Decisions...

How do you decide? Usually I know. I take the photo knowing. Other times I'm not so sure. And then, sometimes I "know" just to see the shot on the computer screen in Lightromm find out I was wrong.

Is the decision black and white? (figuratively or literally?)


Roses - Color

Rosese - Black & White

Columbines

Columbines are one of my favorite spring flowers. I like their delicate look and the layers of petals.


Columbine

White Columbine

"AI" in Photography

Back after a month's hiatus. It was a very busy month.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is all the rage right now.
LLM (Large Language Models) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT are in the news, and poised to change the world by writing about anything and everything, responding to our queries etc.
Image making is no different with text->image AI programs such as DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney being used to create unique images.

AI is also playing a larger and larger role in photography, not just in creating images, but in the image processing. Adobe's Photoshop and Lightroom have had AI assisted selections for masking, such as selecting the subject, the sky or an object for a while now. This allows for quicker adjustments to exposure, color etc for specific areas in the photo.

The latest version of Lightroom added AI to noise reduction (under the "Details" section). I thought I'd try it out on a photo I took the other day. It's not a "noisy" photo to begin with, but the "Enhance" option with it's default settings did a nice job on interior parts of the iris.

No Noise Reduction

No Noise Reduction - Magnified View

Noise Reduction "Enhanced"

Noise Reduction "Enhanced" - Magnified View