• 53mm • f/4 • 1/50 • ISO12800 • EOS R & RF24-105mm f/4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan
When will It be My Turn? #3
Tag: black&white
No More Street Cred
• 200mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 • ISO200 • 600D & EF-S18-200/3.5-5.6 • polariser •
Continue reading “No More Street Cred”A Soupçon of Refreshment #2
• 35mm • f/4 • 1/60 • ISO400 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •
Evening on 2nd Cross Street
• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO800 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •
Dinner in Pettah
• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •
If I was a 16th Century Portuguese Photojournalist
And had the camera been invented, my photos of the Portuguese-Sinhalese wars might have looked a bit like this. Instead I’ve committed a bit of sacrilege and had a look at what all the fuss is about with AI, and used it to create a bunch of pictures from scratch. This is a first for my blog (and likely the last), since its whole point is to showcase my actual photography, but I thought this experiment was worth sharing.
This set of pictures is entirely AI-created, with even the prompts that created the images being composed by AI, with just a bit of editing (to the prompts, not the pictures), by me. It started off with me asking ChatGPT to give me a brief explanation of the 16th century Portuguese presence in the Colombo Fort. I then told this OpenAI chatbot to come up with a set of prompts which Midjourney could use to create pictures to illustrate its explanation. I then fed the prompts to Midjourney, adding that the pictures must look as if I had shot them on Kodak Tri-X film in my style of photography. These are the results.
Continue reading “If I was a 16th Century Portuguese Photojournalist”Rush, Rush, Rush
• 14mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO2500 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •
Prayer Time in Pettah
• 35mm • f/4 • 1/10 • ISO400 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •
A Soupçon of Refreshment
• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •
Evening Tea in Pettah
• 26mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •
Son of the Morning Light 