I guess some people thought it was AI, but just a cool moment in my basement window well.

Edit: taken with my iPhone several years ago since that’s all I had with me when it happened so quickly.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
    9·
    5 months ago

    Honestly, deep fried images usually give me a headache but this one is actually pretty nice. I think the horrible HDR gives it a painting like quality.

    • mgenehoffman@sh.itjust.worksOP
      8·
      5 months ago

      It’s not HDR, it’s a single shot and no tone mapping has been done. Just levels adjustment that could have been done in a physical darkroom.

      The number of things that confuse people in this image really surprises me, but I’m assuming you’re talking about the light beam, which is the sun raking concrete at a very sharp angle. The detail it’s exposing on the concrete is actually just like that, even in the raw image.

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        5 months ago

        HDR would have oversaturated the colors of the little green plants popping up. I don’t know what people are on about there.

        Personally, I think HDR works best for images that are almost devoid of color. Like I did the one below of the pillars at the Wisconsin state capitol: