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Summa

March 16, 2023March 15, 2023 David Blacker1 Comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/img_7613s3.jpg — *Putting some spin on it, at J. Walter Thompson, Colombo, in February 2016*

^{• 50mm • f/1.8 • 1/200 • ISO800 • 600D & EF50/1.8 •}

When will It be My Turn? #3

March 9, 2023March 8, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/529a0385.jpg — *The Workshop Players rehearse* Akuna at the Lionel Wendt. February 2022.

^{• 53mm • f/4 • 1/50 • ISO12800 • EOS R & RF24-105mm f/4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan}

Kaveesha

March 8, 2023March 7, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

J Walter Thompson, Colombo. February 2016.

^{• 50mm • f/1.8 • 1/320 • ISO100 • 600D & EF50/1.8 •}

No More Street Cred

March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/img_6734.jpg — *Protestors in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, demand the reinstatement of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his United National Party government, in October 2018.*

^{• 200mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 • ISO200 • 600D & EF-S18-200/3.5-5.6 • polariser •}

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A Soupçon of Refreshment #2

March 2, 2023March 1, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/img_0636.jpg — *Bowls of hot soup are served up from a cart on Prince Street,* *for porters, vendors, and evening shoppers in Pettah. January 2023.*

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/60 • ISO400 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

Evening on 2nd Cross Street

February 24, 2023February 23, 2023 David Blacker2 Comments

*Pedestrians, traffic, and pavement hawkers vie for space in Colombo’s major bazaar, the Pettah. January 2023.*

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO800 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

Nadina

February 17, 2023February 17, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/2012-11-25-11.11.33.jpg — *Sugar Bistro, Colombo. November 2012.*

^{• 46mm • f/5 • 1/60 • ISO400 • 600D & EF-S18-55/3.5-5.6 •}

If I was a 16th Century Portuguese Photojournalist

February 9, 2023February 8, 2023 David Blacker2 Comments

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/7.jpg

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.

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