Yesterday morning, you looked good. Yesterday evening, before you went out, you’re pretty sure you looked real good. So who the hell is this schlub in the Facebook album from last night, tagged with your name? More »
Like water, smoke is beautiful, powerful and unpredictable. The 82 photos from this week’s Shooting Challenge not only capture smoke as smoke, but smoke as demons, jellyfish and…OK…sometimes just as smoke. More »
Last week’s genuine Internet phenomenon, the Cigar Guy, who crashed the hearts and minds of millions after his mustachioed, cigar smoking face popped up in the background of a Ryder Cup photo featuring a shot by Tiger Woods heading dangerously close to Daily Mail photographer Mark Pain’s lens, has finally been located.
His name is Rupesh Shingadia. He’s a 30-year-old investment analyst living in London with his parents, a housewife and retired mechanic. The cigar and the mustache are fake, naturally. The “turban” is actually the top of a ponytail wig.
Ridiculous costume or no, Shingadia is genuinely surprised by all of the attention. “I am embarrassed and overwhelmed,” he told the Daily Mail. “Never in a million years could I have expected anything like this.” He called the whole experience “truly surreal.”
Shingadia says that he’s just “an ordinary guy who loves golf.”
The getup, it turns out, is an homage to Miguel Angel Jimenez, a Spanish golfer. “I love the way he walks around the course with a cigar clamped between his teeth.”
This is Cigar Guy. If you haven’t met him yet. You will soon, and then you’ll begin your roller coaster meme love affair, one that will inevitably leave you disappointment, alone, frantically scouring the Internet for LOLcats.
Why is Cigar Guy the most famous guy in the world all of the sudden? Simple. He’s kind of goofy looking and he was standing in the general vicinity of Tiger Woods when the really cool above shot was taken by a Daily Mail photographer about to get beaned in the head by a stray golf ball. That’s Cigar Guy on the right. He’s the guy with the cigar.
Now Cigar Guy is the subject of a seemingly endless parade of Photoshop works. He’s appeared on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band alongside John, George, and Ringo and has not-so-subtly been pasted on the body of a victorious Muhammad Ali.
Oh well, anything that takes the spotlight off of Tiger for a moment can’t be all bad, right? check out an example after the jump.
You’d think that a figure of pure darkness would look like the essence of evil. But the 158 silhouettes from this week’s Shooting Challenge are active, earnest, understated, funny, friendly, sexy…and yes…occasionally a little bit evil, too. More »
In just about a decade, much of the world has forgotten that film cameras ever even existed. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, not only did participants shoot on film—they used crumby, often expired disposable cameras to do it. More »
Vincent van Gogh The Harvest, 1888 (detail), Tilt-shifted by Artcyclopedia
Converting Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings into tilt-shift “photographs” isn’t really a gadget, but who cares when the results are this good?
The inevitable experiment was carried out by Artcyclopedia back in the summer, when 16 of the absinthe-sipping, ear-hating painter’s pictures were run through Photoshop. The results are presented in a sometimes startling gallery.
Tilt-shift has had an interesting history. I first saw it in a gallery in Rome, and the photos were shot from high-points and helicopters using a large-format camera with a proper tilt-shift lens attached. These lenses are usually used for architectural photography, and involves tilting the lens upwards to squeeze in the top of a building while keeping the film-plane parallel to that building to avoid converging verticals. Tilting the lens like this also alters the plane of focus, letting you cut a slice of sharpness through an image.
This effect mimics the view we get of miniature models, with focus falling sharply off due to the camera being so close to its subject. So strong is this effect that it makes real landscapes seem to be tiny reproductions.
The technique came out of the camera and into the computer, and now there’s even an app for that. Applied to Van Gogh’s impressionistic paintings, it actually makes them seem more real, as it one had actually taken a photograph of a tiny landscape rendered in staccato yellow strokes.
Spend a few minutes checking the pictures out. Then do exactly what I’m about to do: go hit Google image search for old paintings of other artists and fire up Photoshop.
Tilt-Shift Van Gogh [Artcyclopedia via the Giz]
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The photos that follow are impossible. But they actually happened. The entries for this week’s Shooting Challenge are composites, stacking subjects from the same place at different moments in time. The results will bend your brain in the best ways: More »
Köln. Home to some of the best pommes frites this world has ever seen, and this year, home to Photokina 2010. We’re live on the ground in one of Germany’s most charming cities, bringing you the latest from the photography world as it breaks. Fujifilm has already kicked things off with a relative bang, and a slew of press events are slated to happen over the next 48 hours. Sony, LaCie, Leica, Panasonic, Fujifilm and Hasselblad are all on deck (with Samsung and Casio already in the bag), and we’re expecting plenty more surprises once the show floor opens in earnest tomorrow. Keep it locked on our Photokina 2010 tag page for all the latest — it’s good for the shutterbug’s soul.
Gallery: Live from Photokina 2010!
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Samsung’s press event kicked things off here in Cologne, and Photokina 2010 just wouldn’t be Photokina 2010 without oodles of talk about mirrorless cameras. After talking up its NX100 for the better part of an hour, the company took a moment to answer a few questions from the crowd. The biggest news, however, was the unveiling of the price point. Up until now, Sammy has remained mum on how much its latest and greatest compact would run, but we were told the 20-50mm bundle would ship at some point in the near future for $599 (we’ve confirmed that it’ll ship in October), while the 20mm pancake lens bundle would go for $649.
In related news, last year’s NX10 will be gaining a huge level of functionality thanks to an October-bound firmware update, which will add full support for the company’s range of i-Function lenses. You heard right — the NX10 you splurged on last year will soon be able to play the same tap-and-scroll settings game as the NX100. Speaking of lenses, Samsung also confirmed that it would be willing to “provide technical information” to other companies in order for third-party i-Function lenses to be created. We didn’t get the impression that any other outfit had come forward with interest, but we couldn’t be happier to hear that there’s no walled garden surrounding the technology — particularly with how impressive it was during our initial NX100 hands-on.
Lastly, the company admitted that it’s hoping to have a 1080p model ready at some point in 2011, and it’s also hard at work on an APS-C sensor that’s better geared for low-light situations. Music to our ears, to say the least.
Samsung NX100 priced at $599+ for October release, NX10 gaining i-Function lens support in October originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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