A series of images purporting to show images which are not in fact the result of Photoshop trickery despite looking for all the world like they are has lately been fascinating appreciators of bizarre photography:
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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
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]
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
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..
pic 004 - A380 = this is REAL image
that bridge is at "Taxiway SC2", Changi Airport
that's normal in any airport taxiway bridge. Even there is airport's runway by half is bridge.
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 THE FFFFFUUUUUUUU
and here I thought it was because of my drugs...
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.
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.
I think I've seen #019 before. At the end of Saikano.
20- Looks like one of the background of the first series of Hellsing xD
#27 Holy crap its EAGLE JESUS!!!
This makes me feel so confused.
GG tuh kk
oh, i remember the invisible car used to be on the news....
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.
The first thing that came into my mind is "Salvador Dali"... Mmmm, flying ballerina lolis..
#27 - The Baddest Eagle... EVER.
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.
I don't believe how 25 and 26 can be real.
The Blue Angels one was the best.
#30 looks like broken neck ghost from Fatal Frame
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.
This is awesome! Quite a good illusion, I'd say
A room full of levitating lolis. Pedo bear is pleased.
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?
#17 is a large wireframe, work of an artist.
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
Trippy....
I like!
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.
Have you figured out #21 yet? huh?
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...
#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)
#22: Blue Angels fly REALLY close in formation...
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
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.
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??
#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
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.
that battleship is pretty cool. BOOM!
It sure is crappy powerpoint email in here.
Trippy especially the people
well, this quiet something
Weee effects!
2 from bottom looks painful
more like it gave me a hard on >_>
ExtrovertedOtaku needs to lern2sarcasm 'cause I'm pretty sure his comments were laced with idiocy.
>2 from bottom
I lol'd.
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
You got a boner from a duck???
The point is there is NO effects numbnuts.
#4 is legit. The airport by my house has taxiways over the (car) tollway through the center. These do exist.
yeah I was there too...
#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 [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.
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
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).
You mean SARS masks :\
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.
do a barrel roll!
I cant explain #12 #17 #1...bizzarest
@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?
I would speculate more like, "think skylight." I think it's a guy standing on a skylight.
I can't see any effects in it...
These pics really makes my day
#17 is easy. In a field with heaps of glowsticks, spinning ain circles.
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.
#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
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.
#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
#17 Bulb shot?
#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
#13 THIS IS THUNDAGA!!
I'm from Singapore, Photo #4 is real and I've seen it often...
cool, i want to see those places in real life
I'm trying real hard to believe but a small few of them seem way to unrealistic to be real.
#19 is an actual type of cloud formation, just an exceedingly rare one. It's called mammatus.
#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.