissioning.
#05 is easy, a spotlight filter with a silluette of a person on it.
#07 a reflection on one of those office buildings full of reclective glass.
#08 probably a piece of art in an art museum.
#22 think camera angles when taking the pic.
#24 the photo was taken at the point when all the ballet dancers were at the height of their jump, all in unison to the music.
#25 and #29 if you watched the China Olympics opening/closing ceremonies and the 60th Communist anniversary they show plenty of stuff like that.
I think the A380 pic is during one of the military training. Singapore's expressway are build in a way that some of them can be runways in case of emergency.
No, it's a regular taxiway, the highway going to the airport runs under it...
#22: Blue Angels fly REALLY close in formation...
#07 I think is actually a brick building painted to look like it has distorted windows and such. The way the light hits it doesn't suggest reflection to me, and if you look at the upper part of the image you can see some darker bricks not part of the flat surface that are typical of that kind of building (added for aesthetics)
I think its a picture of a modern building with mirror finish glass, with the reflection of the building across the street in it.
By the architecture design, it looks like somewhere in San Francisco.
Nope that's europe, the one way traffic sign is european. It's probably france, Paris's buidings looks exactly like the deformed ones. And I say it's a painting, we often paint the walls of the buildings that has no windows. To avoid defacing the city's looks. This one is pretty amazing though :)
I think that they are restoring the building. if you look to the bottom left, you can see some part of the original outside. (and yes, that brown'ish zone is also part of the building)
Have you figured out #21 yet? huh?
Trippy....
I like!
found a link for pic 21 on the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8030766.stm
That's one fine work she did. She made that car vanish a lot more than scientist ever got close to make things invisible.
And here I thought she was able to scale this up:
http://news.discovery.com/tech/invisibility-cloak-3d.html
AND in that link of yours, the scientists clearly said: "Theoretically, it would be possible to do this on a large scale but technically, it's totally impossible with the knowledge we have now,"
Looks like she' doing a magic trick show there :D
Sorry but some of them seem impossible to be real. There must be a trick to it even if it's not called photoshop
The A380 is on the runway. The bridge IS the runway, which extends over the major highway leading to the airport.
Nothing special about it.
The exact location in question is here
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Singapore+Changi+Airport&sll=-37.818768,144.954431&sspn=0.01634,0.033023&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Changi+International+Airport,+Changi,+Singapore+819642&ll=1.344822,103.983439&spn=0.005191,0.008256&t=h&z=18 [http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Singapore Changi Airport&sll=-37.818768,144.954431&sspn=0.01634,0.033023&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Changi International Airport, Changi, Singapore 819642&ll=1.344822,103.983439&spn=0.005191,0.008256&t=h&z=18]
Satellite view shows the bridge in construction, while street view shows you the bridge from the view of the highway.
#3 - the world's lowest vehicle, it was built by a man in Buckinghamshire, UK.
#11 - Saskatchewan Roughriders fans watching a Toronto Blue Jays game from the cheap seats
#26 - a road train, a fairly common sight in the australian outback
I like the "invisible car."
5 and 20 are really cool.
23 just cracks me up. Just the way the guy is standing it's just like "...Well, fuck."
Also,
HATERS GONNA HATE.
23 is a rare phenomenon called "fire whirl".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_whirl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hczOv4DeI
OR maybe a small tornado that just happened to hit??
some of the things, like the mini-dust tornado are natural to Australia :P.
And we get them here in the American midwest. Usually at very hot and dry times of the year (mostly August).
My...my...my Brain!!! It's too much for the brain!
#23 is cool. Ive actually seen things similar to that. Not quite to that extent, though. Being EMS on duty at live burns and on standby for the FD's. Conditions have to be be just right, I suppose.
#1 horrible building
#3 car for retards
#5 "artistic", in other words, created to be fake since start
#7 is just a special mirror
#8 another "artistic", just a horrible waste of money
#9 pretty odd, fishy
#10 this one is easy, is just those laser 3D projectores, they are cool
#11 only retards wearing that
#12 another "artistic", nothing special
#16 again
#4 More likely a taxiway than a runway, but lots of airports have this type of setup. Long Beach, CA comes to mind. And I think De Gaulle airport outside Paris as well.
Just about all of the cloud formation pictures are probably legitimate including the huge dust devil @#2 (out of sequence). I've seen pics like them in magazines before there was photoshop.
#5 is faked but not in computer. There's a shadow box on the spotlight. Doin' it old school. I imagine the other obvious fakes are old school trick photography (like the UFO) too. Though I have to wonder about the ghost cars @21.
The apparent near-collisions in mid-air @22 and @9 are basic telephoto foreshortening.
I love the "walking eagle" (so full of shit he can't fly?) @27, but that's just an action frame just prior to catching a fish.
Interesting stuff, but nothing that requires computer modification to achieve. "Trick photography" existed long before the PC.
This thread is quite a mindfuck, ain't it?
Just give me some naked asians, you, sankaku.
Hmm, normally i'd agree for some naked asians, but hey, sometimes the mind needs a quick 15sec rest from the boobs and pantsu, dontcha think?
