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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 4) Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-23-2012 01:43 AM                      |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-26-2012 09:43 AM                      |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-26-2012 10:02 AM                    Who's "Morgran Freeman"?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-26-2012 04:54 PM                     Fast food false advertising If someone wants to upload them all, that would be nice for the archives.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 01-27-2012 12:32 PM                        While everybody knows food is always gussied up for commercial shoots, I think most of that guy's comparisons are unfair and in fact, gussied down, regardless of his claims otherwise. Most of the burgers look like he sat on them on the way from the burger joint. That or he lives near the worst examples of each chain in the world. The exception being the Jack in the Box tacos. His example is a fairly accurate representation of what the ones I buy look like.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-27-2012 01:53 PM                     I have received some rather ugly looking burgers at fast food chain places over the years, but don't recall getting any that were that misshapen or squashed. I think some of the photos are pretty close to reality though. For instance, I've never bought a crunchy taco at Taco Bell that was that loaded with ingredients. The same thing goes for just about any other taco restaurant chain. Another thing to consider is food photography is a perverse art onto itself. Real, edible food often does not photograph well. All sorts of strange ingredients are applied to food items in advertising photographs. Some of the ingredients may not even be real. In the end the images are heavily Photoshopped. The ad photo versions of those Burger King burgers look so perfect I have to wonder if they're really artificial 3D rendered models. The onions, pickles and tomato are so perfectly sliced and arranged and perfectly balanced and saturated with color that it looks fake. The burger could be a "digital asset" in a Pixar movie production.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-28-2012 04:14 PM                        I think that guy would have had better results (but then, not as interesting) if he had gotten his food to "eat in" and taken the pics right in the restaurants. When they wrap a burger in a sheet of paper and then throw it into a bag, it gets squished and messed up a little. But those pics look pretty darn accurate to me, having seen real life examples of most of those burgers. I'd have liked to see him include Wendy's in there. Their burgers always taste fine but they often look terrible, what with the square patty hanging out all over. Never could see the wisdom in THAT idea. If they want to give me a little more beef, then fine, but put it in the middle of the patty where it belongs.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-28-2012 06:09 PM                     Unless the photographer could drag his lighting kit into the restaurants taking photos of the food on site "dine in" would yield even uglier images. Most burger joints have some type of fluorescent lighting, which throws a dull yellow cast all over everything. Even if you white balance for that lighting food images are still going to look like hell.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-28-2012 11:05 PM                        In the case of that blog, "color" isn't such a big deal. He's more comparing the size and squished-ness of the food. You could probably fix lighting issues in Photoshop, eh?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-28-2012 11:43 PM                     Tweaking color after the fact only gets you so far, provided you shoot in RAW where you have more latitude to even futz with things like color temperature, etc. Shooting photos just with the light coming from the overhead lamps in the restaurant is going to bake all sorts of color/contrast problems into the image that simply can't be corrected with software.  |  IP: Logged Tony L. Hernandez Expert Film Handler Posts: 158 From: Windsor, CO, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 02-05-2012 07:51 PM                     Myself and my best friend John Templeton with our full Cinerama Reels before the vinegared film got pitched: My husband Jack, Myself and John at the opening night of the Boulder History Museum's "Hollywood, Colorado" exhibit which we helped design, install and loaned items to. The projector is a Simplex Standard used from 1940-1984 in the old University Theater. The burnt up shipping reel on takeup is one of the sole surviving items from the original Fox Theater in Boulder's fire that burned it to the ground. You will also see an old "NeuScope" splicer and an old drive-in speaker and heater from one of the Highlands drive-ins in Boulder, as well as a shipping can with the first 2 reels on "Bundle of Joy" enclosed: Another pic of us with the Cinerama reels  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-05-2012 09:24 PM                     Damn. Too bad the Cinerama film was thrown out due to vinegar syndrome. I wonder if those huge reels could be reused on any regular 35mm projectors.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-05-2012 11:26 PM                     Nice one Disney. That's not racist at all.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-06-2012 12:18 AM                     The Disney logo isn't right and the artwork doesn't look like it's up to Disney's standards. Dollars to donuts, it's a Chinese knock-off. As such, they either don't know or don't care. Probably a little of both.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-06-2012 11:58 AM                        I don't know, I think the Disney logo looks fine, it's just shot from an angle so it looks distorted. It doesn't look any worse than some of the stuff they sell in the stores at the theme parks. They are simplifying their brand and just putting "Disney" on everything. But given the subject matter, yeah it's probably a knockoff. They are uber-careful about stuff like this after the Aladdin and Pocahontas debacles.  |  IP: Logged

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