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Technically called “Deep Photo Style Transfer”, researchers from Adobe and Cornell University have teamed up to develop an algorithm that lifts the photo style from one image to another. The software is developed on pre-existing technology used in Prisma app which copies painting styles however; the software’s algorithm produces satisfying photorealistic style transfers in a wide range of scenarios including transfer of weather, season, artistic edits and time of day more than 80% of the time. Here are some examples of the algorithm in action: "A" is the reference image, "B" is the image to be edited and "C" is the output Example I Example II Example II This level of accuracy and faithfulness was achievable by; (a)     Constraining transformation to be locally affine in colour space from input to output in order to prevent distortions. (b)    Introduction of an optional guidance to the style transfer process to avoid c

Have you ever seen video tutorials of the advantages of shooting in RAW, being able to pull back immense detail after you take the shot then try the same thing but are not able to pull back some detail? Well, you cannot pull back lost detail because RAW is not a magic format and still obeys the laws of physics.

Excitement Winter wonderland (Hyde Park, London), there I was and could feel all the excitement within its movements. That I decided to explore with my shutter. Every shot was either at 1/10th or 1/8th of a second, slow enough to capture excitement and fast enough to slow down the moving crowd. Enjoy!

The above Image The above image was the target for today; supposed to be. I wanted to practice a new technique (exposure blending) I heard of earlier in the day but I couldn't because I had somewhere else to be just after the sunset. The technique requires you to blend images with different exposures and I wanted one of them to be with the city lights on, after sunset.

Time Slice I had come across time slicing while surfing the web a few months ago but I was not sure how to pull it off. I was actually scared of attempting it because it seemed too much for me at the time. Recently ( about a week ago ), I came across it again while watching Dan Marker-Moore's " Creating a Time Slice " on YouTube and took it as a challenge. In the video, he spoke about using after effects to create his slices but I have little or no knowledge of that programme so I attempted to create my first Time Slice using Adobe Photoshop. I got my slices from a timelapse project Icreated a few months ago of the O2. It was a successful attempt so I went on to create two more.

The photo gods were  "literally" smiling at me when I decided to go and see Antony Gromley's "Another Place" at Crosby Beach, Sefton. Photo gods.