Wasn't he shooting continuously for 45 minutes? That's 3% of a day. Wouldn't he have a shot of the same millisecond of any photos taken during that time?
Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
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Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
#42Two professional photographers having independently selected the exact same frame from two different bursts they captured with their cameras is an interesting instance, illustrating the pro-AI argument in photography and possibly adjacent creative domains. Grossly simplified, two humans went through dozens or hundreds of shots with identical internal “algorithm” and did the same work twice. This shows that the algori…
Sorry but I do not agree at all. First, the fact that they chose the same photo might not necessarily mean that photo is the "optimal choice" according to some algorithm: it can perfectly be a coincidence. I find it even more improbable that a tool that selects "the best photo of a bunch" is useful for a significant portion of the photographers (as in "it gives results according to their tastes") unless it takes into account only basic measures and they can use it in specific instances (e.g. find the photo with the best light exposure).
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#43A few months back I gave a Trader Joe's blueberry muffin to my son.
https://www.fooducate.com/app#!page=product&id=B7329F0C-B3E6...
As usual I cut it in half straight down the middle. As usual I paid no attention to cutting it. I was just about to hand it to him when I noticed something strange, so I quickly took a photo...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8tjrwql37i7ujjn/muffin.jpg?dl=0
The chances of the cut aligning the way it did, the blueberries lining up the way they did, the cut cutting the blueberries exactly in half, the blueberries ending up in this exact formation, me buying this specific muffin, the rotation of the muffin when I cut it....
Well, it just seems impossibly unlikely for something like this to have happened, yet it did!
Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
#44This is typical birthday paradox stuff right? The chance that these two photographers would ever snap the same thing at the same time is small, but the chance that any two photographers, anywhere, would do so is, I bet, pretty big (even if you factor in millisecond precision). With photographers being photographers and the internet being the internet, there's also a pretty decent change that they'd find out about it…
Correct, but there are about eight orders of magnitude more milliseconds than days, and you need another two or so orders of magnitude because not everyone is a photographer who publishes their photos. Then again, the internet is a medium that reaches many more people, which is not true of the average birthday. So one would still expect this to happen only maybe every few years.
Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
#45This is typical birthday paradox stuff right? The chance that these two photographers would ever snap the same thing at the same time is small, but the chance that any two photographers, anywhere, would do so is, I bet, pretty big (even if you factor in millisecond precision). With photographers being photographers and the internet being the internet, there's also a pretty decent change that they'd find out about it…
It's made more remarkable IMO that they were two _professional_ photographers though, and that it's not just two snaps that happen to have the same timestamp, they both chose that moment to feature from the burst they probably took around that moment, the hundreds of other moments in proximity, and the thousands (I suppose? I'm no photographer) they each took throughout the day.
Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
#46Two professional photographers having independently selected the exact same frame from two different bursts they captured with their cameras is an interesting instance, illustrating the pro-AI argument in photography and possibly adjacent creative domains. Grossly simplified, two humans went through dozens or hundreds of shots with identical internal “algorithm” and did the same work twice. This shows that the algori…
Sorry but I do not agree at all. First, the fact that they chose the same photo might not necessarily mean that photo is the "optimal choice" according to some algorithm: it can perfectly be a coincidence. I find it even more improbable that a tool that selects "the best photo of a bunch" is useful for a significant portion of the photographers (as in "it gives results according to their tastes") unless it takes into…
> First, the fact that they chose the same photo might not necessarily mean that photo is the "optimal choice" according to some algorithm: it can perfectly be a coincidence.
Well, obviously it does mean that; the photo was the optimal choice according to the two algorithms used by those photographers to choose their picture.
Does that mean it would also be selected by another equally good or superior algorithm? No. But it does necessarily mean that the photo is the optimal choice according to two algorithms.
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#47I find it fascinating that the waves look so different when photographed from a slightly different position. Maybe the waves also change faster than the spray around the lighthouse?
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#48I would love to see these in a stereoscopic viewer. If they really were taken that close together in time, and given the huge binocular separation, there should be a hell of a 3-D effect.
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#49This has always been one of my favorite photographic coincidences. https://calculatedimages.blogspot.com/2013/05/3d-lightning.h...
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Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
#50A few months back I gave a Trader Joe's blueberry muffin to my son. https://www.fooducate.com/app#!page=product&id=B7329F0C-B3E6... As usual I cut it in half straight down the middle. As usual I paid no attention to cutting it. I was just about to hand it to him when I noticed something strange, so I quickly took a photo... https://www.dropbox.com/s/8tjrwql37i7ujjn/muffin.jpg?dl=0 The chances of the cut aligning the…
The fact that the blueberries sunk to the bottom could indicate that there was too much liquid in the mixture