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How artistic are your photographs?

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Ken Tanaka

pro member
I thought it would be interesting to throw some conceptual images at this software. I'm working on a project related to photographic abstract expressionism. The software turns out not to be very broad minded with regard to modern art. ;-)

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Score: 46.5 / 100

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Score: 35.9 / 100

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Score: 70.5 / 100

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Score: 9.5 / 100
 
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Ken Tanaka

pro member
Nor did it seem to get much of a kick out of a magazine cover I did last fall:
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Score: 21.2 / 100

And it sure doesn't like one of my favorite geometry project images:
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Score: 15.6 / 100

Very cool towards wedding candids, too.
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Score: 32.6 / 100

It does seem to have a bit more shine for cats, though.
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Score: 41.2 / 100
 
Winston Mitchell

Winston Mitchell

Member
Want some real suprises? Submit the same image in different sizes. I tried it twice with completely repeatable results. Smaller images do much better than larger ones. If too small, you get an error message.
 
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Ken Tanaka

pro member
How about Henri Cartier-Bresson? Naw, a rookie.
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Score: 58.6 / 100

Hmmm. Maybe it's a Saul Leiter fan? Not really.
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Score: 42.3 / 100

Not an Andreas Gursky fan, either.
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Score: 22.9 / 100

So I'd say that this little piece of code should go straight to most people's pay-it-no-attention list. It's just silly.
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Ken Tanaka said:
...So I'd say that this little piece of code should go straight to most people's pay-it-no-attention list. It's just silly.
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Although I agree with Ken, I am also intrigued about the social consequences of this experiment. It seems that photographers would really flock in masses to a software like this regardless of its accuracy. The question that I have is why. Is it gullibility? Is it due to trying to have less human interactions by evading the nasty C&C on fora like this one? What is it?

Cheers,
 
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Ken Tanaka

pro member
Cem_Usakligil said:
Although I agree with Ken, I am also intrigued about the social consequences of this experiment. It seems that photographers would really flock in masses to a software like this regardless of its accuracy. The question that I have is why. Is it gullibility? Is it due to trying to have less human interactions by evading the nasty C&C on fora like this one? What is it?

Cheers,
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Photographers -won't- be much attracted to this system beyond its curiosity value. Hobbyists, however, will. I think that this will be particularly attractive to young men in techie fields who feel the need to rate everything in their lives and who need such numericization to make aesthetic judgements. This "Acquine" software was developed by three young computer technicians and academicians at Penn State with not a shred of aesthetic or art education evident in any of their backgrounds. They're just playing with pattern recognition.

In the end it's harmless fun but not worth anything more than a curiosity. I do, however, wonder what the site's owners are getting, or planning to get, from this gizmo.

Nicolas is right: Art has everything to do with human feelings. Those "feelings" are far more complex than any computer program could ever predict.
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Ken Tanaka said:
Photographers -won't- be much attracted to this system beyond its curiosity value. Hobbyists, however, will. I think that this will be particularly attractive to young men in techie fields who feel the need to rate everything in their lives and who need such numericization to make aesthetic judgements. This "Acquine" software was developed by three young computer technicians and academicians at Penn State with not a shred of aesthetic or art education evident in any of their backgrounds. They're just playing with pattern recognition.

In the end it's harmless fun but not worth anything more than a curiosity. I do, however, wonder what the site's owners are getting, or planning to get, from this gizmo.

Nicolas is right: Art has everything to do with human feelings. Those "feelings" are far more complex than any computer program could ever predict.
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Well said Ken, and Nicolas too.
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Ken Tanaka said:
n the end it's harmless fun but not worth anything more than a curiosity. I do, however, wonder what the site's owners are getting, or planning to get, from this gizmo.
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I was wondering too… maybe they are building an image data base with all pics uploaded for judgement! LoL!
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
BTW
I saw this photograph of Ken before, and would like to say that I love it! (Yes, another human feeling ;-)

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