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Tbh, do not quite get the excitement around this picture. It was staged, and the stunt doesn’t appear to be particularly complex. A lot of logistics, sure. But seems like all there is to it is that someone just bothered to do it. So not clear what’s the additional value over photoshop.
Try to reproduce it yourself, bro.
https://www.demilked.com/iss-in-front-of-sun-and-moon-andrew...
Tbh, do not quite get the excitement around this picture. It was staged, and the stunt doesn’t appear to be particularly complex. A lot of logistics, sure. But seems like all there is to it is that someone just bothered to do it. So not clear what’s the additional value over photoshop.
> So not clear what’s the additional value over photoshop. I think photography might just not be for you (nothing wrong with that)
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Try to reproduce it yourself, bro.
A lot of logistics, as mentioned. If you’d like to explain what’s in there beyond that, I’ll be glad to hear.
You can't do it, you also didn't think of it before.
What value are you adding?
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It's also staged. They did it in multiple takes, and then composited out one of the takes with a mosaic of the clean sun. None of the others are composites, and none of the others got multiple takes
Source for it being a composite? The article says under the headline > This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun. I haven't watched all the videos. From the Reddit thread, it sounds like it was photoshopped (using that as a generic term for photo editing with a computer) but in a way acceptable to the astrophotography community. I don't understand where those limits are: somewhere s…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951713
Sure, all of the elements were captured, but not in a single image released as the final image. If you look at a search for “solar transit”, none of them have as much detail in the sun as this one. That’s evidence of comping the sky diver onto his mosaic. It’s similar to when people come in a full moon over itself when captured in a wide angle image. Yes, the moon was there and it is just updated with something with more detail and better exposure, but it’s not a single image possible to capture without comping. Maybe it’s not as obvious to someone less familiar with astrophotography, but that just makes the sin that much worse.
At the end of the day, it’s a great artistic shot, but it nothing more than the same level of effort to make a modern Marvel movie
I’m get a box right away asking me to turn off my ad blocker. I’m not running an ad blocker…
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Kagi just launched an AI flagging feature. This is something HN needs. I don’t mind AI content. But I’m not going to read it carefully before commenting, and will double check it with real sources before changing my mind about anything.
HN can't even get it's web front end out of the 90s or meet basic accessibility standards.
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A lot of logistics, as mentioned. If you’d like to explain what’s in there beyond that, I’ll be glad to hear.
the novelty, you didn't do or think of that before. It was well executed and novelty. You can't do it, you also didn't think of it before. What value are you adding?
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> a number of people could have done it--but no one ever did My personal definition of "genius," is someone who sees things from a different angle, and can express it in terms we can implement. It's not doing well on IQ tests; It's that ability to think "outside the box," and, crucially, to express that vision in terms that us normies can use.
I remember Damien Hirst's response to people saying that anyone could have created his "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"[1]. He'd simply respond with "But you didn't, did you?". I think that Hirst had a point. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_...
Then again, I'm also one of those people who thinks duct taping a banana to a wall is also not art.
Tbh, do not quite get the excitement around this picture. It was staged, and the stunt doesn’t appear to be particularly complex. A lot of logistics, sure. But seems like all there is to it is that someone just bothered to do it. So not clear what’s the additional value over photoshop.
Photoshop is not real.
This was real.
This was recorded.
The value is in the authenticity and execution of a cool idea no one else has done before.