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The macro photography looks bizarrely uniform and the poses contrived. I feel like a sleuth trying to decide if this is AI generated or not. I suspect it isn't,
by sjsanc 5mo ago
The macro photography looks bizarrely uniform and the poses contrived. I feel like a sleuth trying to decide if this is AI generated or not. I suspect it isn't, but I'm somewhat distressed at how suspicious I am of cool things now.
- Schiendelman 5mo agoAs someone who has done some stacked photos, they always look suspicious! If it's any consolation, I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI!
- keldami 5mo ago>I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI! That is exactly what an AI Bot would say XDXD
- wkrsz 5mo agoWhat does "stacked" mean in this context?
- ravila4 5mo agoYou take multiple pictures at different focal points and combining together computationally because the depth of field at the magnification is very shallow. The resulting image looks somewhat flat, but highly detailed.
- Aurornis 5mo agoYou know how some photos have super blurred backgrounds? The same effect occurs undesirably when you’re trying to do extreme macro photography (close-up photos of small things). The effect would be that face might be sharp but the body would get blurrier the farther away from the focus plane. So a workaround is to take a lot of photos with the focus plane at different depths. You sweep the focus plane through the scene, snapping a lot of photos as you go. This can be automatic with nice gear. Then you take all of those photos and combined them digitally, with the algorithm selecting pixels from the photo with the best sharpness in that region. So the photo you see is a combination of many photos.
- razorbeamz 5mo ago> I recognize the photographer There is curiously nothing on his website about this isopod site.
- gnabgib 5mo agoSo.. I don't know, maybe you don't know them as pillbugs (slaters).. but there's a whole gallery from 2023 https://www.nickybay.com/pillbugs-sowbugs-isopoda-checklist/ https://www.nickybay.com/pillbugs-sowbugs-isopoda-checklist/
- obloid 5mo agoHere's an interesting article by the photographer about fake AI generated macro photos: https://www.nickybay.com/ai-abuse-to-skirt-copyright-law/ https://www.nickybay.com/ai-abuse-to-skirt-copyright-law/
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- razorbeamz 5mo agoThe people who are saying that this is not AI are either being misled or they are lying.
- kjs3 5mo agoThat's what an AI would say!
- pvaldes 5mo agoOr they know how this animals look in the real life. Take in mind that the first page cover different morphs of the same genus. Maybe even the same species. They all look variations generated by computer, because they all are Cubaris sp and have exactly the same cephalon shape.