The battleship is Iowa class and she has 3 triple 16". I don't surprise about the pressure from her salvo.
You could be turned to pieces (dust may be) if got direct hit from 9 rounds of her.
must be GIMP
Could anyone post an article link or Wikipedia link for picture #1? It looks interesting!
#01 reminds me of Lunatic Pandora
Tornado rules xD
The A380 airbus is a real thing.
coz I've been riding in one of those plane before.
It took a while for the plane I'm in to taxi after it landed.
so, I take a look outside the window and saw the traffic below me n I goes WTF!? is this for real?
3rd pic is real, no kidding SIA really did built a bridge above the highway to accommodate planes transferring from port to runway
#06 is a real thing. Iowa Class BB firing its main turrets in a naval excersise.
Oh I've seen clouds kinda like in 19, scares the crap out of you XD
I know http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-iv/not-photoshopped-but-looking-very-much-like-it-002.jpg is real 'cause I saw it on a discovery channel video on YouTube.
some of these are hilarious.
The first building is in Connecticut.
This looks shopped
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time
Some of them really do look like shops and some of them look convincing.
#3 Some people really have made some really low lowriders like that.
#5 someone pasted a humanoid shape onto the spotlight.
I refuse to believe most of those pictures aren't photoshopped.
Trick photos existed long before photoshop. Ex. #21 is just a car painted to match the background from that particular angle.
These are clearly shops, i can tell from the pixles and having seen many shops in my day
They are not, you are just unable to tell if a pic is pshopped.
and here I thought it was because of my drugs...
WHAT THE FFFFFUUUUUUUU
#27 Holy crap its EAGLE JESUS!!!
20- Looks like one of the background of the first series of Hellsing xD
I think I've seen #019 before. At the end of Saikano.
The one of the battleship is actually not a photoshop. That pic is from the early 1980s. A boss of mine that I used to work with was in the navy for 10 years and actually served on that ship and took the pic for a magazine. He currently has it hanging on is door in his office.
What is the cloud thing in #18?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_cloud
Its generation is mathematically likened to a solitary wave, similar to rogue waves experienced out at sea. (The wave is particularly resilient to destabilization)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_defect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave
in mexico and germany are builidins like #1
mexico
http://farm4.static.flickr.com3054/2368443500_fc42f80613.jpg
germany
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_u37WTxMX0BM/SazWYWhQlKI/AAAAAAAAAO4/QvSXeHmhmcQ/s1600-h/The+Astra+Haus.jpg [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_u37WTxMX0BM/SazWYWhQlKI/AAAAAAAAAO4/QvSXeHmhmcQ/s1600-h/The Astra Haus.jpg]
Something really cool about photography in an exceptional lighting and angle conditions.
Something that art, no matter how fantastic, really can't come close to. No diss for the arts, since life imitates art and life imitates art.
What happened in #20? Did a volcano blow up nearby?
#30. i lol'd
#24 omg loliplane
Pic #1 reminds me of this building in Downtown Vancouver... Its base is a lot smaller than the rest of the structure. Quite interesting architecture if you ask me...
http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/64259__468x_not-photoshopped-but-looking-very-much-like-it-001.jpg
I can vouch for this one, went past it every weekend on the Bus in London, it does sort of have a WTF quality to it when you first see it.
pic 13 serious just looks like a touhou screen-cap.
awesome.
Pic 004 - A380
Singapore dun have that running track..
Definitely, photoshopped..
This makes me feel so confused.
This is awesome! Quite a good illusion, I'd say
A room full of levitating lolis. Pedo bear is pleased.
I know the rolling waves pic and the red town pictures are real.
The rolling waves clouds are definitely real.
The red town is probably from Sydney when there was a dust storm. Early morning light refraction made the dust red; making the whole city and surrounding areas look red.
I've seen such clouds once in my life... freaky shit. It looks unreal in REAL life.
#30 looks like broken neck ghost from Fatal Frame
#17 is a large wireframe, work of an artist.
I know the cloud formation in picture 19 is true. I witnessed a very similar cloud formation only once in my life. The one I saw was mid day. This pic appears to be at sunrise or sunset giving the orange color in the clouds. About 30 minutes after the formation it was proceeded by one of the worst rain storms I have ever seen in-land. We had hurricane force winds even though there were no indications of this in the forecast. A bit TMI i'm sure but I figure it's better to state all the facts for anyone who found this interesting. Cheers!
can anyone explain the pic no#21 ?
under what condition a car can be transparent?
The Blue Angels one was the best.
I don't believe how 25 and 26 can be real.
What kind of effects they use, if NOT PHOTOSHOP OR CAMERA TRICKERY? Am i, or everyone else is on some substance while seeing this page???
Some of them are old-school photographer's effects, and others are sculpture art aka. IRL photoshop.
GG tuh kk
oh, i remember the invisible car used to be on the news....
The first thing that came into my mind is "Salvador Dali"... Mmmm, flying ballerina lolis..
Ah, so this is how the world looks like to one who had a couple of shots too many...
On the other hand, said drunk might sees these oddities and insists they look just fine.