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A good photographer produces good images. What is your definition of good?
Prolific good?
World top 100 good?
Good, at a local level or compared to the world/internet Big fish small pond, small fish big pond?
Better than average good?
Good producing volume?
Good producing eye catching results?
Good highest likes on instagram?So I think I am good for me, but compared to the world, professionals, even those on this site, pretty lousy.
So when you ask someone if they are good, they probably are coming from a perspective of the world, and they don’t think they are good in comparison, so maybe not false modesty.
If someone asks if I am good my default answer is no one is good except for God. It is much easier than trying to come up with a perspective and rate myself according to those that are included in that perspective.
I like it, but I have not been around or used textures much so it is a little new to me.
I have one too. Doesn’t allow for light leaks though.
People that I showed this too did not get it but I like it.
Hi Wendy, long time no type, at least for me. Realistically you can get dust on the sensor when you remove the lens, dust get inside or on the shutter. But if you really want to try this and keep the area in front of the shutter/sensor free of dust you can use a macro bellows. The one in the link is for Canon it is $35. There are 4 screws to remove the camera to lens bellows part which is super easy(it may already come disassembled so you have to do nothing in that case) from the sliding rack. It is cheap, it allows you to do ultra macro using the sliding rack, and free lensing without the sliding rack. It is Amazon, if you don’t like it return it. It won’t do light leaks but I have seen so many light leak presets for photo editors, you can add them in post.
http://www.amazon.com/BESTLIFE-Bellows-Compatible-Cameras-Aluminum/dp/B07PZ86Q15/
Very nice I like this one., it almost has a 3d look about it.
Bezos is more like mini me. All the evil, half the stature. LOL
They sent Kirk (Shatner) into space. They could keep DPReview open with little cost, cut out the new content or sponsor people to create new youtube content for learning, keep the forums up for next to nothing. They don’t care. I wish I could say I will not buy stuff from Amazon but that is unrealistic. I will not buy photo stuff from them. I will support local shops or Adorama, for Adorama TV who gives back to photogrphers with video learning, as well as sponsor those who do reviews on youtube.
The last two look like dancers, water drop dancers. Very cool.
I had to do more research. There is still hope, Getty has a lawsuit going right now. Sable Fusion already has stated in the next generation, they will allow opt out. But hopefully the lawsuit will stick and they will have to license images from creators to use them. Basically, if AI continues no one would pay for stock images. That would kill that industry and photographers would not use Stock images sites anymore because they would not make any money, neither would companies like Getty. Fortunately Getty seen the writing on the wall and is going to make sure they protect their interests.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit
Although companies like Stability AI deny any legal or ethical hazard in creating their systems, they have still begun making concessions to content creators. Stability AI says artists will be able to opt-out of the next version of Stable Diffusion, for example. In a recent tweet about the company’s training datasets, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque said “I believe they are ethically, morally and legally sourced and used,” before adding: “Some folks disagree so we are doing opt out and alternate datasets/models that are fully cc.”
The full details of Getty Images’ lawsuit have not yet been made public, but Peters said that charges include copyright violation and violation of the site’s terms of service (in particular, web scraping). Andres Guadamuz, an academic specializing in AI and intellectual property law at the UK’s University of Sussex, told The Verge it seemed like the case would have “more merit” than other existing AI lawsuits, but that “the devil will be in the details.”Remember in the music industry, the songs that used sampling were created in the 80s , it was not until 1991 the lawsuit finished and musicians and music companies were protected.
Hey Robert,
You said ” an AI looking through a database of thousands of images to learn and to create its own image”
There may be a day when this is a true statement, but if you read the article in the link, people are finding pictures of themselves in the AI output. They are able to recognize themselves. If that is true, AI may be using a few photoshop filters and trowing images together that other people have taken. It is not really learning anything but copying and using it’s own built in filters. If you look at some examples, it often looks ethereal and thrown through some filters from Topaz Studio art style filters.
You said ” no different then yourself looking at 100’s of others images and compiling that info to frame and create your own image based on knowledge learned”
They don’t allow that in the music industry because it is copyrighted. But in photography I don’t do that, that is to take others images and put them together, I would make sure it did not look like the original in any way and create my own but again AI doesn’t do that and people recognize their images, and if I did I would could be sued even though the person could probably not afford it and would owe the lawyer more money than he made off me.
Here is an example, If I did this and said it was my art and was making millions on it, would you sue me? Or if I ran it through AI and it came up with this (you can take an image and run it through AI) and said it was my art and sold it for a lot of money, would you sue me? You better try because it is your image.
In my example of music, the courts upheld that you could not look through a bunch of songs and take out snippets and create something new. It was copyright violation. It protected musicians.
You said. “You think any law suit stopping the progression of visual recognition will stand, say a vast landscape,”
I don’t have a problem with the tech, but the gov would send up a satalite and take pictures or they would pay google for google earth images. I am totally ok with that. And if they wanted to pay you for your images to feed into AI, I am ok with that.
What I am not ok with is crawling the web, taking your images and feeding them to AI without your permission. It is theft. It may be ok to use images to teach people, but not computers or programs that can be used for profit. It is ok you have a differing opinion, my opinion protects the individual rights. My hope is instead of music lawyers coming to our rescue, perhaps online Stock image companies who have lawyers and money to protect their copyrights and the rights of their photographers from AI. The people at AI are probably smart enough to not crawl Stock photo websites to avoid this. I guess we will see what happens but if everyone has a oh well, I don’t care that they feed their images to AI, no one will fight then and they win by default
Since I have been shooting people, I have become a little more critical about skin tones. I think you should not shoot people who have turned into zombies, their complexion is far too white and their body parts start to fall off, like in your example, her toes are falling off on both feet.
But seriously I am not good at that type of photography, I would spread something the cat likes to eat on her remaining toe and photograph the cat licking it or something deranged like that.
Did you try the deep scan mode in Recuva? That sometimes will show files that are not seen in the regular mode. If that does not work
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard allows 2gb of recovered data.Come on Robert, you sound like an old codger. Come into the 21st century. Embrace change. You watch to many depressing movies like Terminator and Matrix, 1984, You need to watch Demolition Man and more uplifting movies where everyone lives in harmony and eats at Taco Bell and knits sweaters, and any one who thinks bad thoughts are put in suspended animation jail.. Be well.. Happy, happy, joy, joy. LOL
