Thursday, December 26, 2013

Automation--Use it, but keep creative control

Recently, Google+ activated an automatic backup of you photo's from a home PC.  Nice idea.  Unlimited backup of all you photo's, at a lower resolution, but still, better than losing memories.

All you need is a Google+ account and it is all free.

They also add some auto enhancements, and this is where things get funny.

They created a slideshow of photos from 2013 for me, unasked.  Not bad, but some of the photo's where not those I would have used--like the one of my daughter holding her dead bunny one last time.  But some of them are really cool.  Like this one:

 Google+ took a series of still photos of a Harrier, stitched them together and made an animated GIF out of them.

or these ones:


But then, it can get silly.  I love Air Shows, and photograph them whenever and wherever I can, but I have never seen this before:
Really..the SNOWbirds?

Or this:

Baby swans..mid July..and snow..
Or these...




Nice.  That was totally a good algorithm to decide where to add snow..NOT!