And now for something completely different

RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,969 moderator
edited December 16, 2014 in Other Cool Shots
i-csttBMg-L.gif

i-mHbwr4T-L.gif
My Pics

Comments

  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2014
    Not Monty Python but something super anyway! Is the first shot of Nikola Tesla?
    Just brilliant and imaginative!!thumb.gifthumb
  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2014
    Ha! Neat stuff
    Rags
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited December 10, 2014
    Wow, something completely different indeed!!

    Very well done, Richard!
    Pathfinder - www.pathfinder.smugmug.com

    Moderator of the Technique Forum and Finishing School on Dgrin
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,254 moderator
    edited December 11, 2014
    Richard, were you there when he was testing this?

    And weirdly, I was in the very middle of the 4th work in this set when I viewed the two above. See if it doesn't fit exactly, including the spinning golden egg.
    http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/outer-tehom

    in at about 6:30 and a minute thereafter for the egg sound. I actually thought it was your egg doing that noise rolleyes1.gif
    My Smugmug
    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2014
    clap.gif I love the Tesla! thumb.gif
    This illustrates his concept for the wireless transmission of electricity... the original "hot-spot"!
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2014
    Very cool indeed!

    Especially the first one
    Randy
  • JuanoJuano Registered Users Posts: 4,890 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2014
    Completely different for sure, can you share details?
    Cristóbal


    www.mind-driftphoto.com
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,969 moderator
    edited December 12, 2014
    Thanks everyone. Telefonica (Spain's major phone carrier and ISP) put on an exhibition of Tesla stuff--old photos, models of stuff he never built plus a few working replicas of stuff he did build. Well, some were working--like the Egg of Columbus above--but his remote controlled boat wasn't. When I was reviewing the egg shots I got the idea of putting some together as an animated GIF. I didn't have enough shots to make it convincing, so I went back and reshot the egg in burst mode with animation in mind. While I was about it, I also shot the sparks display, which covered one wall of the exhibit. All credit for the first one goes to whoever thought up the display. The animation itself is a piece of cake in Photoshop if you have the right frames to begin with--just align the layers, crop, and create a frame for each layer.
    My Pics
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,969 moderator
    edited December 12, 2014
    David_S85 wrote: »
    ...in at about 6:30 and a minute thereafter for the egg sound. I actually thought it was your egg doing that noise rolleyes1.gif
    nod.gif Never thought about giving it a soundtrack, but that might have worked well. lol3.gif
    My Pics
  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2014
    Again nice work... not enuf said by me in the first round...
    Rags
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,969 moderator
    edited December 15, 2014
    torags wrote: »
    Again nice work... not enuf said by me in the first round...
    Many thanks, rags. Much appreciated.
    My Pics
  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2014
    ^5 + !!!!!!!!!!!!
    My snaps can be found here:
    Unsharp at any Speed
  • PantherPanther Registered Users Posts: 3,658 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2014
    Howdy Richard,

    What a great feat to capture all of that and then your Post Processing, I admire
    your gumption to go back and redo the Egg shoot, it really paid off. I really hadn't
    understood how you'd accomplished this till your Explanation.

    Very Nicely Done !!!!
    Take care,

    Craig

    Burleson, Texas
Sign In or Register to comment.