This happened one day in the window well outside my office. I got banned from r/pics for posting it.
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TIL what a window well is. I would honestly love to see what it looks like from outside. Is there some kind of covered up grate on top?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sometimes. The smaller (typical?) ones tend to either be fully covered or have a grate. Many are big enough to stand in, to have plants/garden, or even be used as emergency exits. And might not have any covering.
This one almost definitely had a grate of some kind.
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Most recent series was last year. I think it was meant to be the last one.
It's been a while, so probably new to me. Yay.
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Too much HDR. I can see why they thought it's AI.
Still a nice shot. The composion and framing is nice.
It’s not HDR. It’s a single shot, slightly underexposed so we don’t lose the highlight detail. The rest of the work could have been done in a physical darkroom. But thank you.
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Honestly, deep fried images usually give me a headache but this one is actually pretty nice. I think the horrible HDR gives it a painting like quality.
It’s not HDR, it’s a single shot and no tone mapping has been done. Just levels adjustment that could have been done in a physical darkroom.
The number of things that confuse people in this image really surprises me, but I’m assuming you’re talking about the light beam, which is the sun raking concrete at a very sharp angle. The detail it’s exposing on the concrete is actually just like that, even in the raw image.
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TIL what a window well is. I would honestly love to see what it looks like from outside. Is there some kind of covered up grate on top?
Here it is several years later. It’s an office that I rent. The landlord apparently does not care about maintaining the windows.
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I think I got banned from /r/pics for some random comment too. We can be twinsees.
Right? I don’t get it. They gave no reason except pointing to a rule that stated no posting someone else’s work as your own. Which obviously was not the case here. But they did not respond to a request to look into it.
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Composition*, fellow human.
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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.
I won, but at what cost? My fellow cones perished.
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Here it is several years later. It’s an office that I rent. The landlord apparently does not care about maintaining the windows.
I was so confused by the image initially as I hadn't seen a window well that deep before. This follow-up picture made it all click, thanks for sharing.
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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.
I got banned because I told everybody who was mocking that retarded weather guy to stop mocking him.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I remember trying to warn people on Reddit that their anti-AI crusades were going to hurt real people making real art, especially surrealists, and got banned from a bunch of art subs for being “pro-AI” as a result. Actually, they phrased it in far more hurtful and inflammatory ways, like “advocating theft.” Apparently caring about not hurting real human beings making real human art is “advocating theft.”
I don’t miss Reddit. That place was bad for my mental health.
P.S. This photo is beautiful and I’m happy you had a mind to capture it and share it. Thank you.
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Eh, “perfect” is relative. There’s still plenty of weird little spots on that Pangolin’s scales
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I remember trying to warn people on Reddit that their anti-AI crusades were going to hurt real people making real art, especially surrealists, and got banned from a bunch of art subs for being “pro-AI” as a result. Actually, they phrased it in far more hurtful and inflammatory ways, like “advocating theft.” Apparently caring about not hurting real human beings making real human art is “advocating theft.”
I don’t miss Reddit. That place was bad for my mental health.
P.S. This photo is beautiful and I’m happy you had a mind to capture it and share it. Thank you.
Real talk! I got banned for "advocating violence". Anyone who knows me would find that fucking laughable at best, and completely dishonest at worst. Been a few months now and I can sense an improvement in myself. I get more shit done and hate people a lot less.
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I remember trying to warn people on Reddit that their anti-AI crusades were going to hurt real people making real art, especially surrealists, and got banned from a bunch of art subs for being “pro-AI” as a result. Actually, they phrased it in far more hurtful and inflammatory ways, like “advocating theft.” Apparently caring about not hurting real human beings making real human art is “advocating theft.”
I don’t miss Reddit. That place was bad for my mental health.
P.S. This photo is beautiful and I’m happy you had a mind to capture it and share it. Thank you.
I don’t miss Reddit. That place was bad for my mental health.
Same i remember it was Toxic
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"Please provide proof of authenticity before I allow myself to enjoy this picture."
I don’t get the ideological hate for gen-AI - especially when it comes to visual art. All I care about is whether I enjoy looking at it or not. I couldn’t care less who or what made it.
There is something special about photography. Photographs capture something real, a physical point in time. What you see really existed.
The problem with AI slop is that it gets better by the day and if you want to appreciate that single physical point in time that a photo represents, knowing that makes it special in ways that AI is not.
Likewise, created art is a window into someone’s mind and soul. Knowing this also makes those works special in ways that AI is not.
That said, the way certain communities crusade against AI is hurting actual, human artists. Especially those whose work skews toward the surreal. That is not ethical behavior and needs to be curbed.
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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.
I don't see how they could have mistaken this for AI. It just doesn't have the vibe, there's too much roughness and it's not just totally overloaded with details.
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It’s not HDR, it’s a single shot and no tone mapping has been done. Just levels adjustment that could have been done in a physical darkroom.
The number of things that confuse people in this image really surprises me, but I’m assuming you’re talking about the light beam, which is the sun raking concrete at a very sharp angle. The detail it’s exposing on the concrete is actually just like that, even in the raw image.
wrote last edited by [email protected]people nowadays are really reactionary and stupid.
the whole anti-AI clusterfuck is just the tip of the iceberg.
if someone doesn’t immediately understand something now instead of asking good questions they reflexively start to regurgitate whatever shit in their head lit up the moment they realized their ignorance.
it’s gonna be the literal death of us all, and no one takes it seriously. people are genuinely incapable of critical thinking now and it isn’t some shitty ego thing to acknowledge it. i’ve stopped caring if i offend people over this, tbh. their latent disrespect for knowledge and rationalism offends me.
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I remember trying to warn people on Reddit that their anti-AI crusades were going to hurt real people making real art, especially surrealists, and got banned from a bunch of art subs for being “pro-AI” as a result. Actually, they phrased it in far more hurtful and inflammatory ways, like “advocating theft.” Apparently caring about not hurting real human beings making real human art is “advocating theft.”
I don’t miss Reddit. That place was bad for my mental health.
P.S. This photo is beautiful and I’m happy you had a mind to capture it and share it. Thank you.
Thank you! And yes, I mean I realize it’s a two sided battle. I legitimately hate gen AI and what it was done to the art world. My current career is in the process of being completely devoured by AI and taking photos is something that brings me a lot of joy and connects me to the real world, so it’s infuriating to have both the loss of my career and denigration of my photography due to AI.
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I got banned because I told everybody who was mocking that retarded weather guy to stop mocking him.
Frankie MacDonald?
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It’s not HDR, it’s a single shot and no tone mapping has been done. Just levels adjustment that could have been done in a physical darkroom.
The number of things that confuse people in this image really surprises me, but I’m assuming you’re talking about the light beam, which is the sun raking concrete at a very sharp angle. The detail it’s exposing on the concrete is actually just like that, even in the raw image.
HDR would have oversaturated the colors of the little green plants popping up. I don't know what people are on about there.
Personally, I think HDR works best for images that are almost devoid of color. Like I did the one below of the pillars at the Wisconsin state capitol:
