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AI in Photography, Tool or Turning Point? A while ago I published an article where I removed a distracting background, people, from a classic car shot using ChatGPT, and replaced it with an extended landscape. That piece triggered a number of interesting reactions via email. Now, even if you were to run a poll on... Continue Reading →
3 minute reading time I've said it before and I'll say it again: use AI for your IT stuff. Picking hardware, reinstalling a system, writing scripts, fixing weird problems. That advice stands. But there's something I need to add. AI is not an autopilot. I spent years as a sysadmin, though that title never really... Continue Reading →
4 minutes read time There’s a certain line I’ve noticed over the years, sometimes spoken, often implied, about what you should and shouldn’t do to a photo. And lately that line has a new label attached to it, AI. Some people are firmly against it, others embrace it without thinking twice. I tend to sit... Continue Reading →
6 minutes read time The Recovery Tool That Came with Your Cornflakes Most SD cards come with a “free” recovery tool in the box, which sounds reassuring until you think about what that really means. These tools, things like RescuePRO or Image Rescue, are designed to solve the most common and simplest problems. Someone deletes... Continue Reading →
Everyone’s heard of them: CineBloom, Black Pro-Mist, White Mist, and the rest of the gang, glass soft filters sound romantic until you actually live with them. Then the cracks show. First, the money pit. A decent CineBloom, Black Pro-Mist or Glimmerglass will happily eat €50–200 from your wallet. Own lenses with different diameters? Congratulations, you... Continue Reading →
Why and how I use ChatGPT - and why you probably should too Let me guess. You like photography. You’ve got your gear sorted. You probably even know your way around Lightroom, your RAWs, and your RAM. And then suddenly... this AI thing. ChatGPT. Everyone’s talking about it. It can write, plan, code, give advice.... Continue Reading →
Aurora Study no. 11 - Well, I do have a few earlier experiments lying around, but honestly, it’s not like these version brought any major change compared to the previous attempts. With no. 4, I tried refining the original approach—adding an alpha channel, mapping colour to alpha for a transparent aurora, and tossing in a... Continue Reading →
One Franken-distro. Twelve hours. An AI sidekick - Mission Impossible? Completed. Last week, on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025. I finally tackled a long-overdue task: upgrading my Dell Inspiron 15 3520. My laptop, which I got in February 2023 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS preinstalled, had been running strong—until its support window quietly started closing. No worries,... Continue Reading →
Weekend Special - 5 minute read time Because not every conversation needs a billion-dollar data center. Alright, thought AI was just for brainy professors and quantum physics geeks, and that you’d need a million-dollar mini data center to use it? Think again. Nope, it won’t be ChatGPT or Gemini-level smooth out of the box, but... Continue Reading →
Less than 5 minutes read time. The Agent Revolution: Why You Should Start Today The title of this article might seem unrelated to what you’re about to read, but stick with me—I’ll tie it all together after a brief detour into my background. I’m a former IT professional, and my first encounter with computers was... Continue Reading →
Since the Cinestill 800 T AI Recipe proved to be quite popular among many Olympus users, here is yet another recipe created by our friendly Robot Photographer : ChatGPT. This happens to be my second most popular recipe on FreshLuts, namely the PictureFX Kodak Ultramax 400 V2.0. But first ! in an earlier article, I... Continue Reading →
Intro:I wrote this because I'm concerned about how people sometimes react about Film Simulation Recipes,about the authenticity and accuracy of recipes compared to real film stock, especially in the Fujifilm community. I'm also worried about how some blog writers criticize AI-generated recipes made by ChatGPT, or commenting or detracting from the accuracy of simulation recipes... Continue Reading →
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is something you hear a lot about nowadays. You might already have your own thoughts on it, whether you're not interested or find it confusing and/or to complicated. But dealing with AI doesn't have to be complicated. Here's an insight on how I use it today, and how it might be... Continue Reading →
