AGIMIA

There are few things we do better as a nation than creating awesomely dumb fast-food monstrosities. It’s not enough to have a greasy cheeseburger– we have to sandwich it between two Krispy Kremes. As Mark Twain once said, there is nothing that can’t be made better with the addition of cheese and/or bacon. (Well, he would have said that if he had ever tasted a Triple Baconator.)

It doesn’t matter that these fat, sodium, and calorie bombs are expanding our waistlines and lining the pockets of greedy health insurance fat cats. We demand ever more extravagant culinary delights. “You are dead to us, Big Mac!,” we bellow, or we would bellow if years of fried cheese and Cinnabon consumption hadn’t weakened our vocal cords. Luckily, the fast food giants are more than happy to devise increasingly ridiculous menu items for us to shove down our collective gullets. Check out ten of the dumbest fast food monstrosities past and present. (It should be noted that while we think these monstrous creations are dumb, we’d still try pretty much all of them. Well, maybe not the lobster pizza.)

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Photography has potential to be both the most equalizing and polarizing art form imaginable. All you really need to get started is a camera — any will do — and an ability to understand what looks good. On the other hand, there are people who swear that you need 50 lenses, a full flash setup and at least a half-dozen SLR bodies before you could even begin to take it seriously as a hobby. Yet somehow, for all the infinite variety that photography should offer us, we see the same things over and over. The same photos, the same tricks, the same clichéd, hackneyed shots. These are the worst offenders.

14. Heart Book Lens

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Photographers control the camera and lens to “expose” the light recording material (such as film) to the required amount of light to form a “latent image” (on film) or “raw file” (in digital cameras) which, after appropriate processing, is converted to a usable image. Digital cameras use an electronic image sensor based on light-sensitive electronics such as charge-coupled device (CCD) or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The resulting digital image is stored electronically, but can be reproduced on paper or film. In all but certain specialized cameras, the process of obtaining a usable exposure must involve the use, manually or automatically, of a few controls to ensure the photograph is clear, sharp and well illuminated.

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