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A few samples generated by text prompts with Adobe Firefly Generative AI.
Quite impressive software, the limits of real vs. Generative photography are quickly fading away...
My nephew is a painter, a mural artist primarily and has been telling me about the exceptional pieces he has been generating using AI. So I stuck a tiny toe into the water without much success.
Yes, I have a subscription to MidJourney but am not proficient enough to produce anything yet.
After seeing what is happening on flickr, I am both interested and terrified and wondering what the future holds for photography, especially as it applies to art.
I decided to follow the photostream of a photographer here who has made the leap from 100% photography to 100% AI over about 10 months. The images he produces are creatively and technically jaw-dropping. Ditto for another photographer I follow who appears to have made the transition as well.
My photography would never stand up against these images as wall art. Would anyone's?
Of course it immediately brings up the issue of disclosure. For one of these photographers, it is 100% disclosed as AI. The other does not disclose and simply calls it "art". So, are there elements that are real with his photographs with the rest being partially enhanced by AI? Only the photographer knows.
I am returning to flickr after a hiatus and there are many changes. Is the responsibility of the photographer to disclose AI images outlined somewhere.. or are there no standards?
For the record (and my own personal disclosure standards) this image is partially AI. I took the photo of the red columbine at a local lake. The bee was added by using generative fill in Photoshop.
The implications are staggering and way beyond a flickr post, but the camera companies have to be reeling. Will photography only be used for journalism in the future.. if even that?
What is your take on this whole new realm?
Fake warning:
Real image of a trail used as base for Adobe's AI based generative fill that replaces the path with a creek and the sky was also replaced.
An example of Photoshop AI Generative Fill capabilities using my image in my previous post: flic.kr/p/2oHXJMH
Not great, but pretty impressive considering the level of effort on my part. I'm impressed by the program's ability to match the mood, color, and overall composition vibe of the image.
An early morning photograph of the Arapuni power station. It was a very fogy morning which added to the image nicely!
The hydro-power station was completed in 1929 and was the first hydro station built on the Waikato river. But in the end became one of many hydro dams along the length of the river.
Lors de son événement MAX à Londres, Adobe a annoncé une énorme mise à jour de son système d'intelligence artificielle Firefly.
La version 3 de la plateforme est considérablement améliorée par rapport aux itérations précédentes et promet de pouvoir créer des images photoréalistes avec une plus grande variété.
At its MAX event in London, Adobe announced a huge update to its artificial intelligence system Firefly.
Version 3 of the platform is significantly improved over previous iterations and promises to be able to make photorealistic images with greater variety.
Ci-dessus, Adobe montre que la même invite peut fournir une gamme de résultats lorsque des détails spécifiques sont absents du texte, tels qu'une race ou une origine ethnique variée …
Above, Adobe shows that the same prompt can provide a range of results when specific details are absent from the text, such as varied race or ethnicity …
Adobe a formé Firefly exclusivement sur du contenu sous licence tel qu'Adobe Stock et la société a été plus transparente sur ses données de formation que toute autre société d'IA générative.🤔
Adobe trained Firefly exclusively on licensed content such as Adobe Stock and the company has been more transparent about its training data than any other generative AI company.🤔
« [Firefly] a été conçu pour générer du contenu à usage commercial qui ne porte pas atteinte aux droits d'auteur et autres droits de propriété intellectuelle (PI) tels que les marques et les logos.
“[Firefly] was designed to generate content for commercial use that does not infringe on copyright and other intellectual property (IP) rights such as trademarks and logos.
Firefly Image 3, le nom officiel de la dernière itération de la plateforme d'IA générative, est désormais disponible en version bêta …
Firefly Image 3, the official name of the latest iteration of the generative AI platform, is now available in beta …
Sources : Adobe - Firefly
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I used Photoshop's generative fill feature on this photo in which several inches were ciipped from one of its wings. Can you detect which wing?
I'm glad I didn't delete the image, as I had many others with the same flaw.
Because the original photo was framed quite tight on the left hand edge, I used the new Photoshop Beta generative fill to add extra 'territory' to the left hand edge and was impressed with the results.
The original image before cropping and processing. The images modified with Photoshop Generative Fill are below.
