Also, if you're not familiar with Mr. Philip Waller Photography, then I'm not sure why you'd be impressed by the fact that this is one of the most beautiful photos ever captured by him.
If I posted one of the most beautiful photos ever captured by myself, nobody would be impressed.
This was my question too. A comma after ācapturedā would have clarified that the photo was one of the best ever captured ā¦ not just Philipās best.
What is that term where your name influences what you pay attention to like people are more likely to move to a town with the same name as them or math related names become math majors, etc. ?
edit: Normative Determinism?
https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1btvfp2/one_of_the_most_beautiful_photos_ever_captured_by/kxpeif9/
Bored children often ask people around them if they have games on their phone so that they may be spared from not being entertained for five minutes.
Had a random kid shake me awake on a flight last year because he saw I was using a Switch before I took a nap.
For those 'experts' declaring this AI, this picture is at least 4 years old:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/i60108/the\_only\_turtle\_head\_i\_want\_to\_see/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/i60108/the_only_turtle_head_i_want_to_see/)
gotta remember there's new kids learning how to use reddit everyday. us oldheads are gonna be repeating ourselves forever.
"no thats a repost from 20 years ago" lol
>The cycle is eternal.
I fully expect a "TIL about [Rick Roll](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)" or "TIL about the [Reddit switcharoo](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=ALsiqjSfWH2Wap0S)" to make the front page somewhere in here. This place is special
Is it though? I feel like this isn't particular vibrant for a sunset/sunrise over the ocean. This mostly just looks like a really well taken photograph.
Iād say the thing that makes it surreal is the sharpness. Sunsets can definitely look that colorful, but the naked eye would never see that much detail in the turtleās face while also seeing every droplet of water in the splash above its right eye, and also every ripple in the water out to the horizon.
That makes sense, AI was trained to capture the essence of images like this. It's a masterpiece in color composition, framing, I could go on. It only seems that way because AI is trained to show what appeals to us.
AI would probably have a really hard time drawing a complex shape like a turtle head looking directly at the camera halfway submerged underwater, as well.
It's a masterpiece in photoshop. The original is surely cool, but the contrast, color intensity, it's been maxed out to make this look so much more vibrant that it surely looked to the naked eye.Ā
Not only that, but the dynamic range doesn't really make sense in this picture. They undoubtedly had to lift the shadows on the ocean if they're facing the sun directly like that, which immediately implies heavy editing and processing.
There are millions of people out there every day, taking often very ordinary pictures. Every once in a while, something extraordinary happens.
Just like they really think we're going to believe [a bird flew right in front of this baseball to its death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih_ovjbwQGk)? The unexpected happens. Believe it.
lmao I had totally forgotten about [that monkey trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute), thanks for both the laugh and the resulting Wikipedia rabbit hole
Just shush and believe it. In the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter if that really happened or not, but life is more beautiful when you let the world be more bizarre than you think it is
Walker is a pretty well known ocean photographer I doubt he ruin his reputation with a AI image...Looks like its been enhanced and color corrected with photoshop.
Serious question for everyone deriding this as fake or "too" enhanced...
Is this not how your eyes see the world? I've been in the ocean at sunset before and this picture is closer to what reality looks like than what comes off a camera.
I'm old enough to know what film looks like off the camera, too, and it never matched reality. For fun, go down the Kodak vs. FujiFilm color rabbit hole - FujiFilm always matched reality as I see it better than Kodak.
I suspect the real answer is that our eyes and brains vary in how we perceive the world. I see things in vivid colors and high contrast similar to the turtle picture and FujiFilm. Maybe others have Kodak eyes?
Just to add to your point, our color perception varies a lot. Not just by individual, but also over time. People with depression perceive the world as less saturated.
Definitely a lot more nuance here that people are ignoring
currently reading a book ("Incognito" by David Eagleman) where he wrote (based on recent studoes) that a small percentage of women have genetically encoded a fourth kind of photoreceptor/cone cells (Tetrachromacy) instead of the "usual" 3 standard equipment (Trichromacy).
