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    3 days ago

    I once shot a wedding that was scheduled around a full moon. I replaced the moon in the photos with a NASA image, color matched it, and made it like 5x bigger than the original.

    Nobody noticed.

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            I would, too, but I have to admit it’s pretty impressive what a phone can do these days. That kind of processing power just hanging out in our pockets. It would have taken my first PC years to do that.

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              By the description, It doesn’t looks like something that requires that much processing power. Probably less than transcribing some audio, but I get what you mean, it’s impressive

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                Well I also think there’s something to be said for the sheer uselessness of it - not only CAN it do it, it’s not a major drain on battery life or anything.

                Also, my first computer was an IBM PCjr, so my comment stands - transcribing audio would have taken that blazing 4.77 MHz processor a large amount of time. 128 KB of RAM, baby - we had the upgrade sidecar. 360KB floppy disk! 16 color CGA graphics, but since few games were programmed with that in mind, it was really four color!

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                  Well I also think there’s something to be said for the sheer uselessness of it

                  Indeed. We have all this impressive technology, but what do we use it for? To create fake photos?

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          I hate how tech companies are now applying their fetish for a constructed unreality as “features” in photos we take ourselves.

          The citizen science website iNaturalist has to remind people to turn off features like this, because it will clobber the details that identify a species to make things look more photogenic.

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            The sad part is, there are people who want it.

            Plenty of people out there for whom the purpose of a photo isn’t to document objective reality; it’s to portray a postcard-perfect version of reality they can put on social media for clout.

            If you have that mindset, then any filters or AI that make your pretend reality more sparkly than it is are all welcome.

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      Not sure if you’re proud or chagrined that they didn’t notice. But you know that’s because you sized it right, because you were there and saw it. You made it look as magical as it felt in the moment.

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      Wow. Meanwhile I asked then ti just slightly airbrush my balding top for the main photos, not all, just a few of the ones wed select for prints and they didnt do shit.