I know you said All Might retired, but is he still doing hero work (which, in a weird way, make him a vigilante?? If he doesnt have the license anymore) or is he fully retired but people are still voting for him as the best hero (making him win the polls by popularity only, which is honestly awesome)?
Here is how I see it: when All Might retired, he was 100% intent on never doing any hero work again.
He just happens to be very bad at it. Like, hilariously bad at minding his business and at waiting the professionals to help. His only saving grace (somewhat) is that since he is breaking the law, he runs from the crime scene in the vain hope that nobody has seen him/taken him in pictures but some All Might fans are absolutely insanely good at following a man with super speed.
So yes, retired, not doing any official hero work, and people keep voting for him!
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Man and two women play-fight on a beach, c 1930
A snapshot photograph of two women and a man on the beach, taken by an unknown photographer in about 1930. Two women rip the shirt from a man on a beach in a staged play-fight. The man arches his head back and struggles in vain as the women on either side pull off his clothes. Debut de la photographie populaire. Photographie instantanee (Snapshot) anonyme provenant des archives kodak ©SSPL/NMeM/Kodak Collection
Photo credit SSPL/UIG / Bridgeman Images
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do you have any major inspirations you've drawn from when developing your art? it reminds me of something specific but i can't put my finger on it🧐
Finally found the post again, but I discussed some of my art inspiration here!! I would say my art inspiration has remained largely the same, but I've been really into landscape photos with dramatic and surreal lighting, along with dungeon meshi's pieces!!
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Hello and good day imiging team! I'd like to point out that the work of petitmonsieur1 that you reblogged recently is not photography, but an AI-generated image. Thus it can not be categorized as original photography on account of it not involving a photographer, a camera and a subject.
I know you caption your reblogs with "daily original photographs and creations", so I guess it still counts as some form of a creation. Although the rest of your reblogs are actual photography, not what petitmonsieur1 is doing.
You'll notice that their creations are entirely digitally created by taking a closer look. Skin, metal, and cloth appear way too smooth, the background is sepia like from a painting, icons and writings are indecipherable. They've even uploaded videos showing how they mess with the creation process, either by adding skeleton makeup to a person (who is posing exactly the same in both frames) or moving a person's head, covered in a knit wool ski mask, up and down from their scarf like a piston. To me those are clear indicators that their creations are not authentic as the photos, paintings and art you showcase here.
With this I hope you at the very least consider removing petitmonsieur1 from the pool of your following. One can argue whether AI-art is art, but since the focus of your page is on photography, that really doesn't have a place here.
Thank you for receiving my input. Kindest regards!
As we are obviously unable to answer directly to this anonymous expert in AI, our response is outlined below.
Dear anonymous,
You will, undoubtedly, be disappointed to learn of our disavowal of your "expertise" in this particular instance as we wish to inform you that AI was not involved in the creation of this image. As we had reservations about your claim and explanations of same, we deemed it patently obvious that our first step should be to direct ourselves to the creative source. Therefore, we messaged Petitmonsieur in order to determine exactly his process and his medium. His response was clear : "I mainly use photos, old paintings, wallpapers...and I crush the pixels as much as possible to obtain a painting effect. If I used AI, the rendering would be of better definition. In fact, I'm tinkering with Photoshop, and I find that the AI stereotypes the images too much."
Upon viewing this particular photo we were, of course, unaware of the creative process (other than what the tags indicated) but we found it to be interesting and quite striking at first sight which resulted in it being chosen.
Furthermore, one might ask, what exactly defines a true photograph these days especially in the world of digitization? With the advent of digital cameras and advances in photography software (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.) how many of these photographs, including those that started life as a film negative, use some form or other of "digitization" in the making of the final product?
AI is just another step (granted a large one) in that direction and not really so much different than using a "dehaze" or "clarity" filter in Lightroom, Healing Brush Tool in Photoshop or DeNoise AI, to name but a few of the tools used by a growing number of photographers. Even film can be "manipulated" in the darkroom or made into a digital negative and then reworked on a pc. These are all tools used to enhance the artistic aspects/creation of a great number of photographs which are regularly posted and reblogged on the Tumblr platform. (Our apologies to those of you that shoot raw and only post unedited photographs -- we love them too!)
At Imiging, our shared opinion on AI is that it has the potential for making the unreal appear real and believe it has numerous other risks and drawbacks. We have to say that it truly alarms us if only for no other reason than the obvious geo-political implications when AI is used by unscrupulous individuals or governments for nefarious purposes.
Sincerely,
The Editors of imiging
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