Re:Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
by varispeed on Monday December 21, 2020 @10:24AM
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Oh I wish this AI photo craze died out. I see that it may appeal to some people as a kind of "nicerising" effect, but without the context a casual viewer may take the picture as unaltered snapshot of the world. Of course the alterations are rather minute in the grand scheme of things, but if we continue looking at these taking them without context, I wonder how our perception of the world will get detached from reality? I think pictures computed by AI should be specially marked to let viewer know they don't look at the real thing.
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Re:Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
by ngokevin on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:43PM
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There's no "real thing". All photos are processed, through the lens, by the software on the device, and by the photographers' workflows. When you shoot JPG, there's already a lot of processing that happens, and when you shoot RAW, you need to process that yourself from a dull, flat image.
Photographers rarely post un-processed images. Even before all of that, settings are chosen which alter the exposure, depth of field, focus point, color temperature of the image which alter the "real thing". It's common to think "editing" a photo is some cheating magic, but it should be considered the norm, and how people share their vision of what they want it to look like.
The AI can just automate a lot of the workflow or need to buy extra equipment, still up the human to decide how they want the image to come out.
Re:Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
by varispeed on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:53AM
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I understand that all images are processed, but AI for me is crossing the line as it is adding things that come from the trained model rather than derived from the image itself - these elements otherwise wouldn't be there regardless of lens, colour grading and so on.