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By: No Runny Eggs » Blog Archive » Time for some fauxtography fun

No Runny Eggs » Blog Archive » Time for some fauxtography fun — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:14:48 +0000

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By: Soldiers' Angel - Holly Aho

Soldiers' Angel - Holly Aho — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:00:26 +0000

Bloggers and their cars…

Ever wondered what kind of cars your favorite bloggers are driving? Sure ya have :D Well, I’ve gotten my hands on some top secret pictures using my AK57-oozie-radar-lazer-triple barrel-double scoped-heat seeking spy equipment. In order to be fair, I’…

By: Patton

Patton — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:22:35 +0000

Actually, the car was the easiest one, John – the image of the bricks reflected in the side of the car wasn’t squared properly.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:46:17 +0000

I think the give away on the car is the license plate. But I got it wrong too, and only noticed the plate afterwards.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:42:41 +0000

4 in 10 ….. HEY DON’T LAUGH ! I got 50 year old eyes, OK ? And the real question is how many of them would you have noticed as fakes if you didn’t alreay know some of them were? HA !

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:54:02 +0000

Interesting. I judged 8 of 10 to be CG and scored only 5 of 10 correct. One must prudently doubt one’s ability to doubt prudently.

By: John

John — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:20:27 +0000

9 out of 10. The car dinged me.

Monkeys?! That was the easiest one.

By: JM Hanes

JM Hanes — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:33:23 +0000

JasonG:

For the BMW I looked at the license plate. I didn’t recognize it so I assumed it was a fake.

So much for the magic, eh?

GPE:

WhooooHoooo! 6 for 10! There’s a job waiting for me at Reuters!

Sorry, but you’re overqualified!

By: RiverCocytus

RiverCocytus — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:25:03 +0000

The beamer got me. Something didn’t look quite right, but I wasn’t sure what. It was, I think, the liscence plate that seemed fake to me.

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:59:31 +0000

8 out of 10 better than I thought I would do. I missed the diamonds and the Beemer.

vcferlita on November 16, 2006 at 9:02 AM

Same here

By: thebrokenchair

thebrokenchair — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:32:16 +0000

9/10 — Like others the BMW got me. Is the whole picture CG or just an aspect of it?

By: JackOfClubs

JackOfClubs — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:03:55 +0000

8/10. (But I got the monkeys and the BMW. Screwed up on the bolt and the … um … blue reflection thingy. Still not sure what that is.)

By: JoeEgo

JoeEgo — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:59:34 +0000

9 of 10. That BMW is really well done.

Hint on the corkscrew: you can see the damage to the finish on the right side from being used (torqued).

The diamonds were the toughest for me after the car. Their shadows just didn’t look quite right but the biggest giveaway was the lack of light refracting through the gems onto the table surface.

By: JadeNYU

JadeNYU — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:53:41 +0000

Sorry if this gets double posted. I’m having the amazing disappearing comment problem. I think I’m getting ‘foul language’ censored for the type of gambling I chose to mention, so I’ll change it from the dice game to a card game.

4 out of 10 and most of those were guesses anyway.

Looks like I can’t spot the reals from the fakes.

This will come in handy if I every get married. The guy can get me a CZ and I’ll happily spend my life thinking it’s a diamond.

Well, I’ll be happy until I form a hardcore gambling habit and I try to pawn my ‘diamond’ to pay for one last shot at the poker table. I know I’ll get it this time!

By: honora

honora — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:48:04 +0000

Honora – sounds close enough to be honest. I take back the above as it relates to you.

steveegg on November 16, 2006 at 11:00 AM

Only got the 8 because I am in the marketing biz and hence have some knowledge of how advertising creative works–when/why it’s easier to fake it. I couldn’t tell at all by just looking!!

By: JadeNYU

JadeNYU — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:46:46 +0000

4 out of 10 and most of those were guesses anyway.

Looks like I can’t spot the reals from the fakes.

This will come in handy if I every get married. The guy can get me a CZ and I’ll happily spend my life thinking it’s a diamond.

Well, I’ll be happy until I form a hardcore gambling habit and I try to pawn my ‘diamond’ to pay for one last shot at the craps table. I know I’ll get it this time!

By: kara26

kara26 — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:32:04 +0000

8 out of 10

the bmw, Wow!

ross

By: Eric12470210

Eric12470210 — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:15:13 +0000

“The far background in the BMW shot gave it away.”
The entire scene was an amazing work of art, but you’re right about the background. After looking at it closely I saw lots of similarities to the scenery in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. It looks nicer, of course, but the style is so close that I was even able to notice weird things like the shading being strange at the corners of buildings.

By: CliffHanger

CliffHanger — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:44:52 +0000

BMW: No wipers, funny liscence plate, window (on building) at lower right has a funny “halo” around it.

Right. Also look at the building markings on the left. They’re skewed as a result of sloppy pasting between the vertical fence rails. The black objects atop the fence spires look too uniform.

I didn’t catch any of these clues until I cleaned my screen (yeah… that’s it).

By: Mountain Soldier

Mountain Soldier — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:42:30 +0000

9 out of 10 here – and I took about 2 minutes to do it.

By: RobertCSampson

RobertCSampson — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:25:37 +0000

8 out of 10, bmw and the whisk got me

By: htom

htom — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:21:22 +0000

Six out of ten. :(

By: shooten

shooten — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:14:16 +0000

9 out of 10. That stinkin’ BMW.

By: Texyank

Texyank — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:50:49 +0000

6 friggin 6 . That sucks even worse than my typing
and spelling. A friggin 6.

By: wdlp1965

wdlp1965 — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:24:12 +0000

I didn’t read this far, but I am sure others did to get the BMW question correct. I got 9/10 with no cheating!