Has Digital Changed Darkroom Printing?

[Drew Wiley]

Sequoia lumber was useless for anything but fruit boxes; it splits ridiculously easily, and many of the trees shattered when they fell.

xkaes - that looks more like a Bob Ross painting of Mt Shuksan in the Cascades, and NOTHING like Squaretop, which is an unmistakable icon from the drive-in direction. I guess AI droids don't visit Wyoming all that often. Even the tree species are wrong and way out of proportion. But at least the miserable jet contrails look realistic.

[xkaes]

I'm not surprised at how little it actually looks like the real thing, but I am surprised at how relatively close it actually got. As I look at the free 2024 calendar I got in the mail -- obviously overly ridiculously digitally adjusted -- and it seems that A.I. will negate the need for that anyway.

FYI, the fake picture was taken with this fake camera:

[jnantz]

you get it wrong, the AI image is just that and AI image, it's not an actual fake image made from a real impression (latent image ) made on a light sensitive medium,
it's AI generated, which is like a sketch artist rendered image of a suspect that the person being questions didnt' see but might have heard about and has an active imagination.

[Tin Can]

ask it to image your backyard in Fall raining

I won't bother

[Michael R]

you get it wrong, the AI image is just that and AI image, it's not an actual fake image made from a real impression (latent image ) made on a light sensitive medium,
it's AI generated, which is like a sketch artist rendered image of a suspect that the person being questions didnt' see but might have heard about and has an active imagination.

I wonder though if it’s a fake image taken with a fake camera do the two fakes make a real? I think so.

[Tin Can]

AI has access to GIS by satellite camera, property lines and close up camera

The wealthy pay for privacy and hide

[xkaes]

ask it to image your backyard in Fall raining

I won't bother

Interestingly, it creates a different picture each time you execute the same command -- and, of course, if you use the word "Fall", "fall", or "Autumn" -- or even just put a period at the end of the request.

[jnantz]

I wonder though if it’s a fake image taken with a fake camera do the two fakes make a real? I think so.

You might be right .. but it's kind of algebraic from what I remember..when you use the the associative and transitive properties they'll make an airplane .. or it might make the maker a figment of our imaginations, like having a racy conversation with a BOT .. at least I know my camera is real, and I accept the true nature of the photographic practice. cherish the latent image, and realize everything else is just a lie .. I'm also living in Idaho.

[xkaes]

I'm also living in Idaho.

'nough said.

[xkaes]

At the Oscars last night, Christopher Nolan started his acceptance of the Best Director Award with a tip for other Directors -- especially budding Directors -- "Consider celluloid".

He made Oppenheimer with 70m film because, like most of use, he considers film to be the real McCoy.

But even before his Oscar, his movie created an explosion (appropriately enough) in FILM use -- and the manufacturing of it, of course:

https://www.thewrap.com/oppenheimer-...wrap-magazine/

That's good NEWS for all of us film lovers -- whether you consider it real or fake.