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Veejay7

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« on: March 21, 2009, 07:34:42 PM »
Without a time machine, the next-best thing to remember a game show classic.  As it MIGHT have appeared from the back of the room in 1972

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/Veejay7/conc1.jpg
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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2009, 11:16:18 PM »
[quote name=\'Veejay7\' post=\'210918\' date=\'Mar 21 2009, 07:34 PM\']
Without a time machine, the next-best thing to remember a game show classic.  As it MIGHT have appeared from the back of the room in 1972

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/Veejay7/conc1.jpg
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Background information would be nice. Is this a Photoshop?

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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2009, 12:48:51 AM »
The pic looks real to me, though I always thought the "NBC Color" cameras included the NBC "snake" logo.

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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2009, 02:03:49 AM »
Definitely a Shop-job ... but very nicely done, VeeJay7!  An imaginary scene from one of my favorite childhood shows.

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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2009, 10:30:52 AM »
[quote name=\'geno57\' post=\'210938\' date=\'Mar 22 2009, 02:03 AM\']
Definitely a Shop-job ... but very nicely done, VeeJay7! [/quote]
Nice enough to fool me, so I admit not really picking up on the one indication ("MIGHT have appeared") VeeJay gave us that it was made up.  There are plenty of actual photographs, and of course the occasional videotape, that I think would come a lot closer to being "the next-best thing to remember a game show classic" than a work of essentially historical fiction.

Still, yes, an impressive effort.  I'd love to see more like that.
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2009, 01:59:06 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'210952\' date=\'Mar 22 2009, 07:30 AM\']
Still, yes, an impressive effort.  I'd love to see more like that.[/quote]
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« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2009, 05:03:44 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'210961\' date=\'Mar 22 2009, 01:59 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'210952\' date=\'Mar 22 2009, 07:30 AM\']
Still, yes, an impressive effort.  I'd love to see more like that.[/quote]
...and with that, the floodgates open...
[/quote]

First person to try to recreate Snap Judgment or You're Putting Me On wins multiple internets from me.

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« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2009, 05:39:07 PM »
[quote name=\'Scrabbleship\' post=\'210974\' date=\'Mar 22 2009, 05:03 PM\']First person to try to recreate Snap Judgment or You're Putting Me On wins multiple internets from me.[/quote]
I wish I could find my larger image, but here's a color one and here's one in glorious monochrome that are the real thing.
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« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2009, 09:33:43 PM »
One more follow-up.


<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v618/Veejay7/?action=view¤t=conc4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/Veejay7/conc4.jpg" border="0" alt="Concentration 1">[/url]

It's NOT photoshop.  It's as acurate as all the existing photos will allow.

The secret is in the size.  And yes, when NBC put the RCA TK-44A and TK-44B color cameras in service, it went with NBC COLOR on the panels, versus the snake.  The NBC COLOR was covered with the red/blue "N" logo and the letters NBC in 1976

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« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2009, 09:43:07 PM »
[quote name=\'Veejay7\' post=\'211000\' date=\'Mar 22 2009, 09:33 PM\']It's NOT photoshop.  It's as acurate as all the existing photos will allow.[/quote]
I'm not sure I understand you.  It's either a real photo or else it's something you made up.  Technically speaking, maybe you used some other software than Adobe's licensed product, but it's either real or it isn't, and the smart money appears to be on "isn't".

We're all saying that we're impressed with your efforts.  If you have an aversion to us calling it 'photoshopped', then by all means tell us more about how you made it.
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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2009, 11:54:14 PM »
Glancing over it quickly I can tell you that the studio lights represented in these photos appear to just be the starburst glare you can add from PhotoShop (or similar program). Other than that the pic looks real so this person knows their PhotoShop!


EDIT: They also say "the secret is in the size", could this be some kind of small model they made and photographed then edited in PS?
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« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2009, 12:11:45 AM »
In my opinion, it had to be Photoshopped (or CGI'd), because of the studio lights and, as mentioned before, the lack of an NBC snake logo on the cameras.

What's your secret (other than "Top" or "Ancient Chinese")?

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« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2009, 03:03:37 AM »
[quote name=\'bwood\' post=\'211005\' date=\'Mar 22 2009, 10:54 PM\']
...could this be some kind of small model they made and photographed then edited in PS?
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That's my guess.  Again, VeeJay, nice work!

Check out all four shots:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/Veejay7/conc1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/Veejay7/conc2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/Veejay7/conc3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v618/Veejay7/conc4.jpg

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« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2009, 07:19:35 AM »
Now, it's looking to me like an actual physical model, maybe with some photoshopped light effects.

It makes great iPod wallpaper, however. I love it.

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bwood

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« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2009, 12:12:13 PM »
Yeah that's gotta be a model like I thought, I never saw shots 2 and 3 until now. They kinda "give it away". The mics look fake. Those two pics actually kinda look like its sort of a claymation like model. The other two wide shots, however, look pretty darned awesome and so realistic.

If it IS a model, all things aside, it had to take a lot of time to do and it's pretty good!
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