I mean, this is posted on 4chan, so I’m skeptical. It could work, I guess.
No overhead, no cameras.
So if he isn’t taking any pictures at all he must just be getting face pics from brides and using them as part of a prompt?
Each to their own but personally I don’t understand why someone would do this. To my mind the purpose of a picture is so that you can look back at something that happened in the past or show others who weren’t there.
I could understand it being fun to mess around with an AI yourself and make those kinds of pics if they’re the type of thing you’re into. But are people getting pics like OP is making and sharing them? Hanging them on their wall? Pretending they were real? I find that quite sad.
People don’t want photos for the memories, they want them for their socials.
I don’t see a problem with anon making a profit from his shallow, vapid customers.
Yea I mean if it sells then go for it. I’m just surprised that people at that level of narcissism are out there. Like their family are going to know the pics are bullshit if they had a real wedding or even if they faked it entirely so they’re paying for something purely to pretend to strangers and acquaintances online or themselves. But maybe I should just embrace it and try to make some money out of this phenomena myself.
Yeah I understand your opinion. But then you know how scummy the wedding industry is. A flower that costs $10, suddenly costs $200 because it’s a bridal flower or whatever
From what I hear it’s three factors: increased quality control because the customer is less likely to brush things off for their wedding, increased customer service because they will use more of your time and energy and take shit out on you, and finally because they can everyone else is doing it
That seems totally fine. If he is upfront with clients that images are AI generated/uptouched, not real photos, and that is what they are paying for, that’s just called running a business that innovated a saturated market. He found a way to produce a product and do it cheaper than everyone else.
Does it kinda cheapen out the experience from not capturing “real” memories? Personally I’d say yup. But that is my personal preference and not that of the clients.
Given that he does photos for 10 brides a day and still has free time, he must’ve been upfront about it.
I don’t understand how because to make people look hot using ai you still need to make real pictures.
So either they just expanded the business with a popular side project or he has customers send their own pictures (which are rarely in the format, proportions, light conditions you need)
Most likely it never happened.
- “Send a photo like this and I’ll AI it up”
- Client sends a photo like the one anon asked
- anon runs the photo on AI thingy, gets some results
- anon shows the result to client
I suspect the pics only need to have the person a similar enough pose to what they want, the AI generates the clothes and environment
But pretty much all wedding photos are edited, so none of them are real photos.
Bride just doesn’t get to choose how many fingers she has
Or actually have photos of people? Or it actually be her.
Like ai is good, but it’s not going to look like you
With stable diffusion you can use real pictures or parts of real pictures and just let AI make up everything around it. It’s not like you’re generating the whole picture. You could, but it wouldn’t be useful for wedding pictures.
Then again it’s a greentext and as we all know: everything on the internet is true.
True, there are some people who don’t have 5 fingers (4and a thumb for you weirdos).
as part of your prompt you can specify digits and use negative prompts to lower the number of digits. On my 2070 I can push out an image every 17ish seconds so having a better cards means you can push out more faster. If the image has an odd digit you can not use it for upscaling.
With this method, I manage to get 14-fingered hands reliably. After that, the results get worse. 15-fingered hands work about 50% of the time. Asking for more fingers usually results in the summoning of a demon octopus, which is annoying to get rid of.
The nurseries and childcare facilities I work with are not thrilled but I love my job.
Brides paying for that is the real problem, not the fact that anon photographer is profiting off it.
I make their weddings look like their pinterest dreams, they can look as skinny and hot as they want
The only folks who are losing anything here are photoshoppers.