Wednesday, 12 July 2023

AI : Pushing The Imagination Envelope

I've been enjoying interacting with MidJourney almost on a daily basis, alternating between generating "one-off' images and project-related images. The latter requires patience and many tries and retries to get a pseudo consistency in the characters I seek.

I recently stumbled on the lovely work by Marta Contreras Simó, whose AI-generated portraits on her MyLovelyViews, are inspirations, and provided me with ideas that I will continue to emulate as much as I know how. Her Instagram account is here. It's my understanding that she uses her own photographs, blending them in MidJourney to achieve her AI creations.

Influenced by her work, I prompted the above AI-generated image and called it 'The Taxidermist & Her Ravens".

Another of my creations is "The Red Medusa":


And another is one of a beautiful Vietnamese model relaxing on a bamboo chair in Phú Quốc:


And one of an Asian photojournalist at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel:

In the labyrinth of New York City's embrace, A pretty photographer paints moments with grace, A red fedora crowns her head, a vibrant crown, Her Canon camera captures tales of the town, Through her lens, NYC's essence is forever known.




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