Absolutely love it, Gary. Everything about it is spot on.
Absolutely love it, Gary. Everything about it is spot on.
Barbara and I visited S-F (as I was told the slang is) for a Macromedia conference (obviously before Adobe bought them), and this was our big chance to take a lot of photographs, especially around the Moscone Center.
So I was obliged to do something weird with one of our better photos. The interesting thing about this picture, I feel, is that the apparent size of the modeled wind-up toy makes the full-size buildings look small, doesn't it?
My Best,
Gary
Yes it does. Either that or that's a real big wind-up toy.
Larry a.k.a wizard509
Never give up. You will never fail, but you may find a lot of ways that don't work.
I remember the popularity of yo yo's in the 50's. Every kid had two or three. Good creative work, Gary.
That last one you blended in well Gary, with the shadows and reflections on the toy.
In the early 1960s there was a UFO "flap" in America, and possibly the world. One more prominant UFOlogist was Geroge Adamski, who claimed he'd been to Venus, Mars and Saturn (but not Uranus), took both motion pictures and stills of something that sort of looked like a bird feeder. Later, I saw that Sears ran an ad for a portable gas lamp; the top was identical to Adamski's fake photos he touted on talk shows and the like.
Let's see how to fake a UFO in a photo today:
I used modo for the model, P'shop for composting, several filters to degrade the final photo.
My Best,
Gary
Way back when we had our very own UFOlogist, His name was Frank -something or other- . It took me some time on the search engine to dig up the goods on our UFO pro, http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?7370-FRAUD-or-BAD-BUSINESS it is a very old thread and has suffered from neglect.
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That is very good, Gary. That looks just like some of those old photo's.
@Mike,
If you'd like to link this image to the thread that is suffering from neglect—try resuscitation—by all means do so with my blessing.
@Graham, thank you, friend. I guess there are several thing I could have done to better "fake" the photo, but we're talking a layer upon a layer...it's supposed to look real, but within the context of both a hoax and the 1960s, a different culture than we have today.
Here's what the unfiltered render looks like, compared to Adamski's photography.
Oh, heck, if a guy in his late, late middle-age wants to pube out and get back to sci-fi, I might as well do it all-out:
Another unexplained phenomenon,
Gary
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