Over the holidays we jumped on a last-minute cruise of the Carribean. Living in Florida, these kinds of things are easy to do, just find a cheap ticket and drive to the port. The ship was Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, which is one of the worlds largest. We've sailed on a couple of her sister ships, so we already had a good feel for the layout. I took a few photos that are of a more abstract nature than typical holiday snapshots. (4 of 7) There are large hot tubs on both sides of the upper deck that protrude out from the sides of the ship on deck fifteen. I didn't manage to try them out for myself, but that didn't stop me from taking an architectural shot from our balcony five floors below.
Over the holidays we jumped on a last-minute cruise of the Carribean. Living in Florida, these kinds of things are easy to do, just find a cheap ticket and drive to the port. The ship was Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, which is one of the worlds largest. We've sailed on a couple of her sister ships, so we already had a good feel for the layout. I took a few photos that are of a more abstract nature than typical holiday snapshots. (7 of 7) I snapped this as we left our last port of Cozumel. Another pastime for me is to sit on the balcony and read or listen to music. No agenda, no schedule, just free time to do anything or nothing at all.
I hope you don't mind if I use a little AI in my sunset photos, I certainly don't. I did a bit of processing on this to bring up the shadows and reduce the highlights, I do that quite a lot. One thing that's a little new, however, is that I've started using artificial intelligence (AI) software. The AI is in Luminar 3 from Skylum. As AI gets better, it shortens the time it takes to get good results out of a photo. These days, AI is increasingly being built into everything, including your phone and camera. Computational photography is where we're heading. What AI does is interpret scenes for us and then make choices on how to improve it. It's not always right, but it's getting better. Sometimes it's no help, but more often than not it gets a bunch of stuff right. I then fill in the gaps with the vision that I had in my head, but the AI helped get me off to a good start. It's like having an apprentice do the prep work before you begin mixing the magic brew. I suppose that as long as the sorcerer's apprentice doesn't get too carried away, it should be all good.
