'Micro World' Slideshow Video
Link to my album with the original high-definition images: www.flickr.com/photos/200044612@N04/albums/72177720324216...
The slightly longer youtube version is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GYgGPX5PEI&t=10s
These are all my own images that I made with the Bing Image Creator, powered by DALL-E 3. DALL-E 3 (as implemented by the Bing Image Creator) has gotten worse since these were made - it may be difficult or impossible to create images of this quality today.
The song in the video is my own original creation - it is NOT an AI generated song.
Many of the images in this video slideshow could not be achieved through real photography. Extreme micro photography (normally referred to as ‘macro photography’) creates an image with a very shallow depth of field, meaning that only a small sliver of the image will be in focus.
To compensate, a technique called 'focus stacking' is used, where numerous photos are taken with slightly different focus points, and computer software then merges the sharpest parts of the images together into one image. The process of taking these different photos for focus stacking takes some time, and so it will not work for moving objects, such as moving insects. A camera may need a shutter speed as fast as 1/500 of a second to sharply capture images such as this – but focus stacking may require 50+ shots to be taken at different focal points - without the subject moving.
The insects photographed with this technique are usually no longer alive, or at least they are keeping still for a long period of time. Only with AI is it possible to capture extreme close-up images of moving insects where more than a sliver of the image is in focus - with the realism level of a real photo. My goal with AI is to create images that would have been impossible to create without it.
- Josh
'Micro World' Slideshow Video
Link to my album with the original high-definition images: www.flickr.com/photos/200044612@N04/albums/72177720324216...
The slightly longer youtube version is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GYgGPX5PEI&t=10s
These are all my own images that I made with the Bing Image Creator, powered by DALL-E 3. DALL-E 3 (as implemented by the Bing Image Creator) has gotten worse since these were made - it may be difficult or impossible to create images of this quality today.
The song in the video is my own original creation - it is NOT an AI generated song.
Many of the images in this video slideshow could not be achieved through real photography. Extreme micro photography (normally referred to as ‘macro photography’) creates an image with a very shallow depth of field, meaning that only a small sliver of the image will be in focus.
To compensate, a technique called 'focus stacking' is used, where numerous photos are taken with slightly different focus points, and computer software then merges the sharpest parts of the images together into one image. The process of taking these different photos for focus stacking takes some time, and so it will not work for moving objects, such as moving insects. A camera may need a shutter speed as fast as 1/500 of a second to sharply capture images such as this – but focus stacking may require 50+ shots to be taken at different focal points - without the subject moving.
The insects photographed with this technique are usually no longer alive, or at least they are keeping still for a long period of time. Only with AI is it possible to capture extreme close-up images of moving insects where more than a sliver of the image is in focus - with the realism level of a real photo. My goal with AI is to create images that would have been impossible to create without it.
- Josh