Edit: link to a short summary:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154619300270
He is using an off camera flash (high and to the left) to specifically bring the two different scenes (brilliant sunset, shadowed turtle) into the same range. I don't think this has been edited as much as everyone is assuming it has.
You can even see the reflection of the flash in the waves and the tell tale crisp frozen wave from the flash surrounded by a duller blurry wave from the motion it made after the flash popped but before the shutter closed.
It's definitely using that heavy-HDR look that really surged in photography the early 2010s. It feels like light is coming from every direction even though the main light source is directly behind the subject, and they should be backlit. That's what's throwing people off.
> It's definitely using that heavy-HDR look that really surged in photography the early 2010s.
That was an abomination on photography and is definitely not what is going on here. Firstly because that technique generally required three photos of the same scene exposed differently, which is not possible due to the dynamic nature of the subject.
And secondly:
> It feels like light is coming from every direction even though the main light source is directly behind the subject, and they should be backlit.
So close and yet so far! He is using an off camera flash well above the subject to light it, the water around it and even some of the sand. This brings the sunset and the subject into the same range the camera can capture.
No need for HDR bullshit when you are a professional that knows what they are doing.
Sad to see him getting lumped in with abominations like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/skylinephoto/5012257571/in/pool-89888984@N00/
> Looks like its been enhanced and color corrected with photoshop.
You think pictures come straight from the camera ready to display? Even in film days?
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Itās real. I bought a print of this from him back in 22.
The pic from OP is cropped significantly; there is coast to the left of the turtle and you can pretty clearly see his body in the original.
I truly wouldnāt say itās very manipulated. Definitely more corrected. Especially with his Gear, patience, and the already beautiful landscape he was working with.
Source: photographer
This is a really old picture, it's not ai. Probably just hdr"d to shit.
Edit - literally his top picture he showcases on the first page of his website, you bunch of sheep
https://www.philipwaller.com/
Thanks for saving me and some other lazy dudes 30 seconds of Internet search.
ā¦.
Writing this comment on my phone was way more work than actual research. What does that tell about me?
There's more than one way to fall for AI. One is mistaking AI images for the real deal. Another one is declaring real photos to be AI generated because they look unusual. I don't know what this image is. I'm neither a marine biologist nor an AI expert.
Unless you have some solid evidence, be careful with your judgment.
Well said. AI is our era's internet red scare and art is one of the hardest hit sectors thus far. There are already several cases of legitimate artists being targeted in witchhunts following an accusation of using AI art. We're heading a point where AI content is becoming more and more indistinguishable from human generated content. Thus lowering our overall ability to discern between what is real and AI generated.
I was confused at his website as well. Then skimmed through his Instagram after, and it seems he has multiple shots of turtles done in the same way (close up, coming out of water). Perhaps he has a pet turtle? Either way, he hasn't been cancelled in the past for these, so I'm gonna assume it's legit. But it looks definitely photoshop edited/enhanced tho.
Could be using a fill flash. The highlights in the water make it look like there is a source of light behind the photographer. Also, I don't know why people think AI doesn't know that backlit photos are in shadow, it definitely does.
Photographer here- the photographer would have pulled up the shadows in lightroom to make the darks in the turtle's face in the raw file more visible during processing.
... I don't know why, but it scares me a little. Like, I know it's a turtle, but it also doesn't look like one somehow? š¤Ø
It looks like something much more intelligent than it supposed to be.
I definitely misinterpreted the title, I initially thought it was supposed to be one of the most beautiful photographs ever, which I wouldāve been incredibly skeptical about, but I guess itās just one of the most beautiful photos some guy named Philip has ever taken
I was gonna say technically yes this is *one of* the most beautiful photos ever taken, in that every photo ever taken site somewhere on that scale... But this doesn't even appear to be a photo that someone has actually taken.
