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Post by peterob on Jul 18, 2023 21:35:52 GMT
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Post by kate on Jul 19, 2023 6:46:57 GMT
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Post by Kath on Jul 19, 2023 6:50:29 GMT
Crack-of-Dawn by Kath Polley, on Flickr I checked on my phone and dawn was supposed to be at 4.05 this morning. No bother thought I, as I've been awake at 3am, 4am and 5am every morning for the last fortnight. Except I wanted to be awake at 4am this time so needless to say I didn't wake up until 6am. It's as crack of dawn as I could manage. |
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Post by dreampolice on Jul 19, 2023 7:36:03 GMT
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Post by dreampolice on Jul 19, 2023 7:46:12 GMT
I posted the above at 7 mins ago. In that time I downloaded it from Flickr, opened it in PS beta and using the generative fill AI edited it, saved it and uploaded it to Flickr. It really is a good time saving tool. Imagine how long that would take otherwise. the purists of course will hate it, lol.  Sunrise Blanes edit by Nigel G, on Flickr I could have gone further and removed the fence maybe. |
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Post by Kath on Jul 19, 2023 8:00:31 GMT
I posted the above at 7 mins ago. In that time I downloaded it from Flickr, opened it in PS beta and using the generative fill AI edited it, saved it and uploaded it to Flickr. It really is a good time saving tool. Imagine how long that would take otherwise. the purists of course will hate it, lol. Sunrise Blanes edit by Nigel G, on Flickr I could have gone further and removed the fence maybe. I like the fence. I'm glad you left it in. If anything I'd have added in more fence so that it better matched the end of the zebra crossing. I'm still playing with Beta but so far I've been pretty impressed! |
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Post by dreampolice on Jul 19, 2023 8:25:05 GMT
I posted the above at 7 mins ago. In that time I downloaded it from Flickr, opened it in PS beta and using the generative fill AI edited it, saved it and uploaded it to Flickr. It really is a good time saving tool. Imagine how long that would take otherwise. the purists of course will hate it, lol. Sunrise Blanes edit by Nigel G, on Flickr I could have gone further and removed the fence maybe. I like the fence. I'm glad you left it in. If anything I'd have added in more fence so that it better matched the end of the zebra crossing. I'm still playing with Beta but so far I've been pretty impressed! Grrrrrrr. It was done mainly as a test to see how well it could remove the cars. Now you have mentioned the fence not lining up with crossing ......  Balnes sunrise re-edit by Nigel G, on Flickr |
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Post by kate on Jul 19, 2023 8:27:11 GMT
I posted the above at 7 mins ago. In that time I downloaded it from Flickr, opened it in PS beta and using the generative fill AI edited it, saved it and uploaded it to Flickr. It really is a good time saving tool. Imagine how long that would take otherwise. the purists of course will hate it, lol. Sunrise Blanes edit by Nigel G, on Flickr I could have gone further and removed the fence maybe. I like the fence. I'm glad you left it in. If anything I'd have added in more fence so that it better matched the end of the zebra crossing. I'm still playing with Beta but so far I've been pretty impressed! The thing is, when we love a photo, do we compliment the photographer - or Ai these days? Shame really. |
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Post by dreampolice on Jul 19, 2023 8:39:11 GMT
The thing is, when we love a photo, do we compliment the photographer - or Ai these days? Shame really. A lot of folk add/remove/enhance their photo's anyway, always have done. AI has just made it easier and therefore probably more prevalent as it is so easy to do. On the photo in question, the cars have always been an annoyance. In fact when I first edited it back in 2022, I tried removing the cars using normal methods but it looked like a dogs dinner. Ai has just helped what I wanted to do anyway. Has it taken away creativity? Time will tell I guess, but artists have always been creative in their methods with ideas as well as methods but yes, there is a risk that AI will change all of that and laziness can creep in. I guess it also depends on why it is used. If the photo is meant as art and not a record/NH/documentary piece, then if that piece is pleasing to the eye, of which some of the photo will have the creativity/seeing eye of the photographer behind with their overall vision, does it really matter? I guess this sort of question will rumble on for years. Edit. As you can probably gather, the main reason why I took the photo was to get the runner in the gap, at the crossing with the sun above her head. I saw that image before it happened and had to time it as best as I could. That was the point of the photo. It would have been better had there not been parked cars. Therefore does it really nmatter who or what has done the editing if that was my/the photographers initial vision anyway? Perhaps a new thread in another area of the forum. |
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Post by zx9 on Jul 19, 2023 8:41:50 GMT
The thing is, when we love a photo, do we compliment the photographer - or Ai these days? Shame really. The new version of 'great photo, you must have a very good camera', we know that you need skill, visual awareness and imagination to make use of all the tools. |
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Post by zx9 on Jul 19, 2023 8:45:54 GMT
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Post by zx9 on Jul 19, 2023 8:48:17 GMT
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Post by El Sid on Jul 19, 2023 11:24:02 GMT
Dawn? What's that?  About as close as I can get - and then only 'cos it was February when the sun gets up at a sensible time...  
Prinsted Sky by Nigel Hayes, on Flickr |
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Post by zou on Jul 19, 2023 21:12:01 GMT
Went out to Conwy to photograph some yachts but got the time of low tide wrong so they were all facing the wrong way (upriver with the tide still ebbing)  DSCF4979.jpg by Pete, on Flickr  DSCF4960-Pano.jpg by Pete, on Flickr All the cafés and shops shut by the time we had finished our walk so we popped into Tesco on the way home to get a drink and a snack. I got dive bombed by a herring gull in the carpark. It was trying to surprise me so that I dropped the cakes. I think they must raid the trolleys - anything small balanced on top would be easy pickings. Anyway the gull misjudged it and hit me. It was quite hard. It bounced off my head and it hit the ground before it could recover. Quite a wallop it was, like a thump in a pillow fight but luckily no beak or claws. That could have been fun given the anti-clotting meds that I'm on. The cheeky thing then did a quick circuit and sat on the bonnet, eyeing the cake through the windscreen. I drove off and postponed my refreshment until I got home. I've seen herring gulls steal food from people before (ice creams, fish and chips, food on café tables) but it is a shock to get hit in a busy car park when carrying a sealed package between arm and body. The first time we went to Devon and Cornwall after moving back from Japan my dad was lecturing my wife on how you need to watch the gulls whilst eating, only to have his pasty grabbed and suffered a small beak scrape to his head. Lost the air of expertise pretty quickly! |
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Post by kate on Jul 20, 2023 6:17:30 GMT
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