This guy is good

[cliveh]

 

[ic-racer]

Looks like he works in computer graphics, in which case you could compare it to the work of anyone else out there with a computer...

 

[cliveh]

Yes you are correct, as I'm easily fooled about photographic reality.

 

[Don_ih]

Looks like he works in computer graphics, in which case you could compare it to the work of anyone else out there with a computer.

Doubtful. Just like having a large format camera doesn't mean you can use it, having a computer guarantees nothing. (Or owning a Les Paul guitar doesn't mean you can play it.) He needs a vision of what the image should be just like anyone else taking photos people want to look at. He's just willing to make it how he wants it.

I'm easily fooled about photographic reality

Photographic reality ends when the camera is raised to the eye.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Reality ends when the camera is raised to the eye.

 

[BradS]

Doubtful. Just like having a large format camera doesn't mean you can use it, having a computer guarantees nothing. (Or owning a Les Paul guitar doesn't mean you can play it.) He needs a vision of what the image should be just like anyone else taking photos people want to look at. He's just willing to make it how he wants it.

I'd rather sit through an hour and a half long concert presented by the local middle school students' orchestra than 10 seconds looking at some soul-less machine generated "photo-realistic" AI generated garbage. The first experience, although often very far from perfect, is quite enjoyable. Looking at AI generated images is the opposite of enjoyable. It, the reason for this difference, has something to do with our shared human experience....of which AI has has no clue, never will have.

Music played by a living breathing human, even if just learning is a dramatically different experience from a sonnet selected by a human from the pile of non-sense and gibberish generated by a million trained chimpanzees banging away on IBM Selectrics for 10 years.

 

[Don_ih]

@BradS -- you did see that the guy was using a camera to take photos? He doesn't use AI.

Looks like he works in computer graphics

I'm not sure where you got that idea. It took a second to find out he was in finance and decided abandon that and to return to photography, that he takes photos on location, that he uses handheld and remote-controlled cameras, that he's raised a lot of money for charity - but nothing about computer graphics.

He likely uses computers, because most people use digital cameras and photo editing software. That's not the same as computer graphics or AI.

@cliveh -- you weren't fooled, the guy is pretty good.

 

[miha]

Thanks, @Don_ih for setting things straight. I have no idea why some see AI at work.

 

[Don_ih]

Thanks, @Don_ih for setting things straight. I have no idea why some see AI at work.

I think it might be because of photos like this:

which looks quite a bit like it could have been generated by AI. Compare with:

which I just generated with "Black and white photo of a male lion walking toward the camera". Now - who is copying who? Look at the feet.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Thank for posting the interesting video.

 

[VinceInMT]

Interesting locations. The bar interiors are in Big Timber, just a bit east of where I live. The highway shots are likely on Hwy 191 just north of Big Timber. That highway, BTW, runs from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. I've motorcycled almost the complete length of it over that 4 years. Some of those exterior "old west town" look like they were shot at a venue on the east side of Bozeman that has a recreation of a western town.

 

[Pioneer]

All good stuff. Even the weird looking lion.