Susan Albert
October 2023 - Unsupervised
Original
About the Image(s)
Museum of Modern Art New York City September 2023
Samsung Galaxy S22 Phone f 2.2 1/60 sec. ISO 80 13 mm
These are a photos of gallery viewers looking at the latest installation by artist Refik Anadol, titled Unsupervised.
He uses artificial intelligence to interpret and transform over 200 years of art that has been collected at MOMA. The art is all digital that unfolds in real time and continuously generates new images, where none are repeated.
Is there a way to edit the photo so there’s less distortion?
Here’s the link to a YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/H9wr2hx1PY0
This round’s discussion is now closed!
6 comments posted
Susan, you captured an unique image, since the background will never repeat itself. There is no way to completely correct the distortion without braking the allowed PP in Photo Travel. I fing the Original image, which was created from a different vantage point, more realistic. Posted: 10/01/2023 11:42:26
Susan, there are a few things you can do about the distortion. The image is doubly distorted; it has converging vertical lines but it also has converging horizontal lines. That is difficult for the eye to accept. It's fairly easy to straighten the horizontal lines without losing much of the spectators which are very important to the image. In Photoshop, you create a duplicate layer, pick edit from the toolbar, then click on distort. That gives the image four drag points in the corners. Just drag these until the horizontals are horizontal. Posted: 10/06/2023 12:20:30
You can do a more radical edit by straightening the verticals too but you are losing a lot of the people and that isn't worth it. I think the eye is ok with converging verticals if the POV is above or below the center of the image. Posted: 10/06/2023 12:22:27
Tom, Master of PTD, are these "extreme" correction allowed ? Posted: 10/07/2023 12:33:26
Straightening is allowed. Anything that makes the picture look like the original scene is allowed. Our brain is ok with "natural" converging perspective lines receding into the distance and don't think they are phony. Lines that converge because of lens distortion seem unnatural and can be corrected. When we look down on the side of the building or down into the atrium of a museum, some of the converging seems natural perspective, but not if the lens exaggerates it. Posted: 10/07/2023 12:43:06
Thank you Professor !! Posted: 10/12/2023 16:44:26