Gizmodo Shooting Challenge: Cubismo fotográfico

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Cubism was the art world's response to photographic realism. But in this week's Shooting Challenge, the photographers answer back to the cubists—combining multiple perspectives into a single photos to create striking, confounding photographic works of art.

Lead Shot - Bouquet

The shot was fairly simple, lots of photographs of flowers (and their shadow) in different positions & angles, and multiple camera settings (zoom, lighting, etc.). Then cutting and layering in Photoshop for a couple hours. Canon T2i, multiple settings.
-Diego Jiménez

Projector

So, I had this great idea of plugging the cubist thing into a film projector and adding time into the mix by adding in digital projection elements and a left-to-right background progressing from simple to modern. My first try really sucked, the best I can say is that this one sucks less. I think. It's so hard to tell with modern art. All images were shot with a Lumix DMC-ZS1 and edited together in Corel Photo x2.
-Dave Pomes

Marionette

A marionette is throwing the dice. Sadly you can't see who is holding the strings ... Any associations to the modern world? This picture is made from 1/8 second exposure for cubes and 1/200 second for hand and string shots. It was a fun challenge, specially the post production part as I am not used to this kind of digital art. Nikon D5000, AF-S 18-105, built in flash 42mm, f/8, 1/8 s and 1/200 s, ISO 500
-Janez Kos

Arm Tinsel

Here's my attempt at cubism. Shutter speed, focal length and aperture vary across images, but it's all shot with a Canon 7D and a 17-85mm lens. I tried to get some kind of mix of clean studio photography and impossible cubism-weirdness: a friend of mine was kind enough to let herself be photographed a bunch of times from different angles wearing different outfits, the result of which was then cut together in Photoshop to create a portrait with this impossibly long arm winding down her body.
-Robert Kirberich

Child(ren)

I had a really hard wet weekend with the kids and remembered the Cubism Assignment. So we all headed outside and I actually got one to sit still for half an hour or so (hard to do for a energetic 9 year old) while we decided what we wanted to do. Once all the shots were taken we all went inside and crowded around the computer. After much give and take from everyone (the 9 and 11 year old included) we all agreed on how we wanted it put together. So it really was a great family project for a wet Sunday afternoon in Rotorua, New Zealand. Canon EOS450D, Canon EFS55-250mm
-Angela Cuff

Shrooms

This image is my interpretation of Charlotte's exterior appearance and her soul after a weekend of mushrooms. It was shot with a Nikon D40, Sigma 50mm lens, and Vivitar flash (bounced), ISO 200, composited in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
-Marisa Schwartz

Planes, Trains & AutoFocus

This is a pretty straightforward cut & paste job in Photoshop. I avoided using any tools to distort the image, relying only on cropping and resizing to fit together the various elements. Nikon D70s with Nikkor 80-200mm, ISO 400, various exposure settings
-Mark Reddick

WINNER - Guitar

Shot this with my iPhone 4, using both HDR and regular photos, and cut it together in Photoshop. Nothing fancy, spent most of my time on photo alignment, size, etc, very little on tweaking values and whatnot. This is my Little Martin, which has traveled quite a bit, though doesn't show much wear due to it's largely-formica construction. These things are basically built from plastic and scraps from Martin's nicer instruments, but still sound sweet. I wanted to accentuate the pure functionality of this instrument, which included, of course, the important bits (bridge, tuning machines, truss-rod, sound hole) but also the artifacts of it's construction, namely the budget-built neck made of 40 laminations of wood (I presume the cut-off leftovers from the backs and sides of entirely-wood guitars). This building method created lines along the neck's length, showing the precision with which the neck is carved, especially at the heel. It looks awesome, works splendidly, cuts waste, saves trees, all that good stuff. It's a rock-solid little bastard, and this contest gave me a good excuse, and method, to pay tribute to this tiny utilitarian.
-Noah Watenmaker

These came out so well. Hopefully all of our participants found the experience to be a decent way to spend a weekend. Full gallery below with the big versions on flickr.