Camera: Minolta X-300
Lens: Minolta 50mm F1.7
Filter: Hoya Red(25A)
Film: Ilford HP5+
Processing and Scanning: Gulabi Photo Lab, Glasgow
Post Processing: Photoscape X
. A new black roof with Larch needles providing the orange glow colour and a few bats near the chimney { Snow stoppers}
The Pumpkin thanks to generative fill
I have always granted myself the freedom to exercise artistic license and pursue whatever brings me joy. "Some" of my photographs may contain AI generated elements, such as backgrounds.
If in doubt which is my work and which is Generative AI, just look for the watermark on my photography.
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[Please to note that I am trying to rave against the machine, against complacency and irrational fears and inaccurate notions.]
AI Overview
“The plant you're likely thinking of, with its unique "octopus-like" flowers, is the Campanula 'Pink Octopus' (Bellflower), not a rose, and its buds swell out to burst forth as striking pink-tentacled flowers.”
Generative AI is experimental.
I took the pictures recognising instantly that Octopus es / i were at work here having proceeded from no Earthly lineage to begin their land conquest with a feisty floral front that would ensnare the hearts and minds of Gardening Human s / i such that we will tend their flowering and preserve their budding to bring their seeded offspring into our gardens, never featuring them in our farming that could bring food inspection and so their predatory detection. After thoroughly trying to identify them with the results delivered above, I knew better than to trust malleable artificial intelligence and corruptible computing devices. So on the back of a recyclable packet I noted from my slide rule and log tables that the march of The Floral Octopus es / i was only three weeks from completely controlling mankind. As an English born soul now residing in Scotland I can tell you that 3 weeks to demise at first took the fulsome taste right out of my Tea. Then in acceptance of the horror I began to taste Tea like never before to ensure that I was full of the only potential cure that I knew of. Those three weeks passed with very few seeming indications. I have checked on a new packet rear, as the original has gone to be recycled, to see what I had not factored in. If my calculations are correct we are all now seed sensitive of the Octopus es / i and most of us are fine with it. There is a distinct possibility that this plant species is nothing at all to do with the Octopus es / i
leaving their Wavy Briny Brain Wash.
Please note that my very perfunctory search of Buds that look like Octopus es / i is only partly to blame for my above ridiculous speculations. When my Wished Washed Brain Bath clears enough for me to type, it takes a while to recognise the world again. Think spinning exploding Flu symptoms to the max veering off and scarily slowly arriving back again. Betwixt the hurl and the burl I have the chance to offer you this farcical nonsense and a cup of tea, my kettle and I sing songs for any Wandering Minstrels.
These pictures were merrily taken on a warm walk towards Sunset at Coldingham from St Abbs. There is neither an imminent, nor proceeding Octopus es / i invasion. There are amazing blossoms blooming close to us all some wild and some gardened. Blooms of beauty are burgeoning now til Winter halts them all.
The Priory is just out of the picture by a few miles, it is linked below. It is just inland from Coldingham Sands and St Abbs.
This as close as can be to New Asgard from Marvel films including Thor enjoying a new place by the sea.
© PHH Sykes 2024 and 2025
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Coldingham Priory, claustral remains SM383
portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM383
Coldingham Priory Church including former hearse house and store, graveyard, boundary walls, gatepiers and gates and excluding scheduled monument SM383, Coldingham LB4059
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Coldingham Priory plan Canmore
canmore.org.uk/collection/1532083
COLDINGHAM PRIORY TIMELINE 1098 -2015
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The John Gray Centre brings together East Lothian Council’s Archaeology, Museum, Archive and Local History Services, alongside Haddington’s branch library.
Dig Timeline Daily updates and up-to-the minute action from Coldingham
Live visuals made with processing. wormy thingy with
sound reactive colors. It was the first attempt to get
sound reacting working in linux using PD to analyse the signal and send it via osc to processing. Unfortunatelly it isn't as precise i i was expecting... one day i'll get it right... one day i'll...
more info there : www.yesyesnono.co.uk/?miam=7
A few samples generated by text prompts with Adobe Firefly Generative AI.
Quite impressive software, the limits of real vs. Generative photography are quickly fading away...
Using generative fill AI in photoshop for photo enhancement. I removed a couple of buses, some lampposts & signs & a few other odds & ends. I also straightened the photo & figured while I was at it, why not use Sky Replacement to add some drama? Not intended to deceive anyone into believing this is a real world scene, just experimenting with the capabilities of this new tool.
See my comment for the "before" version.
I used Photoshop's generative fill tool to remove branches at the bottom & to replace the sky.
