Caption Test

- Bad news.<br>Our artificial intelligence lens computer<br>has come out as non-binary.<br>It now identifies as a MacBook Pro. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Bad news.
Our artificial intelligence lens computer
has come out as non-binary.
It now identifies as a MacBook Pro.

- Tired of the sharp, clinical look from LED cine lights?<br>Time to go back to vintage lighting - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Tired of the sharp, clinical look from LED cine lights?
Time to go back to vintage lighting

- Before a vintage lens is re-housed,<br>a sorceress puts it through a spell checker. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Before a vintage lens is re-housed,
a sorceress puts it through a spell checker.

- Our new, de-tuned lens with the 'Dial-a-Defect' feature.<Br>You can choose the lens fault that gives you<br>the unique look that your film requires. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Our new, de-tuned lens with the "Dial-a-Defect" feature.
You can choose the lens fault that gives you
the unique look that your film requires.

- A test shot from our new All-Bokeh lens.<br>This is after the style of József Rippl-Rónai. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

A test shot from our new All-Bokeh lens.
This is after the style of József Rippl-Rónai.

- - Goldilocks and the three lenses -<br>
The first lens was toooo sharp.<br>
The second lens was toooo soft.<br>
But the third lens had a great cinematic look<br> and luscious, swirly bokeh to die for. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

- Goldilocks and the three lenses -
The first lens was toooo sharp.
The second lens was toooo soft.
But the third lens had a great cinematic look
and luscious, swirly bokeh to die for.

- Discovery Technology announces its new AR/VR headset.<br>Note: The price of the headset includes the cost of surgery. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Discovery Technology announces its new AR/VR headset.
Note: The price of the headset includes the cost of surgery.

- It's my birthday!<br>I'm old enough to remember when movies were magical.<br>Here I am, adjusting the bokeh on one of my lenses. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

It's my birthday!
I'm old enough to remember when movies were magical.
Here I am, adjusting the bokeh on one of my lenses.

- This is an example of negative diffusion.<br>In this process, diffusion is reversed<br>by changing when the diffusion is applied. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

This is an example of negative diffusion.
In this process, diffusion is reversed
by changing when the diffusion is applied.

- Snow White and the seventeen cine lenses.<br>
Poor Snow White.<br>She has to choose just one. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Snow White and the seventeen cine lenses.
Poor Snow White.
She has to choose just one.

- - A Wizards Guild Sci/Tech Award Submission -<br>This machine is the very first instrument <br>that can measure a lens's bokeh.<br>The bad news is the data is in imaginary numbers. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

- A Wizards Guild Sci/Tech Award Submission -
This machine is the very first instrument
that can measure a lens's bokeh.
The bad news is the data is in imaginary numbers.

- A technician checks the progress of a lens<br>in our dry-aging room<br>on its way to becoming a vintage lens. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

A technician checks the progress of a lens
in our dry-aging room
on its way to becoming a vintage lens.

- There's a bug in our AI focus-pulling software.<br>Here, a software engineer escalates it to the next level. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

There's a bug in our AI focus-pulling software.
Here, a software engineer escalates it to the next level.

- A cine lens designer having a nervous breakdown<br>after being told his lenses are too sharp,<br>and can he maybe add back a little of the flare<br>that he spent years removing. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

A cine lens designer having a nervous breakdown
after being told his lenses are too sharp,
and can he maybe add back a little of the flare
that he spent years removing.

This lens is especially designed for shooting prequels.

- Discovery Technology announces the<br>first cine lens with Autocorrect. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Discovery Technology announces the
first cine lens with Autocorrect.

Bad news.
Our artificial intelligence lens computer
has come out as non-binary.
It now identifies as a Macbook Pro.

- An AI lens evaluator. Instead of scientific data, it outputs <br>adjectives describing intangible characteristics such as<br> 'the cinematic look,' 'bokeh,' and 'flare,'<br> all to be used in advertising literature. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

An AI lens evaluator. Instead of scientific data, it outputs
adjectives describing intangible characteristics such as
"the cinematic look," "bokeh," and "flare,"
all to be used in advertising literature.

- Our first vintage lens with time travel features.<br> It can shoot pictures from when it was young.<br> It will be used in filming <br>'Indiana Jones and the Pushbutton of Perspicacity.' - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Our first vintage lens with time travel features.
It can shoot pictures from when it was young.
It will be used in filming
"Indiana Jones and the Pushbutton of Perspicacity."

- One of the technicians in our Zero-Gravity Lens Lab.<br>Thanks, Elon! - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

One of the technicians in our Zero-Gravity Lens Lab.
Thanks, Elon!

What I'm having trouble with is this:
Lenses I bought new are now vintage lenses.
They weren't vintage when I bought them.
Does this make me a time traveler?
Am I vintage?
- Picture I shot with brand new vintage lens -

- Caption Test - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

These are glass elements from vintage lenses.
Soon, I will melt them down
and make them into something more cinematic.

Beautiful flare from a brand new vintage lens.
At the teahouse in Unchon-ni - Korea, DMZ, 1964

- Very soon, movies will be created by artificial intelligence.<br>This artificially intellgent device will watch them for you. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Very soon, movies will be created by artificial intelligence.
This artificially intellgent device will watch them for you.

- Gene Kelly and Carol Lawrence - NBC TV - 1959<br>I shot this on my first day in Los Angeles. - - art - photography - by Tony Karp - Discovery Technology - Cinematography - The Godfather - Designing the Future -

Gene Kelly and Carol Lawrence - NBC TV - 1959
I shot this on my first day in Los Angeles.