Cubism Gallery (one-page view)

Fuente: http://gizmodo.com/5696612/34-captivating-cubist-photos

 

Primera imagen de “Sherlock Holmes 2”

Cualquier cosa que se pueda saber acerca de la venidera secuela del exitoso filme “Sherlock Holmes” (2009), protagonizado por Robert Downey Jr. y Jude Law, se sabe, es más que relevante de comunicar. En este sentido, me parece que ofrecer laprimera imagen de la prometida continuación de las aventuras de uno de los detectives más famosos ya no de la literatura, sino de la cultura occidental, es algo que compensa no sólo nuestro gusto por la información casi susurrada, sino también nuestras ansias visuales como para ir ya teniendo una idea de lo que nos espera.

A los dos protagonistas mencionados hay que sumar a Naomi Rapace, quien no sólo está en el cast, sino que también tiene su aspecto visual como Sim definido en la imagen que incluimos en el artículo. Es gracioso, además, el hecho de que gran parte de la información que se tiene acerca de la filmación son los respectivos tweets que va dejando de vez en cuando uno de los actores que pertenecen al cast, el glorioso y legendario Stephen Fry —- por Dios, vean su inmejorable interpretación de Oscar Wilde en“Wilde” (1997) —-.

En la imagen en cuestión podemos ver a todos personajes mencionados en el típico plano en el que se escapa de alguna que otra explosión localizada por detrás: las ropas rasgadas, la mirada hacia el frente, casi me hace acordar a aquel sketch/canción deAndy Samberg “Cool Guys Don´t Look at Explosions”: ¿no les parece?

Contentos, entonces, por tener el primer vistazo de lo que se viene, hago algunos comentarios antes de que la película salga: ¿qué tipo de franquicia se puede abrir con una cinta como esta? Digo, está bien, una historia de aventuras en donde se combinan algunos datos típicos del personaje, mejor dicho, arquetípicos, con el fin de ver si se puede renovar una idea del siglo XIX, crear una Londres casi imposible —- pero no por eso menos interesante —-, poner a un director de impacto como Guy Ritchie a la cabeza de todo, llevar grandes estrellas de la actualidad y, básicamente, ofrecer un producto que por todos lados le va a cerrar a las grandes masas de personas que van al cine periódicamente. Tiene su costado genial, obvio, y absolutamente disfrutable, pero creo que por el hecho de ya quedar entusiasmados por una imagen estamos frente a frente con el hecho de cómo funciona el cine en la actualidad: abrir franquicias, de más está decirlo, es hacer este tipo de cosas.

Fuente: http://extracine.com/2010/11/primera-imagen-de-sherlock-holmes-2#more-84107

Se dejan ver algunas especificaciones de las AMD Radeon HD 6990

The AMD-Nvidia war is about to go dual GPU. Following the leak of AMD Radeon HD 6970 benchmark numbers, a slide from what appears to be a presentation on the AMD Radeon HD 6990 (codenamed Antilles) has leaked, courtesy of user Gast on the 3DCenter forums.

If the slide is legitimate, and it appears to be, the graphics card will integrate 3840 stream processors and have 4GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4.80GHz. It will be equipped with two DVI-I and three mDP connectors. Power consumption will be at 300W under load and around 30W when idle. The next-generation dual-chip flagship offering from AMD will carry two codename Cayman GPUs with 1920 stream processors per chip. The card will deliver 6.0 trillion floating point operations per second (TFLOPS) single-precision performance or up to 1.5TFLOPS double-precision performance.

If it were released today, Antilles would become the top performing graphics card in the world. Nvidia is rumored to be delaying its dual-GPU GTX 590 in order to implement further improvements so that it can once again beat AMD's offering (Nvidia currently holds the crown for single-GPU performance with its GeForce GTX 580). Antilles is slated to ship in the first quarter of next year, though pricing has yet to be announced.

Fuente: http://www.techspot.com/news/41295-leaked-ati-radeon-hd-6990-specifications.html