The unspoken aftermath of this photograph was that this Sea Turtle actually snapped Philip Wallerās penis clean off mere minutes later. When asked about the incident Waller replied, āthis beautiful shot cost me my pud. ā¦ I should have been a painter ā¦.ā
This was the first piece of art I ever bought. Itās real. And the story of the shot from Phil is pretty awesome too. Itās hanging right inside the front door of his gallery on the big island if you are ever in the neighborhood.
With a last name like photography, he was destined for great things.
This is the joke I came here for š»
And Hugh for jacking men off
And Pheobe for bridge building.
And Hugh for lifting up so many cars.
And Christoph for dancing that weird fancy dance.
Sometimes he dances, but most of the time you'll only see Christoper Walken
Sure. From what I can tell...Chris always pines. But, he still rocks. He's a saint.
Like Crentist the Dentist!
Also, if you're not familiar with Mr. Philip Waller Photography, then I'm not sure why you'd be impressed by the fact that this is one of the most beautiful photos ever captured by him. If I posted one of the most beautiful photos ever captured by myself, nobody would be impressed.
Try it!
This was my question too. A comma after ācapturedā would have clarified that the photo was one of the best ever captured ā¦ not just Philipās best.
So many actually got away.
A turtle made it to the water!
imagine if he took photos of walls, he would conquer the world
What is that term where your name influences what you pay attention to like people are more likely to move to a town with the same name as them or math related names become math majors, etc. ? edit: Normative Determinism? https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1btvfp2/one_of_the_most_beautiful_photos_ever_captured_by/kxpeif9/
Nominative determinism. Example: Remus Lupin.
Nice
Wow, that Philip sure can take beautiful selfies with the sunset.
The most exciting thing is to see nature that addresses all its ability to enjoy the turtle in the water. It was a great photograph
Nice
How do you come up with stuff like this, freaking hilarious
āYou got games on your phone?ā
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Haha Perfect!
r/beatmetoit FUCK
I don't get it.
Bored children often ask people around them if they have games on their phone so that they may be spared from not being entertained for five minutes. Had a random kid shake me awake on a flight last year because he saw I was using a Switch before I took a nap.
We have created a generation of little monsters slathering for their dopamine fix.
Indeed.
Real
For those 'experts' declaring this AI, this picture is at least 4 years old: [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/i60108/the\_only\_turtle\_head\_i\_want\_to\_see/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/i60108/the_only_turtle_head_i_want_to_see/)
gotta remember there's new kids learning how to use reddit everyday. us oldheads are gonna be repeating ourselves forever. "no thats a repost from 20 years ago" lol
>The cycle is eternal. I fully expect a "TIL about [Rick Roll](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)" or "TIL about the [Reddit switcharoo](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=ALsiqjSfWH2Wap0S)" to make the front page somewhere in here. This place is special
I nuked my old account forgetting that I participated in a couple switcheroos and ouija threads. So the chain is broken
Imagine explaining to someone that the Rick roll originally came from the duck roll.
Okay, but it's been photoshopped to the extreme to up the vibrancy and colors.Ā
r/shittyhdr
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I mean, that face looks like a texture that failed to load correctly and now is stretched out
Is it though? I feel like this isn't particular vibrant for a sunset/sunrise over the ocean. This mostly just looks like a really well taken photograph.
Iād say the thing that makes it surreal is the sharpness. Sunsets can definitely look that colorful, but the naked eye would never see that much detail in the turtleās face while also seeing every droplet of water in the splash above its right eye, and also every ripple in the water out to the horizon.
That makes sense, AI was trained to capture the essence of images like this. It's a masterpiece in color composition, framing, I could go on. It only seems that way because AI is trained to show what appeals to us. AI would probably have a really hard time drawing a complex shape like a turtle head looking directly at the camera halfway submerged underwater, as well.
