Everyone is invited to my PSGFAIBETA Gallery

Photoshop Generative Fill AI beta gallery

Photography purists will hate it, “it is not photography, it is something else", ok. Adobe would probably hate it for skewing their beta toward something they never envisioned, ok. It can’t be helped.

When the beta arrived, I was heavily involved in a facebook group called “The Plane Spot” run by Tampa International Airport. The group is dedicated to Plane Spotting, by registration/plane type and livery, exactly like train spotting only different.(train/plane spotting joke)

The airlines are bold in their livery or paint jobs. For instance, google “Our Commitment” Alaska Airlines, “Florida One” Southwest, “One World” British Airways, or especially “Imua One” Southwest. Naturally the two worlds began to blend together in my mind and I started generating my own livery for various planes, and that morphed into creating a few new species you will never see. Best viewed as full screen slide show, play button top right.

https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/GENERATIVE-FILL-AI-PS-BETA

If you are an aviation enthusiast, check out my contributions to plane spotting
https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/PLANESPOTTING

Now this is just for fun

if you caught the recent hubbub of alien non-human technology being reverse engineered, https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/ ...........I have been having some fun with PS generative fill and will soon have a complete gallery of my laboratory experiments. As a teaser, here is the latest F16 design using alien non-human technology. The F16 Woodpecker

Regarding Generative Fill in PS

In addition to the example in Ferret's post.

The object of generative fill is to remove unwanted objects and 'fill' the space with a content aware background or whatever you ask for, like an Adobe stock moon photo. I've been playing with it and asked it to do more. This photo of champagne flutes is from from 2000. In subsequent years I was able to use 'clone' to make them work for 2002, 2022 because I only had 2 and 0 to work with. In this version I asked for a '4' and after many tries, which gave me things like a bow tie, nut and bolt, and even a little man in boots, IT is leaning I think. I can see a day when any font, with a limited set of examples, could be expanded for all letters and numbers.

You know, I agree with you, this IS close enough (700mm)

Stitched Panorama

Three morning's at the beach, two or three photos stitched. The small version for here, followed by a link to the 8000 to 14,000 pixel versions in the Panorama Gallery for the big screen. Hope you enjoy!


https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/PANORAMA/i-zLqnkjH




https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/PANORAMA/i-qGvf9Fc



https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/PANORAMA/i-8fTDLNz

Everyone is invited to review my NASA Gallery

While in Cocoa Beach, Fl. we spent the day at Kennedy Space Center. My gallery now has KSC photos from 1976 (visit), 1984 (work), and 2023 (visit). The 1984 photos include a launch of Shuttle Discovery, while installing a telephone office that served the Shuttle Processing area.

This trip, Falcon Heavy had just been rolled out to it's pad, but not yet lifted vertical. This is the launch scheduled for tonight, SpaceX Falcon Heavy ViaSat-3 Americas. Most of the other photos are somewhat touristy but you might still enjoy.

https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/NASA


Teaser: Falcon Heavy

Everyone is invited to the Cocoa Beach Florida Airshow Gallery

After wading through more than 4000 photos from 4 cameras, I’ve narrowed it down to a representative 90+.

https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/COCOA-BEACH-AIRSHOW

There were no static displays of aircraft since this was not at an airport. Cocoa Beach is situated directly between Kennedy Space Center/Canaveral Space Force Station and Patrick Space Force Base. All the military planes flew from Patrick. It was Air Force centric, the only Navy representation was a couple of EA-18G Growlers and an F4U Corsair for a “heritage flight”. The Air Force “heritage flight” was with an A10 and P51 Mustang.

We were on the top floor of our hotel with a balcony, so some of the photos appear like we are flying along at the same height, in fact the planes were probably no more than 100’ higher. Down on the beach they would have been belly shots!

We were celebrating our anniversary, having been married on this very beach 15 years ago. At the end of the gallery is a short video by Nancy, my co-pilot of 15 years. The video is of the Thunderbirds making a heart in the sky, special for our 15th on the 15th. That’s what I told her and I’m sticking to it.

Teasers: Check out the second seat taking my photo, lol

Under the circumstances, one more to become a family heirloom

My Dad at a backyard BBQ in a small town in Georgia. I did not take the photo, just wish I had.

https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/FEATURED/n-fXzN2T/i-xh2hXTD

Air Force 1, a sample

President Biden was in Tampa Thursday.

For arrival, which was over in a matter of seconds, I took about 35 frames.

For departure, I got my first chance to use the Z6ii under do or die conditions, which resulted in some dramatic shots, From my vantage point the plane looped around me for what seemed an eternity, although at 5nm which really put the resolution of camera and 200-500 to the test. Using a 3 shot burst per press, I took 165 frames, only twice maxing out the buffer, lol. Here is an example, see a few of what I have completed at the link below. This gallery will eventually contain all my AF-1 photos, even from the previous occupant.

But for today, with a real President on board.

https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/AIR-FORCE-1

It was a dark and stormy flight

I know, really bad, lol.