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This is picture of my daughter’s dog that I edited using ChatGPT. Georgie just got her therapy dog certification and had finished her first shift at the Foothills Hospital. She looked exhausted when she got home. I uploaded the picture taken in the garage and used the following script in ChatGPT to come up with this image. Original picture that I uploaded is in the comments.
“This is a picture of my daugher’s dog. She just received her therapy certification and this was her first day at work at the hospital. She looks exhausted. Can you edit this picture to show a closer view, 35mm lens. Show signs of exhaustion maybe with some sweat beading off her face. Crop in to make this a true portrait picture. Increase contrast to really show features. Make sure the facial features are still recognizable after the edit.”
Wow, absolutely amazing what AI does. Is there anything left for human creativity. Interestingly this dilemma was brought up in today’s seminar with Erika and Lanny Mann. Very worthwhile intro seminar by the way.
I watched that seminar and ended up paying for the Friday session. There was a deal for people who paid for the Friday so I subscribed to the entire course.
So the AI decided to make the word therapy visible based on your script?
Yes – I was surprised that it added the word therapy. “Therapy” was in my description. I could have taken it out in Photoshop but just left it in for this demo.
Original picture. iPhone in the garage after the therapy shift.
Great work Paul. Who needs anything Adobe wants to sell to us now?
The free AI only allows one per day. To do more you’d have to subscribe and that is almost $30 per day. You have to pay a price either way.
I watched the Lanny and Erika Mann seminar on Photography for Life the “Extraordinary Ordinary”. Their segment on light and shadows inspired this image of a corner of a photo frame lit by multiple spot lights. Which I call “Abstract with Shadows”. The little crack in the corner makes it “real” for me.
My two images depict every day life for a couple of muskrats getting ready for winter in the pond at Votier Flats (Fish Creek Park).
Shot with a Crop Fuji XT-5 and a 150-600mm lens at full extension on tripod.
F8/ ISO 250/ SS@ 1/640
And image 2 — jus holding onto that log.
Great detail shot Joe.
since I still cannot drive, a couple of images on the path after the snow
ISO 400 1/400 f6.3 200mm
another image from the same day
ISO 400 1/160 200mm f6.3
Beautiful blossoms in the desert after a significant rainfall.
ISO2200, 35mm, f/8.0, 1/2000sec.
A young coatimundi dining on a bumper crop of berries. A relative of raccoons, these guys come down from the mountains late in the year in search of food sources, and find a number of different types of berries among the many varieties of trees at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. ISO9000, 180mm, f/5.6, 1/2000sec.
Paint line magically lifting off the pavement.
The settings were to try to get blurry people walking by for the recent night photography assignment. A bike and a scooter are faintly visible, but I only succeeded in making the entire image blurry.
ISO 3200, 20 mm, f/16, 1/8 s
Was this a handheld shot Frankie? I have had some success shooting at night when I can find a solid object to brace the camera and use delay shutter action so my shutter release button push doesn’t cause blurring of the whole scene and only action components come out with the intended blurriness.
One time I used parking meters. How long ago was that Haha.
Yes handheld. Good idea to find something to brace against. And use the timer!
Went for a walk in Baker Park, trying not to get hit by a frisbee, and saw this spruce; I loved the branches. Used the filter oil paint on the phone.
Every day, I take a picture of Molly, who is enjoying her own chair. I used the in-phone filter oilpaint.
Mid day walk, landscape, exposing for the shadows
I took these two last September in the NE corner of Portugal. These are terraces mainly used to grow the grapes for Port wine.
Panasonic DMC-TS3, f/3.3, 1/320, iso100
and this is a shepard’s hut
f/3.9, 1/125, iso100
Christmas Lights Tuscany Blvd entrance off Stoney
F/11; 3 sec; ISO 200 at 195 mm
Horses under rain squall. Heritage Park this past August. Shot in colour converted to B&W in Lightroom. Made additional adjustments with colour levers
F/5; 1/1000 sec; ISO 100 at 36 mm