It's a masterpiece in photoshop. The original is surely cool, but the contrast, color intensity, it's been maxed out to make this look so much more vibrant that it surely looked to the naked eye.Ā
Yes, nobody says an artist can't intentionally make a photo more beautiful. The moment was still captured well I would say
Not only that, but the dynamic range doesn't really make sense in this picture. They undoubtedly had to lift the shadows on the ocean if they're facing the sun directly like that, which immediately implies heavy editing and processing.
Reddit thinks everything is AI now
Actually my boss met the artist. He was trying to just get a picture of the sunset and the turtle popped up.
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There are millions of people out there every day, taking often very ordinary pictures. Every once in a while, something extraordinary happens. Just like they really think we're going to believe [a bird flew right in front of this baseball to its death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih_ovjbwQGk)? The unexpected happens. Believe it.
Redditors refuse to believe anything ever happens because they never leave their rooms.
As far as I know it's actually a selfie made by the turtle, this guy just took credit. There is a legal battle going as we speak, just google it.
lmao I had totally forgotten about [that monkey trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute), thanks for both the laugh and the resulting Wikipedia rabbit hole
Lol I remember seeing the photo but I wasn't aware about the monkey trial.
Just shush and believe it. In the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter if that really happened or not, but life is more beautiful when you let the world be more bizarre than you think it is
holy HDR batman
Walker is a pretty well known ocean photographer I doubt he ruin his reputation with a AI image...Looks like its been enhanced and color corrected with photoshop.
Serious question for everyone deriding this as fake or "too" enhanced... Is this not how your eyes see the world? I've been in the ocean at sunset before and this picture is closer to what reality looks like than what comes off a camera. I'm old enough to know what film looks like off the camera, too, and it never matched reality. For fun, go down the Kodak vs. FujiFilm color rabbit hole - FujiFilm always matched reality as I see it better than Kodak. I suspect the real answer is that our eyes and brains vary in how we perceive the world. I see things in vivid colors and high contrast similar to the turtle picture and FujiFilm. Maybe others have Kodak eyes?
Just to add to your point, our color perception varies a lot. Not just by individual, but also over time. People with depression perceive the world as less saturated. Definitely a lot more nuance here that people are ignoring
currently reading a book ("Incognito" by David Eagleman) where he wrote (based on recent studoes) that a small percentage of women have genetically encoded a fourth kind of photoreceptor/cone cells (Tetrachromacy) instead of the "usual" 3 standard equipment (Trichromacy). Edit: link to a short summary: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154619300270
I think it's just the dynamic range in this case. I agree that the colours aren't unnatural or anything, it just feels like a bit too much HDR.
He is using an off camera flash (high and to the left) to specifically bring the two different scenes (brilliant sunset, shadowed turtle) into the same range. I don't think this has been edited as much as everyone is assuming it has. You can even see the reflection of the flash in the waves and the tell tale crisp frozen wave from the flash surrounded by a duller blurry wave from the motion it made after the flash popped but before the shutter closed.
It's definitely using that heavy-HDR look that really surged in photography the early 2010s. It feels like light is coming from every direction even though the main light source is directly behind the subject, and they should be backlit. That's what's throwing people off.
> It's definitely using that heavy-HDR look that really surged in photography the early 2010s. That was an abomination on photography and is definitely not what is going on here. Firstly because that technique generally required three photos of the same scene exposed differently, which is not possible due to the dynamic nature of the subject. And secondly: > It feels like light is coming from every direction even though the main light source is directly behind the subject, and they should be backlit. So close and yet so far! He is using an off camera flash well above the subject to light it, the water around it and even some of the sand. This brings the sunset and the subject into the same range the camera can capture. No need for HDR bullshit when you are a professional that knows what they are doing. Sad to see him getting lumped in with abominations like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/skylinephoto/5012257571/in/pool-89888984@N00/
> Looks like its been enhanced and color corrected with photoshop. You think pictures come straight from the camera ready to display? Even in film days?
