ZEROJPEG
Due to the incredible success of neural networks, AI, “smart” processing programs and generating images and photos, I came up with the idea to create a direction in photography, which I called 'ZEROJPEG'.
'Zero' is translated from English as 'zero/zero', i.е. pictures in jpeg format (and other non-RAW formats) without additional processing.
Principles of ZERO JPEG (v0.0.4):
- Digital photographs must be taken in non-RAW format, i.e. ready for viewing/printing/publishing. These formats should not require specialized software to properly 'develop' the digital image. Such formats, for example, include JPEG/JPG/TIFF/HEIC/BMP/DNG. Any image storage format is suitable that allows you to get an unambiguous / identical image result when decoding data.
- Pictures in RAW format, that is, in a “raw” form, must be converted to one of the non-RAW formats without making additional settings in the converter program in order to “improve / change” the image (the so-called “stupid” conversion).
- You can use all acceptable image quality control methods built into the camera, camera, or any device that allows you to take a digital picture. Such settings include correction of the level of control of brightness, saturation, sharpness, clarity, tonality, etc., as well as the use of built-in modes multiple exposures, HDR, panoramas, etc.
- It is allowed to use programs for changing the resolution of images while maintaining frame proportions, as well as programs for setting the correct orientation of images (horizontal or vertical).
- It is possible to include data in text format on the picture, such as copyright, date, time and place of shooting, direction “ZERO JPEG”, etc.
main idea - get immediate results. The result is without deep post-processing. Honest, naked, and at the same time “high-quality” source image. ZERO JPEG can be a bit like film photography, which basically gives you the “final result” right away. Although film photography has many loopholes in image manipulation.
It seems to me that such an approach will focus more on the very reality of what is happening, on the shooting process, on the search for and creation of “beautiful”, and not on the post-processing and / or generation process.
I have sketched the rules in broad strokes so far, suggest your ideas for improving them in the comments.
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Do you think neural networks will kill photography as art and photo stocks? Cool, but kind of sad at the same time...
The film during development has many loopholes, the undeveloped film is RAW only analog.
Already killed
It's too early to say yet. We'll see in 5 years.
Here's how to eat jpeg as it is. Chamber 1dm3 and sigma 15-30.
Photography will become more popular in the larger world by the process and not by the result.
At the same time, everything is oriented towards the result, and only a small part of the soul is not much taken over by the result, but in the larger world it is caught in the process.
Most of the people are not fixed in the development (converting RAW to jpg), it is important to take pictures in jpg or RAW + jpg. In the professional sphere, there will be a strong shortness of time, reportage photographs will be less affected, the most well-oriented are stocks, subject matter, etc. But I don’t think that neurons will drive the photo industry. When they said so themselves about those CDs that were beaten in vinyl .. and what in fact? yakby everything was so easy people would not buy fujifilm instax but would take pictures on their iPhones. and in a flash in more vipadkiv in the camera you can effectively adjust the profile for jpg and take the receiving result out of the box. That's how I work.
Unfortunately, the combination of a camera and a monitor does not allow you to convey what the human eye sees live. Therefore, we have to expand the dynamic range in order to somehow get closer to reality ...
strange, and what, now everything is in HDR to shoot?
It depends on why you shoot! If you shoot a reportage - you can at least somehow and at least for anything. But if you try to bring the picture closer to the one that a person sees, you will have to tinker.
A person, in principle, “sees and feels” a moment of life in a completely different way than a camera does. Sometimes you even look through the viewfinder and see - HERE IT IS! You take a bunch of shots, but it’s not at all the same on them ... Apparently, the microdynamics of an event of 0,5 - 1 second, which a person perceives as an “instant”, gives such an effect. And the camera can't actually capture it.
HDR alone will not create a realistic photo. It will only show what is in the lights and shadows. And the final picture will be built by the brain ...
and why shoot the way a person sees?
This is just a zen answer! Thanks Arkady.))
The very concept of “Photography” implies the formation of an image as a person sees it. And we don't have any other standards for seeing the world... In the context of your ZERO JPEG philosophy, as I understand it, we don't want to embellish the original image. But, a photo taken immediately from the camera without processing is not a reflection of reality. In this form, it simply does not live up to reality.
Yes at all not necessarily, very narrowly think.
who says that photography is a reflection of reality? this idea does not apply to ZERO JPEG