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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Asset Management => Topic started by: Alan Klein on March 19, 2019, 09:15:30 pm

Title: Throw your cameras away
Post by: Alan Klein on March 19, 2019, 09:15:30 pm
Nvidia has a program that changes sketches to photos. Might as well stay home.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/nvidia-ai-turns-sketches-into-photorealistic-landscapes-in-seconds/
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: rdonson on March 19, 2019, 09:44:52 pm
That's disturbing.  Inevitable but disturbing.

I guess that after our Copyright stamp on a photo we'll have to add completely made by a human.   ;D
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 20, 2019, 12:06:48 am
Ouch!
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: John R on March 20, 2019, 10:20:09 pm
One of the things you will soon discover is that they have to use a large stock of existing images from which to draw. So don't give them your images and don't ever post large high quality images on the net.

JR
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: kers on March 21, 2019, 08:55:16 am
The more they use these images the more special become REAL ones...

Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: hogloff on March 21, 2019, 09:06:41 am
Quote from: John R on March 20, 2019, 10:20:09 pm
One of the things you will soon discover is that they have to use a large stock of existing images from which to draw. So don't give them your images and don't ever post large high quality images on the net.

JR

There are millions of great images already in micro stock. Too late...cat's out of the bag.
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: kers on March 21, 2019, 09:31:51 am
Fake News gets support of Fake Images
(in the news this week also Ai articles based on some words only)
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: mcbroomf on March 21, 2019, 05:06:45 pm
Quote from: kers on March 21, 2019, 09:31:51 am
Fake News gets support of Fake Images
(in the news this week also Ai articles based on some words only)

... written by fake people ....  ;D
https://petapixel.com/2018/12/17/these-portraits-were-made-by-ai-none-of-these-people-exist/
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: LesPalenik on March 27, 2019, 07:35:27 am
Quote from: Alan Klein on March 19, 2019, 09:15:30 pm
Nvidia has a program that changes sketches to photos. Might as well stay home.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/nvidia-ai-turns-sketches-into-photorealistic-landscapes-in-seconds/

What kind of pencil to make a sketch?
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: PeterAit on March 28, 2019, 10:08:54 am
Quote from: Alan Klein on March 19, 2019, 09:15:30 pm
Nvidia has a program that changes sketches to photos. Might as well stay home.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/nvidia-ai-turns-sketches-into-photorealistic-landscapes-in-seconds/

So if I had a drawing of me looking handsome and hunky .... ?
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: Martin Kristiansen on March 29, 2019, 10:10:02 am
Turns a sketch into a photograph. Seriously. How is that a threat?

Imagine the situation. A client phones and asks for a photo of a pair of shoes. You show up with a pencil and quickly draw them. Like that’s easier to do than to quickly take a photo. Then you send the sketch off to nvidia. No wait you quickly take a photo of the sketch then send that. Then you realize you may as well just taken a photo of the shoes.

Or you are at a politaical rally and someone pulls a gun and shoots the speaker. Dam, and I forgot my pencil at home. All I have is a phone with a great camera built in.

This would be an amazing invention if more people could draw than could take a photo. Or if a sketch was faster than taking a photo.

Seems pointless to me but who knows. There could be millions of people standing in line desperate to turn their sketches into photographs.

My idea would be to plug a few Picasso’s into the system and see what on earth he actually had in mind.
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: rdonson on March 29, 2019, 01:17:12 pm
Think of all the fun pervs would have with this program...  ::)
Title: Re: Throw your cameras away
Post by: budjames on May 09, 2019, 04:46:52 am
Wow! Really cool, but I like getting out the create the photos with gear that I love. I love travel photography. I won't be able to replace that experience any time soon with sitting in front of a computer.

Regards,
Bud James

Please check out my fine art and travel photography at www.budjames.photography or on Instagram at www.instagram.com/budjamesphoto.