2010 Heavy Equipment Calendar is for you who like your pinups big and dirty
2010 Heavy Equipment Calendar – Click above for image gallery
Sure, there's a Porsche calendar and a Mini calendar, but what if you're the kind of enthusiast who likes the bigger things in life – and we mean really big. Like, industrial-mining and earth-moving big. If so, then the 2010 Heavy Equipment Calendar is for you. The folks at Baumaschinen24 spent four months all over Europe capturing some of the biggest objects man has ever built , such as the Terex O&K RH120-E Mining Excavator, in slinky, naked, dirt-flinging poses.
As with the date-keepers from Pirelli et al, there's quite a bit of airbrushing. Still, as a symbol of what went into it, its makers call it "THE Construction Equipment Calendar," to distinguish it from all those other construction calendars you've been eying. It's available now for €29.80 ($44.69 U.S.), and make sure you check out the 'Making of' section at the site. Sports Illustrated, watch out... Hat tip to Jens.
Gallery: 2010 Heavy Equipment Calendar
[Source: Bauforum24]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Superhands 9:32AM (11/14/2009)
epic
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Tourian 10:08AM (11/14/2009)
It sure is, but for some reason the image of plus-sized Lane Bryant models mud-wrestling popped into my head first. But this works too.
Dary 9:36AM (11/14/2009)
Awesome HDR
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lothar 11:38AM (11/16/2009)
Yeah that's HDR done the right way. Also looks like some extra post processing adding in some extra objects (birds, lightning etc.), but hey they made construction vehicles look sexy.
Arkz 9:40AM (11/14/2009)
45 bucks?! Umm... what is stopping me from, say, downloading these, printing them out and hanging them on the wall?
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Sea Urchin 9:43AM (11/14/2009)
Good, but clearly the photos are not real, the back ground is not real.
Man, i'd love to work on that heavy equipment.
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Jared 9:59AM (11/14/2009)
The background is "real". They've just used HDR to overlay multiple exposures of the same scene. Depending upon how you do it, you can make HDR look very unnatural, as they have in these pictures.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging for a description of HDR.
audi_arena 10:47AM (11/14/2009)
@ Sea Urchin:
That's what she said...
Egon 9:50AM (11/14/2009)
I'm hardly an art critic, but in this particular case, all of the airbrushing and visual sweetening really seems to detract from what would otherwise be some decent photography. Instead of enhancing reality (the supposed goal of all that effort), all that photoshopping makes the real photos look...fake.
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Commander Cool 10:10AM (11/14/2009)
Now that's an awesome calendar! I'd buy that, but not for $45. I'll just wait until February when they're three bucks like all the other calendars.
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neptonium2000 10:46AM (11/14/2009)
More CATERRPILLAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
renshcp 4:05AM (11/15/2009)
3 of 12 months Caterpillar isn't too bad. D7E Dozer (electric drivetrain) has my mouth watering for November. Nice Shanghai skyline in the background too -- but almost certainly not where the picture was taken.
Syllepses 10:43AM (11/14/2009)
Alright, that's pretty awesome.
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Vetmstr 11:07AM (11/14/2009)
It might be me, I am no tree huger, but two of those pics do not seem environmentally correct. Dumping in water, destroying a forest. Hmmmmmmmm
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Thomas 11:26AM (11/14/2009)
I agree, I thought the picture for April was horrific!
This is anti-environmental pornography.
sparrk 11:38AM (11/14/2009)
it's the Constructicons !!!!
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Vetmstr 11:52AM (11/14/2009)
lol lol
mnwyche 8:25AM (11/15/2009)
Definitely the Constructicons in many of these photos.
RLQ 6:44PM (11/14/2009)
NSFW :)
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The Hit 12:39AM (11/15/2009)
Looks like Work to me...