Jesus christ if you image search it there is a slop avalanche with like a dozen variants with him wearing different clothes and slightly different houses etc. All reposted woth slightly different wording.
I recently lost out on some work (big retouching job) due to AI, when the client came back to me to fix the huge mess, it turned out the job had just been farmed out to India by the 'AI' company. They weren't even using a recent Photoshop version so were actually using less 'AI' than any pro retoucher would.
Reminds me of some kind of Japanese propaganda book I found washed up on a beach, the illustration style was tge same but with more gore! I should really try to dig it out.
Shooting weddings is uniquely draining, physically and mentally. 16 hours on your feet carrying weighty kit, putting your body in awkward positions to get the right angle, needing to stay hyper alert so you don't miss the perfect shot, constantly thinking ahead, all with the added pressure to not fuck things up. I've done some really gruelling location work with even longer days but weddings are always the hardest.
This is accurate. The best I ever saw lasted about 2 minutes, after hours of sitting watching basically nothing. Everyone else had long gone inside but I still had my camera set. Absolutely worth sitting alone on a hillside, it was by far the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed.
It also helps to let your eyes accustom to the dark, IIRC 45 minutes is ideal.
I do retouching work. Recently lost a client to an 'AI' retouching firm. When the client came back to me to fix loads of stuff and I looked at the output, it became apparent that the work had actually just been outsourced to India and there was no magic AI solution.
Gen AI is an amazing tool but not a one click solution like so many are claiming.
Wildlife photography really is mostly about the equipment though. And waiting/being in the right place obviously. But I can tell you from experience, a novice can absolutely produce pictures like this with the right equipment.
Yeah from my experience mothers-to-be assume they're being asked to be induced as a standard procedure so the hospital can organise their schedule better. Not because of a particular medical necessity.
Ascaso used might be worth looking at. I've had one for over 15 years and its still going strong. I can see a few on ebay for under 100.