I'm curios what people think of photo synthesis algorithms, and how this will impact [stock] photography in the future.

Although still far from perfect, photo synthesis algorithms are starting to be able to generate photos in interesting scenarios (for example, given an input sentence: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03242). These algorithms are "trained" on huge collections of photos (e.g. imageNet). Depending on the algorithm, they will create completely novel images driven by some mathematical costs, or they will be semi-copying small parts from other images.

What do you think is the ethical (and legal?) situation for using images created by these algorithms. In some sense, they can generate completely novel images, but they are trained from existing photos. Better, yet, what happens if this algorithm is trained on photos from an artist that are under a non-commercial license, and then generates brand new photos in that artist's style?

I believe these algorithms are coming, and some very deep conversations need to be had . If anyone has any links to other similar conversations, they would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Hey all,

I'm selling a very very slightly used HV30 (it's really new condition). I used it a grand total of 3 maybe 4 hours.

Canon HV-30 HDV CAMCORDER with all cables, manual
same model, new on amazon - Corrected link
same model, used on b&h - B&H used

Some Accessories specific to HV30:
Camera bag --- Lowepro EDIT 120 CAMERA BAG (BLACK)
Filter set --- Hoya 43MM INTRODUCTORY FILTER KIT
Extra Battery --- Pearstone NB-2L22
LCD Hood --- Petrol PMH-A1U MINI HOOD F/2.7" LCD

Asking 350$ for everything, OBO.

Thanks for reading!

Out of curiosity, what's your single best income ... download? No exceptions (i.e. include any type of sale)
I guess we can also include lowest

I'll start:
highest - 55.20$ 720p vetta video sale
lowest - 0.19$ xsmall pic (I think)

Although I have a v small port.

Hello all,

Noobiness here, I'm hoping some of you can give me some pointers. I've had the following CG Christmas-tree shot rejected at istock for the standard composition reason: "We're sorry, but we found the overall composition of this file could be improved."

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
http://depo.fotozygous.com/stock/forCritique.jpg (large image!)

Thanks!
Adrian

Hello all,

I'm pretty new here, and I really enjoy this site.

Inspired by Leaf's 5-year comparison of sites, I thought we could all show our comparison of the top 6 (or whichever we're part of) each month as we could see the variance between people that way. I think one reason people don't necessarily show their graphs is because it is alot of annoying work - put the data into excel or w/e, graph, upload the graph, etc. But we could all just use google charts - all you need is your 6 numbers for the month (say, downloads), and then the charts are made automatically with you just putting them in the img link...

For example, my numbers (say, downloads, or income) for Jan'09 are 39 for IS, 5 for SS, 2 for DT, 0 for FT and 5 for SX. Then, all I do is type:
[ img ] chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=bvs&chd=t:39,5,2,0,5&chs=200x200&chl=IS|SS|DT|FT|SX&chds=0,40 [ /img ]
(the 0,40 at the end of the address is just the   min,max   of the graph).



no pre-uploading or w/e necessary. So, with this simplicity in mind, can we all compare our top 6 monthly quickly for this month?

-just an idea
adijr