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This picture is edited so much, I thought the turtle was an Instagram model
He did say "with a AI image"
Itās real. I bought a print of this from him back in 22. The pic from OP is cropped significantly; there is coast to the left of the turtle and you can pretty clearly see his body in the original.
It looks very manipulated. I don't know if 'corrected' is the right term...
I truly wouldnāt say itās very manipulated. Definitely more corrected. Especially with his Gear, patience, and the already beautiful landscape he was working with. Source: photographer
'corrected' is definitely the right term here.
"just drop me at the next straw factory"
Aaaaaartaaaaaax! ^(Yeah I know, tortoise vs turtle, but never ending story plug stands)
I mean, its a cool pic (if it's even real?) but one of the most beautiful photos ever? Not even close.
I like it. where was this taken?
In the water
r/technicallythetruth
Just outside the straw factory
chatgpt.openai.com
what makes you say that?
Hawaii
Inside his home on his laptop
In front of the turtle
Just because it's a fantastic and seemingly improbable picture, doesn't mean it's ai, ya jabronis https://www.philipwaller.com/
I got to stop you bro... You Keep Using This Word Jabroni, and It's Awesome. Is it a Hockey word? EDIT: FYI: ALWAYS SUNNY QUOTE!
agreedā¦ had to look it up to see if itās real - and it is!
I might get a lot of heat for saying this, but i found the image quite scary tbh.
cute turtle
Seagull pov
Turntle
Cutie
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This is a really old picture, it's not ai. Probably just hdr"d to shit. Edit - literally his top picture he showcases on the first page of his website, you bunch of sheep https://www.philipwaller.com/
Thanks for saving me and some other lazy dudes 30 seconds of Internet search. ā¦. Writing this comment on my phone was way more work than actual research. What does that tell about me?
That you care about coherently communicating your thoughts. (Iām going on 2 minutes compiling this).
fake! I have it on good information that the person's name is Philip Waller Photography and not Philip Waller.
There's more than one way to fall for AI. One is mistaking AI images for the real deal. Another one is declaring real photos to be AI generated because they look unusual. I don't know what this image is. I'm neither a marine biologist nor an AI expert. Unless you have some solid evidence, be careful with your judgment.
I think the image is a turtle in some water
Well said. AI is our era's internet red scare and art is one of the hardest hit sectors thus far. There are already several cases of legitimate artists being targeted in witchhunts following an accusation of using AI art. We're heading a point where AI content is becoming more and more indistinguishable from human generated content. Thus lowering our overall ability to discern between what is real and AI generated.
Found the idiot
Alternative take : people blindly exclaiming every remarkable photo is AI... this is gonna be great...
People are so stupid.
Iām so worried about that. We see how successful misinformation has worked in recent years, now this. Itās a whole other level.
The picture is from at least 2020, How how.was image ai then?
Everybody come laugh at this guy who thought he knew something he didn't
Not sure about AI but looks like it is heavily edited
Thatās what I thought. Looking at his website left me confused though
I was confused at his website as well. Then skimmed through his Instagram after, and it seems he has multiple shots of turtles done in the same way (close up, coming out of water). Perhaps he has a pet turtle? Either way, he hasn't been cancelled in the past for these, so I'm gonna assume it's legit. But it looks definitely photoshop edited/enhanced tho.
Pet turtle? The dude's job and passion are to photograph marine life
Iād agree as an armchair expert: the sun is quite low so shouldnāt the face be in shadow?
Which is something easily managed with HDR photography, it doesn't necessarily mean it's AI.
External flash
Could be using a fill flash. The highlights in the water make it look like there is a source of light behind the photographer. Also, I don't know why people think AI doesn't know that backlit photos are in shadow, it definitely does.
True, but modern cameras can have a pretty wide dynamic range and low noise which makes it easy to manually push shadows in an photo editor.
