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The photographer here is one of the biggest users of topaz denoise/sharpening. It's an ai model that is really great at cleaning up back yard astrophotography.
by dmead 4y ago
The photographer here is one of the biggest users of topaz denoise/sharpening. It's an ai model that is really great at cleaning up back yard astrophotography.
It's considered cheating.
- macinjosh 4y agoOr the guy is just having fun enjoying his hobby.
- florbo 4y agoThe photographer is very upfront about the process, too.
- rvnx 4y agoAt some point the photo cameras or mobile phones are going to automatically include such denoising features (since it's an artefact of the photo capture, not a visible element) and then people would still call it "#nofilter"
- yokoprime 4y agoWhy is it considered cheating? What is it cheating against?
- dmead 4y agoThe models are trained on Hubble data. It's cheating against the rest of the astrophotography community if you're just replacing your pixels with NASA's pixels. Mcarthy takes a lot of flack for this and has said he'll back off use of the AI models.
- jug 4y agoWho are they cheating? If they are upfront about the process, hardly the observer, or..?
- dmead 4y agoI'll answer this here. He is not upfront about it. Most lay people think that these amazing shots he gets are what is attainable with a backyard telescope. It's not. It's bad for the same reason influencers using body filters is bad.