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Re: I think this is a fake.. what do you all think? [Re: Moria841]
    #28632181 - 01/23/24 02:29 PM (4 days, 19 hours ago)

Quite sexy though, even if fake.


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Re: I think this is a fake.. what do you all think? [Re: Shroomhunts]
    #28634313 - 01/25/24 10:30 AM (2 days, 23 hours ago)

Not on facebook myself, but a friend commented on Burkard's own post of this picture on his profile, suggesting
it was an AI generated picture. The comment was deleted after less than an hour. I suspect Burkard is faking his pictures.


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Re: I think this is a fake.. what do you all think? [Re: koraks]
    #28637786 - 01/28/24 08:46 AM (1 hour, 21 seconds ago)

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I guess he didn't account for the myco community nerding out and calling BS. :lol:




I'm not on Facebook... but I'm not only a bit of a mushroom nerd.. I'm a professional photographer, and a graphic designer, and I've been working with AI for legit purposes (mainly to make backgrounds for product mockups).  More than one of my BS meters started pegging when I saw the image... I think on Instagram the poster cannot delete comments. I'm not the only one who has questioned it over there.



I see what you mean. On the other hand, it would be one phenomenal way to destroy one's career as a photographer by selling a faked photo to Nat Geo. You pull that shit only once and it's going to be found out. A photographer would have to be suicidal or actively seeking out a new career to do something as stupid as that. It doesn't add up.




Yes, it is a very silly way to ruin one's own career. Yet people do it, they try to take shortcuts.
There have been more than one acclaimed nature photographer in my country that has fallen for their
own stupidity and tried to cheat people with photoshopped images. The strange thing is they were already
acknowledged as great photographers prior to their cheating, so there was in reality very little to gain.
These were people who made their claims to fame long before photoshop and similar technologies became available, too.

I guess it is just good old hubris. Maybe combined with fear of becoming redundant.

That being said, I'm still hoping I'm wrong about the Sequoia picture.
If it is a real picture, I'm pretty sure he didn't just take one shot, he probably
took a series of them to pick the better ones.


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Re: I think this is a fake.. what do you all think? [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
    #28637827 - 01/28/24 09:20 AM (26 minutes, 17 seconds ago)

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Not to be too pedantic Anglerfish, but it’s not a Sequoia it appears to be Douglas fir.




Well, it was actually presented as Sequoia by Burkard himself, if I remember correctly.


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