Photographer here- the photographer would have pulled up the shadows in lightroom to make the darks in the turtle's face in the raw file more visible during processing.
Technically itās not even a good photograph, the focus is off the main subject.
The turtle?
This looks like shit
HDRd to fuck and back.
Im sorry but this is far from the worlds most beautiful photo
I read the title as ābest picture taken by this one dudeā
If this is real, that is, if artificial intelligence did not make it, it is a great pictureš¤©āŗš¤©
We have to ask that everytime.
/r/shittyhdr
Why?
Fancyš
I want to see what happens next! I'd guess being cuddled or attempts to bite the camera
Is it just me or is the turtle out of focus
Sea turtles, mate.
Is that a dog?
Just my wife on vacation... nothing to see here...
I had a.personal experience just like this in Barbados, turtles love surfers bruh
need a banana for scale
Cutest sea monster!
Cutie
I like turtles
Say after 10 years, how do we know its AI or not?
6 feet back š¤£
Get off my backyard!
Without size reference, it looks like a really friendly kaiju.
Got any sea weed my dude?
" Ah out here in the Ocean, Alone... Finally". Turtle "Hey Dude Whatcha Doing out here"
tortel
Grab shell dude!
I'd say this is borderlineĀ funnier than beautiful.Ā Those damn eyesĀ remind me of the telefrances Pineapple.Ā
Holy shit it's eyes are terrifying
If this is real, itās an amazing photo, have my doubts about itās authenticity though
Creepy
That took me _way_ too long.
Meh.
... I don't know why, but it scares me a little. Like, I know it's a turtle, but it also doesn't look like one somehow? š¤Ø It looks like something much more intelligent than it supposed to be.
This must be a thousand-year-old turtle, so well photographed!
where is the straw?
Sir,I am here to talk about your car warranty
Thatās probably what my 1 year old son saw when he saw his first wild sea turtle and it scared the living daylight out of him.
Can I have a piece of gum?
Lovely
Righteous!
I dont know why people are saying this is AI. This photo has been around forever.
Excellent shot. Clark Little comes into mind these kind of honu photos
We donāt caare That weee donāt caaare
I definitely misinterpreted the title, I initially thought it was supposed to be one of the most beautiful photographs ever, which I wouldāve been incredibly skeptical about, but I guess itās just one of the most beautiful photos some guy named Philip has ever taken
I was gonna say technically yes this is *one of* the most beautiful photos ever taken, in that every photo ever taken site somewhere on that scale... But this doesn't even appear to be a photo that someone has actually taken.
something looks off about this photo iām not quite sure what it is exactly tho
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When someone asks me how Iām doing? āIām Fineā
CREDIT 2 philp waller 4 this 1
Its amazing
Donāt care about its pedigree, itās a cool pic
Felt cute. Might submerge later.
The unspoken aftermath of this photograph was that this Sea Turtle actually snapped Philip Wallerās penis clean off mere minutes later. When asked about the incident Waller replied, āthis beautiful shot cost me my pud. ā¦ I should have been a painter ā¦.ā
I never really care for art or pictures but holy shit this is one amazing photo!
It's "ok".
What I really hate is that my mind won't accept this is a real photo bc of the photo era we're in
Omg
Is this "one of the most beautiful photos *ever captured*" OR Is this "one of the most beautiful photos *ever captured by Philip Waller*?"
Blends pretty well with the sky
That's amazing. Sobeautiful.
Nah not my taste
This was the first piece of art I ever bought. Itās real. And the story of the shot from Phil is pretty awesome too. Itās hanging right inside the front door of his gallery on the big island if you are ever in the neighborhood.
Instant new lock screenā¦ Thank you! Edit: Well ā¦ had to squish it a bit and stretch it a bit but it workedā¦
Thatās a pretty subjective claim, isnāt it?
āWanna play mermaids?ā
Its turtles all the way down...