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I guess some people thought it was AI, but just a cool moment in my basement window well.

Edit: taken with my iPhone several years ago since that’s all I had with me when it happened so quickly.

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[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, I totally understand why people think it's AI. Between the phone camera processes and the extreme postprocessing, this looks more deep fried than some memes I've seen. It almost looks like it's got a cartoon filter applied.

Add on the fact that OP is trying hard to down play how much editing has been done, it starts to feel like it doesn't add up. If OP posted the unedited photo to show the bad phone sharpening and admitted how much editing was done on top of that, people would understand what they are looking at.

Don't get me wrong, it looks cool, but when someone says "oh, no I just took this with my phone", I look at that and think that's not the whole truth.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Yeah exactly, it's a cool shot, but to me it looks like a scan of an oil on canvas painting.

[–] mgenehoffman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

Thanks for your meaningful, informed, and helpful contribution.

Of course it’s edited. Pro tip: every image is edited. Nothing anyone sees is raw from the sensor. It’s all completely arbitrary. Even people who shoot film show edited photos, they just offload the editing to the film lab. Someone else is doing the processing for them.

Even direct from a digital camera to jpeg, the camera is performing countless transformations and adjustment s before burning to jpeg. See film emulations on Fuji cameras for example.

The entire point of photography is to present to people a compelling vision that feels the way you did when you saw it.

That being said, this is basic curve and a vignette.

[–] Smc87@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 8 points 6 days ago

+1 OP, I wanna see it without

[–] gleb@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

post the original, then.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

So you don't have the original anymore?

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Bro got caught and is trying to say everything is edited.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it's basic settings in like every fucking phone for the last 15 years? Get over yourselves - you aren't judges at National Geographic photographer of the year, it's a neat pic dude wanted to share.

Let people share neat things.

[–] Hackworth@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right? It's a standard color pass. People acting like it has to be RAW/LOG to be real.

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[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean even your sentence is edited. Nobody forms a true thought without altering it in their mind. Talking is the art of representing the thoughts and atoms in your brain in the way we want you to see it. Literally everything is a lie. So lying is always morally acceptable. /s

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[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago

Post original or its AI

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

The interesting part about doing a vignette is that it shows up in ELA when you run it through any one of the dozen doctored image detector websites, the re-encode around the changes shows up in the data when it inspects them, this image has zero error level deviation.

That's interesting because it also doesn't appear as AI at all through the AI detection tests. But here you're saying it's actually edited. Maybe the CDN was heavy-handed enough to destroy the ELA. Zip up your edited copy and give that to the masses. The nay-sayers can run it through Fotoforensics and see it's manually edited. You have already passed all the AI detection pages with 0% AI probability.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The default subs are controlled by people involved with karma farming. Some of them are so bad that the mods will ban anyone with a high number of upvotes to prevent them from competing with the bots.

Funny enough, I bet the same mods will let a bot repost your pic in a few months.

[–] shark_phenomenon@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

r/pics is a massive joke anyways. Screw that sub!

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

conus pineae divinae

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

"Obviously" has been a conclusive reason to condemn things since social media began. So of course "obviously AI" falls under that impeccable standard.

Also just curious, is taking photos with an iPhone something people apologize for now? I don't keep up with all the latest acceptibility rules.

[–] mgenehoffman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It was more to denote the presence of Apple’s processing algorithms, which are possibly part of why people think it’s AI or painted. Lots of people on Reddit thought it was a painting and some pointed to the painterly look of details when zoomed into.

Lots of discussion about that being the result of Apple’s fusion algo, which merges many rapidly taken exposures to eliminate noise, at the expense of real detail.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

What an absurd line of reasoning from that bunch.

"Obviously" you should have just posted the raw sensor data and let the viewers figure it out themselves. Sheesh.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Very interesting, thanks for the explanation. To me it's kind of pathetic that people feel such a compulsion to be cops instead of just enjoying a nice image.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I took it as them sharing the hardware specs for other curious photographers, but you might be on to something.

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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Since the light is hitting things just right, probably put some random objects or action figures in there to see if people notice. Every day is a new story! Cool picture by the way.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

the light is hitting things just right

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Thomas Kinkade's pinecone.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

Lol when I first saw iPhone my brain read it as the default signature iPhones put in emails.

Sent from my iPhone.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

serves you right for posting something so lewd.

stupid sexy pinecones...

If reddit was a thing before Photoshop was around, I assume they'd block not only that too, but stuff like changing hue, exposure, etc.

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