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It’s about using AIs in Photography. Boring stuff I like a lot.
20Jun-Photo Release – back in the day I didn’t have all the fancy bells and whistles to fix photos with eyesores in them. You know, the great image of Auntie Sofie that has the back of Auntie Elsie’s head in the middle, or the one with the Port-a-Potty in the background of the family picture at this years’ BBQ reunion. Uncle Joe took his hat off for the first time in 20 years and you happened to catch a shot of the bald-spot comb-over he’s been hiding all that time. Do you post it, and risk his wrath? Bury it, or fix it, and give Uncle Joe a full-lush head of hair that’ll shock even him. Hmmm! The options are endless.
All that was to lead into this little sidebar. The two images at the end of this set are of Crows sitting very close in a tree beside the trail. They were in shadow and against a bright sky. The sun was behind me more or less, so I had that going for me if I could find and angle that had the birds in at least filtered sunlight. Still, shooting a backlit subject in the shade is a challenge all by itself. No matter where I moved, that branch was right in front of the left hand bird’s face or the feathers were so black I might as well paint them. So I took two with the lower body well lit and hoped for the best. The face was occluded pretty well by that branch, so I used Lightroom’s, generative remove tool on one. Not too shabby. That ‘blocked’ part of the original image was constructed by one of Adobe’s AI tools – Generative Fill .
And for the record, I do use AIs in my photography – truth be told, you can’t process a digital image without using some level of AI. Photoshop as a whole is a giant AI built to edit RAW data into spectacular photographs. When you get right down to it, AI plays a pretty regular role in our lives already. Today, using one to clean up the garbage in your photography is as natural as taking out the trash. That being said, one can take things pretty far over the top. It’s still art in it’s truest form because it came from the creator’s mind. Label your work as AI enhanced, if you must, but then we all must, regardless the level of usage. Don’t we? I just want peace in our time. 😊
20Jun-Photo Release
DelValle June 26, 2026
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