My original photo for reference:
www.flickr.com/photos/163940733@N02/53148893673/in/datepo...
A few samples generated by text prompts with Adobe Firefly Generative AI.
Quite impressive software, the limits of real vs. Generative photography are quickly fading away...
generative winds
notation through the ages…
infinite stanzas
*in explore
“...all music was generative before the invention of notation, around the year 1000[CE]. And a generative tradition endured until the middle of the 19th century, when the invention of recording allowed people to hear a piece of music over and over in the same static form. Generative music is actually a return to an earlier way of listening, in which each experience was unique and transient.”
Brian Eno
NYT, 2024
Before my wife and I were dancers, we were listeners. Our youth had been immersed in a soundtrack of swing and jazz--our parents music--until Carl Perkins and Bill Haley came out of nowhere and kicked the door down.
In junior high, we were taught the tedious dance etiquette of the box step. And also that proper posture and spacing and decorum were to be maintained at all times.
Subliminally, we were learning that dance music was bland and unimaginative. Safe. It was simply a permission to go out onto a dance floor and do the socialization shuffle.
So it went until my wife and I became empty-nesters. And then a very unexpected thing happened: We discovered that, as studies have shown, the music you will always return to is the music from when you were about twelve years old.
Eventually we began attending jazz festivals; four days and nights of live bands and soloists. As listeners, we did not know how to dance and were too self-conscious to try. But then we began to notice, as we sat in our seats or at a table spontaneously swaying, tapping, whooping, clapping, that out on the dance floor virtually no one was dancing to the actual music.
Completely oblivious to any sense of rhythm or tempo or phrasing, most partners were either shuffling in place, or working conscientously on the basic step patterns learned at their group lessons, or doing some personally choreographed set piece over and over again, or consulting about which figure to try next so that neither would be surprised.
Live jazz is a generative music. It frames a theme, passes the theme around for a while from soloist to soloist for their personal interpretations and variations and improvisations, and eventually returns to the opening theme before wrapping things up. Everything, including tempo, can be up for grabs, and become esoteric to the extent that, for a listener, it can be almost impossible to know what to expect next. When the night is right and things get really atmospheric, a listener has a very good chance of hearing things they will never, under any circumstances, hear again.
So, if an adept listener can get caught up in generative live jazz, what would be the chances that there was a way to do partnered dance to such music. Spontaneously. Interpretively. On a dime. Like the music, no two dances ever exactly the same. To experience that transcendence when you and your partner are no longer just dancing to the music, you have become the music. To touch for even the briefest of moments that apogee of all dance: Musicality.
Turns out, the chances are pretty good. Graceful spontaneity is possible with nimble feet and fewer than ten stand-alone moves linked in any combination. Maybe a hundred possibilities in the first iteration. If that doesn’t seem like enough, consider the trumpet: Heaven to Hell in three valves. But that is not the story here.
The story here is that bristlecones are exceptional ‘listeners’. And, they have been dancing generatively for millennia. They have a musicality beyond casual calculation. Their ‘music’ is the wind.*
Every branch of a bristlecone has in the neighborhood of ninety needle bundles per inch. Each bundle location is capable of morphing into a branch of that branch; etc, etc, etc. That is a lot of potential moves; both stand-alone and linked. Probably as close to infinite options through incomprehensible time as any living thing ever gets. Fractal. It is why if you have seen one bristlecone...you have seen one bristlecone.
The ‘music’ in this photo comes in over the far ridge in waves; visibly shaping clouds into universal symbols of sound. All the trees dance to essentially the same music, but no two are expressing it in even remotely the same way. They are not solemn pine sentries all in a row. Maybe more like exuberant. Raucous even. Born to be wild.
Generative winds, generative music, generative dance, musicality. It is a spontaneous live performance. An unremitting riff. And when it is over, nothing exactly like it will ever be seen again.
*yes, this would be a generative transition (with, hopefully, a touch of musicality)
Bonus: Ronan the Sea Lion Is Probably Better Than You at Keeping a Beat - The New York Times
With Adobe Photoshop adding generative AI to its software, one will never quite know what in a photo is real or not anymore. Granted, you'd be suspicious of many of these - but this is the beta version. In six months it'll be largely flawless. The image has embedded metadata that indicates it was AI modified, but not many people know how to look at the metadata. To make these objects I simply chose a space and typed in the object I wanted. How many AI created objects can you find? Or maybe easier, what's real in here?