I am delving into my archives for warm, sunny shots during these frosty days.
Daisy bush
Any of you following my blog, will know I’m currently working on a project fusing my own photography with AI creativity. For more on my journey with AI, check out my latest post in my Fan Of… series: Bo’ness & Kinneil Steam Locomotive.
I’m keeping my AI creativity a bit more simple as we go through silly season in the retail world — there just isn’t the time to devote to prompt engineering. The next series of AI artwork will feature magical enhancements to the flower picture.
Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).
This week’s Fan Of… #234 is AI-assisted artwork featuring the Bo’ness Steam Locomotive. This old steam locomotive runs a short tourist route out of Bo’ness Station to Kinneil on the southern shores of the Firth of Forth. Bo’ness Station is also home to the Museum of Scottish Railways.
The inspiration — Exploring the World of AI-Generated Artwork: My Journey in the ‘Fan Of…’ Challenge
Probably, most of you are wondering why AI; it all comes down to the time of year. Here in Scotland, daylight hours in winter are pretty much between 0900 & 1500 & unless you get one of those bright clear days, the weather can best be described as dreich (those grey, miserable, wet days) where the light is not so great. Don’t get me wrong, If there’s something worth photographing, I’ll happily be out in the worst of weathers?
I also work in retail; this sees an increase in work hours & very little chance to get out with Snappy. End result is that I can feel my creativity start to wain; not being able to get out with my camera certainly puts a dampener on the creative spirit — & so to AI & Hot Mods.
For more about AI in the creative world, visit Susan’s site & in particular, the series of posts that she’s writing: Post 1 & Post 2.
This form of AI artwork allows me to use my own photography as a basis for AI prompt engineering. In all my Fan Of… posts about AI creativity, I’ll show the original image & then the various outputs from Hot Mods as I work with the AI to create new artwork.
As you’ll see through these posts, the expected output is not always what I wanted (I’ll share these as well), so back to re-writing the prompt.
Last week was the Glenlee; this week, I’m working on the old Steam Locomotive that runs out of Bo’ness Station.
This is the original image I shot & used for the basis of my prompt engineering.
From Real Photos to COllaborative AI Artwork: My Experiment with AI Art
I’m keeping my AI creativity a bit more simple as we go through silly season in the retail world — there just isn’t the time to devote to prompt engineering. The next series of AI artwork will feature magical enhancements to the flower picture.
I really like the re-imagining of this one; it looks like the thistle heads are literally bursting with magic
I’m keeping my AI creativity a bit more simple as we go through silly season in the retail world — there just isn’t the time to devote to prompt engineering. The next series of AI artwork will feature magical enhancements to the flower picture.
These are the two base images used for the prompt. The first is a street in Glasgow, the second in Edinburgh. Both have an older architecture that carries well through the prompt engineering & gives the right look for a foggy alley. The Glasgow road had to be narrowed considerably in the prompt to get the right look.
These are the three images I’m posting for the challenge. I’ve gone for three different looks; the first is quite standard. For the second & third, I was working on a series of images that involved a meeting of different time periods — see more results in a future Fan Of… post; there’ll also be mystical portals worked into the prompt. The last, I went full on futuristic
I’m keeping my AI creativity a bit more simple as we go through silly season in the retail world — there just isn’t the time to devote to prompt engineering. The next series of AI artwork will feature magical enhancements to the flower picture.
In the prompt for this one, I told the AI to keep the rustic fence in the background; I like the ethereal green glow coming off this one
I’m keeping my AI creativity a bit more simple as we go through silly season in the retail world — there just isn’t the time to devote to prompt engineering. The next series of AI artwork will feature magical enhancements to the flower picture.
I really like how this image turned out: a great fusion of real-world delicacy & magical enhancement.
I’m keeping my AI creativity a bit more simple as we go through silly season in the retail world — there just isn’t the time to devote to prompt engineering. The next series of AI artwork will feature magical enhancements to the flower picture.
I’m keeping my AI creativity a bit more simple as we go through silly season in the retail world — there just isn’t the time to devote to prompt engineering. The next series of AI artwork will feature magical enhancements to the flower picture.
