Wow. Eeugh, but... WOW.

[filkertom]

huskiebear aimed me to some of the seriously best Photoshop work I have ever seen. But also really, really disquieting.

Check out Human Descent.

Comments

[poltr1]

You aren't kidding. Interspecies cloning gone horribly wrong. And it looks so....natural! Talk about "the dog-faced boy".

I expect some of these to turn up as monsters in a D&D (or other role-playing game) campaign.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

One of the first things I said to Les was, "Jeez, I gotta forward this to some mod-makers for Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights."

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Curious. I found most of these ineffably cute. The ones I didn't like were the humanoid ones with extra multiple organs.

I think the old baldy guy with a dog muzzle reminded me of my late father-in-law actually, a dear man but a real human basset hound. [grin] Fortunately, Honourable Husband favors his mother's side in looks.

The feline-bird shots took me straight to the Lensmen books and the Radeligian Cat-Eagles, of course!

Clear Ether,
Tregonsee [one of two]

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

And there are a few of 'em that could sell big-time to the Furry crowd....

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

HSSSSSSSSS!!!

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Amazing. It does leave one wondering about the value of a photo as evidence of something that happened in the real world, though.

[mrlogic.livejournal.com]

Well, it is usually possible for an expert to detect electronic photo manipulation...but these days, photos that exist only electronically are not nearly as valuable for evidence as film-based photographs. More and more, the same is becoming true of motion pictures and video.

Polaroids are still dependable.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Of course, film, film cameras, and film photographers will be relegated into a very small, obscure niche market within the next decade. As the mass market for film starts to dry up, it will become harder and more expensive to buy and develop film, quickly driving all but a few fanatics and high-end professionals to finally embrace digital.

[mrlogic.livejournal.com]

Maybe not -- there's still a big market for the "disposable" film camera, for people on vacation or on trips who don't own a camera or don't want to risk bringing a valuable camera somewhere. My kids have gotten those several times. That may not go away quickly at all.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

They have 'disposable' digital cameras already that are almost competitive on price. (I put disposable in quotes, because I think they're mostly recycled rather than thrown away. It's almost a rental arrangement.) You can't look at the pictures you've taken with the camera, but you can delete one you know without looking you screwed up. Even without the disposable digitals cutting into the market, I don't think the disposables alone will keep very many development shops in business, and if it becomes more inconvenient and inexpensive to get the pictures out, the disposable becomes less attractive relative to a cheap point-and-shoot digital that you wouldn't cry too much about dropping in the lake.

[poltr1]

Polaroids are still dependable.

As long as the company is still solvent. I heard they Chapter-11'ed a few years ago.

[arucartoonguy.livejournal.com]

Yep, they did... I used to repair drivers license cameras for them. They're still around.

But as soon as someone makes a digital camera with a built-in printer that will be their death knell. I knew it was coming when they were only advertising the photo-stickers (if you can remember the comercials) and not pushing the Polaroid-ness of their cameras anymore.

The niche-marketed themselves out of the market on a fad....

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

a digital camera with a built-in printer

Now there's an idea that will make somebody rich. They already have portable photo printers not much bigger than a Polaroid camera.

[kengr]

They are already advertising kiosks that accept all the types of memory card (and probably IR links as wsell) to get photos from your digital camera. let you do some elementary manipulatiuon of the images, then print them out on photo quality paper.

If the price is low enough when they show up at the local Rite Aid or grocery store, I'll use them instead of buying a good color prionter.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Advertising them? They just put one in my grocery store. I don't know about IR links, but it has the standard card readers and also a scanner so you can bring in existing prints. It's a machine made by Kodak and I'm seeing them in a lot of places.

I haven't looked at the prices the one in the grocery charges, but the one at Wal-Mart is cheap enough for 4x6's to make it attractive compared to printing yourself (and the one-hour printing on the big Fuju printer is cheaper still), but the bigger enlargements are much more expensive, so if you want 8x10's you definitely want yout own printer.

[kengr]

Not as dependable as you may think. Consider that you can use digital techniques to create an image on film.