These are not photographs!

[Tin Can]

Mods please put this where it belongs, I have no idea.

This just in, this guy is super photorealistic, almost like nothing I've seen. I have seen full size perfect sculptures of a naked woman, so real, we were checking her pulse and breathing.

These are also that good.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/robin-eley_n_3566023.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009


btw, my colorful Avatar is not digital, but a pencil and paper drawing done 11x14 by a friend of mine. I copy them for him.

[photobymike]

WoW i was fooled not photos but paintings...... at least he did not have to get a model release.....

[Greg Miller]

Here's a guy who does photo-realism by starting with a blank canvas and painting (no photos used) in Photoshop: http://www.bertmonroy.com/timessquare/timessquare.html

[Tin Can]

Beyond insane, 4 years! I hope he made some money.


Here's a guy who does photo-realism by starting with a blank canvas and painting (no photos used) in Photoshop: http://www.bertmonroy.com/timessquare/timessquare.html

[Greg Miller]

Beyond insane, 4 years! I hope he made some money.

There's a guy in there carrying a Gitzo Tripod and what appears to be a LF camera.

[William Whitaker]

"a disposable folly"... I like that!

[Maris Rusis]

If a man uses his megapixel eyeball to capture an image of something in the real world and then uses that information to manually place spots of colour on a surface then that's a painting, I guess.

If a computer uses a megapixel camera to capture an image of something in the real world and then uses that information to drive a printer to mechanically place spots of colour on a surface then that's a photograph, or so they say.

I wonder if, in both cases, the arrangement of colour spots is exactly the same is the distinction between "painting" and "photograph" meaningless. And what of pictures made of light sensitive materials where there are no megapixels and the thing that "decides" the colour spots is the physical sample of subject matter that flies through the lens and whacks into the sensitive surface. Surely this is something else again.

[ic-racer]

Here's a guy who does photo-realism by starting with a blank canvas and painting (no photos used) in Photoshop: http://www.bertmonroy.com/timessquare/timessquare.html

Yes, and as that becomes more popular the digital photographers that use a lens will start calling themselves analog photographers...:)

[Tin Can]

Everybody thinks I am nuts, but I think the future is in some sort of optic nerve hook up so we 'see' photographs directly without external prints, monitors, etc.