Thanks, Peter. I'd not heard of S1M0NE, but I see Youtube has it, and it might
well be worth a peek, on one of the coming cold winter evenings.
When such fakery does become indistiguishable from reality, we will all be in
trouble!
David.
This is indeed creepy. It adds emotion and expression to the things------
that can be effectively and realistically faked in a photo or video
clip. Think of all the ways that such fakery could be used in politics,
divorce cases, character assassination of business rivals, etc.
Facebook, of course, already is full of such fakery, in a crude and
laughable way. But eventually, the fakery will become indistinguishable
from reality.
I'm reminded of this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)
Some critics didn't find the plot believable. Big mistake...
--Peter
Ted Grant wrote:
Hi David,photographers!"
This is bloody nonsense simply because they make "cheaters" out of
photographer's! Instead of quick finger trigger shooter honest
" CAPTURE THE MOMENT! honestly!" If this is how digital usephotography is
going? It is the beginning of nothing more than creating a bunch ofliars with
a recording device making photography worthless. Rather than reallife honest
photography.??????????
Nothing wrong with a small amount of re-touching on a portrait. But
Where does it go from there, "THESE DAYS?" There are alreadyunscrupulous
S.O.B.s around the world who work images near to death usingphoto-shop and
other cheating equipment to make themselves look like so calledeasier to
"super-photogs," without creating more of them and or making it
cheat!!!!!professional
Something I never did in my 65 year professional career as a
photojournalist, "PERIOD!";(Redacted
"RETOUCH ANY OF MY IMAGES!"
cheers,
Dr.ted Grant O.C.
From: leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Stevens
sender "fritzj3" for DMARC)cleaning up
Sent: October-19-17 7:15 AM
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Facebook
Wow! What a way to come back to the "Flexer list" after finally
from the damage of Hurricane Irma! Geeeez, I'm with you, David. To meits an
incredible example of impressive computational/programming work thatstarts out
"fun and cheery" but the ramifications for further rendering digitalimages
completely worthless as any form of documentary evidence of historyand "fact"
is getting pretty complete, for better or, I am afraid, much worse.<dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Best regards,
Peter Stevens
On Thursday, October 19, 2017, 9:45:20 AM EDT, David Young
wrote:found a way
G'Mornin'!
It seems that the computational photography group at Facebook, have
to make people in still photos smile or otherwise change theirexpressions.
Works with any image, new to old tin-types.may like
To me, it's a bit creepy and I don't care for the idea. But, others
it.http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-41668704/still-photographs-spring-to-life
Decide for yourself. Here's the BBC News item...
David.
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